BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has ruffled feathers with her ongoing investigation into H-1B fraud in Texas — and she has shown no signs of letting up.

After shining an unflattering light on Great America Technologies Inc. and sending the Indian alleged fraudster behind it into a panic, Gonzales took a close look Global Star IT Serve LLC — a purported software company that state records show was formed in 2021, is registered to Rajender Bairineni, and was supposedly based in the same co-working building in Plano as Great America Technologies.

‘It’s the same song and dance with these people.’

According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ H-1B Employer Datahub, Global Star IT Serve has sponsored at least one H-1B visa. It recently received a damning review on MyVisaJobs.com, where an alleged former worker complained about “toxic management,” recurring payroll delays, questionable payroll deductions, and concerns about the existence of an actual physical office.

“If there’s one thing H-1B body shops love, it’s ripping people off,” said Gonzales, “whether it’s the American workers they’re stealing jobs from or the companies that they’re selling cheap labor to and even all the way down to their own employees.”

On the basis of claims from a disgruntled former worker that the company denied in a statement to Blaze News, Gonzales suggested that Global Star fit into this category of exploitative outfits and further accused Bairineni’s company — which is now inactive, according to state records — of “stealing wages from its workers.”

According to Gonzales, Global Star allegedly failed to pay its lone H-1B employee in a timely fashion and previously “took illegal deductions from his paycheck.”

“It’s the same song and dance with these people,” said Gonzales. “You set up shop in a co-working space to make it seem like you have an office so you can import a bunch of workers, a bunch of vulnerable people, and take advantage of them.”

RELATED: BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales’ investigation has Indian H-1B sponsor panicking

An unnamed H-1B worker who said he served the company as a software developer told Gonzales that Bairineni fired him in July. The worker claimed he was fired because Bairineni did not want to pay his salary for the previous two or three months.

Records obtained by Gonzales appear to show that Bairineni’s company also deducted thousands of dollars in “employer expenses” from the worker’s salary — deductions the worker flagged as potentially illegal. The worker estimated that Bairineni allegedly tried to skip out on paying nearly $40,000 total.

In addition to accusing the H-1B sponsor of attempting to intimidate him into signing off on the allegedly illegal after-tax deductions, the H-1B worker claimed to Gonzales that the address provided for Global Star on Google is “a fake address. … It’s not a ghost office. It’s a fake address. Somebody’s office is there. He’s using that address.”

Gonzales characterized the former employee and other similarly situated H-1B workers as vulnerable “indentured servants” whom predatory businesses seek out while edging out citizen labor.

The BlazeTV host tried paying Bairineni a visit at his home. Since no one answered the door, Gonzales decided to “resort to an old trick of ours.”

The team sent a production assistant dressed up as a delivery driver to the H-1B sponsor’s door, asking for Bairineni to sign for a fake package.

This time a woman who later identified herself as Bairineni’s wife answered the door and summoned the H-1B sponsor. As Bairineni emerged from his home, Gonzales ran over to confront him, immediately asking, “Hey, Rajender, why aren’t you paying your H-1B employees? … Why are you deducting contributions, Rajender? … Rajender, why are you labor trafficking?”

Bairineni immediately retreated inside the home and slammed the door.

Gonzales responded by shouting, “Why aren’t you paying your H-1B visa employees, Rajender? Knock, knock, b***h! Why’d you run inside? We’re just getting started.”

The BlazeTV host subsequently obtained audio of the 911 phone call placed by a woman in Bairineni’s residence to the Plano Police Department regarding Gonzales’ visit.

“I see here that you wanted to report someone knocked at your door?” said a Plano police officer.

The woman described with some accuracy the events — the fake delivery driver, the fake package, the request for Bairineni, and Gonzales’ appearance — then claimed the experience was “scary.”

“Okay, um,” responded the officer, “so do you want me to just document that, or do you want, like, a report?”

“I do want to report it because she has no right to come to my house and then just knock on my door,” said the woman.

“Strictly speaking, what they did wasn’t actually illegal,” said the officer, who added that “the act of recording is not a crime.”

Gonzales noted, “Typical scammers: They’re the ones who are caught breaking the law, and then they cry like they’re the victims. Again, this is case in point why we just need to shut the H-1B visa system down for good.”

Bairineni said in a statement to Blaze News:

The Company categorically denies each and every allegation as stated, and the following statement is provided on the record for attribution.

Office Lease and Business Location. The Company lawfully leased office space at 8105 Rasor Blvd, #125, Plano, TX 75024, and conducted legitimate business operations from that location. Any characterization of the address as a “fake address” is factually inaccurate and defamatory. The Company maintains documentation, including the executed lease agreement and related records, substantiating its lawful tenancy and business operations at that address.

