Impact
Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
News
Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'
"Chris’ sentiment does not change," said the sister who created an AI avatar of her slain brother Christopher Pelkey to speak in court.
Impact
Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.
Newsletters
Muse escapes containment
“Indiscriminate mass surveillance," a Meta Muse scoop, and more in today's daily newsletter.
News
arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop
The academic publisher said submissions have doubled in the past two years and moderators are having a hard time keeping up.
Muse
Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch
The vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases.
The Abstract
Our Solar System Is Terminally Unstable and Will Be Completely Destroyed, Study Finds
The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death.
Flock
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
Podcast
Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
The massive FBI hack; a company wants to add facial recognition onto Flock; and Muse in some cases is actually just people.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Freaking Out
This week, we discuss inbox slop, Claude cults, and more.
Newsletters
'Everything but censorship'
A look at the state of student journalism in light of the Cornell sexual assault case, and much more.
FOIA
How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.