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This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Hacked to Deliver Malware to Claude and Gemini Users
Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.
News
Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.
News
Nvidia and Microsoft Researchers Say AI Agents Don't Care About Safety or Reliability
The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.
palantir
Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
News
Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated
Employees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.
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AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI
There are hundreds of anti-data center Facebook pages churning out AI-generated slopaganda.
News
‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription
On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?
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‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.
News
An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation
No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.
News
This Archivist Has Saved 175,000 Articles from 30 Years of Writing about Magic: The Gathering
The Library of Leng contains old usenet posts and forgotten articles from Magic: the Gathering's long history.
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Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats
"I can’t take it anymore. The threats," the treasurer said. The planned data center is part of OpenAI and Oracle's Stargate initiative.