Work-from-Home Arrangement. [Employee’s] position was a work-from-home (“telework”) arrangement. He performed his duties from his personal residence located at [employee’s address]. This remote work arrangement was known to and accepted by the Company, and is consistent with applicable H-1B telework and worksite reporting requirements. The Company’s end client was located at [client’s address], and [Employee’s] remote work supported the services rendered in connection with that client engagement.

H-1B Petition and Compliance with the LCA. The Company filed a bona fide H-1B petition on behalf of [employee] and employed him in the petitioned position. All wages were paid in accordance with the certified Labor Condition Application (“LCA”) and applicable U.S. Department of Labor regulations, including all applicable worksite and telework provisions. There are no pending or outstanding payments owed to [employee]. The Company has at all times remained in material compliance with the terms and conditions of the LCA and its obligations as an H-1B employer.

Alleged Deductions. The Company did not take illegal deductions from [employee’s] paycheck. Any amounts referenced by [Employee] pertain to his own mischaracterization of contractual receivable provisions, not to any unlawful withholding of wages. The Company’s payroll practices conformed to applicable law, and [Employee] has no outstanding balance or unpaid wages due to him.

[Employee’s] Separation and Misconduct. [Employee] voluntarily absented himself from his duties without notice, thereby breaching his professional and contractual obligations. His abrupt and unannounced departure caused material disruption at the Company’s end client in Charlotte, North Carolina, resulting in the loss of that client relationship and, ultimately, the cessation of the Company’s business operations. The Company had only one employee — [employee] — and at no point engaged in any improper, unlawful, or fraudulent conduct.

Extortionate Demands. Following his departure, [Employee] began making escalating and unfounded monetary demands upon the Company, invoking paycheck-related clauses in an attempt to extract additional funds to which he is not entitled. The Company regards these demands as baseless and, to the extent they constitute an attempt to obtain money through improper threats, potentially actionable.

Reservation of Rights. The Company expressly reserves all rights and remedies available at law and in equity, including, without limitation, claims for defamation, tortious interference with existing and prospective business relations, breach of contract, trade libel, and any statutory remedies available under applicable federal and state law. Nothing in this response shall be construed as a waiver of any such rights. This response is provided without prejudice to all such rights.

No Admission. This response is not, and shall not be construed as, an admission of any liability, wrongdoing, or the truth of any allegation. The Company denies all allegations of unpaid wages, illegal deductions, fraud, and misrepresentation in their entirety.

Should Blaze News elect to publish any allegation concerning the Company, we request that this response be included in full and that the Company be identified accurately. The Company is prepared to provide documentary evidence supporting the foregoing to the extent appropriate and consistent with its legal and confidentiality obligations.

Blaze News has repeatedly asked Bairineni to provide the “documentary evidence” he claims to have, but he has so far provided none.

Editor’s note: Blaze News has redacted the name of Global Star’s alleged victim, his personal address, and the address of his client.

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Just weeks ahead of the midterm election, a federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden took aim at the federal law barring foreigners from voting in American elections, characterizing it as “unconstitutional.”

Chelsea Cox is a Jamaican national who came to the United States on a tourist visa in 1999. According to the Justice Department, Cox — who never bothered going home after her visa expired and presently has no legal status in the country — used a fraudulent U.S. Virgin Islands birth certificate to obtain a Florida driver’s license in April 2000.

‘Leftist judges are trying to invalidate the federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting.’

Cox was charged in the Southern District of Florida last October for allegedly using her false identity to vote unlawfully in the 2020 election. Citing Cox’s voter history, the Justice Department alleged that the Jamaican also voted in the general elections in 2012, 2016, and 2018.

Federal law — 18 U.S.C. § 611 — prohibits any foreign national from voting “in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner” unless he or she permanently resided in the U.S. prior to turning 16, has citizen parents, and/or reasonably believed at the time of voting that he or she was a citizen.

The Jamaican’s attorney argued that the states, not Congress, alone “can establish the qualifications of electors for federal elections” and that as such, Section 611 is “facially unconstitutional.”

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U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz, the Biden-appointed nephew of billionaire car magnate Norman Braman, embraced the defense’s argument and dismissed the case on Thursday, stating that “the text, structure, and original public meaning of the Constitution show that Congress does not have the constitutional power to enact this statute.”

Leibowitz rejected the government’s arguments that the law can be “‘sustained on the basis of Congress’ broad authority over immigration and foreign affairs,’ which empowers Congress to legislate against ‘[f]oreign interference in elections,'” claiming that while such authority is “broad indeed,”

the Court finds no reason to conclude that an exercise of Congress’s “plenary powers” over immigration and foreign affairs would override the “foundational constitutional constraints” set out in the Voter Qualification Clauses.

