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A newly unsealed court filing reveals that DHS agents tracked people who were simply observing ICE activity in Maine, then stored their photos and personal information in a Palantir-built database. Civil liberties groups are raising serious questions about the scope of surveillance being applied to bystanders, not suspects.
Shifting from surveillance to the skies, the National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the Prime Air seven sixty seven runway overrun incident. The document details the cargo aircraft's final approach and the conditions leading up to the excursion, and while investigators have not yet assigned cause, the findings are drawing attention from aviation safety analysts watching Amazon's air freight expansion closely.
And on a lighter note, Google has thrown its weight behind Swift as a serious server-side language, releasing Google Cloud API client libraries targeting Swift six point two and above. For a language that started life on Apple devices, this signals a meaningful shift — with Google's infrastructure blessing, Swift's backend ambitions may finally have the runway they've been waiting for.
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