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Report Synonyms and Antonyms

• description
• announcement
• communication
• news report
• composition
• repercussion
• talebearing
• tittle-tattle
• scuttlebutt
• pronouncement
• proclamation
• written report
• rat-a-tat-tat
• communicate
• provide details
• give an account
• write an account
• information
• account for
• give the facts
• present a paper
• read an address
• account for oneself
• take minutes
• report-card
• reportorial

Words Related to Report

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

• press-release
• recommendation
• consultation

Report Sentence Examples

Send me a report when you're done.

My account for the report is finished and sent off.

You'll have to report to court tomorrow morning.

She apolo­gized that she would once again need his detailed report now that the body remained missing.

The report came last night.

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Synonyms for report

• communicate
• give an account of
• bring word on
• incriminate
• blow the whistle on
• present yourself
• clock in or on
• communication
• description
• declaration
• information
• announcement
• reverberation
• scuttlebutt

a recounting of past events

Idle, often sensational and groundless talk about others.

• talebearing
• tittle-tattle

public estimation of someone

A sudden sharp, explosive noise.

• rat-a-tat-tat

to give a verbal account of

To observe, analyze, and relate the details of (an event), to make known, a written document describing the findings of some individual or group.

• written report

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• written document
• white paper
• green paper
• progress report
• position paper
• medical report

the act of informing by verbal report

• summarisation
• summarization
• indirect discourse
• direct discourse
• direct quotation
• making known

a short account of the news

• news report
• urban legend

a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)

A written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment.

• report card

an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

• composition

the general estimation that the public has for a person

To give an account or representation of in words, announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding, announce one's presence, make known to the authorities, be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism, complain about.

• repetitious
• repetitiousness
• repetitiveness
• replaceability
• replaceable
• replacement
• replacement cost
• replenishment
• replication
• reporting weight
• repositioning
• repossession
• reprehensibility
• reprehensible
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• Repondez s'il vous plait
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• repopularise
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• repopulated
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What is another word for Report ?

Synonyms for report rɪˈpɔrt, -ˈpoʊrt re·port, this thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word report ., english synonyms and antonyms rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes.

Account carries the idea of a commercial summary. A statement is definite, confined to essentials and properly to matters within the personal knowledge of the one who states them; as, an ante-mortem statement . A narrative is a somewhat extended and embellished account of events in order of time, ordinarily with a view to please or entertain. A description gives especial scope to the pictorial element. A report (Latin re , back, and porto , bring), as its etymology implies, is something brought back, as by one sent to obtain information, and may be concise and formal or highly descriptive and dramatic. Compare ALLEGORY; HISTORY; RECORD.

Synonyms: account , description , narration , narrative , recital , record , rehearsal , relation , rumor , statement , story , tale

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms Rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes

report verb

Synonyms: announce , relate , tell , circulate , notify , narrate , recite , describe , detail , communicate , declare

Antonyms: silence , hush , suppress , misreport , misrepresent , miarelate , falsify

report noun

Synonyms: tidings , announce , ment , relation , narration , recital , description , communication , declaration , news , rumor , fame , repute , noise , reverberation

Antonyms: silence , suppression , misannouncement , fabrication , noiselessness

Princeton's WordNet Rate these synonyms: 1.0 / 3 votes

report, study, written report noun

a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

"this accords with the recent study by Hill and Dale"

Synonyms: cogitation , account , paper , study , composition , subject , theme , discipline , story , work , news report , write up , report card , bailiwick , reputation , sketch , subject area , written report , survey , field , field of study , report , subject field

report, account noun

the act of informing by verbal report

"he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple"

Synonyms: score , accounting , paper , study , chronicle , composition , theme , story , news report , account statement , explanation , bill , business relationship , write up , report card , invoice , reputation , written report , account , history , report

report, news report, story, account, write up noun

a short account of the news

"the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"

Synonyms: score , tarradiddle , account , paper , study , narrative , chronicle , tale , storey , theme , fib , accounting , story , business relationship , account statement , bill , explanation , taradiddle , news report , write up , report card , invoice , reputation , written report , floor , narration , history , level , report , composition

a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)

"they heard a violent report followed by silence"

Synonyms: account , composition , report card , story , paper , study , write up , reputation , written report , theme , news report

report card, report noun

a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment

"his father signed his report card"

Synonyms: account , composition , report card , report , story , paper , study , news report , reputation , write up , written report , theme

composition, paper, report, theme noun

an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

"he got an A on his composition"