While the Miami-based Biden judge said that “one can assume that the Defendant committed every element of the crime established by Section 611,” he concluded ultimately that “Chelsea Cox cannot be prosecuted for an alleged violation of an unconstitutional statute.”

Leibowitz did, however, note that Florida can “prohibit and punish the exact conduct Defendant Cox allegedly engaged in here,” and that this case does not address whether the Trump administration can deport Cox.

Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office.

Bruce Udolf, an attorney for the Jamaican, told NBC News that his client was “ecstatic” over the ruling.

“We were gratified by the court’s ruling and would hope that the government would not take this matter further as far as deportation is concerned,” said Udolf. “This person has lived peacefully and responsibly in this country for 30 years, and she is in very ill health and desperately needs a medical attention that would not otherwise be available to her in Jamaica.”

The Biden judge’s ruling was condemned by those keen to see only Americans voting in American elections.

James Percival, general counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said of Leibowitz’s ruling, “A Biden appointed judge in Florida says that federal bans on noncitizen voting are unconstitutional. The thing that never happens is now ‘constitutionally protected activity!'”

“First leftist senators blocked the SAVE America Act, insisting that ‘noncitizens don’t vote.’ Now leftist judges are trying to invalidate the federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting,” wrote Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R). “If you find this unacceptable, vote for Republicans in November.”

The government has appealed the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

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Who better to write a book called “The Man Book” than BlazeTV host Nick Freitas, a former Green Beret and Virginia legislator, husband, father, and — let’s be honest — an undeniably rugged, manly looking guy?

Freitas has built a huge social-media audience with dry humor and blunt observations about politics, culture, marriage, and family. His Instagram following recently crossed 2 million. More important, he offers young men an alternative to influencers peddling a hollow parody of masculinity built on conquest, self-promotion, and obsessive image management.

National renewal begins when men accept that calling at home and live in a way their wives, sons, and daughters can trust.

I have argued for years that real masculinity is not toxic. The one-dimensional brute whom the left beats like a cheap piñata is a cartoon caricature. Toughness, discipline, and endurance can make a man a better father, husband, and protector.

Freitas’ book makes much the same case. Published this spring, “The Man Book” — subtitled “A Point-by-Point Guide to Sucking It Up and Getting the Job Done” — reached the New York Times bestseller list and peaked at No. 6.

Appearing recently on A.J. Rice’s “Dangerous Laughter” podcast, Freitas said national renewal begins with men who accept responsibility, build strong families, and transmit faith, character, and durable values to the next generation.

“I am 100% absolutely convinced that the way you’re going to save the country and the way you’re going to save our politics is through godly families that are strong, that are cohesive, and that are transferring their values to future generations,” Freitas said.

His political career grew out of frustration. Freitas served two combat tours in Iraq and later said he became fed up with political leaders imposing rules of engagement that, in his view, constrained warfighters in the field. After leaving the Army, he entered politics and served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2016 to 2026.

“The real problem,” Freitas told Rice, “was our side had kind of given up making the argument on what we believed and why. And to the extent that we did make the argument, it was always kind of this stuffy, overly academic, esoteric argument, instead of actually just talking to people and maybe — God forbid — adding a little bit of sense of humor and sarcasm to it.”

That direct style eventually migrated from politics to questions about marriage, fatherhood, Christianity, and manhood. The questions Freitas received changed too. Young men wanted to know how to become good husbands and fathers. Young women wanted to know how to recognize one.

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The central distinction in “The Man Book” is between masculinity and its counterfeits. A good man is neither passive nor recklessly aggressive. He is strong but disciplined, capable but humble, protective without being domineering, and willing to use force when necessary without making violence an identity.

Freitas argues that progressive politics has alienated many men by treating qualities they naturally want to cultivate — strength, courage, competitiveness, competence — as suspect. Attempts to manufacture a politically acceptable masculinity therefore ring false. Aggression can imitate strength, but violence without self-command, responsibility, and moral purpose is not manhood.

“There’s no pinnacle that you achieve with respect to manhood,” Freitas said. “There’s just things that you go through and experiences that you develop and character that you develop that helps shape you and turn you into the sort of a godly man that other men want to follow and look up to and that your son can follow and look up to.”

That formation requires doing hard things. Freitas encourages fathers to create rites of passage and even to give their sons what he calls a “violent hobby” — learning to shoot or fight, for example — not as an invitation to recklessness but as a way to develop competence, courage, and self-command.

“The problem is that when you get to a critical mass where there’s enough men that don’t know how to do the difficult things,” he said, “you end up in a society where you remember very quickly why you needed men that could do difficult things.”

