Palantir posts a 22-point summary of Alex Karp's book, promoting hard power, AI weapons and deterrence, while denouncing pluralism and “regressive” cultures

Google, Apple, & Meta shared data from 3.5+M user accounts with US authorities over past decade through routine requests alone, a 770% increase since reporting began; 6.7M including FISA disclosures

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its pivot from crypto to identity verification

The Linux Kernel Organization now lets developers submit AI-generated code, as long as it complies with the guidelines, licensing, and attribution requirements

An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices

OpenAI backs an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from liability, even for “critical harms” like 100+ deaths or $1B+ in damage, if they published safety reports

ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers

Apple now has device-level age verification in 3 countries

Major global cities by the number of CCTV cameras per 1,000 people (2025)

World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries

DHS clears 7 CISA staffers of wrongdoing; the staffers had been accused of misleading CISA's former acting director into taking a polygraph test

DCCC Sets Lobbyist Cash Record as Dems Campaign on Affordability

Markwayne Mullin, who will now lead the DHS, bought Chevron, Raytheon stock days before Maduro capture

The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 text mentions the TSA on 2 occasions, 1 of which recommends that "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) be privatized" (Page 134, Bullet Point 4)

The Justice and Homeland Security departments struck a deal to share states’ voter roll data and coordinate investigations into whether noncitizens have cast ballots

San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, up from 93 in February 2025

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out

Hugging Face released its Spring 2026 open source report: 13M users, 2M+ models, Chinese models at 41% of downloads, and robotics datasets exploding 23x