Synonyms: make-up , idea , subject , base , piece , paper , report card , physical composition , makeup , radical , musical theme , report , study , typography , root , news report , reputation , authorship , topic , written report , newspaper publisher , piece of music , theme , newspaper , penning , melodic theme , composition , story , motif , stem , root word , constitution , write up , composing , writing , opus , account , musical composition

reputation, report verb

the general estimation that the public has for a person

"he acquired a reputation as an actor before he started writing"; "he was a person of bad report"

Synonyms: account , composition , report card , report , story , paper , study , news report , reputation , write up , written report , theme , repute

report, describe, account verb

to give an account or representation of in words

"Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"

Synonyms: account , identify , report , name , answer for , describe , draw , delineate , depict , key out , trace , line , cover , discover , distinguish , calculate , key

announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding

"Dozens of incidents of wife beatings are reported daily in this city"; "The team reported significant advances in their research"

Synonyms: cover , account , describe

announce one's presence

"I report to work every day at 9 o'clock"

make known to the authorities

"One student reported the other to the principal"

report, cover verb

be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism

"Snow reported on China in the 1950's"; "The cub reporter covered New York City"

Synonyms: cut through , get over , embrace , plow , wrap up , enshroud , compensate , breed , encompass , overlay , continue , treat , hatch , incubate , report , track , extend , cut across , brood , deal , shroud , underwrite , overcompensate , address , spread over , hide , traverse , pass over , comprehend , handle , cover , cross , describe , get across , account , cover up , insure

complain about; make a charge against

"I reported her to the supervisor"

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Synonyms: announce , annunciate , declare , communicate , set forth , make known , give an account of

Synonyms: relate , mention , bruit , advertise , publish , tell , promulgate , give out

Synonyms: take down ( in writing )

Synonyms: account , announcement , statement , declaration , communication

Synonyms: rumor , mention , relation , story , hearsay , bruit , news , common fame

Synonyms: explosion , noise , sound , detonation

Synonyms: repute , reputation

Synonyms: record , note , minute

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words Rate these synonyms: 0.0 / 0 votes

Synonyms: rumor , on dit , hearsay , bruit , account , statement , communication , fame , repute , reputation , sound , noise , repercussion , detonation , discharge , explosion , cahier , description , narrative , narration , recital

Synonyms: announce , communicate , describe , bruit , circulate , promulgate , publish

Antonyms: suppress , withhold , reserve

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List of paraphrases for "report":

reports , reporting , rapport , relation , ratio , informs , informe , deferral , inform , public , comparison , relationship , reported , postponement , bericht , document , declare , informed , memory , compared , carry-over , connection , hdr , carryover , carry-in

How to pronounce Report?

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Bob Litterman :

This whole report is about everyone recognizing the urgency of addressing this very significant risk-management issue.

Saba Farzan :

With every report that Dr. Shaheed releases, it becomes more and more evident how systematic human rights violations are structured under the Iranian dictatorship, the world community with leadership by the Obama administration has thrown human rights under the Persian rug -- literally. Democracy promotion has been sacrificed for the sake of talking endlessly to those who oppress Iranians terribly.

Richard Lapchick :

Obviously we want increased percentages of women and people of color, the Associated Press’s the goal of the racial and gender report card, to move those things. And The Associated Press has n’t moved very much with baseball this year.

Jessie Liu :

The Justice Department plans to make available for review by a limited number of members of Congress and their staff a copy of the special counsel's report without certain redactions, the Justice Department intends to secure this version of the report in an appropriate setting that will be accessible to a limited number of members of Congress and their staff.

Jane OMeara Sanders :

No I dont accept that, thats nonsense and I think that sometimes, you know, I dont know what people think campaigns are. Were dealing with all kinds of doctors and we wanted to have a sense of what the hell was going on really. So the first thing that were trying to do is understand whats going on and not run to The New York Times and not have to report every 15 minutes. This is not a baseball game. So I think we acted absolutely appropriately.

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Fact Sheet: 2024 Report on the Cybersecurity Posture of the United   States

May 7, 2024

Read the full report here

Today, the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released the 2024 Report on the Cybersecurity Posture of the United States .  This first-of-its-kind report provides important updates on how the nation is addressing the challenges and opportunities we face in cyberspace. 

Over the past year, U.S. national cybersecurity posture improved, driven by steady progress towards the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy’s (NCS) vision of a defensible, resilient, and values-aligned digital ecosystem.  Achieving this vision requires two fundamental shifts in how we allocate roles, responsibilities, and resources in cyberspace by (1) rebalancing the responsibility to defend cyberspace away from end users and to the most capable and best-positioned actors in the public and private sectors, and (2) realigning incentives to favor long-term investments in future resilience. 

