Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests.

WiMi Releases Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network (H-QNN) Technology for Efficient MNIST Binary Image Classification

WiMi Releases Hybrid Quantum-Classical Neural Network (H-QNN) Technology for Efficient MNIST Binary Image Classification. BEIJING, Feb.0 ...
The New York Times

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. By Sheera ...

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.
Futurism

ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database

In case you needed further evidence that we’re living in the worst version of a cyberpunk dystopia, immigration officers are now scanning civilians’ faces to index them in a government database. Don’t ...
New York Post

NYC Wegmans storing shoppers’ facial scans and biometric data to ID customers, boost security: ‘We understand concerns’

Enter at your own risk. New signs unveiled at some Wegmans across the Big Apple are warning customers that personally-identifying biometric data, such as facial recognition scans, is being stored ...
IEEE

BestNet: Advancing MNIST Handwriting Recognition

Abstract: Modern digit classifiers often chase complexity, piling on increasingly deeper and more intricate layers in pursuit of marginal performance gains. This trend frequently demands exponentially ...
Florida Today

Police devices are recording us. Database shows where in Florida

A group of students and volunteers has compiled a database of surveillance technologies being used by by law enforcement agencies in counties and municipalities across the United States. The research ...
FedScoop

Dem governors unwittingly share DMV data with ICE, lawmakers warn

ICE agents conduct operations in the Little Village neighborhood, a predominantly Mexican-American community in Chicago, on Nov. 8, 2025. (Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images) A group of ...
EurekAlert!

Intention recognition of UAV swarm with data-driven methods

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) intention recognition has been extensively studied. However, when it comes to a UAV swarm problem, their intention recognition study was left blank. The flowchart ...
Engadget

CBP will photograph non-citizens entering and exiting the US for its facial recognition database

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted a new measure that allows it to photograph any non-US citizen who enters or exits the country for facial recognition purposes. According to a ...