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Layla Ferris retweeted
Two American Barn Owls enjoying a pleasant Wednesday night on Manhattan's Upper West Side. 🦉 🧡 🦉
Layla Ferris retweeted
THIS MORNING: Meta's glasses stop recording if you cover the LED light that shows you're recording before you start filing. I bought Meta glasses, started recording, then covered the LED light with black gaffer tape, concealing that I was recording, and it kept recording. Another issue Meta's engineers will likely be working on to crack down on people using the glasses to clandestinely record. We went live on @CBSMornings live-streaming my Ray-Ban Meta glasses straight to my insta story:
A video of Toluwa Omitowoju received hundreds of thousands of views online — but she didn’t post it, nor did she know that she was being recorded at the time with Meta’s AI glasses.
Her story is part of growing privacy concerns surrounding people recording their surroundings without the consent of others.
Meta told CBS News about safety features, like an LED light that turns on when the glasses are recording, but some users have allegedly tried to tamper with those safeguards. CBS News’ Anna Schecter put one such method to the test.
Layla Ferris retweeted
A North American river otter has been spotted in the Bronx River for the first time in nearly 100 years, according to the @TheWCS at the @BronxZoo. The otter was photographed June 23 by a motion-activated camera set up by local scientist RJ Hawkins:
bxtimes.com/river-otter-spot…
Layla Ferris retweeted
Re: our statement on Image Generation in Google Earth:
“We know that people uniquely trust Google Earth for a reliable view of the world. We’ve seen geospatial professionals using this feature for a range of useful purposes, however we’ve also seen people sharing screenshots of generated imagery that appear to violate our policies. So we’re rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails. It's important to note that generated images didn’t appear in the main Google Earth experience for others to see and were watermarked as AI generated.”
Layla Ferris retweeted
A train ride. A selfie. A search of Trump's schedule. Here's what DOJ says happened in the minutes and days before the press gala shooting. Read the story here:
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Layla Ferris retweeted
NEWS via @CBSNews: An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members in the early hours of the war with Iran was more severe than previously known, with dozens suffering injuries that included brain trauma, shrapnel trauma and burns, per sources. More than 30 remained in hospitals yday with battle injuries — one at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, 12 at Walter Reed, and about 25 at Landstuhl in Germany, sources said.
Of those, about 20 arrived on a C-17 military transport aircraft at Landstuhl on Tuesday with injuries the military designated as “urgent” and requiring evacuation.
More than 100 medical personnel were sent to Landstuhl to assist.
Report here from @ellee_watson @JimLaPorta and me.
cbsnews.com/news/strike-in-k…
Layla Ferris retweeted
We obtained footage showing a man who appeared to be refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam being dropped off by Border Patrol outside a Buffalo coffee shop after 8pm. The shop locks its door at 7pm. He never made it inside, and was found dead five days later: wapo.st/3OCwNx8
Layla Ferris retweeted
Department of Homeland Security agents detained a student in a Columbia Residential building Thursday morning, acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94, wrote in a Thursday email to the Columbia community.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2…
Layla Ferris retweeted
Another victim of online sleuths who were certain they had cracked the case:
“I feel like someone’s taken my name,” said Dominic Evans, an elementary-school teacher who was accused on social media of being the ski-masked man at Nancy Guthrie’s doorstep. nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/na…
Layla Ferris retweeted
As Trump pressures Iran, he's spoken of an "armada" heading for the Mideast, but there's another massive movement of American fire power in the air. cbsn.ws/4skloAP
Layla Ferris retweeted
Today, we remember and uplift the legacy of civil rights leader, humanitarian, and politician Jesse Jackson. Born to a teenage mother in Greenville, South Carolina, Jackson grew up during the era of Jim Crow.
ALT A black and white photo of Jesse Jackson from the waist up. His gaze is looking toward the right side of the frame. His hands are clasped in front of his face. He wears a striped shirt and a bracelet on his left wrist.
ALT A black and white photo of Jesse Jackson playing basketball with Marvin Gaye. The men wear headbands, athletic clothing, tube socks and running shoes. Jackson holds a basketball in his right hand and looks down at the ball. The other man looks at Jackson. There is a brick building behind them.
Layla Ferris retweeted
A dresser in the Merchant's House Museum, built in 1832, has been discovered as a secret link to the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years.
NY1 received an exclusive first look at the concealed passage, which runs from the second floor down to a pantry hideaway in the basement.
The passageway had been known about for decades, but its purpose was unknown to historians. Museum researchers recently discovered that the builder of the Merchant’s House, Joseph Brewster, was a passionate abolitionist who built false floors in integrated abolitionist churches and created this route in his own home to aid freedom seekers.
@cherylwillsny1 @MerchantsHouse
Layla Ferris retweeted
CBS News Exclusive: An internal DHS document shows that less than 14% of nearly 400,000 individuals arrested by ICE in President Trump's first year back in power had violent criminal records.
It's the most detailed look yet at who ICE has arrested.
cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests…
Layla Ferris retweeted
New: ProPublica is sharing eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves. propub.li/4a4V4nR
Layla Ferris retweeted
Who entered Epstein's jail tier the night of his death? Newly released video logs appear to contradict official accounts.
cbsn.ws/4qlSOgT
Layla Ferris retweeted
Since federal agents shot and killed a Minnesota ICU nurse in south Minneapolis on Saturday, top administration officials have made claims about the encounter that are contradicted by bystander video and witness testimony. cbsn.ws/4qGPVs4
Layla Ferris retweeted
"He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis"
@AP's Mike Biesecker spoke w/the family of Alex Pretti, the man fatally shot by immigration officers today @NewsDudeAP @ByTimSullivan
apnews.com/article/immigrati…
Layla Ferris retweeted
“One by one, the exhibits — including those entitled "Life Under Slavery" and "The Dirty Business of Slavery" — were taken down.”
by @fallonroth_ @ProsserMaggie
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Layla Ferris retweeted
Three journalists killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza, including cameraman who worked with CBS News. cbsn.ws/464Js1w