The Administration has successfully begun implementation of the NCS Implementation Plan (NCSIP), which coordinates actions by departments and agencies across the Federal Government to make the President’s affirmative vision a reality.  In NCSIP Version 1, the Federal Government was responsible for completing 36 initiatives by the second quarter of 2024.  33 of these 36 (92%) initiatives were completed on time and three remain underway.  An additional 33 NCSIP Version 1 initiatives have completion dates over the next two years and are on track.  Congress has provided essential support to the implementation process by empowering departments and agencies with necessary authorities and resources.

The Administration has also released Version 2 of the NCSIP , which complements the findings of this report and outlines the next phase of action necessary to implement the President’s Strategy and further improve U.S. national cybersecurity posture.

The Strategic Environment

In 2023, the strategic environment was characterized by complexity , interconnectivity , and competition .  Continued progress in digital communications, advanced computing, quantum information science, data storage and processing, and other critical and emerging technologies are rapidly increasing the complexity of our economy and society.  These technologies also connect people around the world, enable the proliferation of cyber-physical systems, and create new dependencies between critical infrastructure and essential services across every sector. 

As this landscape evolves, malicious state and non-state actors are exploiting its seams with growing capability and strategic purpose, continuing to aggressively conduct malicious cyber activity that threatens U.S. national security, public safety, and economic prosperity.  Critical infrastructure across the United States has been held at risk by the People’s Republic of China and other adversaries who threaten essential services and public safety in service of their geopolitical ambitions.  Ransomware groups have built a business model around targeting schools, hospitals, small businesses, and many others ill-equipped to defend themselves.

Five trends, in addition to enduring cybersecurity challenges, drove change in the strategic environment in 2023:

• Evolving Risks to Critical Infrastructure : Nation-state adversaries demonstrated a growing willingness to use cyber capabilities to compromise and hold at risk critical infrastructure systems and assets with no inherent espionage value, in order to further their broader strategic objectives.
• Ransomware : Ransomware remained a persistent threat to national security, public safety, and economic prosperity, and ransomware groups continued to develop sophisticated strategies to evade or circumvent defensive and disruptive measures designed to frustrate their activities.
• Supply Chain Exploitation : Complex and interconnected supply chains for software and other information technology and services enabled malicious actors to compromise victims at scale.
• Commercial Spyware : There was a growing market for sophisticated and invasive cyber-surveillance tools sold to nation-state actors by private vendors to access electronic devices remotely, monitor and extract their content, and manipulate their components without the knowledge or consent of the devices’ users.
• Artificial Intelligence : Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful, publicly accessible technologies of our time, and its continued evolution in 2023 presented opportunities and challenges for cyber risk management at scale.

Current Efforts

ONCD coordinates the implementation of national cyber policy and strategy, including the NCS, by driving new actions and uplifting and connecting work underway.  Actions taken by the Federal Government during the period covered by this report include:

• Establishing and Using Cyber Requirements to Protect Critical Infrastructure , including through the development and harmonization of regulatory requirements in multiple critical infrastructure sectors.
• Enhancing Federal Cooperation and Partnerships to better support cyber defenders, including by increasing operational collaboration, improving Sector Risk Management Agency capacity, and integrating Federal cyber defense capabilities.
• Improving Incident Preparedness and Response by rapidly sharing threat information, prioritizing support to victims, and reviewing significant incidents and campaigns to derive lessons learned.
• Disrupting and Degrading Adversary Activity using all tools of national power, resulting in coordinated, high-impact disruption campaigns against a wide range of malicious cyber actors.
• Defending Federal Networks at speed and scale, including by integrating Zero Trust Architecture principles across the Federal enterprise, modernizing legacy technology systems, and expanding the use of shared services.
• Strengthening the National Cyber Workforce , including through the promulgation of a National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES) and engagement with workers, employers, students, and educators across the country.
• Advancing Software Security to Produce Safer Products and Services , including by advancing Secure by Design principles, Software Bills of Material, and memory-safe programming languages.
• Enabling a Digital Economy that Empowers and Protects Consumers , including by launching a U.S. Cyber Trust Mark certification and labeling program and by promoting competition and accountability across the technology industry.
• Investing in Resilient Next-Generation Technologies across the clean energy economy, issuing an executive order to guide Federal efforts related to artificial intelligence, and addressing security challenges present in the technical foundations of the Internet.
• Managing Risks to Data Security and Privacy by enabling safe, data-rich cross-border commerce and promoting the development of privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Enhancing Resilience Across the Globe by building coalitions of like-minded nations to provide support to victims of ransomware and other cyberattacks, align national policy, and promote secure and resilient global supply chains.
• Advancing a Rights-Respecting Digital Ecosystem by advancing an affirmative vision of an open, free, global, interoperable, reliable, accessible, and secure Internet; combatting the proliferation and misuse of digital technologies like commercial spyware; and shaping emerging technologies to align with democratic values and human rights.

