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San Francisco's city attorney is taking direct aim at Apple and Google, ordering both companies to pull so-called nudify apps from their app stores. These AI tools generate non-consensual intimate images, and the city says the platforms are actively profiting from technology that causes real harm to real people.
Shifting to surveillance, the Human Rights First organization has launched an interactive dashboard tracking ICE deportation flights across the country. It's a rare public window into the logistics of immigration enforcement, drawing on flight data to map where detainees are being moved and when. Transparency tools like this sit at an uncomfortable intersection of data, policy, and civil liberties.
And on a lighter but still meaningful note, the Hacker News community is pointing to a piece called Not Holding Back the Ocean, a developer essay that's quietly gaining attention. The title alone signals something worth reading — a meditation, it seems, on the limits of trying to control complexity in software and perhaps in life more broadly.
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