Georgia's GBI arrested three former Savannah Police Department officers and one former civilian staffer for improperly accessing Flock Safety's license plate reader network for non-law-enforcement purposes. The officers face two counts of misuse of a license plate reader system plus a violation of oath of office charge, while the civilian employee faces two misuse counts. Savannah PD uncovered the abuse through an internal audit, fired the individuals, and referred the case to state investigators.
Nidia Webb, who has lived in the UK for eight years with settled status, was blocked from boarding her flight home from Spain after the Home Office's eVisa system confused her digital immigration record with that of her identical twin sister. She spent hours on the phone before the issue was resolved and she was allowed to fly home, though a confirmation email meant to reassure her was mistakenly sent to her sister instead.
Breezy Weather, a free and open-source weather app praised for its features, is not listed on Google Play. Users can instead download its APK directly from GitHub, granting installation permissions manually to sideload the app.
Walmart is turning to digital fabrication techniques, including 3D printing, to construct parts of its retail stores rather than relying solely on traditional building methods. The company's scale is helping accelerate adoption of this construction approach across the commercial building industry, as it looks to lower its own operating costs.
Luis DeSantiago, a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, discovered a sexualized AI-manipulated image of himself circulating on TikTok after friends alerted him in March. He traced the account to a middle school student he knew, and reported the incident to school administrators. He is one of at least four educators who told WIRED they have been targeted with similarly fabricated explicit content by students.
Nintendo submitted seven DMCA complaints in a single day that led GitHub to remove more than 400 repositories tied to Switch emulation, including the Suyu project's entire 311-repo network and forks of the defunct Yuzu and Skyline emulators. Nintendo justified the takedowns by citing prior legal wins, including its case against Yuzu developer Tropic Haze and a lawsuit against a streamer who broadcast pirated games.
YouTuber JerryRigEverything's durability test found the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold cracked along both antenna lines near its hinge, and the outer display detached completely without tools. This marks the fourth straight year a Google foldable has failed at the same structural point, despite Google's claim that this model's build is three times stronger than before.
Seven prominent architecture firms are developing their own AI tools instead of waiting for frontier labs like Anthropic to serve their needs, since the specialized data behind architectural work—3D models, technical drawings, hand sketches—sits locked in private firm archives rather than on the open web. This scarcity of scrapable data makes architecture a much harder AI target than domains like coding or writing, pushing firms to build in-house solutions using their own proprietary project records.
A new leak from Weibo tipster Digital Chat Station claims the OnePlus 16 will feature the thinnest bezels of any OnePlus phone yet, paired with a custom-built, high-clarity screen. The device is also expected to carry a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Pro chip, a 6.78-inch panel, and design cues similar to the OnePlus 15's square camera module.
Lenovo published a list of Motorola devices eligible for the Android 17 update, but it left out several recent phones including the Edge 50 series, Edge 60 Neo, Razr 2024, Moto G56 5G, and Moto G75 5G. Oddly, the list also references unreleased models like the Edge 70 Neo and Edge 70 Plus, and contains duplicate entries for the Edge 60.
An Android Authority writer detailed how they paid just $399 for a Google Pixel 11 Pro, whose list price is $1,099, by combining several ongoing Google Store promotions. The savings came primarily from a trade-in credit for an old iPhone 17 plus additional discount coupons offered by Google around the Pixel 11 launch.
Researchers highlight a stark 'data efficiency gap': large language models require orders of magnitude more text than a human child hears to master language basics. Stanford's Michael Frank and Georgetown's Ethan Wilcox note that while frontier models train on trillions of tokens, children pick up language fundamentals from a fraction of that input within their first year or two of life. Scientists are studying how kids achieve this to both understand human cognition and potentially inform more efficient AI training methods.
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