Future Outlook

In 2024 and beyond, the Federal Government will build on accomplishments of the past year, continue to implement the NCS and NCWES, and adapt its approach to address emergent challenges and opportunities presented by an evolving strategic landscape.  NCSIP Version 2 outlines 31 new initiatives that build on shared accomplishments of the past year and establish specific lines of effort to realize the vision set out in the President’s NCS.

Read the full National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan 2.0 here

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Tyler Herro's Cryptic Six-Word Instagram Story Message Has Fans Buzzing

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Tyler Herro got NBA fans buzzing with a six word message on Monday. The Miami Heat guard took to Instagram and posted a story that said, "be careful what you wish for." No one has any idea what he is referring to, but they're talking about it anyway.

“Be careful what you wish for.” Tyler Herro posted this message to his Instagram story 😳 (via @raf_tyler / IG) pic.twitter.com/KlXSkMuwKJ — ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) May 13, 2024

The Heat were eliminated by the Boston Celtics in the opening round of the NBA playoffs, but are somehow still making headlines. After being bounced in five games, Miami's exit interviews caused headlines when president Pat Riley admonished Jimmy Butler for taking shots at the Celtics . Butler claimed had he been playing in the series, Boston would have been at home. But that wasn't all of it.

Butler is expected to ask for a contract extension this offseason, and Riley was cagey when a reporter asked if the Heat would give him one. Riley said it would depend on whether the six-time All-Star would be available every night or not. It certainly seemed like things weren't all good behind the scenes in Miami.

None of that is to say Herro is referring to anything having to do with the Heat on Instagram. Maybe someone talked trash to him in a game of NBA 2K24 and he's plotting his revenge. Who knows?

Herro was excellent during the 2023-24 season despite dealing with a foot injury. He was limited to 42 games, but set career-highs in points (20.8 per game) and assists (4.5), while adding 5.3 rebounds and shooting 39.6 percent from three-point range in 33.5 minutes per game. He's entering the second season of a four-year, $30 million deal and has been the center of trade speculation.

The Heat face a muddled future. It's probably not a great sign that their budding young star guard is posting cryptic messages on Instagram.

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U.S. cites intelligence, offers Israel supplies to limit Rafah operation

Netanyahu has promised to enter Rafah with “extreme force,” while Biden wants any operation to be targeted.

The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance in an effort to persuade it to hold back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers.

American officials have also offered to help provide thousands of shelters so Israel can build tent cities — and to help with the construction of delivery systems for food, water and medicine — so that Palestinians evacuated from Rafah can have a habitable place to live, said the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to disclose secret diplomatic talks.

President Biden and his senior aides have been making such offers over the past several weeks in hopes they will persuade Israel to conduct a more limited and targeted operation in the southern Gaza city, where some 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering after fleeing there from other parts of Gaza under Israeli orders. Israel has vowed to go into Rafah with “extreme force,” and this week Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took a number of steps that raised fears at the White House that the long-promised invasion could be materializing.

The United States has provided Israel with intelligence throughout the seven-month war. Senior Biden aides are now seeking to convince Israeli officials that they can destroy the remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah with more targeted strikes that the United States can assist, by identifying senior Hamas leaders, rather than a full-scale invasion.

Administration officials, including experts from the U.S. Agency for International Development, have told Israel it will take several months to safely relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are now living in decrepit and unsanitary conditions in Rafah. Israeli officials disagree with that assessment.

Biden aides are stressing to their Israeli counterparts that Palestinians cannot simply be moved to barren or bombarded parts of Gaza, but that Israel must provide basic infrastructure — including shelter, food, water, medicine and other necessities — so that those who are evacuated will have livable conditions and not simply be exposed to additional famine or disease.

Experts from across the U.S. government are advising their Israeli counterparts in great detail on how to develop and implement such a humanitarian plan, down to the level of how many tents and how much water would be needed for specific areas, according to several people familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Aid groups have said safely evacuating people from Rafah is nearly impossible given the conditions in the rest of Gaza.

“The aid community generally is very skeptical there’s any safe way to relocate people out of Rafah,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former USAID official in the Obama administration. “I’ve been really concerned about the U.S. line on this — that the line has not been, ‘End the war and don’t go into Rafah.’ The line has been to find a way to safely evacuate people, and that presumes that’s a possible thing.”

