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          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.
              Joseph Cox
            · Aug 6, 2026
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              The Abstract

              No Bosses: Ancient Engineering Marvel Was Built Without Rulers, Study Suggests

                A 2,000-year-old canal system in Colombia visible from space was long assumed to be built at the direction of powerful rulers. New evidence is turning that assumption on its head.
                  Becky Ferreira
                · Aug 11, 2026

              News

              Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI

                Research Gold's team of human methodologists are either AI generated or using the identity of real people without their permission
                  Emanuel Maiberg
                · Aug 11, 2026

              ICE

              ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir

                LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
                  Joseph Cox
                · Aug 10, 2026

              News

              The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town

                “I guess all crime could be eliminated if you put cameras everywhere, surveillance everywhere, and had drones patrolling the skies [...] but what life are we living then?”
                  Matthew Gault
                · Aug 10, 2026

              AI Lobbying

              Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence

                "The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta.
                  Jason Koebler
                · Aug 10, 2026

              Robotics

              The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting

                Knightscope and other robotics companies are rethinking automated security following canceled contracts. One pivot? Human guards.
                  Rebecca Plevin ,
                  Varsha Bansal
                · Aug 10, 2026

              The Abstract

              Crab Odyssey: Crustacean Wandered the Seas in a Bottle for Months, Scientists Find

                Scientists discovered a crab that had spent months at sea stuck in a bottle, subsisting on algae and fish that wandered into its plastic lair. The lonely mariner offers a warning about the impacts of human pollution on wildlife worldwide.
                  Becky Ferreira
                · Aug 8, 2026

              Behind The Blog

              Behind the Blog: Rare Books and Baseball Brain

                This week, we discuss Flock blogging, "rare" books, and Jesus Christ.
                  Samantha Cole ,
                  Jason Koebler ,
                  Joseph Cox ,
                  Emanuel Maiberg
                · Aug 7, 2026

              News

              City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for 'Public Safety'

                A small town in Kansas took its city meetings virtual and ended public comment after city leaders received a wave of death threats.
                  Matthew Gault
                · Aug 7, 2026

              Flock

              Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles

                A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
                  Joseph Cox
                · Aug 7, 2026

              Tokenmaxxing

              Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI’s Soaring Cost

                SAP says it needs to “be disciplined in how we spend.” That includes still freezing hires and travel. Unless it's to do with AI, of course.
                  Joseph Cox
                · Aug 6, 2026

              The Abstract

              Scientists Designed a Virtual Alien Lifeform to Hunt for Extraterrestrials

                A model of a microbe cell revealed that methane-producing organisms could potentially emerge on a wide variety of exoplanets, which can inform the search for extraterrestrial life.
                  Becky Ferreira
                · Aug 6, 2026

              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.
                  Joseph Cox
                · Aug 6, 2026

              Flock

              Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

                "The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
                  Jason Koebler
                · Aug 5, 2026

              Podcast

              Podcast: This Man Might Go to Prison for Wiping His Phone

                The case of Samuel Tunick allegedly wiping a phone before DHS could search it; inside an AI-powered TIkTok Shop; and Google Earth's dumb AI tool.
                  Joseph Cox
                · Aug 5, 2026

              Apple

              Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses

                Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
                  Joseph Cox
                · Aug 5, 2026
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