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• Corporate Democrats Mobilize to Counter Rise of Democratic Socialists Within the Party

• 'We Are DONE': Marjorie Taylor Greene Quits Republican Party Amid Trump Feud

  Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday said she’s “done” with the Republican Party, which she said has turned into the “America LAST” party. Her comments came after right-wing commentator and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson said he was done with the party after voting Republican his entire life.

• A little bit of socialism, as a treat

• License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets

  Defense contractor Leonardo is promoting a new technology called SignalTrace that will package plate cameras with sensors that can scrape unique identifiers tied to your smart devices and make that data available to law enforcement. Police, border security, and other government agencies already comprise Leonardo’s customer base, and with this technology, those clients seek to correlate footage from these cameras to phones, tablets, wearables, AirTags, and, naturally, the electronics inside car...

• Iranians say addressing Trump’s 'mental illness' head on helped secure deal: journalist

  Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success. “Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators...

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• ‘You’re Either Crooked Or You’re Stupid’: Trump Walks Out After Kristen Welker Fact-Checks Him

  An angry Donald Trump walked out of an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker after an extraordinary exchange in which the president angrily insisted–without offering any proof–that “elections are crooked and you’re crooked, and Meet the Press is crooked…and so is ABC and CBS and CNN.” The interview, airing on NBC Sunday, turned confrontational when Welker asked Trump about his idea to use $1.8 billion in taxpayer money for a “weaponization fund” to compensate people who belie...

• Google DeepMind CEO says we don't have much time to prepare for the 'new human era'

  • Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence is a “few years away.” • He said AI will have huge societal implications, bringing about a “post-scarcity” world. • Hassabis estimated that AGI will arrive around 2030.

• 'There is no universe in which Proton VPN compromises its no-logs policy' — Proton joins the backlash against Canada's surveillance bill

  • Proton VPN has hit back at Canada’s proposed Bill C-22 • The proposed legislation could require VPNs to log user metadata • NordVPN and Windscribe have also slammed the bill

• Hands off the VPNs — Mozilla warns UK regulators that age-restricting VPNs "would undermine the privacy and security of all users," while failing to protect kids

  Mozilla, the non-profit tech giant behind the Firefox browser and has warned regulators that age-restricting VPNs “would undermine the privacy and security of all users”. In a formal submission to the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Mozilla pushed back against a recent consultation that considers age-gating the best VPN services to stop minors from bypassing age checks mandated by the Online Safety Act.

• It was a different vibe back then

• ‘You’ll hold out for a while’: Silicon Valley now pushing to implant chip in your brain, knows you’ll give in eventually

• Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is 'simply impossible'

  Head of Russia’s Human Rights Council admits banning VPNs is “impossible” Attempting to block all VPNs would disrupt businesses and banks The official still condemned citizens using VPNs to access blocked media

• Qualcomm’s CEO is working with ‘pretty much all’ major AI players on top-secret devices

  “There are some secret form factors that I cannot tell you about,” the Qualcomm CEO said in an interview with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast. “But I think we’re working with pretty much all of them.” “Pretty much all of them,” in this case, means the AI companies racing to build the device that replaces the smartphone. OpenAI, Meta, and others that Amon declined to name in an interview from the company’s San Diego headquarters. This dev...

• Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones

  Google is making it mandatory to have Play Services for its next-generation reCAPTCHA system on Android. Your phone will need to be running Play Services version 25.41.30 or greater when the system asks you to scan a QR code for verification. This hurdle means that de-Googled phones will fail the verification test by default.

• That Drone in the Sky Could Be Tracking Your Car

  “The Flock Safety drone, specifically, are flying LPR cameras as well,” Rahul Sidhu, Vice President of Aviation at Flock Safety, recently told a group of potential law enforcement customers interested in drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs. The integration of Flock Safety’s flagship ALPR technology with its Aerodome drone equipment is a police surveillance combo poised to elevate the privacy threats to civilians caused by both of these invasive technologies as drone adoption expands.”

• Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

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• Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs

  A European Union research service publishes a paper about calls for VPN regulation, noting that they’re ‘increasingly used to bypass online age verification.’

• California Wants to Put License Plates on E-Bikes and Slow Them Down. Cyclists Are Not Happy About It

• The tide is beginning to turn I can feel it