The unusually detailed and sensitive talks highlight the enormous stakes facing both Israel and the United States as Netanyahu prepares to invade Rafah, the last city in Gaza that has not been devastated by Israel’s onslaught. Israel has become increasingly isolated during the seven-month Gaza war , which has resulted in almost 35,000 Palestinian deaths, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Biden has also drawn enormous criticism domestically and abroad for backing it.

Israeli leaders contend that they must go into Rafah to finish the job of eliminating Hamas, which attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed about 1,200 people. But destroying the city’s extensive tunnel network, where many Hamas leaders and fighters are based, would endanger tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. That has led U.S. officials to urge a large-scale, inordinately complex evacuation plan as the best option, even as they push urgently for an Israel-Hamas cease-fire.

“We have serious concerns about how Israel has prosecuted this campaign, and that could all come to a head in Rafah,” said a senior administration official.

U.S. officials are now working closely with Egypt to find and cut off tunnels that cross the Egypt-Gaza border in the Rafah area, which Hamas has used to replenish militarily, according to two people familiar the discussions.

The American offers have come during negotiations over the last seven weeks between top U.S. and Israeli officials on the scale and scope of an operation in Rafah. It is not yet clear whether Israel will heed repeated U.S. warnings not to launch a full-scale ground invasion, particularly as Biden and Netanyahu had their most public break this week after months of building tensions and open conflict.

In recent days, Israel has seized a border crossing near Rafah and ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate the city, frustrating U.S. officials because those ordered to leave were not given a secure, livable destination.

Some U.S. officials view those actions as an effort on Israel’s part to apply pressure in its ongoing negotiations with Hamas over an extended cease-fire in exchange for the release of the remaining Israeli hostages. Negotiators left Cairo this week, dimming hopes for a deal, but Biden aides insist they are still working on an agreement, which they view as the most promising way to end the war.

The Biden administration has made an internal assessment that Hamas — and its leader in Gaza, Yehiya Sinwar — would welcome a major, protracted battle in Rafah that is destructive and deadly, according to a senior administration official, because it would further isolate Israel.

U.S. officials say Israel has not launched a full-scale Rafah ground invasion at this point, despite a series of raids in recent days. In private discussions, Israel has said it is taking seriously American warnings and provided assurances as recently as Friday that its soldiers would not barrel into the city before evacuating about 800,000 Palestinians, according to a senior administration official familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations.

Biden this week said he would withhold the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel if the country moves ahead with a Rafah invasion that targets population centers, a notable turnaround for the president, who has long resisted imposing consequences on Israel for its conduct in Gaza despite rising pressure from fellow Democrats. Netanyahu defiantly responded that Israel “will stand alone” if necessary.

Biden said Israel has not crossed his “red line” because its forces have not begun invading or bombing densely populated areas of Rafah.

Frank Lowenstein, a former State Department official and Middle East expert, said that Biden is likely to give Israel some flexibility but that further scenes of families dying and suffering could provoke a strong reaction.

“Actually restricting more weapons deliveries is a step the Biden administration would probably prefer not to take. As a result of that, they’re likely to keep the definition of the red line flexible, so they can decide based on the entirety of the circumstances whether Israel has crossed it or not,” said Lowenstein, who helped lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2014. “It seems like the brightest part of that pink line would be mass casualty events for civilians in Rafah and large-scale armored incursions into the city.”

Israel has already launched strikes on Rafah that have killed dozens of civilians and further crippled crumbling hospitals. This week, it seized the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, cutting off the main artery through which a limited amount of humanitarian aid was delivered. The World Health Organization warned that hospitals in southern Gaza were days away from running out of fuel. At least 110,000 people have fled Rafah as Israel’s bombardment there intensifies, according to U.N. agencies, and the population is suffering from widespread hunger and famine.

The Biden administration this week paused the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs over fears of how they might be used in a Rafah operation, suggesting that U.S. officials are growing wary of Israel’s assurances that it will moderate its tactics. One senior administration official said the United States wanted to signal to the Israelis that it had options at its disposal if Israel moves ahead in Rafah in ways Washington opposes, such as bombing densely packed areas.

If Israel opts to “smash” into Rafah, Biden would decide on withholding additional weapons shipments, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. “Again, we hope it doesn’t come to that,” he added.

After his unwavering embrace of Israel during much of the Gaza war, Biden has more recently sought to balance that support with explicit warnings. On Tuesday, at a Holocaust memorial event , he put the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in the context of the Holocaust. On Wednesday, he warned in a CNN interview that a major invasion of Rafah would lead to a cutoff of U.S. offensive weapons. On Friday, his administration certified that Israel was not using U.S.-provided weapons in violation of international humanitarian law, an assertion strongly disputed by human rights groups.

