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... A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told The Hill on Wednesday that during an operation in Evanston, ICE officers found a man "who resembled the target." They identified themselves, but the man did not identify himself.

"ICE officers relied on their training and later left the scene without further incident once the individual finally identified himself," the spokesperson said. "When ICE officers offered the individual assistance, he refused." ...

@#3 ... And that's possibly REGISTERED, not actually VOTED.

So, based on what the prior claims turned out to be, we're probably taking about a few hundred votes. Out of hundreds of millions of votes cast. ...

That is about the way I see it also.

Found this link ...

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The link is about Cuba.

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... US states may have added more than 30,000 self-declared non-citizens to the nation's voter rolls since 2000 because of software glitches and clerical errors made while processing their driver's license and state ID applications, according to official records reviewed by Reuters.

The cases expose weaknesses in voter registration systems across a dozen US states governed by both Democrats and Republicans, but at numbers that experts said were too small relative to the country's more than 170 million registered voters to impact elections. Reuters was not able to determine how many of these non-citizens actually cast a ballot. ...

The findings suggest that inadvertent bureaucratic failures, rather than organized efforts to register immigrants illegally, are a major source of non-citizen registrations, and raise questions about whether legislative efforts to require proof of citizenship for voter registration would eliminate the issue.

President Donald Trump and his supporters have claimed, without evidence, that non-citizen voting is widespread and part of an organized conspiracy led by Democrats who hope to retake Congress in November's midterm elections, and are pushing lawmakers to toughen up voting requirements.

Bureaucratic errors have also been reported in at least 11 other states " including Republican strongholds like Iowa, Texas and South Dakota - bringing the nationwide figure above 30,000 since 2000, according to the Reuters reporting.
A nationwide tally of such mistakes has not previously been reported.

Reuters used data from the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a non-profit group that tracks claims of non-citizen voter registration and voting, to identify states where self-declared non-citizens were registered. Reuters then verified the numbers with state officials, court records, and local media reports.

The data showed errors occurred in California, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Virginia.

The numbers are inexact because state data is often tentative and subject to revision.

Such mistakes are likely a top reason non-citizens make it onto the nation's voter rolls, according to Don Palmer, a senior legal fellow for election integrity at the conservative Heritage Foundation and former Trump-appointed chair of the US Election Assistance Commission.

"I think that's the primary issue," Palmer said. "Driver's license agencies often make mistakes, and they often are not taking this as seriously as election officials." He said states also need to do more to verify voter eligibility. ...

How many employees did Pres Trump cut from the USDA?

... Curtis also called for the same scrutiny of Hunter Biden. ...

Ever since SCOTUS gave Pres Trump a free-pass on his subterranean ballroom project because of "national security," Pres Trump now seems to be hiding behind "national security" for all his poor decisions.

... In the first two years of his second term, Trump has taken a series of foreign policy decisions that have weakened America's global position and strengthened China's. ...

Yup.

China has no problem with looking like the "adult in the room" when Pres Trump's whimsical childishness pushes the allies of the US away.

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... The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MDHSS) said the possible exposures occurred between Sept. 12 and Sept. 14 and included local bars, a cafe, a restaurant, a sandwich shop, a grocery store and a convenience store. ...

Is this like the trump admin's voter "fraud" statement that said there were over 10,000 cases of voter fraud, but the Trump admin was not able to find even one tenth that amount?

"Let them eat cake."

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... Meta introduced Muse a few weeks ago. The assistant "books appointments, fills out forms and handles customer service," "proactively takes tasks off your plate," and can "make purchases, generate images, create documents, and connect with your favorite apps and services." The macOS app (curiously, there's no Windows version) also works with a user's WhatsApp, email, calendar, and social media accounts. When a task requires a tool that doesn't exist, Muse creates one on the fly.

Meta doth hype Muse security too much

Of course, for Muse to do any of these things, users must first give it access to their accounts. This includes authenticating the assistant to each service and, because the app runs on macOS, giving it permissions to a broad range of operating system-restricted device resources, like writing files to disk, accessing the mic and camera, and monitoring location and calendars.

Apple has spent years developing these defenses to prevent installed apps or commands entered into the terminal from accessing these resources, clearly because the company considers them a security threat. Muse completely undoes these default measures.

The zero-day allows any app or terminal command to gain access to the token that authenticates users to their Muse account. ...

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... Earlier reporting already pointed to outdated targeting data and raised questions about whether artificial intelligence had a role in the mix-up. And now, a Bloomberg investigation published Friday fills in more of the story, citing officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review. Those officials said some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir.

Too Much Trust in AI

According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on the artificial intelligence inside the Maven Smart System, an AI-powered data integration and targeting platform developed by Palantir to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making.

The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year.
Several former senior officers now work for Palantir, including some with high-level clearances at Centcom's Tampa headquarters. ...

@#55 ... The only other person to blame it on would be bibi, who bragged that he tried to get every president to attack iran, but finally found one willing to do it.

Would you rather blame trump for doing it, or trump being stupid enough to do bibi's bidding? ...

Good question.

Meanwhile ...

@#25 ... Belarus says no potash left ...

From the article in #25...

... At the same time, Trump posted on his social media site Truth Social that the U.S. purchase of potash from Belarus would be "very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers."

"The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada," he posted. ...

... The goal would be to have the countries reduce their reliance on the Strait of Hormuz for transporting oil and gas, the Journal reported. ...

But... but... but... wasn't the Strait of Hormuz wide open to all traffic before Pres Trump's war of choice against Iran?

Now it is going to cost US taxpayers yet another $5B to try to undo the ramifications of his war.

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... Among the tools is an AI-powered watch list. An officer can cordon off an area of a city and make the cameras inside it run a continuous, automated search for anyone fitting a written description. ...

Experts who study automated screening and police technology say Flock has given its AI a job no technology does reliably. Flock's system decides, out of sight of the department using it, which descriptions of a person an officer may search for -- and no screen operating at that scale is accurate, the experts say.

Further, nobody outside the company can measure how often it is wrong, or in which direction.

This puts users in a bind: The company itself warns officers that results may be inaccurate or incomplete and should not be relied on alone but puts the "risk of any inaccuracies" on the officer running the search. ...

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... Four men testifying Friday to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's arrest and detention practices in Oregon said they were asked few, if any, questions before they were taken to detention facilities hours away from their homes.

Speaking through Spanish interpreters, the men -- all in their 20s and 30s who work in blue-collar and service-connected jobs -- said they still fear arrest by ICE and potential deportation, despite the fact that they are following immigration laws.

Their testimony bolstered arguments from a class of Oregon immigrants who want U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai to ensure the government is complying with his February injunction preventing ICE agents from arresting Oregon residents without a warrant and without determining whether they posed a flight risk.

The order provided them with new rules and parameters for how to perform an arrest that comported with the law.

A 34-year-old man from Venezuela, known only as JCCV, living in The Dalles, Oregon, with his family, said that he had a pending immigration application when he was inexplicably detained and taken to a Portland facility for multiple days.

He said agents mistook him for his brother, who is also living in the U.S., but didn't bother to check his identification. ...