Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members "conspired" behind his back to vote to put him on leave.

‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.

A team discovered that Gondwana, an ancient landmass that formed more than 500 million years ago, was in fact large enough to be deemed a supercontinent, a finding that sheds light on the “explosion” of ancient Cambrian life.

Sinclair Broadcasting is pushing the idea that China and the No Kings protesters are the reason people don't like Flock.

Secretive predictive policing units; a funk shirt designed to fool AI; and our third anniversary party.

James Strahler was sentenced to 15 years in prison for “cybercrimes that included both real and AI-generated sexually explicit images and threats of violence to numerous victims.” 

After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

The Restroom Archive is a museum-style repository of 3D scans of the world's restrooms.

A data protection lawyer told 404 Media the sharing was likely illegal, and Channel 5’s own privacy policy explicitly says it won't give subscribers’ emails away to people for marketing purposes.

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

Thank you for three years, and for partying hard with us for two sold out nights of celebration IRL in NYC.

Using an advanced new instrument, scientists observed Einstein’s equivalence principle on a free-falling quantum object, demonstrating that this prediction of general relativity also holds up in quantum physics.

A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.

A floating mass of trees and vegetation in British Columbia’s Williston Lake attracted international attention after it was filmed this summer by boaters—and then seemed to disappear. 

An a16z article argues that enshittification isn’t real and that people actually love social media.

The incident shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases

The video makes Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul look like they're hanging out in a prescription medication commercial.

“Is there any talk to redesign the Outpost to not look exactly like the Flock camera — I think it will help agencies with the optics while we batten down the hatches,” one apparent cop asked during a now deleted Axon webinar.

A follow up to the Amazon destroying books for AI story, why a bunch of names keep appearing in AI-generated papers, and ICE's latest spending spree.

The the city tried to charge a farmer more than $17,000 for bodycam footage and records related to his arrest at a city council meeting.

I watched Simon Weckert's 'digital camouflage' in action.

Erin West and Paul Raffile went to Nigeria to track down a scammer. They found much more than just his identity.

Google Maps announced on Saturday it would start reflecting the change for U.S.-based users.

The Sun has likely passed so close to other stars in the past that it captured thousands of small interstellar objects from alien systems, reports a new study.

This week, we discuss cool old books, new toys for ICE, and a boardwalk slop invasion.

ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”

“The academic record is being quietly haunted” by researchers with names like Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen.

In her new audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy, Bridget Jones and Michael Amato unpack how real people are using chatbots to seek connection, in an era when tech companies are constantly trying to exploit our innermost worlds.

Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.'

In the wake of the ChatGPT flyer pandemic, some businesses are differentiating themselves by making signs the old school way.