As U.S.-Israel talks now focus more sharply on the shape of the Rafah operation, a senior administration official said, Israeli officials are not strongly pushing back on the U.S. demands, although they disagree that evacuating the civilians would take months. Netanyahu is also facing pressure from far-right cabinet ministers in his government, who want a scorched-earth campaign in Rafah.

Israel’s recent seizure of the Rafah border crossing angered many Biden aides, who have for months been pressing Israel to allow more aid into Gaza. The World Food Program has said northern Gaza is experiencing a full-blown famine, and aid groups warn that conditions in southern Gaza will become similarly dangerous if Israel does not quickly reopen the Rafah crossing.

Some aid groups also say there is currently no safe way to relocate people in Rafah to locations elsewhere in Gaza because the territory has been reduced to rubble, with collapsed infrastructure and defunct hospitals. Rafah is the southernmost city in Gaza, and U.S. officials and humanitarian aid groups have warned there is nowhere left for Palestinians to move, in part because of Egypt’s steadfast refusal to let them in.

Konyndyk and other human rights activists are skeptical that an incursion by the Israel Defense Forces into Rafah would be less destructive than the rest of its Gaza campaign, no matter how closely the United States works to limit an invasion.

“I don’t think it’s credible, based on the past seven-plus months of IDF conduct, to think a Rafah invasion would not entail a similar level of civilian harm to what we’ve seen so far,” Konyndyk said. Noting that Israel’s recent actions in Rafah are already interfering with aid delivery, he added, “This is a fractional preview of what a full-on Rafah invasion would look like.”

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Internal Emails Reveal How a Controversial Gun-Detection AI System Found Its Way to NYC

In February 2022, a meeting was set up between New York City mayor Eric Adams’ team and an artificial intelligence gun-detection company called Evolv. An email thread from Evolv representatives included an accompanying brochure, which listed opportunities to partner together: in the Port Authority Bus Terminal, NYC schools, hospitals, and gathering places such as Times Square. One area conspicuously missing from the list, though, was the subway.

After an in-person meeting a few days later, Evolv cofounder Anil Chitkara made another attempt to sell the company’s technology—through name-dropping.

“As I mentioned, Linda Reid, VP Security for Walt Disney World (Florida) has known us since 2014 and deployed many of our systems at the Parks and Disney Springs,” Chitkara wrote in a February 7 email to the Mayor’s Office, obtained by WIRED. “They’ve had success screening for weapons with Evolv Express … There may be some interesting parallels to how you are thinking about everyone’s role in security."

The comparison of safety in NYC to that in Disney World apparently helped to persuade the Adams team. A couple of weeks later, Evolv’s technology was used to screen visitors in a city-run Bronx hospital, where a man had been shot inside the emergency room in January 2022. This wasn’t very successful—the scanners produced false positives 85 percent of the time during the seven-month pilot.

If Evolv’s accuracy in a hospital was low, its accuracy in NYC subway stations may be worse. In an investor call on March 15, 2024, Peter George, the company’s CEO, admitted that the technology was not geared toward subway stations. “Subways, in particular, are not a place that we think is a good use case for us,” George said, due to the “interference with the railways.”

Despite this, following the death of a man who was pushed onto the subway tracks in late March, Adams announced that Evolv’s gun-detection scanners would be tested in the city’s train stations. “This is a Sputnik moment,” Adams said on March 28. “When President Kennedy said we were going to put a man on the moon.”

Alexandra Smith Ozerkis, an Evolv representative, tells WIRED that when the company developed Evolv Express, its flagship product launched in 2019, they “did not do so with the NYC subway system in mind. That said, we are a mission-driven company, and when we are asked to test our technology in a new environment, we are happy to do so.”

However, the company that Adams wants to trust with the safety of New Yorkers has left a trail of controversies across the country—and critics wonder whether its technology works effectively. Its software, which uses “electromagnetic fields and advanced sensors” to detect weapons such as guns and knives, has missed them multiple times , particularly in schools. Yet neither this nor the recent disclosure that the US Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated a fact-finding investigation of Evolv (which follows a 2023 probe by the Federal Trade Commission over the company's marketing practices) has deterred the Adams administration, which has connections to the company’s employees who previously worked for the New York Police Department—something the company was keen to stress in its pitch.

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Back in 2022, Adams tasked New York’s deputy mayor, Philip Banks III, with finding a gun-detection solution. Before joining the administration, he served as NYPD’s chief of department, but resigned in 2014 amid a federal bribery and corruption investigation in which he was later named as an unindicted coconspirator. (Banks was never charged.)

