Flock
Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
Cybersecurity
How Hackers Broke into Madison Square Garden
Hackers stole more than 45GB of data from Madison Square Garden, including data related to “talent” and the Knicks. Clues in the data point to how the hackers got in.
AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides.
News
Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’
“All he has done is try to start a right-wing/conservative pressure group within Wikipedia.”
libraries
Libraries Not Doing Pride Displays Say They ‘Shouldn’t Be Judged’
Public records show dozens of libraries have self-censored to avoid attracting negative attention.
Privacy
Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.
News
'We Will Fight to Our Very Last Breath:' Township Leaders Vow to Fight Nuclear AI Data Center
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and a proposed nuclear weapons AI data center in Michigan have earned the ire of community leaders.
Podcast
Stopping Tech Company Censorship (with Jake Hanrahan)
Joseph speaks to Jake Hanrahan all about Patreon, YouTube, and getting journalism in front of people.
News
Are Public Libraries Becoming Children’s Libraries?
Books written for younger audiences are being relocated to adult sections at alarming rates. We asked experts to predict what that means for the rest of us.
The Abstract
Scientists Propose Black Holes Don’t Exist, Are Something Much Stranger
A seismic wave from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake bounced off the Earth’s core and hit Japan from below, shifting the entire mainland a quarter-inch eastward.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Landfillcore and Go Knicks
This week, we discuss questionable analysis, mysterious parcels, and the Knicks (sorta).
The Abstract
A New Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
For 150 years, paleontologists assumed that the first vertebrates to leave the sea for land evolved a tadpole phase, similar to modern frogs. Immaculately-preserved fossils disprove that, scientists say.
News
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."