yahoo news | Trump's 'no evidence' claim gets blown up by key Epstein advisers: report

Two of Jeffrey Epstein’s former advisers – accountant Richard Kahn and lawyer Darren Indyke – recently testified before the House Oversight Committee, saying they were never contacted by federal investigators during the Justice Department’s review of the financier’s activities. Their closed‑door testimony, released on video, directly challenges the DOJ memo from last July in which the department claimed it had conducted an “exhaustive” and “thorough” investigation and found no evidence to pursue criminal charges against any co‑conspirators.

The advisers’ statements raise doubts about the depth of the DOJ’s probe. Both Kahn and Indyke confirmed they had never been questioned by any government authority about Epstein, contradicting the administration’s assertion that the investigation had been comprehensive. The memo’s most controversial conclusion was that investigators did not uncover an “incriminating ‘client list’” of Epstein’s contacts, a claim that stood in stark contrast to former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s earlier claim that such a list was “sitting on my desk right now.”

The revelations have reignited criticism of the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein case, fueling accusations from MAGA supporters that the DOJ’s findings were a cover‑up. While neither Kahn nor Indyke has been accused of wrongdoing, their testimony suggests the reported lack of evidence may have been overstated, prompting renewed calls for a more transparent and thorough examination of Epstein’s network and any potential co‑conspirators.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2676616655/

#trump #epstein #houseoversightcommittee #justicedepartment #maga

"The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises, and it, not Claude, is what is being used to produce “target packages” in Iran. There are real limits to what a civilian like myself can know about this system, and what follows is based on publicly-available information, assembled from Palantir product demos, conferences, as well as instructional material produced for military users. But we can know quite a bit. The interface looks like a tacticool, dark mode send-up of enterprise software paired with the features of geospatial application like ArcGIS. What the operator sees are either maps with GIS-like overlays or a screen organized like a project management board. There are columns representing stages of the targeting process, with individual targets moving across them from left to right, as in a Kanban board.

Before Maven, operators worked across eight or nine separate systems simultaneously, pulling data from one, cross-referencing in another, manually moving detections between platforms to build a targeting case. Maven consolidated and orchestrated all of these behind a single interface. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, called it an “abstraction layer,” a common term in software engineering, meaning a system which hides the complexity underneath it.16 Humans run the targeting and the ML systems underneath produce confidence intervals. Three clicks convert a data point on the map into a formal detection and move it into a targeting pipeline. These targets then move through columns representing different decision-making processes and rules of engagement. The system evaluates factors and presents ranked options for which platform and munition to assign, what the military calls a Course of Action. The officer selects from the ranked options, and the system, depending on who is using it, either sends the target package to an officer for approval or moves it to execution.

The AI underneath the interface is not a language model, or at least the AI that counts is not. The systems that detect targets in satellite imagery, fuse data from radar and drone footage, and track objects across multiple intelligence sources are computer vision and sensor fusion.17 They predate large language models by years. Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data, or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem;they were added in late 2024, years after the core system was operational, “AIP” was added as a natural language layer that summarizes documents or constructs and answers queries.18 When Anthropic was blacklisted, the Pentagon signed a replacement contract with OpenAI within hours. Replacing one language model with another is often just a simple configuration change, all you really have to do is change the API endpoint.

The language model was never what mattered about this system. What mattered was what Maven did to the process: it consolidated the systems, compressed the time, and reduced the people. That is not a new idea. The United States military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed, and every attempt has produced the same failure. Maven may not even be the most extreme case."

https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

Heute, 24.3., im Gemeinderat:

📌 TOP 1: Ausscheiden Stadtrat Benjamin Bauer
📌 TOP 5: Bürgerumfrage 2025 #Klima und Grün
📌 TOP 9: Haushaltswirtschaftliche Sperre 2026
📌 TOP 13: Betriebskonzept GGZ #Handwerk
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#GemeinderatKarlsruhe #Karlsruhe #KarlsruherListe #PolitikInKarlsruhe #karlsRAT

Federal prosecutor in Florida in 2007 told bosses #Epstein was a “danger to children” and begged them to urgently seek his arrest.