Theodore Roosevelt made much the same argument more than a century ago: “We need … the iron qualities that must go with true manhood,” including resolution, courage, indomitable will, and the ability to do “the rough work that must always be done.” Roosevelt immediately added that strength without moral purpose becomes little more than force and cunning.

“You’ll be your son’s hero until you prove to him that you shouldn’t be,” Frietas told Rice. A boy’s natural admiration gives his father an extraordinary advantage — and an obligation to become worthy of imitation.

“Part of being a man is doing hard things that hurt — that may make you tired, that may make you frustrated — and developing the emotional and intellectual maturity and the intestinal fortitude to push through in order to keep your word and take care of the people that you love.”

RELATED: The Christian counterculture is already here

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That means bringing sons into real work instead of relegating them to passive entertainment. The invitation tells a boy he belongs and that his contribution has value.

“You will never understand how important it is to your little boy to be included on projects dad is doing,” Freitas said.

A father’s example matters just as much to daughters. His strength, honesty, presence, and affection establish their earliest standard for honorable manhood. “Understand that you are the first vision to your daughters of what a good man looks like,” Freitas said.

That is where the interview moves beyond a book about masculine habits. Its larger claim is that politics reflects culture, and culture is formed most powerfully in families. Strong nations require men who can govern themselves, do difficult things, protect others, and transmit faith and virtue to their children.

National renewal begins when men accept that calling at home and live in a way their wives, sons, and daughters can trust.

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A 42-year-old Texas mother is accused of fatally shooting her two sons last week.

Deputies with the Ellis County Sheriff’s Office responded just after 4 a.m. Thursday to the 900 block of Big Sky Drive in Waxahachie after a 911 call reporting an unknown emergency, KXAS-TV reported, citing a sheriff’s office news release.

‘l shot both my kids.’

When deputies arrived and entered the home, they found two individuals suffering from gunshot wounds, the station said.

One victim — identified as Christopher Scott Pitre, 21, of Waxahachie — was pronounced dead at the scene, KXAS reported.

The second victim — a 15-year-old boy — was taken to a hospital in critical condition, the station said, adding that investigators said he later died from his injuries. The family identified the 15-year-old as Brian Pitre, the younger brother of Chris Pitre, KXAS reported.

Deputies also found the victims’ mother, Colleen Nichole Lemmon, with non-life-threatening injuries, the station said.

Dispatchers received a 911 call hang-up but got the caller back on the line, KXAS said, citing a probable cause narrative, which added that “a female said all units were needed. Dispatch could not get the caller to clarify what was going on and the caller disconnected again.”

Responding deputies said they could hear a woman yelling to get more units, the station said, adding that deputies could see blood on her hands when she looked out a window. Deputies entered the home, asked where the blood came from, and “she said something to the effect of ‘l shot both my kids,'” KXAS reported, citing the narrative.

The brothers were found in separate bedrooms with gunshot wounds to the head, the station said.

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Lemmon was taken into custody and taken to a hospital for treatment, KXAS said, adding that after her release from the hospital, Lemmon was booked into the Wayne McCollum Detention Center in Waxahachie.

Lemmon has been charged with two counts of capital murder, the station said. Jail records indicate her bond was set at $2.5 million.

Scott Pitre, the victims’ father, told KXAS he had just celebrated Brian’s 15th birthday with him at a lake last Sunday and wants to be the voice for justice for his sons.

Their funerals are planned for next week, the station said.

“My deepest sympathies go out to the victims’ father, family members, and loved ones involved in this tragic incident,” Ellis County Sheriff Brad Norman said in a statement, according to KXAS. “They will remain in our prayers during this difficult time.”

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Families across the country are being ripped apart by estrangement, leaving parents, children, and grandparents grieving loved ones who are still technically alive.

And Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has seen this happen all too often.

“So a couple of days ago, we told you about what was happening in Chicago. These 200 parents get into a room. They have grown children that aren’t speaking to them anymore. And by the time we were off the air, I got to tell you, our inbox looked like that room,” Glenn begins.

One grandmother wrote to Glenn to tell him that she hadn’t seen her 14-year-old granddaughter since April.

“Her and her son were close, but now she’s just a label that she says he picked up someplace else,” Glenn says.

“A listener whose brother actually stood in his front lawn and screamed that he was voting for a pedophile and a rapist. He hasn’t spoken to his brother ever since,” he continues.

“A mom who cut off her oldest son since they had a disagreement. Two years later, he was dead of fentanyl. Now his sister has cut her off,” he adds.

These estrangements, often based on political disagreements, are what Glenn calls “a death with no funeral.”

“Nobody’s bringing a casserole,” he says.

And as we’ve entered an era rife with self-diagnoses of perpetual victimhood, Glenn believes this is getting worse.

