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- India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It.
Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it’s too late. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Reportedly Viewed Noem’s Shooting of Family Dog as an ‘Asset’ in a D...
Evan Vucci/AP photo President Donald Trump reportedly viewed Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s story about shooting a family dog as an “asset” for a DHS chief. When The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s then-unreleased book were released in the run-up to the 2024 election, one story was quick to grab the public’s attention. Noem, who was serving as the governor of South Dakota at the time, claimed to have shot and killed her 14-month-old dog named Cricket, who she described as “less than worthless.” “I hated that dog,” Noem wrote, claiming to have shot the dog as well as a “nasty and mean” family goat. Shock and outrage sounded from almost every corner of the political spectrum, and Noem was grilled on the story repeatedly. Some predicted it would be the end of her career in politics. Even Trump was reportedly “disgusted” by the story, allegedly claiming her voluntary disclosure of the story demonstrated a poor grasp of “public relations,” and asking, “What is wrong with her?” But according to excerpts from NBC’s Julia Ainsley’s upcoming book, obtained by The Atlantic, the story was a boon for Noem’s future career as DHS secretary. In Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump’s Mass Deportation Program, Ainsley claims that Noem’s dog-killing knocked her out of the running for vice president. However, Trump “saw this particular biographical detail as an asset in his homeland-security secretary.” “It was one of the reasons he chose her,” The Atlantic’s report claims. Noem, who’s high profile tenure at the department has seen multiple alleged missteps, defended the story in 2024. “What I learned from my years of public service, especially leading South Dakota through COVID, is people are looking for leaders who are authentic, willing to learn from the past, and don’t shy away from tough challenges,” she wrote at the time. “My hope is anyone reading this book will have an understanding that I always work to make the best decisions I can for the people in my life.”The post Trump Reportedly Viewed Noem’s Shooting of Family Dog as an ‘Asset’ in a DHS Secretary first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - U.S. Military Reportedly Shoots Down DHS Drone in Texas: ‘Our Heads Are Explod...
AP Photo/Kevin Wolf The U.S. military shot down a Customs and Homeland Security drone on Thursday evening, which led to the abrupt closure of airspace over Fort Hancock, Texas, lawmakers said. At 6:30 p.m. local time, the Federal Aviation Administration closed the airspace, citing “special security reasons.” The FAA’s official notice of the closure currently says the closure will remain in effect until June 24. As it turns out, the “special security reasons” involved a friendly fire incident in which the U.S. military shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a laser-based anti-drone system. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), the top Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, and other Democratic lawmakers on the panel said they were informed of the incident through official channels. “Our heads are exploding over the news that DoD reportedly shot down a Customs and Border Protection drone using a high risk counter-unmanned aircraft system,” Larsen and the other Democrats said in a statement. “We said months ago that the White House’s decision to sidestep a bipartisan, tri-committee bill to appropriately train C-UAS operators and address the lack of coordination between the Pentagon, DHS and the FAA was a short-sighted idea. Now, we’re seeing the result of its incompetence.” The FAA noted that some airspace over Fort Hancock was already closed, and that the no-fly area was expanded after the military shot down the DHS drone. On Feb. 11, the Federal Aviation Administration cryptically and suddenly announced the immediate closure of airspace over El Paso for, again, “special security reasons.” An anonymous Trump administration official told NBC News that “Mexican cartel drones” had breached U.S. airspace. However, CBS News reported that the closure was due to “disagreements over drone-related tests.”The post U.S. Military Reportedly Shoots Down DHS Drone in Texas: ‘Our Heads Are Exploding’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing AnthropicMore than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- Nvidia’s Quarterly Profit Hits $43 Billion on Strong A.I. Chip SalesTotal profit for the fiscal year was $120 billion, the company said. Three years ago, it was just $4.4 billion. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Judge Rules IRS Broke the Law ‘Approximately 42,695’ Times By Sharing Confid...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci A federal judge found that the Internal Revenue Service broke the law “approximately 42,695” times by giving confidential information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s Thursday ruling sharply rebuked the IRS for disclosing confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE in situations “in situations where ICE’s request for that information was patently deficient.” The ruling found that DHS did not follow the federal law requiring the agency requesting taypayer address from the IRS to have specifically identified the individual in question. The requesting agency must provide the IRS with the name and address of the person whose information it seeks to obtain. IRS failed to verify that this information had been provided in the majority of the 47,300 DHS requests. “The IRS violated the [Internal Revenue Code] approximately 42,695 times by disclosing last known taxpayer addresses to ICE … without confirming that ICE’s request set forth the ‘address of the taxpayer with respect to whom the requested return information relate[d],’” said Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling. Kollar-Kotelly took it a step further, decrying the IRS’s verification process by claiming ICE could have submitted requests with addresses like “Don’t Care 12345” or “00000” without being denied the information the agency was seeking. The judge’s ruling was based on a declaration filed by IRS’s chief risk and control officer, Dottie Romo, which claimed that the IRS had improperly given information on thousands of the 1.28 million people that ICE had requested. In a prior statement to The Washington Post, DHS claimed that information sharing was “essential.” “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” DHS said. The Treasury Department has not yet responded to requests for comment. The ongoing case over IRS and DHS data sharing is now set to be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. DHS is actively appealing Kollar-Kotelly’s November order blocking the IRS from sharing data with DHS, which was signed last year by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The then-acting commissioner of the IRS resigned after the deal was signed.The post Judge Rules IRS Broke the Law ‘Approximately 42,695’ Times By Sharing Confidential Data With ICE first… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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