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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said.
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators
Million-dollar fines won’t end billionaires’ data center pollution, neighbors fear.
USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
Apple worked with Trump admin to remove ICE-tracking apps, lawmaker says
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city…
Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology the study is likely to recommend.
Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie
The studio says the movie will be in theaters next year.
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
All the Major Social Media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for 'Musk'
YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Facebook and Instagram all seem to be either chickening out or taking Elon Musk's side.
In Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan
Idealistic tech executives believe superintelligent machines will inevitably arrive—and that when they do, homo sapiens must step out of the way.
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
Yeah, don’t give Meta’s Muse app access to your Mac
The ability of AI systems to act as agents, carrying out tasks on our behalf, is the single biggest development in the technology. This is the headline capability Siri AI introduces to Apple devices, and I’m inclined to trust the privacy and safety safeguards Apple has put into place. But Siri AI isn’t the only agent you can give full access to your Apple devices, with Meta’s Muse app the latest example – and one tech writer’s experience really underlines why you absolutely don’t want to do this … more…
The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.
'Avengers Endgame: Encore' Is So Much More Than a 'Doomsday' Advertisement
The time-heist hit plays like your own time machine back to the days of great Marvel movies.
This company’s plans to deploy space mirrors could jeopardize the night sky for many
Reflect Orbital’s giant beams will shine as bright as 10,000 full moons and scatter light over tens of kilometers.
What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble
The AI hyperscalers will likely spend more than $1 trillion on data centers next year. Can they make enough money to sustain the infrastructure boom?
AI market needs to make $6 trillion a year by 2031 to fund its infrastructure habit
That's the amount of economic value AI will have to deliver to justify all the investment