“There’s a word that just keeps showing up on both sides of the door and that word is ‘narcissist.’ Kids now say it about the parents, the parents say it about the kids, then the ex-wives, the bosses, the pastors, the guy who cut you off in traffic,” he explains.

“’Gaslighting’ was Webster’s word of the year in 2022. Now add ‘toxic,’ ‘trauma,’ ‘triggered,’ and ‘boundaries,’” he says.

“We have built an entire vocabulary for describing what everyone else is doing to us,” he continues, adding, “We are breeding personality disorders.”

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Anti-woke comedian John Cleese has infuriated leftists and Islamists alike with his public criticism of Islam and mass migration.

Now it appears that some of those offended by the “Monty Python” co-founder’s commentary want him shut up for good.

‘Tell the police to contact my agent.’

Muslim activists campaigned last month to pressure Birmingham Town Call to cancel Cleese’s Sept. 20 comedy show.

After the censorious radicals failed, Cleese was referred to Prevent — the government-run “counter-terrorism” program coordinated by the U.K. Home Office that is supposedly “designed to support people away from radicalisation before they commit an offence” — over his opinions about Muslims, Islam, and associated threats.

According to the Sept. 22 complaint that was first reported by 5Pillars — an English-language Muslim publication run by a Islamic propagandist who previously worked for Saudi, Qatari, and Iranian-funded media — Cleese’s commentary on social media allegedly meets “several indicators used in PREVENT risk assessments for anti-Muslim hate and counter-extremism concerns” and claims that such commentary risks setting the stage for “radicalisation, communal tension, and hate incidents.”

The complaint highlights multiple examples of online activity where Cleese allegedly “demonises, dehumanises, and collectively attributes violence and criminality to Muslims and Islam,” including an April 27 post where he stated that halal food is “a barbaric custom and English law should not allow it” and his March 31 post stating that “to criticize a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with … is not racist.”

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The complainant, whose identity has not been publicly disclosed, alleged that “these statements go beyond criticism of ideas and attach intrinsic criminality, violence, and moral depravity to a religious group.”

Cleese — who has emphasized that “criticism of Islam is not racist, it’s culturalist” — does not appear too cut up about the complaint or the possibility the state will take action against him.

The 86-year-old comedian tweeted on Monday, “I can’t wait to be arrested.”

“This is a real life sitcom!” he continued. “Please tell the police to contact my agent.”

He noted in a separate post about the complaint, “The Islamic male ego becomes so bloated by its lack of restraint that it believes any criticism is blasphemy.”

Suella Braverman — the former home secretary who caused a stir in 2023 by acknowledging that multiculturalism “has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it” — condemned using the counterterrorism regime to silence criticism of Islam.

“Prevent is supposed to identify potential terror threats and interrupt them through deradicalisation,” wrote Braverman Tuesday. “Not to silence legitimate comment or debate about Islam. If progressed, this referral will really expose how broken our counter-terrorism system is and that a blasphemy law has been re-introduced into the U.K. by the backdoor.”

Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, noted, “The government is likely to take this quite seriously, for to do otherwise might risk enraging the nation’s Muslim population, and that is what they want to avoid doing above all. What, however, did Cleese say that was not true? And that is the problem with all ‘Islamophobia’ initiatives: they make it a crime to tell unwelcome truths.”

The Free Speech Union stressed that the government’s assurances that the official definition of “Islamophobia” would not adversely impact Britons’ free speech turned out to have been meaningless and that “Mr Cleese is not alone in being targeted by those who wish to silence legitimate criticism of Islam, its history, or its practices.”

The union noted, for instance, that Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe was reported last month to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards — responsible for investigating alleged breaches of House of Commons Code of Conduct and Registers — over his criticism of Pakistani Muslim rape gangs and “the islamification of Britain.”

In July, Afzal Khan, a Pakistan-born Labour member of parliament, also submitted a complaint about Lowe to the commission, concern-mongering about the conservative lawmaker’s criticism of the state’s apparent tolerance of Sharia courts.

Cleese has advocated for Lowe’s Restore Britain ascendant political party, which seeks to deport millions of migrants from the isles.

“The ability to criticise, debate, challenge, and mock a religion is a fundamental right in Britain. It is not extremism. Parliament voted to abolish our blasphemy laws in 2008, eighteen years ago, but we now have one for Islam alone, said the Free Speech Union.

Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from Prevent.

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While passkeys offer better account protection than conventional login credentials, they’re not necessarily more convenient. Passkeys are generally locked to the platform where they are created, but a new feature aims to change that. Google Password Manager users can now export their passkeys to another password solution with a few easy taps.