While Adams said in May 2022 that he found Evolv online, Ozerkis from Evolv tells WIRED that the NYPD had contacted Evolv “to explore and test the possibility of using our screening solution around the city as part of their multi-pronged plan to curb violent crime.”

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There was a lot of overlap with former members of the NYPD. Adams and Banks came up together as police officers—as did a then-account-executive of Evolv, also name-dropped by Chitkara in the email to the mayor’s staff. Dominick D’Orazio, who had been Evolv’s sales manager in the northeast US before being promoted to regional manager in April, was a commander in Brooklyn South whose reporting line included Banks—who was, at the time, deputy chief of patrol for Borough Brooklyn South. (Banks has denied meeting D’Orazio in his capacity as an Evolv employee.)

Evolv’s connection to the NYPD is something George, Evolv’s CEO, has used to market the company’s technology. “About a third of our salespeople were former police officers,” George said at a conference in June 2022. “The one here in New York was an NYPD cop, and he’s a really good sales guy because he understands who we’re selling to. He has the secret handshake.”

David Cohen, former NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence, also sits on Evolv’s Security Advisory Board.

The Mayor’s Office has been keen to stress that it is not set on Evolv being a permanent fixture. “To be clear, we have NOT said we are putting Evolv technology in the subway stations,” Kayla Mamelak, deputy press secretary of the Mayor’s Office, tells WIRED in an email. “We said that we are opening a 90-day period to explore using technology, such as Evolv, in our subway stations.”

Civil rights and technology experts have argued that utilizing Evolv’s scanners in subway stations is likely to be futile. “This is Mickey Mouse public safety,” says Albert Fox Cahn, founder of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a privacy advocacy organization. “This is not a serious solution for the largest transit system in the country.”

Moreover, deploying the company’s technology might not just be ineffective—it’s also likely to add more police officers to the daily rhythms of New Yorkers’ lives, heightening Adams’ pro-cop agenda . The NYC subway has 472 stations. “That is roughly 1,000 subway station entrances,” explains Sarah Kaufman, director of the New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation. “That means that Evolv would have to be at every single entrance in order to be effective, and that of course would require monitoring.”

According to the draft policy posted by the NYPD, the process surrounding weapons-detection technology in the subway is extremely vague, and still relies heavily on police officers. “The checkpoint supervisor will determine the frequency of passengers subject to inspection (for example, every fifth passenger or every tenth passenger),” the document reads. It will also be based on “available police personnel on hand to perform inspections.”

The NYC subway has an estimated 3.6 million daily riders. Stopping every 10th passenger would mean 360,000 searches a day.

“It’s going to mean that people are routinely going to have to go through invasive and inconvenient searches,” says Cahn. “What’s really emblematic here is that the city keeps trying to go for security measures that are highly visible, even when they’re highly ineffective.”

School Supplies

In the email thread to the NYC officials who attended the meeting, Chitkara touted Evolv’s successful deployment in schools. But there, too, the scanners have failed to detect weapons and guns on multiple occasions. While the Adams administration was being persuaded to pilot the technology, internal emails obtained from a large school district that uses Evolv’s technology illustrate how everyday objects were being mistaken by the scanners.

“I know the simple solution is to tell kids not to use binders but rather regular notebooks,” Jacqueline Barone, principal of Piedmont Middle School, part of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina, wrote at the end of 2022. “But it hurts my soul to have to tell kids or teachers that certain supplies can’t be used because the scanners mistake them for weapons.”

In mid-April, the school district’s chief operating officer announced at a conference panel with an Evolv executive in Las Vegas that they were “eliminating” metal three-ring binders.

“As we transition into the next school year, teachers will utilize other alternatives for classroom supplies,” Jessica Saunders, a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools spokesperson, tells WIRED in an email. She also says student laptops most often alert the weapons detection system.

Meanwhile, the company is currently being sued by a high school student in upstate New York who alleges that Evolv misrepresented its technology and is responsible for failing to detect the large knife that was used to stab him.

A class action was also recently filed by Evolv’s shareholders who claim that the company made misleading statements in violation of securities law that led to huge financial losses, while also claiming that the technology “does not reliably detect knives or guns.”

“Evolv Express systems are designed to configure various levels of a security profile with different sensitivity settings, which are selected by the customer, based on their specific needs and events,” Ozerkis tells WIRED. “That doesn’t mean our technology doesn’t work; it means the security professionals in charge of keeping that environment safe made the decision that they need to screen for different—or a wider variety—of threats.”

