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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly using a Palantir-built database to compile detailed dossiers on protesters across the country. Attorneys representing those protesters argue the practice directly violates First Amendment protections, raising serious questions about where surveillance ends and political targeting begins.
Shifting to neuroscience, a new study suggests the right hemisphere of the brain ages more rapidly than the left. Researchers observed greater structural and functional decline on the right side over time, which could have meaningful implications for how we understand memory loss, creativity, and cognitive health as people grow older.
And in the skies, American Airlines found itself in an awkward situation when two separate flights ended up assigned the same flight number simultaneously — not for the first time, apparently. It sounds like a quirk, but duplicate flight identifiers create real confusion for air traffic systems, crew scheduling, and passengers who assume their boarding pass is unique.
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