When you create a new passkey on an Apple device, Android phone, or Windows computer, the key gets stored within that ecosystem for safekeeping. This isn’t a problem, if you stay within that ecosystem for all your web browsing needs, but if you’re the type that uses a Windows PC at work, an Android phone on the go, and an iPad for leisure, your passkeys can end up strewn across multiple operating systems, all inaccessible to each other.

This feature comes just months after Google Password Manager came under fire for a nasty malware called Pass-ta-key.

In short, passkey cross-compatibility still has a long way to go, but Google is making it a little easier to move them from its first-party password manager to a third-party platform — or rather specific third-party platforms. Direct passkey transfers are only available for Bitwarden Password Manager and Dashlane, with 1Password on the way. Google claims that even more password partners are coming soon, but there isn’t a timeline yet.

To export Google Password Manager passkeys to one of these apps, you’ll need an Android phone running Android 8 and up. Next, download the applicable password management app from the Google Play Store that you wish to use and open it. Each app has a different design, but you ultimately need to find the import option buried in the settings:

Bitwarden Password Manager: Tap the “Settings” icon in the right bottom corner, and choose “Vault” from the list. Next, select “Import items,” followed by “Import from another app.” Choose Google Password Manager and follow the prompts to move your data.Dashlane: Open your Vault, tap “Add New” in the bottom right corner, followed by “Logins.” Select “Import multiple items” at the top, then “From another password manager,” which is in beta. Follow the prompts to start the import process from Google Password Manager, and you’re set.1Password: Google says that 1Password already supports passkey transfers, but it wasn’t active when we tested it ourselves. This feature should be available very soon.

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The thing that makes this tool so compelling is that passkey transfers take place on device without any manual file juggling or hassle. You move your passwords with a few taps, and you’re done. Google also notes that this new system enables easy password and passkey transfers between platforms going forward, so you’re never locked into any one platform at a time.

Alternatively, Google lets you export passkeys into a CSV file format, which you can import into another password manager. However, this method is far less secure, as it leaves your credentials exposed in a plain text file with no password protection or encryption. On top of that, not all third-party password platforms accept passkeys through this method, so it’s best to rely on Google’s new transfer tool, if you plan to jump from one password platform to another.

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This feature comes just months after Google Password Manager came under fire for a nasty malware called Pass-ta-key on Windows PCs. Aimed directly at passkeys stored in Google’s platform, Pass-ta-key used three different attack methods to trick Google’s system into accessing users’ passkey data, and in some cases, it could even steal the entire passkey vault.

If for any reason you feel that your data is at risk, you could benefit from transferring your passkeys out of Google Password Manager to another platform, at least until the issue is fully resolved. Unfortunately, since Pass-ta-key takes advantage of several vulnerabilities within Chrome and Windows, there isn’t a quick fix to shore up security.

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If one lawmaker has his way, new rules are coming that will change the way Flock Safety and other automated license plate reader companies will run their companies.

With data and accountability at the forefront, tech companies could face much stricter parameters on what they can do with their recordings.

‘A nightmare for individual liberties.’

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley says he is set to introduce the Stop Flock Abuse Act, and while the proposed legislation mentions Flock Safety by name, it would apply to other AI-powered surveillance agencies as well.

Hawley put forth seven key pillars that such companies will be directed to follow should his act become law.

This included restrictions on data, like a requirement to delete driver information after 10 days, except for active criminal investigations. The data must be encrypted, never leave the United States, and cannot be sold or shared with nongovernment third parties.

ALPR networks would not be allowed to use facial recognition with their technology either.

Furthermore, agencies would be required to log who has conducted a search, the reason for it, who approved it, and what exactly was viewed. The logs must be routinely audited.

The goal is to prevent search abuse and require a paper trail for every search that is conducted.

“AI-powered cameras produced by Flock and its competitors are tracking and creating digital footprints of everyday Americans — a nightmare for individual liberties unless Congress enacts meaningful rules and accountability,” Hawley said at the press release.

“That’s why I’m introducing the Stop Flock Abuse Act to establish basic safeguards for AI-powered cameras and protect Americans’ fundamental constitutional rights. Law-abiding Americans should not be treated like criminals.”

Weeks earlier though, Flock chief legal officer Dan Haley ensured the senator that the company respects and protects civil liberties.

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“Flock is a safety technology platform that helps communities take a proactive approach to public safety and crime prevention, while respecting and protecting core civil liberties,” Haley wrote in a letter. “We are proud that our hardware and software suite supports cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods with tools for public safety and investigations.”

Haley added that the company sees a positive impact on public safety “every single day,” including in Hawley’s state of Missouri.

However, Flock expressed that it welcomed “clear, sensible legislation” that would apply to all vendors and not depend on the good judgment of just one.

