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ICE Has Taken DNA From Nearly a Million People This Year, Including Young Children

A WIRED investigation reveals the agency's DNA dragnet now feeds an FBI database indefinitely. Plus: Google Earth's AI backfire (which we first reported on 31 July), a secret White House cybersecurity plan, and a SpaceX rocket that quietly hit the moon.

4 min read
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Google Pulls Its AI Image-Editing Tool from Google Earth After Users Faked War Zones and Border Scenes

A feature that let anyone repaint satellite photos with text prompts lasted less than 48 hours before Google yanked it. Researcher Henk van Ess found no prompts were blocked, generated convincing fake humanitarian crisis scenes over real coordinates, and showed a commercial AI-detection service missed them entirely.

4 min read
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Google Earth's New AI Image Tool Is Already Fooling Fake-Photo Detectors

A researcher typed a text prompt into Google Earth and got a convincing satellite image of 'refugees near the Mexican border'. That is not a good sign.

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