Flock
Police Used Flock to Give a Man a Traffic Ticket
“CAPTURED ON FLOCK CAMERA 31 MM 1 HOLDING PHONE IN LEFT HAND.”
AI
AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
A leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows company-wide effort collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated content for training data.
AI
Anthropic AI Scraper Hits iFixit’s Website a Million Times in a Day
“We're just the largest database of repair information in the world, no big deal if they take it all without asking and swamp our servers in the process.”
News
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
Podcast
Podcast: The CrowdStrike Outage
The worldwide CrowdStrike outage; vaping the internet; and a bunch of leaked documents from Cellebrite.
Deepfakes
An Astronomy Technique Could Detect Deepfakes Through People’s Eyes
Looking at the light reflections of eyes could be a clue to detecting AI-generated impersonations.
News
Heritage Foundation Claims to Use Location Data to Track Trump Shooter's Movements
Organizations are now openly broadcasting the once dirty secret of the location data industry: it can be used to track specific people.
AI
The Backlash Against AI Scraping Is Real and Measurable
In the last year, the number of websites specifically restricting OpenAI and other AI scraper bots has gone through the roof.
News
Sydney Sweeney’s Verizon Phone Number Hijacked
A photo posted online shows an apparent SIM swap of Sydney Sweeney on July 2nd. That same day, hackers broke into her Twitter account and posted a cryptocurrency scam.
FOIA
DHS Has a DoS Robot to Disable Internet of Things ‘Booby Traps’ Inside Homes
"NEO carries an onboard computer and antenna array that will allow officers the ability to create a ‘denial-of-service’ event to disable ‘Internet of Things’ devices that could potentially cause harm while entry is made."
Photography
Developing and Scanning My Own Color Film: A Rewarding, Infuriating Hobby
The magic of shooting, developing, and scanning my own photos has been one of the most rewarding hobbies I can imagine, but is also deeply frustrating.
News
UK Police Arrest Suspect in MGM Ransomware Attack
The arrest is one of the few publicly available signs of movement in the investigation of the massive MGM Resorts cyberattack.
News
CrowdStrike Outage Impacted U.S. Government Agencies
Although the outage was brief in some instances, multiple U.S. agencies confirmed they were impacted by the global Windows outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update.