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Shocked! ICE To Equip Officers With Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Zaps Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to spend up to $20 million on gloves that can deliver electric shocks for its agents, according to a notice published by the Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 10. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walk outside the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, Calif., on July 27, 2026. Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images The devices, known as CTG-5 G.L.O.V.E, or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter,...

Bluetooth Glitch Exposes Alibaba's Secret Tracking Of Users, Developer Says A San Francisco-based developer discovered that Alibaba Group's AliExpress marketplace secretly hijacked his computer's audio system through hidden browser scripts, allowing the website to run inaudible sound waves at zero volume to create "fingerprints" used to track devices without relying on cookies.  The privacy-focused Brave browser revealed in a series of X posts that the AliExpress marketplace was keeping the developer's computer audio system active through hidden browser scripts, potentially allowing the website to generate a unique identifier for his device. The...

Gulf States & Iran To Hold Unprecedented Meeting Monday, Seeking Hormuz Strait Deal Breakthrough Iran and some Gulf states are formally meeting in order to push and finalize an Iran+Oman-backed deal and framework for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, coming at the end of a week where multiple tankers have been attacked, including unprecedented US strikes on an Iranian civilian vessel. "Gulf foreign ministers plan to meet their Iranian counterpart in a push by Oman and Iran to secure buy-in for a deal temporarily managing shipping through the Strait...