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ICE is moving forward with plans to spend up to five million dollars building a national voter registration database, part of a broader Department of Homeland Security push to investigate alleged voter fraud. Critics are already raising alarms about federal overreach and the privacy implications of centralizing that kind of sensitive electoral data.
Shifting to cybersecurity, roughly five thousand Dropbox accounts were compromised through a vulnerability in Lenovo's identity verification system. Attackers discovered they could create a Lenovo ID using someone else's email address and walk right into their Dropbox account, no password required. Dropbox has since cut off Lenovo ID logins and is urging affected users to enable two-factor authentication.
And on the AI research front, a Russian startup called Mostik is getting attention for a genuinely unusual idea: teaching artificial intelligence models to communicate with each other without using human language at all. The approach, developed by mathematicians, aims to let models share information more efficiently by building a kind of shared internal vocabulary that bypasses natural language entirely.
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