JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...
NEW
At 2.30am on Saturday morning Donald Trump announced he had decided to attack Iran
Two hours later, he shared a link suggesting Iran rigged the 2020 election
Here's why
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...
Bypass here.
archive.ph/4NboB
JUST IN: To stem the tide of violated orders, Judge Michael E. Farbiarz in NJ is now requiring ICE and the US attny's office to each submit declarations in every habeas case acknowledging no-transfer orders.
Warns that any violations start "closer to the last resort of possible criminal contempt."
Finally read the criminal complaint against the Milwaukee cop who abused his access to Flock LPR data to track his girlfriend and her ex. This was only discovered because the girlfriend looked up her plate number on www.haveibeenflocked.com!! incredible shit mkepdpio.org/wp-content/u...
NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge?
The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Screenshot of Boaz Barak, OpenAI employee, tweeting: “Our legal and policy team have worked with the DoW an this interpretation is shared on both sides. They will provide more details on the issue of commercially acquired datasets in the coming days”
US gov will apparently give an update about what the deal is with the DoW/OpenAI contract and commercially acquired datasets (which is considered publicly avail info but “can be misused to cause substantial harm, embarrassment, and inconvenience to U.S. persons” per ODNI: dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...)
So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"
openai in its jestermaxxing era
NEW: Jmail creator and general internet prankster Riley Walz is joining OpenAI, w/ @mzeff.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/openai...
"In the case of the YouTube streamer, Kalshi reports that its surveillance systems flagged the account based on “statistically anomalous” trading success. It also received concurrent tips from Kalshi users, who had flagged the unusual activities."
I'd curious to know more about this technology.
Melania AI shoutout — remember that her agent is somehow involved in all of this, as I reported in September www.wired.com/story/melani...
I learned that there's less protections around what's called "subscriber information," and that you can preview your own by checking the "Google Account" option on takeout.google.com (Mine includes my full name, date of birth, the phone number I use for 2FA, and when I last enrolled in 2FA--2017!)
NEW: One aspect of the Epstein Files I find fascinating is that they're a rare window into the inner-workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies respond to government requests for information. We looked at some Google-related ones: www.wired.com/story/heres-...
The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.
Gov. Ayotte says she got Noem to call off an ICE detention facility in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
good story from a fellow bates number enjoyer
DOJ sues NJ for “interfering” with the federal gov’s enforcement of immigration laws, part of a series of litigation against what DOJ calls “illegal sanctuary city policies” www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
“The costs for defendants, even if ultimately exonerated, have been enormous, with many having their mugshots blasted by the government and some forced to languish in jail or have criminal charges hang over them for weeks and months.”
Thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't seen the @projectsaltbox.bsky.social post, we've updated the article to credit them for identifying the comment first.
DHS is hoping for a mega biometrics database that could let it verify individuals' identities and search for possible matches of unknown people. Includes facial recognition, but also more deepcut biometrics like voiceprints. @dell.bsky.social with the story: www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...
NEW: DHS plans to build a giant, centralized biometrics platform that lets it search faces, fingerprints, and irises across all its agencies, including ICE, CBP, the Secret Service, and more. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...
NEW: Metadata left in a PDF exposes the people behind ICE's "mega" detention center plans, including the director of the Newark ERO field office and a former GEO Group executive. @regret.bsky.social with more:
NEW: A Homeland Security PDF uploaded to the New Hampshire governor's website included notes and metadata that revealed the DHS personnel involved in its creation. @regret.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/metada...
NEW: You'll never guess who says he'd prefer the average stay for detainees in ICE's proposed "mega" detention centers to be 30 days but "60 is fine" www.wired.com/story/metada...
Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...
NEW: @regret.bsky.social spoke with one of the CBP agents who, among other things, revealed that he accidentally went on a blind date with the mother of one of the FBI agents who interviewed him. www.wired.com/story/jeffre...
I spoke w/ @regret.bsky.social about Epstein's modus operandi
He seduced CBP officers in the Virgin Islands
into reducing scrutiny of his flights
by offering them:
- "friendship"
- gifts
- rides in his helicopter
- visits to his pedophile island &
- proximity to wealth.
It worked.
Oh geez is this the person who replaced the former civil division head?!
