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Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company's denials — group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-17 | by Jowi Morales | tags: flock safety, license plate cameras, data encryption

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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, data breach

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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Works (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, license plate readers, data breach

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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works (wired.com)

2026-09-16 | by Dhruv Mehrotra | tags: flock safety, automatic license plate readers, 404 media

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Automattic's Matt Mullenweg Claims He's Back 'In Control' (slashdot.org)

2026-09-12 | get Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J CD → | tags: automattic, matt mullenweg, 404 media

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Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious (futurism.com)

2026-09-12 | by Frank Landymore | tags: predictive policing, border patrol, 404 media

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg placed on leave (theverge.com)

2026-09-09 | by Emma Roth | get WordPress The Missing Manual book → | tags: matt mullenweg, automattic, wordpress.com

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg reportedly placed on leave (theverge.com)

2026-09-09 | by Emma Roth | get WordPress The Missing Manual book → | tags: matt mullenweg, automattic, wordpress.com

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DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-08 | by About The Author | get Mission Darkness Faraday phone bag → | tags: border patrol, predictive policing, dhs

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Flock Offered Webinar Teaching Cops How to Surveil 'No Kings' Protesters (slashdot.org)

2026-09-06 | by Posted | get Mission Darkness Faraday bag phone → | tags: flock, no kings protests, flockos

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Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button (theverge.com)

2026-08-21 | by Jay Peters | tags: linkedin, ai slop button, pangram

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Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: amazon, ai training, vgt3

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Plaintiff busted trying to use AI prompt injection to win court case, hides text instruction in filing — demands AI model reviewing the text should side with him, rumbled because of strange white spaces in text (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: ai prompt injection, matthew elliot, ny bariatric group

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Company Offering Printed Books To Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: isbndb, ai training, printed books

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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: linkedin, ai slop, hari srinivasan

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AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: anthropic, claude ai, better world books

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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its staff (engadget.com)

2026-07-23 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: patreon, jack conte, 404 media

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Apple fixes iCloud+ vulnerability that exposed ‘hidden’ user emails (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-21 | by Ryan Christoffel | tags: icloud+, hide my email, apple one

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Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | by About The Author | tags: hide my email, apple, 404 media

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New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones (slashdot.org)

2026-07-20 | tags: new orleans police, drone manual, weaponized drones

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Class action accuses Apple of misleading users about Hide My Email’s privacy protections (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-16 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple, hide my email, icloud+

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County With 37 Data Centers Tells Schools to “Turn Off Your Lights” to Save Electricity Ahead of Scorching Heat Wave (futurism.com)

2026-07-02 | by Frank Landymore | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: data centers, henrico county, electricity rates

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools To 'Conserve Electricity' (slashdot.org)

2026-06-30 | get Smart Power Strip → | tags: data centers, electricity conservation, 404 media

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Google is offering Android developers cash in exchange for code to train AI (techspot.com)

2026-06-03 | get Android Developer Coding Kit → | tags: google, android, 404 media

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Google offers Android app developers cash in exchange for code to train AI (techspot.com)

2026-06-03 | get Android Developer Toolkit → | tags: google, android, ai coding tools

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‘Creepy’ Listening Tool for Targeted Ads Didn’t Actually Work, FTC Says (wired.com)

2026-05-21 | by Maddy Varner | get Privacy Screen Protector → | tags: cox media group, active listening, ai targeting

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Booed During Graduation Speech About AI (slashdot.org)

2026-05-17 | by Posted | get AI Ethics Book → | tags: google, eric schmidt, artificial intelligence

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Forced to vibe code at work, programmers say their skills are deteriorating (techspot.com)

2026-05-14 | get Programming Keyboard with Vibe Feedback → | tags: vibe coding, 404 media, technical debt

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Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely (futurism.com)

2026-03-29 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Content Editing Tool → | tags: wikipedia, ai content, large language models

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Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-26 | by Lucas Ropek | get Wikipedia AI Editing Guide → | tags: wikipedia, large language models, editorial policies