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09/25/2026

Flock is finally requiring police to have a real reason before searching its camera database
"The changes follow a Senate hearing where a woman described spending 13 days in jail over a camera match" (see the first comment for the story link)

09/24/2026

Today both SEO and AEO are important

09/23/2026

"Since early May 2026, we’ve been monitoring a large phishing campaign based on T-Mobile rewards points.

The messages falsely warn that a customer’s rewards points are about to expire. They aren’t legitimate account notices: They use urgency, invented point balances, and phishing links to push recipients into acting before they can verify the claim.

A typical message says that a T-Mobile Rewards account holds 18,400 points, gives an imminent expiry date, and states that unused points will be removed under the program’s terms. These details make the message look as though it was written specifically for the recipient, even though it was sent to many people."

A large phishing campaign is using fake T-Mobile rewards points and looming expiry dates to pressure recipients into clicking malicious links.

09/22/2026

"Flock Safety’s cameras are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) designed to help police find stolen cars or wanted suspects.

A joint investigation by 404 Media and WIRED, based on data recovered from a physically removed Flock camera, found that its on-device software explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, bicycles, and license plates.

Separately, Washington DC’s police union says the Metropolitan Police Department used Flock data to track officers under Internal Affairs investigation without their knowledge.

Together, these reports illustrate a privacy problem: A network built to record the movements of vehicles can readily be used to follow almost anyone.

The latest reporting adds an important technical detail to that debate."

Two reports reveal how Flock’s license plate camera network tracks people’s movements while oversight continues to lag.

09/21/2026

"If you’re still OK with posting pictures of your kids on social media, take a minute to hear from mother of two Kalie Robins. At the start of September, she did something that hundreds of thousands of parents do every day. She posted a video of her young daughter on Facebook.

Under the video of Robins and her daughter singing in a car, Facebook’s Meta AI system displayed a suggested question: “Who is the child passenger?”

Robins was shocked that Facebook would ask this question about a minor, so curiosity prompted her to click it. That’s when a flood of automated stalker-type behavior began."

A mother says Meta AI pieced together names, birth details, photos, and location information about her young daughters from years of family posts.

09/21/2026

" It’s the “largest theft of labor in human history.” That’s what a senior Microsoft exec said about AI scraping in newly unsealed filings from The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit. In the same filings, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT warned that the company’s product was an “existential threat” to publishers. This could all lead to more lawsuits—just as courts have been siding with the AI companies."

A senior Microsoft exec called the AI industry’s mass scraping “an astonishing theft”—and it could lead to more lawsuits.

09/18/2026

"OpenAI has disclosed six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior in artificial-intelligence models. This includes models acting without authorization or evading oversight."

OpenAI has disclosed six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior in artificial-intelligence models. This includes models acting without authorization or evading oversight.

09/18/2026

"Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media."

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

09/17/2026

did you opt in? (do you know if you opted in/)

"In a statement on Saturday, LG wrote that “LG smart TVs do not continuously record or transmit users’ conversations.” Instead, the company argued, LG TVs only record voices when users state a wake word or hit a corresponding voice/AI button on a remote control. (“Continuously” is a bit of a weasel word, as the original report contained a clip of an LG TV transcribing ambient conversation long after the authors had stopped addressing it.)"

LG denies its TVs constantly record owners' conversations for advertising data.

09/16/2026

😂😂
"Now that the iPhone Duo is about to burst onto the scene, the foldable phone wars are ramping up to absurd new levels. And Samsung’s latest volley against Apple takes an unexpected tack: hiring “Tim Cook” to promote its flagship Galaxy Z Fold8. “Best phone I’ve ever had,” he declares definitively in one ad. “You can quote me, Tim Cook…from Palmerston North.”

Tim Cook has an announcement.And for once, it’s about Galaxy.Ti...