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A newly-uncovered Biden White House memo from the administration's final days revealed plans that could have expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 3 million noncitizens while acknowledging that previous court challenges had blocked many of President Donald Trump's efforts to end the protections. TPS is meant for foreign populations experiencing crises like political unrest or natural disasters, and while Trump has tried to end the "temporary" provisions for Haitians, Nepalese, Salvadorans and Sudanese people, lawsuits from pro-migrant advocates have halted most attempts. "Stakeholders argue that granting TPS will potentially protect many vulnerable people from President-elect Trump's planned mass deportations ... They argue that these protections are likely to hold in court, and they are prepared to litigate efforts to terminate or slow down the implementation of TPS for specified nations by the Trump Administration," read a section of ...

Timothy Pratt / The Guardian : The DOJ is prosecuting a Cop City protester for allegedly providing CBP with a “duress” passcode that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS phone   —  Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch : Runway launches Runway Media Router, which it says is the first built specifically for generative media, as it expands from AI video to AI infrastructure   —  Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company.  It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media.

New York City socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely mocked by conservatives on social media Tuesday after announcing that one of his campaign platforms, arresting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, isn’t a tool he has at his disposal. In a video post on X that was viewed over 36 million times, Mamdani called Netanyahu a "war criminal" while conceding that New York City could not enforce the International Criminal Court's warrant for the Israeli leader’s arrest on its own despite the mayor saying he had looked at exploring avenues to do so. Mamdani has often said on the campaign trail and as mayor that he wanted to arrest Netanyahu over what the mayor calls a "genocide" in Gaza. While Mamdani’s post was well received by many on the political left, conservatives on social media quickly mocked the mayor over the situation while taking issue with his determination to enforce the ICC warrant, which the United States government does not recognize. MAMDAN...

David Jeans / Reuters : Sources: Cathedral, launched by ex-DOGE staffers to use AI to expand US military cyber capabilities, raised $160M led by a16z and Sequoia at a $1.4B valuation   —  A team of former DOGE employees have raised a major funding round for a startup that aims to use AI to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities …

U.S. counterintelligence capabilities have fallen far behind threats from China and Russia , according to former White House national security advisor H.R. McMaster, who accused Washington of being "extraordinarily negligent" during the decades after the Sept. 11 attacks. "The counterintelligence threat is, like, way behind," McMaster warned during a House Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday examining how national security threats have changed in the 25 years since 9/11. Committee Chair Rick Crawford, R-Ark., had asked whether the government’s intense post-attack focus on counterterrorism had diverted attention from hostile nation-states and left the country’s counterintelligence posture inadequate. McMaster not only agreed, but issued a warning that Russia and China are taking advantage of America's guard being down as it focuses on terrorist threats more than global power nuclear rivals. WALTZ WARNS OF CHINESE, RUSSIAN-FUELED ‘NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT’ LOO...