Flock
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
cheating
People Are Selling Kills of Marathon’s Hardest Boss on eBay
The Compiler takes a serious amount of time, skill, and luck to get to. Someone on eBay is selling an easy fix.
Flock
City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
News
Japan Is Building Cardboard Suicide Drones
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
News
World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled
RightsCon was delayed by Zambia's Ministry of Information for "thematic issues" and problems with speakers.
DHS
DHS Plans to Buy More Predator-Style Drones
CBP is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on more high-powered surveillance drones, and other components of DHS may start their own fleet of MQ-9 drones as well.
Impact
Apple Fixes Bug That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages After 404 Media Coverage
The move comes directly in response to 404 Media’s coverage about how the FBI was able to recover incoming Signal messages from an iPhone because the messages were saved in the device’s notification storage.
Podcast
Podcast: How This Trippy Image Started A Massive Conspiracy Theory
A magic eye that isn't, an AI learning tool that sucks, and more in this week's podcast.
The Abstract
Scientists Investigated a Frequency Linked to ‘Paranormal’ Encounters. The Results Were Unsettling.
Humans can’t hear low-frequency “infrasound,” but a new study demonstrates that it raises our stress levels and triggers an “unsettling” feeling that could be linked to people’s experiences in haunted locations.
SXSW
SXSW Used AI-Powered Trademark Tool To Censor Dissent on Instagram
“You’re allowed to use a company’s name to talk about the company.”
AI
University Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI Slop
ASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials.
News
People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System
More people having access to the courts is potentially good, but it’s not clear how the system can handle this increase in cases.
conspiracy theories
Did a Time Traveling Superintelligent AI Try to Warn About White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting? An Investigation
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.