I spoke at length to the creator of the Liberty Phone, a US-manufactured smartphone, about the challenges of sourcing US-made components, tariffs, and the lack of product engineering expertise in US. The Chinese version costs $700, the US version costs $2,000.
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How a $2,000 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured
"You could count the number of skilled electronics engineers on US soil, and there's probably a million in Shenzhen alone."
NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc:
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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People
The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, β€œunique physical characteristics (e.g. scars,...
Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring πŸ”—
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Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring
How the FBI secretly ran a money laundering ring to catch hackers; a bunch of news on how the tariffs will impact the world; and the most illuminat...
DOGE "saves" a million dollars by taking critical government archives off of best-in-class, durable tape archives and putting them on hard drives
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Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital Records
DOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.
Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:
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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites say...
T-Mobile shows users the names, pictures, and exact locations of random children
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T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children
"I would log in and I couldn’t see my children but I could see a kid in California. I refreshed and would see a different child.”
The hottest use of AI right now? Dora the Explorer feet mukbang; Peppa the Pig Skibidi toilet explosion; Steph Curry and LeBron James Ahegao Drakedom threesome.
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'Brainrot' AI on Instagram Is Monetizing the Most Fucked Up Things You Can Imagine (and Lots You Can't)
The hottest use of AI right now? Dora the Explorer feet mukbang; Peppa the Pig Skibidi toilet explosion; Steph Curry and LeBron James Ahegao Draked...
Texans Might Soon Have to Show Photo ID to Buy a Dildo Online
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Texans Might Soon Have to Show Photo ID to Buy a Dildo Online
A new bill introduced by Angela Paxton, wife of Texas AG Ken Paxton, would impose privacy-invading age verification requirements on online sex toy ...
How three alleged Tesla vandals got caught Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
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How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught
Automatic license plate readers, Instagram captions, and fingerprints.
Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
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Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase β€œ690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states,...