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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/
15•cdrnsf•1h ago

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goatlover•15m ago
> That also includes identifying what ICE perceives as fraud “before crime and fraud can materialize ..."

Guess we can add precrime to the dystopian playbook.

> PenLink is another company ICE contracts with which 404 Media previously reported on. It sells social media monitoring tools and one called Webloc for tracking the location of mobile phones in entire neighborhoods.

As if Flock cameras weren't enough.

> or Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement, populates a map interface with potential deportation targets, and provides ICE officials with a “confidence score” on the person’s current address.

Just gets worse and worse as you read on. And who is holding ICE or DHS accountable with all this surveillance tech and funding?

Google's AI Team Tells Job Seekers Its HR Filters Are Unreliable

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-10/google-s-ai-team-tells-job-seekers-its-hr-filt...
1•htrp•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Linejudge – an independent verification harness for coding agents

https://github.com/phillipmex/linejudge
1•phillipmex•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Airship – Figma-Like Visual Editor for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode

https://github.com/0xnyn/airship
1•0xnyn•7m ago•0 comments

A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China's Origin Story

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/a-lost-civilization-is-baffling-experts-and-rewriting-chinas-orig...
1•bookofjoe•8m ago•1 comments

Nintendo Should Stop Selling Consoles

https://taikhooms.substack.com/p/nintendo-the-media-company
2•Altaba•10m ago•0 comments

Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-th...
7•pseudolus•16m ago•1 comments

OpenAI found us generators for maximal Monster subgroup holdout 59:29

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28900
1•oliculipolicula•17m ago•0 comments

U.S. brokers secret deal on clandestine Syrian nuclear site

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/10/syria-nuclear-israel-turkey-iaea
2•cwwc•18m ago•0 comments

Sergey Brin has now spent $100M to fight the billionaire tax

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/10/google-co-founder-sergey-brin-has-now-spent-100-million-to-figh...
4•debo_•18m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Ohm – Use uBlock Origin cosmetic filters in Chrome again

https://ohm.wbnns.com/
1•wbnns•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: It's 6 18 am now going to sleep as MVP is made GN

https://bengu-phi.vercel.app
1•sahil423•25m ago•0 comments

Road deaths in the US have fallen more slowly than in other rich countries

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/road-deaths-in-the-united-states-have-fallen-much-more-s...
2•alphabetatango•30m ago•0 comments

Using AI while exercising your critical thinking

https://swiftrocks.com/using-ai-without-losing-critical-thinking
1•jshchnz•30m ago•0 comments

The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7238178
1•cbrews•31m ago•0 comments

Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8mgpl27dpo
6•yurivish•33m ago•1 comments

The insufferable hypocrisy of elite academia

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/
1•loughnane•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SecondState – what if Hebbia started with raw ERP data?

https://trysecondstate.com/
1•ELAmrani•37m ago•0 comments

SpaceX's Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds of Twitter's Ad Business

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/10/spacexs-earnings-show-elon-wiped-out-two-thirds-of-twitters-a...
6•shye•39m ago•0 comments

Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-d...
4•abdelhousni•40m ago•1 comments

Beware the Permanent Periphery

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/15/beware-the-permanent-periphery
2•m-hodges•41m ago•0 comments

Cable Pioneer Bob Miron Dies at 89

https://www.cablefax.com/people/cable-pioneer-miron-dies-at-89
2•indigodaddy•41m ago•2 comments

Muse Glimmer 30B unsloth GGUF format Q4, Q6, Q8 quantizations

https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Muse-Glimmer-30B-GGUF
1•walrus01•41m ago•0 comments

AI Coding and Its Discontents

https://calnewport.com/on-ai-coding-and-its-discontents/
3•champagnepapi•43m ago•0 comments

Pro Jank Footy, the video game taking Australian rules to the world

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/11/pro-jank-footy-video-game-australian-rules
2•milderworkacc•48m ago•0 comments

No, local models will not win

https://www.seangoedecke.com/local-models-will-not-win/
5•m0rde•52m ago•0 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released

https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS
9•eatonphil•52m ago•0 comments

Estimating Branch Probabilities

https://maskray.me/blog/2026-08-09-estimating-branch-probabilities?from_theconsensus=1
1•eatonphil•54m ago•0 comments

Vibebin – code and host with incus containers on your VPS/server

https://GitHub.com/jgbrwn/vibebin
1•indigodaddy•56m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: I Bought a Pocket Notebook

2•Iuz•57m ago•1 comments

The Roboguard Revolution Is Short-Circuiting

https://www.proofnews.org/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting/
1•DeepLogin•57m ago•0 comments