Flock also said it was committed to strengthening its ability to detect misuse of its technology, but admitted in the letter that it does not keep track of instances of misuse.

When asked to provide the confirmed instances of misuse of Flock systems, the company wrote that the underlying search records “are owned and controlled by each customer agency.”

“Flock does not maintain a single consolidated count of confirmed customer misuse,” the answer added.

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In terms of data retention, Flock said it had recently lowered its recommended retention period from 30 to seven days for new law-enforcement customers. However, this is just a suggestion as customers own and control the data the cameras capture; a customer can retain data in Flock’s system for a maximum of one year.

For its search function, Flock revealed that until December 2025, there were no standardized reasons a user had to enter for a search, leaving it as a free-text field, which, “in some cases, resulted in non-specific documentation.”

Vandals recently got a hold of a Flock camera and described it as having the processing of a “midrange smartphone” with around 20 built-in apps for motion detection, taking pictures, uploading data, and receiving updates.

The cameras had limited space and struggled with storage, but no facial recognition software was found.

According to ALPR tracking website DeFlock, Flock Safety operates 81% of the active 142,000+ surveillance cameras in the United States.

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Over the years, Meta became an open-weight AI giant on the back of Llama, its large language model that powers Meta AI in Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Now, the company is throwing it all away in favor of a new closed-source solutions. This time, it is tapping into nostalgia to win the hearts and minds of users with an upcoming agentic device that looks a lot like the Tamagotchi of yore.

When talking about frontier AI models, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok take up most of the air in the room. However, on the open-weight side, Meta’s Llama is quite popular, with 2.4 billion downloads as of early 2026. Despite its notable lead in a category increasingly flooded by Chinese competitors, Meta is opting to throw out its progress in favor of a new AI platform called Muse Spark.

You’re essentially using someone else’s computer to carry out tasks and store your data.

Introduced earlier this year, Muse Spark is a multimodal system aimed at achieving “personal superintelligence.” Meta calls it a “ground-up overhaul of our AI efforts,” claiming that it is on par with the latest Llama 4 Maverick model while using far less compute. In other words, it’s equally powerful, yet more efficient.

Muse Spark isn’t the story, though. It’s merely the backbone to Meta’s new service, unveiled in early September. The company’s first consumer-facing AI agent, simply called Muse, is designed to carry out tasks on behalf of the next billion users. It runs inside Muse Secure VM, a virtual machine that contains Muse itself and a user’s personal data.

This way, Muse never takes full control of the user’s main device. Instead, it operates within a dedicated silo to complete assigned tasks, like browsing the web, filling out forms, and even shopping online. The virtual machine also lets Muse work, even if you close the app or shut off your device.

For the security-conscious, Muse Secure VM runs entirely on Meta’s cloud servers. That means you are essentially using someone else’s computer to carry out tasks and store your data. Furthermore, interactions are unencrypted, so Meta can technically peek at your conversations, both for safety evaluations and AI training purposes. This will change later this year, when Meta introduces Muse Confidential VM as another virtual machine option with full encryption, but for now, your conversations are accessible.

On the bright side, Meta claims that it won’t share your data strictly with its ad team, and all passwords, payment info, and other personal data are saved inside a secure storage system that Muse can’t see itself.

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Right now, Muse lives within an app on iPhone and Android. You can also find it on the web at muse.ai. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting that you’ll want a dedicated device instead. On stage at Meta Connect, he unveiled Muse Charm, a handheld gadget with Muse contained inside. At first glance, it looks like a Tamagotchi pet from the late 1990s. Look closer, and you’ll find Muse’s customizable mascot, Jollybot, on the display. You can give it a name, swap out its outfits, and change its voice.

The device is designed to clip on a keychain and go wherever you go so that it’s always accessible. Place your finger on the fingerprint sensor on the side to summon Muse, and put it to work. Zuckerberg noted that Muse Charm is one of the easiest ways to access the agent, as if pulling out a phone and opening the Muse app is an arduous task in comparison.

Muse Charm devices are expected to launch in December this year. That said, Meta has a steep road ahead. So far, dedicated AI devices like the Humane AI Pin and Rabbit R1 have flopped spectacularly. Consumers don’t want separate AI-powered hardware when their existing smartphones already do the same things without extra money or hassle.

Muse Charm actually competes in that sense with the Muse app, already widely available and growing fast, with 5 million downloads so far. Users don’t need this device, but Meta is betting millions will want to buy it anyway.

Then there are the privacy concerns, recently aroused by data-grabbing and mass-surveillance implications of the company’s Ray-Ban glasses. Meta hasn’t locked in consumer trust when it comes to devices, and Muse represents a substantial expansion of its powers.

