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Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers--Including Undercover ICE Agents
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI's Grok chatbot. An unprecedented leak of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates. The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026.
Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control
Content from MIT Technology Review Insights This content was produced by Insights, the custom content arm of MIT Technology Review. It was not written by MIT Technology Review's editorial staff. Living digital twins are helping industrial plants run more like living systems, and setting the stage for industries that work in sync. Functionally, though, a plant or factory is more like a living thing: It has a pulse, even a metabolism. It goes through wear and tear as it ages, and signs of deteriorating health often show up as barely perceptible irregularities.
ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History
ICE's Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. The high-profile Minnesota 15 prosecution makes clear that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), flush with federal funds and newly hired personnel, is now President Donald Trump's primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday Americans organizing their communities. Nothing of this scale has been seen in the United States, experts say, since the federal government's counterinsurgency against the New Left and the anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Among the records revealed during the discovery process in these cases are dozens of reports, audio transcripts, emails, intercepted Signal chats, photographs, database queries, and more. They reveal the inner workings of the domestic terrorism investigations, running under the names Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master, authorized by the controversial National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 .
America's military bases prepare for 90-day doomsday scenario
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Ukraine says Starshield back to normal; Musk says Kyiv violated terms
U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk hold a news conference at the White House in Washington in May 2025. Kyiv - Ukraine said on Saturday that the Starlink satellite system and its military version Starshield were now fully functional after over a week of restrictions that disrupted military operations and intensified tensions with the U.S. But hours later, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, whose company owns Starlink, accused the Ukrainian military of violating the company's terms. Neither Musk nor the U.S. government, which operates Starshield using Starlink technology, had taken responsibility for imposing the curbs. "Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week," Musk said on X. Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov said on the Telegram app that the country is "physically unable" to use Starlink for long-and medium-range attack drone operations.
Ukraine says Starlink connection 'now stable' after network limits
Ukraine says Starlink connection'now stable' after network limits Image caption, Ukraine's military uses the network of 10,000 low Earth orbit satellites extensively for military operations Ukraine now has a stable connection to Starlink, its defence minister has said, after its military suffered days of restricted connectivity on the satellite network. Kyiv relies on the Starlink and its military-grade counterpart Starshield for piloting drones and operations within Ukraine, but last week accused US President Donald Trump of telling owner Elon Musk to place limits on it. This meant drones would lose connection when travelling at 161km/h (100mph) or more, it said. Trump denied doing so before saying Musk had put it back. Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said that speeds of more than 400km/h were now possible on the network, indicating that full capability had been restored.
GMO asks government to take active cyber defense measures
A humanoid robot distributes leaflets of GMO Internet Group at the company's booth during the Japan Drone Expo 2026 in Chiba, in June | REUTERS GMO Internet has made an urgent request for the Japanese government to implement "active cyber defense" operations following an unauthorized access incident, sources said Saturday. GMO Internet has revealed that there was unauthorized access to its servers for automated FX currency margin trading. A total of 26,739 such servers may have been affected. Since some users have reported losses from unauthorized transactions on their accounts following the incident, the company said Saturday that it will compensate users for these losses. The company also plans to make a consolation payment of ¥5,000 to all users, regardless of whether they have suffered financial damage. On Oct. 1, the government began operations under the active cyber defense system, which involves the Self-Defense Forces and police pre-emptively breaking into an attacker's server to neutralize it and prevent damage.
Musk has restored access to Ukraine's Starlink network, Trump says
Trump says Musk has restored access to Ukraine's Starlink network To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Figure caption, Watch: Trump says Musk has restored Ukraine's Starlink internet access after row Elon Musk has restored Ukraine's Starlink internet access, US President Donald Trump has said after restrictions hampered Kyiv's armed forces. Trump made the comments after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said connectivity to the military-grade Starshield network, which is provided by Musk's satellite-based Starlink system, had yet to be fully restored. Musk previously denied he was behind the slowdown, which affects Ukraine's ability to use drones to attack Russia and protect itself from attacks. Trump refused to be drawn on a report that he had called Musk to ask him to lift restrictions to the service, but when asked about it he said: Bottom line, he put it back.
Barclays cutting 5,000 jobs as it increases reliance on AI
Barclays is cutting its staff by around 5,000 as it introduces more artificial intelligence (AI) into its work processes. The banking group said 1,000 posts had already been closed and it expects a further reduction of 4,000 to be complete by the end of this year. The cuts amount to 5% of its global workforce with most of them among operational and functional roles. Barclays said the changes were the result of an ongoing modernisation plan, with the use of AI being the icing on the cake of its strategy. The banking group is reaching the end of a three year cost-cutting programme focused primarily on its UK retail banking arm, although the investment banking division is also affected.