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Security researchers have uncovered a sweeping vulnerability affecting every major artificial intelligence provider. By exploiting a single global encryption key used to protect so-called reasoning tokens, attackers recovered over three hundred fifteen thousand hidden thinking blocks from public logs, including live passwords and active API keys. It raises serious questions about how securely these systems are actually built.
Shifting to Capitol Hill, Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna has introduced what he's calling a Data Center Bill of Rights. The resolution would establish a twenty five hundred foot buffer zone between data centers and homes, schools, and hospitals, while giving local communities veto power over new construction and requiring mandatory disclosures on water usage. It reflects growing tension between the AI infrastructure boom and the neighborhoods absorbing its footprint.
And in immigration enforcement, ICE is planning to spend tens of millions of dollars on electric shock gloves, marketed under the name Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter. A product manual obtained by four oh four Media details how the devices pulse electrical energy to help agents subdue individuals. Civil liberties groups are already raising concerns about the potential for misuse.
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