“Getting the Word Out”

For now, as part of NYC’s pilot program, there is that mandatory waiting period. This is likely to begin in late June and will last 90 days. According to the Mayor’s Office, the city will also explore the use of other technologies and companies.

“We are conducting outreach to several tech companies and the mayor even said that the point of the presser was to get the word out,” Mamelak from the Mayor’s Office says.

ZeroEyes, a competitor of Evolv, is one company possibly being considered . Like Evolv, the company has been represented by lobbyist Mike Klein, who lobbied the Mayor’s Office on ZeroEyes’ behalf in 2022 and 2023, according to disclosure documents. (Klein tells WIRED he no longer represents the company.)

So far, ZeroEyes hasn’t been wholly successful in the transport space: The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority quietly ended its pilot program with the company in December. A representative from ZeroEyes tells WIRED they could not confirm whether their technology would be piloted in New York.

Once the waiting period begins, the public will have 45 days to submit comments on the use of the technology before they are considered by the Mayor’s Office—although the Adams administration has no obligation to alter the policy.

Public safety advocates aren’t particularly hopeful that their concerns will be heard. “It’s obviously a pattern that we see repeated,” says Daniel Schwarz, privacy and technology strategist at the New York Civil Liberties Union. “They are rolling out more surveillance technologies and pouring more money into policing and surveillance infrastructure instead of the actual services that New Yorkers need.”

At the press conference in Fulton Station, standing next to Deputy Mayor Banks and an Evolv scanner, Adams seemed intent that the technology would be successful.

“Let’s bring on the scanners,” Adams said, adding: “We are taking a huge step toward public safety.”

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As Gov. Kathy Hochul urged business leaders to make technology widely accessible, a comment she made about Bronx children raised eyebrows.

By Grace Ashford

At the Milken Institute Global Conference, the annual gathering of billionaires and business leaders in California, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York was given a spotlight on Monday to expound on her new artificial intelligence initiative.

But as she explained her desire to make technology more widely accessible, especially in low-income communities, the governor made an extemporaneous comment suggesting that Black children from the Bronx were unfamiliar with computers.

In an exchange with the moderator, Jonathan Capehart, Ms. Hochul said that “right now we have young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.”

Ms. Hochul, a Democrat, did not immediately correct her gaffe. Instead, she went on to explain that her goal of providing more access to technology would spur innovation and help address societal inequity.

The governor on Monday evening expressed contrition over her word choice, saying that she “misspoke and I regret it,” adding that her focus was on increasing economic opportunity.

“Of course Black children in the Bronx know what computers are,” she said in a statement. “The problem is that they too often lack access to the technology needed to get on track to high-paying jobs in emerging industries like A.I.”

This is not the first time this year the governor’s rhetorical style has led to unwelcome attention. In February, Ms. Hochul referred to a hypothetical destruction of Canada to imply that Israel had a right to destroy Gaza in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attacks.

“If Canada someday ever attacked Buffalo, I’m sorry, my friends, there would be no Canada the next day,” she said then. She quickly apologized for her “poor choice of words,” and said she regretted her “inappropriate analogy.”

Her remark at the Milken conference, which was held at the stately Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, seemed consistent with her blunt, folksy style, which can occasionally veer into caricature.

But it also risked casting Ms. Hochul, a centrist Democrat from Buffalo, as out of touch with Black New Yorkers — an image that some critics immediately seized upon.

“Of course Black kids in the Bronx know the word ‘computer,’” State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, a Democrat who represents Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, wrote on X, the social media site. She noted that the governor’s A.I. initiative failed to include funding for education and work force development in underserved communities.

Assemblywoman Amanda Septimo, a Democrat who represents the South Bronx, said the governor’s comments were “harmful, deeply misinformed, and genuinely appalling.”

“Repeating harmful stereotypes about one of our most underserved communities, while failing to acknowledge the state’s consistent institutional neglect, only perpetuates systems of abuse,” she said.

But others, including the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Assembly speaker, Carl E. Heastie, viewed the governor’s comment as an unintentional misstatement and praised her for her actions and larger message.

“While the governor’s words were inartful and hurtful, I don’t believe that is where her heart is,” Mr. Heastie said in a statement. “I firmly believe she wants to see all of our students excel. Working with Governor Hochul, I hope we can redouble our efforts to bring greater access to technology to our kids in the Bronx.”

Mr. Sharpton agreed that the governor “might have not said it artfully, but a lot of our community is robbed of using social media because we are racially excluded from access. That’s a good point for her to raise.”

Jeffery C. Mays contributed reporting.

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