“She proposed a 60-count indictment that charged Epstein and some of his assistants with sex trafficking and other crimes.”

In nearly 20 instances, Villafaña felt “pressured, intimidated, threatened, coerced” or wrongly influenced to take a position or action she disagreed with, she wrote in 2019. From her point of view, her bosses had allowed Epstein’s legal team to undermine the case she was building.

Epstein’s missing computers, which she felt “likely contained hard evidence of travel, contact with victims, obstruction of justice and possibly child pornography,” she wrote in 2019.

Republicans did this and Bondi looked the other way on this one as well.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-20/prosecutor-pushed-her-bosses-for-epstein-s-arrest-multiple-times-in-2007

#news #epsteinFiles #epsteinClass #eu #europeanunion #uk #Poland #Deutschland #France #Germany #usa #operationEpsteinFury

TapType is out. It's a keyboard for blind Android users.
There are no visible keys. You tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial prediction algorithm figures out what you meant. It scores nearby keys using a Gaussian proximity model and runs a beam search against an 80,000 word dictionary. You don't need to be precise. That's the whole point.
Swipe right to commit a word. Swipe down or up to cycle through suggestions. Swipe left to delete. It learns what words you use most and ranks them higher over time, and you can add your own words to a personal dictionary.
Every letter has its own unique sound, from Andre Louis's keyboard sound recordings, so you can learn to identify keys by ear without relying on speech. Each swipe direction has a distinct sound too. TTS is there when you want it, adjustable speed, and you can turn it off entirely if you prefer sounds only.
It has emoji search with skin tone selection and favourites, a number pad mode, an upper case mode, and full punctuation support with a customizable quick list. Two-finger gestures handle things like send, close keyboard, switch keyboard, and voice input.
Everything works with TalkBack. I built this because FlickType was a fantastic keyboard for blind iOS users and then it was gone. Nothing like it existed on Android, so I made one.
It's free, no ads, no tracking, no metrics. I'm not evil.

Edit: Now on 2.0 with multiple languages supported.

If you find TapType useful, consider supporting its development:
https://paypal.me/aaronhewitt
https://github.com/sponsors/aaron-gh
https://liberapay.com/fireborn/

Download: https://github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-releases/releases/latest
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #TalkBack #Keyboard #AssistiveTech

Merke: Erlösmaximierung und Profit stehen über dem Aufrechthalten einer Demokratie ☝️

European funders bet big on tech giant #Palantir despite concerns over human rights and democracy
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/european-investors-palantir-investment

FFS its not "Sideloading", its installing applications on a device I own.

#android #google #scams #malware #fdroid #foss #privacy #lineageos #grapheneos

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SPÄTZLE CODING NIGHT #2

Am 24.4. & 25.4. veranstalten wir unsere zweite Spätzle Coding Night. Neben gemeinsamen Coden, Spätzle & Mate, wird es Freitags auch Vorträge über spannende Projekte aus der Community geben.

Das genaue Programm folgt. Stay tuned.

Zum EINTOPF-Event:
https://eintopf.info/event/5bb974dc-b2ec-4dfc-987a-cafdfdef6879

#Stuttgart #Hackathon

Rights groups have slammed Pete Hegseth for saying that “no quarter” will be shown to Iran.

"No quarter" includes executing people who've surrendered.

The mere announcement from a govt official can be a war crime.

Such threats are illegal under the Hague Convention & US domestic laws & military manuals.

Hegseth has publicly claimed he would not abide by “stupid rules of engagement”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/14/analysts-say-us-threat-of-no-quarter-for-iran-violates-international-law

Hegseth is military trained & he's no fool:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

#USPol #EUPol .