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Homeland Security increases agent presence in North Carolina’s largest city: What to know
Homeland Security increases agent presence in North Carolina’s largest city: What to know — The Trump administration has launched a surge of immigration enforcement in Charlotte, with agents making arrests at multiple locations despite pushback from local leaders. Activists, officials, and community groups are mobilizing to monitor sweeps and support vulnerable residents. Charlotte, a racially diverse city of 900,000 run by a Democratic mayor, has seen major crimes drop more than 20% through August, according to AH Datalytics. Nonetheless, the administration has cited the August fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train—an awful crime for which a man with a lengthy record has been charged—to argue Democratic-run cities aren’t keeping people safe. There’s no indication border agents will enforce local or state laws.
Mayor Vi Lyles says the surge is sowing “unnecessary fear,” while local groups are training volunteers to document encounters and inform immigrants of their rights. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say they aren’t involved in federal immigration enforcement. As for the National Guard: not in Charlotte, at least for now. Three Republican members of Congress want Gov. Josh Stein to request it; his office says local police are better suited. The Guard has been deployed to D.C., Los Angeles, and Memphis, but courts have blocked it in the Chicago area and Portland. In short: optics first, data later.
Copy-and-Paste Surpasses File Transfers as the Leading Corporate Data Exfiltration Method
Copy-and-Paste Surpasses File Transfers as the Leading Corporate Data Exfiltration Method, says LayerX’s Browser Security Report 2025, because the new data-loss API is apparently Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. With 77% of employees pasting company information into AI prompts—and 32% of all corporate-to-non-corporate copy-pastes happening inside genAI tools—traditional governance built for email and file shares is playing fetch with yesterday’s frisbee. GenAI now accounts for 11% of enterprise app usage; 45% of employees actively use AI tools, two-thirds via personal accounts, and ChatGPT dominates with 92% of that traffic. LayerX’s CEO dryly notes that nobody designed DLP to police a browser prompt, which is why adoption is outpacing controls. And with AI-driven browsers like OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet on the rise, the corporate perimeter has been reduced to the world’s most dangerous object: the clipboard.
Senator John Fetterman discharged from hospital following a fall
Senator John Fetterman discharged from hospital following a fall: The Pennsylvania senator was released after a brief hospital visit prompted by a fall near his Braddock home on Thursday—an unscripted stumble, promptly handled, with Fetterman back out the door faster than Congress agrees on lunch.
Calls for a ‘masculinity reset’ amid claims men are portrayed as either threatening or pathetic on screen
Calls for a “masculinity reset” are growing amid claims men are portrayed as either threatening or pathetic on screen, after a Centre for Social Justice “Lost Boys” poll of 2,000 people found 57% think media pushes men to extremes—hapless clown or looming menace—while 67% say boys lack suitable role models. The think tank wants film, TV, and ads to treat male and female qualities positively, noting its earlier finding that men aged 16–24 not in education, employment or training jumped 40% since the pandemic, compared with 7% for women. Asked what traits they want to see in male characters, 57% picked honesty, respect, and family values—apparently a radical concept in writers’ rooms that only stock Homer-adjacent dads and scowling antiheroes. Former Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan warned media portrayals shape how boys are seen; David Gandy pointed to the bumbling-dad trope; and critic Neil Brand blamed lazy storytelling that mistakes empowered women for an excuse to make men awful. The debate intensified after the series Adolescence depicted a 13-year-old boy’s descent into online misogyny and murder—a reminder this isn’t just about optics. Translation for Hollywood: please install a third male setting between “idiot” and “incipient felon.”
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By IniaesHomeland Security increases agent presence in North Carolina’s largest city: What to know
Homeland Security increases agent presence in North Carolina’s largest city: What to know — The Trump administration has launched a surge of immigration enforcement in Charlotte, with agents making arrests at multiple locations despite pushback from local leaders. Activists, officials, and community groups are mobilizing to monitor sweeps and support vulnerable residents. Charlotte, a racially diverse city of 900,000 run by a Democratic mayor, has seen major crimes drop more than 20% through August, according to AH Datalytics. Nonetheless, the administration has cited the August fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a light-rail train—an awful crime for which a man with a lengthy record has been charged—to argue Democratic-run cities aren’t keeping people safe. There’s no indication border agents will enforce local or state laws.
Mayor Vi Lyles says the surge is sowing “unnecessary fear,” while local groups are training volunteers to document encounters and inform immigrants of their rights. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say they aren’t involved in federal immigration enforcement. As for the National Guard: not in Charlotte, at least for now. Three Republican members of Congress want Gov. Josh Stein to request it; his office says local police are better suited. The Guard has been deployed to D.C., Los Angeles, and Memphis, but courts have blocked it in the Chicago area and Portland. In short: optics first, data later.
Copy-and-Paste Surpasses File Transfers as the Leading Corporate Data Exfiltration Method
Copy-and-Paste Surpasses File Transfers as the Leading Corporate Data Exfiltration Method, says LayerX’s Browser Security Report 2025, because the new data-loss API is apparently Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. With 77% of employees pasting company information into AI prompts—and 32% of all corporate-to-non-corporate copy-pastes happening inside genAI tools—traditional governance built for email and file shares is playing fetch with yesterday’s frisbee. GenAI now accounts for 11% of enterprise app usage; 45% of employees actively use AI tools, two-thirds via personal accounts, and ChatGPT dominates with 92% of that traffic. LayerX’s CEO dryly notes that nobody designed DLP to police a browser prompt, which is why adoption is outpacing controls. And with AI-driven browsers like OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet on the rise, the corporate perimeter has been reduced to the world’s most dangerous object: the clipboard.
Senator John Fetterman discharged from hospital following a fall
Senator John Fetterman discharged from hospital following a fall: The Pennsylvania senator was released after a brief hospital visit prompted by a fall near his Braddock home on Thursday—an unscripted stumble, promptly handled, with Fetterman back out the door faster than Congress agrees on lunch.
Calls for a ‘masculinity reset’ amid claims men are portrayed as either threatening or pathetic on screen
Calls for a “masculinity reset” are growing amid claims men are portrayed as either threatening or pathetic on screen, after a Centre for Social Justice “Lost Boys” poll of 2,000 people found 57% think media pushes men to extremes—hapless clown or looming menace—while 67% say boys lack suitable role models. The think tank wants film, TV, and ads to treat male and female qualities positively, noting its earlier finding that men aged 16–24 not in education, employment or training jumped 40% since the pandemic, compared with 7% for women. Asked what traits they want to see in male characters, 57% picked honesty, respect, and family values—apparently a radical concept in writers’ rooms that only stock Homer-adjacent dads and scowling antiheroes. Former Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan warned media portrayals shape how boys are seen; David Gandy pointed to the bumbling-dad trope; and critic Neil Brand blamed lazy storytelling that mistakes empowered women for an excuse to make men awful. The debate intensified after the series Adolescence depicted a 13-year-old boy’s descent into online misogyny and murder—a reminder this isn’t just about optics. Translation for Hollywood: please install a third male setting between “idiot” and “incipient felon.”