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ICE Ships 7-Year-Old Queens Student and Mom to Texas Detention, Prompting School Principal’s Plea for Their Release

Martha, her 19-year-old son Manuel and her 7-year-old daughter are seen celebrating her daughter's birthday.

A 7-year-old student at Public School 89 in Queens was detained along with her 19-year-old brother and their mother at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan this week — the first known ICE arrest of a New York City child under the age of 18 during the second […]

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The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
The Federal Reserve continues its relaxation of crypto oversight by ending a program created in 2023 to scrutinize fintech and crypto activities by banks  —  The Federal Reserve has shuttered the Novel Activities Supervision Program it built in 2023 that was — in part — meant to focus on banks' crypto activity.

Woz’s Ongoing YouTube Lawsuit

CBS (via John Gruber): Steve Wozniak, who helped introduce new technologies by inventing the earliest Apple computers, is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He talks with correspondent John Blackstone about fighting for the victims of online scams involving AI, cryptocurrency and faked messages, and […]

TextKit 2: The Promised Land

Marcin Krzyżanowski (Mastodon): TextKit 2 (NSTextLayoutManager) API was announced publicly during WWDC21, which is over 4 years ago. Before that, it was in private development for a few years and gained widespread adoption in the macOS and iOS frameworks. Promised an easier, faster, overall better API and text layout engine that replaces the aged TextKit […]

Notepad.exe 1.2.1139

Marcin Krzyżanowski (tweet): Notepad.exe is a native macOS application I've crafted with love to enhance your development experience. Built on a plug-and-play philosophy, it gets you coding instantly with zero setup, then scales with your needs. Whether you're prototyping Swift apps, experimenting with Python scripts, building iOS apps with automatic simulator support, or exploring new […]