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The Commerce Department's AI-testing division — renamed CAISSI and funded at $10 million a year, an eighth of its UK counterpart — has had no permanent director since spring and stopped publishing its model evaluations in August. Two former officials say its staff were recently asked to informally report to a White House office.
Apiiro found 1,122 public copies of .claude/settings.local.json holding real secrets — database passwords, cloud keys, Supabase service-role keys, root SSH logins — because choosing 'Yes, and don't ask again' saves the approved command string, credential and all, as an allow rule, and the file then gets committed. In 539 of the traced repos, a Claude-co-authored commit changed the file.
Since macOS 13, two daemons (knowledgeconstructiond and intelligenceplatformd) have built an on-device graph of you by cross-referencing Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Messages, Mail, location and Screen Time, with a pair of XGBoost classifiers scoring who is family from 144 mostly behavioral features. The researchers map the 51 plaintext SQLite stores under ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform and ship a local dashboard to inspect your own.
The annual point-in-time count found U.S. homelessness fell more than 6% in 2025, about 49,000 fewer people and the biggest drop in over a decade, though nearly 700,000 remain in shelters or on the street. HUD credits border enforcement and encampment crackdowns; an advocacy-group analysis of the same count credits housing-first programs, especially for veterans, and found cities with camping bans did worse than average.