Blaze News contacted Meta to address several privacy concerns, particularly around Muse’s lack of encryption and whether or not Muse Confidential VM will be a freely accessible solution in the future. A spokesperson responded by pointing us toward a quote on Meta’s developer blog:

Today’s Muse architecture isolates each user’s data from each other and keeps it secure. It restricts access to your data by Meta personnel through operational policies. It does not prevent Meta from accessing data when necessary to support, secure, or operate the service.

That last line confirms our suspicions — Meta can access Muse data if it deems necessary, with necessity open to interpretation. As for Confidential VM, they have no further details to share at this time, but if you are interested in using Meta Muse, your data will be most secure if you wait for the fully encrypted version later this year.

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Seattle’s City Council voted 7-2 on September 22 to prohibit certain grocery pricing practices that use personal information to decide what customers pay. Consumer Reports supported the measure and helped the mayor’s office develop it.

The concept of “surveillance pricing” is straightforward. A company finds out about you, uses that information in a price-setting system, and adjusts the prices you see. In January 2025, the Federal Trade Commission revealed the existence of methods capable of accessing information from browsing history, exact location, and even the way the user’s mouse moves or items in the user’s online cart.

Shopping surveillance isn’t new.

Imagine doing some last-minute dinner shopping while a system tries to estimate how much extra you’ll tolerate paying because it’s close to dinner time. Or the system estimating your income and deciding that you can afford to pay more for groceries. The concern is that grocery stores would follow the “surge pricing” trend established by ride-sharing apps like Uber, where your cost to get around town is completely unpredictable, based on the time of day, driver availability, traffic, and other factors.

Same groceries, different prices

According to an investigation conducted by Consumer Reports, Groundwork Collaborative, and More Perfect Union in December 2025, it was determined that consumers ordering through the app Instacart encounter different prices for the same item from the same store. Nearly three out of every four products observed had different prices, with the biggest price discrepancy being around 23%.

In one Seattle Safeway test, the same basket ranged from $114.34 to $123.93. That’s a $9.59 difference for the same food. The volunteers recorded prices without buying the groceries.

The researchers estimated that the average price variations could translate into an annual swing of about $1,200 for a household of four, using Instacart’s grocery spending estimate. Note that estimate is extrapolated from the observed price variations; the researchers didn’t follow families for a year and document $1,200 in additional spending.

Instacart said it randomly assigned customers to pricing tests and didn’t use personal or demographic data for those experiments. The researchers’ published methodology found no statistically meaningful relationship between the shopper characteristics they examined and the prices offered.

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On December 22, 2025, Instacart announced that it was ending all item price tests on its platform. It maintained that the tests hadn’t used personal data or individual shopping behavior. The company said it would continue offering promotions and discounts.

Your loyalty card has a file on you

Shopping surveillance isn’t new. Grocery chains have long offered loyalty cards to customers, which exchange discounts for detailed shopper profiles. In a May 2025 investigation of Kroger’s shopper data, Consumer Reports obtained a 62-page profile for Oregon customer Hazem Salem after he requested his information under state privacy law. The file incorrectly identified his gender and underestimated his income. It also got his household size and education wrong.

Despite all the surveillance, Kroger couldn’t get the basics right.

Kroger told Consumer Reports that it didn’t personalize underlying product prices. It did personalize discounts, primarily using customers’ prior purchases and interactions with the company. Kroger also acknowledged that demographic or online behavioral data could help filter the audiences for those offers.

Seattle’s rules deserve scrutiny, too

The bill approved by the council, C.B. 121267, covers large grocery businesses, qualifying stores that sell groceries alongside other merchandise, and qualifying delivery services. It also includes random price variations in its definition of prohibited pricing discrimination. Its main pricing provisions are scheduled to take effect September 1, 2027.

The bill preserves discounts available to all members of a retailer’s Seattle loyalty program. It also allows certain discounts for groups based on prior purchases, provided they don’t rely on individualized prices, inferences about consumers, or additional personal data. Qualifying senior and military discounts remain permissible.

That doesn’t settle the question of what retailers will actually offer.

Councilmember Maritza Rivera, who voted against the measure, warned that its scope could jeopardize loyalty programs and make groceries more expensive. A policy sold as consumer protection ought to face scrutiny if it leaves shoppers with fewer useful discounts.

The bill requests annual reporting on grocery prices, comparisons with neighboring cities, and the availability of loyalty programs.

I want businesses competing for my grocery money. Offer a better price. Explain the terms of a discount so I can decide whether it’s worth signing up, but if the deal requires a secret assessment of my income or browsing habits, you’ve lost me. Feeding a family shouldn’t require agreeing to be profiled.

What do you think? Is Seattle taking a sensible pro-consumer measure, or is it another example of government overreach?

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