axon
Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Blue Screens of Death
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss election coverage, blue screens, and audio engineering.
News
CrowdStrike ‘Deeply Sorry for the Inconvenience’
The Windows outage has disrupted hospitals, airports, public transit, and much more worldwide.
CrowdStrike
To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says
The advice, which is specifically for virtual machines using Azure, shows that sometimes the solution to a catastrophic failure is turn it off and on again. And again.