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EXCLUSIVE — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says that thousands of illegal aliens — many of them sex criminals, murderers and known members of brutal gangs — have abused a program meant to protect at-risk minors in order to gain entry into the United States. A report from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) first obtained by Fox News Digital reveals the extent to which the Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) program is riddled with fraud, and oftentimes exploited by the worst-of-the-worst criminals to gain legal status into the country. The program recipients are offered legal permanent resident status and eventually naturalization . It was created to offer a safe haven to children of illegal immigrants who have been victims of abuse, neglect or abandonment. USCIS' Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate uncovered more than a decade's worth of abuse of the program from fiscal years 2013 through 2025. HOMAN VOWS ICE DETENTION FACILITY 'ISN...

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac : Perplexity announces a feature that lets Perplexity Computer split tasks between on-device AI models and server-based models   —  Perplexity has announced a major new feature coming soon to Perplexity Computer: the ability to split tasks between local and cloud models.

Michelle Ma / Bloomberg : Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom   —  Gigascale Capital closed a $250 million fund for early-stage startups.  —  Climate tech venture capital firm Gigascale Capital …

The Department of Justice (DOJ) pressed pause on the Trump administration's "anti-weaponization" fund on Monday, giving Senate Republicans runway to hammer through a massive immigration enforcement funding package in the process. The DOJ announced on X that it would abide by a Virginia federal court's order to not move forward with the fund. It comes as Republicans in the upper chamber punted their plan to advance a $72 billion immigration enforcement package over deep concerns about who could access the flow of taxpayer dollars from the nearly $2 billion fund. The DOJ said in a statement that it "disagrees strongly with the decision on the Anti-Weaponization Fund" by the Virginia district court, "wherein the Court stated that, under no circumstances, may the Department of Justice proceed with the Anti-Weaponization Fund recently established in order to make up for the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so many people." SENATE GO...

A Nantucket church on the exclusive Massachusetts island long favored by former President Joe Biden canceled its annual Fourth of July reading of America’s founding documents, citing an effort to understand "our own whiteness" and drawing sharp criticism from conservatives. "Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects ... an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness," wrote Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society in a letter published by the Nantucket Current on Thursday.  The historic Nantucket Unitarian Meeting House has hosted a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights in downtown Nantucket each Fourth of July holiday for the past 25 years. The decision comes as communities across the country prepare for events tied to America's upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations, sparking criticism from so...

Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog : Researchers find several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware targeting credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and others   —  Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install.