Long before modern supply chains, ancient hominins were moving stone across long distances, potentially reshaping what we know about our evolutionary roots.

This week, we discuss OSINT for chat groups, Russell Crowe films, and storage problems.

Researchers say this 'robot metabolism' is an early step in giving AI biological style bodies.

Tech companies spent $1.2 billion on political influence since 2024. It’s paid off.

The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.

The cult classic 2005 film is selling for double the MSRP on the secondary market.

The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

A DHS sizzle reel that used "Public Service Announcement" got hit with a copyright takedown request and has been deleted off of X.

By omitting the "one-third" provision that most other states with age verification laws have adopted, Wyoming and South Dakota are placing the burden of verifying users' ages on all sorts of websites, far beyond porn.

Emails obtained by 404 Media show the LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an AI tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.

CBP's use of Meta Ray-Bans; the bargain that voice actors are having to make with AI; and how Flock tech is being essentially hacked into by the DEA.

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.

A DEA agent used a local cop's password "for federal investigations in late January 2025 without [the cop's] knowledge of said use."

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The OverDrive is made to let ground vehicles navigate tough terrain with minimal input from humans.

The human voiceover artists behind AI voices are grappling with the choice to embrace the gigs and earn a living, or pass on potentially life-changing opportunities from Big Tech.

Scientists have discovered the culprit behind sea star wasting disease, the most devastating marine epidemic on record.

This week, we discuss Wikipedia's ethos and zooming in on a lot of pictures of cops' glasses.

"For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT."

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi's office said this was “a formal investigation into Flock Group Inc. over its role in enabling invasive surveillance practices that threaten the privacy, safety, and civil liberties of women, immigrants, and other vulnerable Americans.”

The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.

Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency that is really encouraging its agents to actively intimidate and terrorize people," one expert said.

Preservationists at the Video Game History Foundation purchased the rights to Computer Entertainer, the first video game magazine ever written and uploaded it for free.

The issue of publicly saving shared LLM chats is bigger than just Google.

MORIS and I.R.I.S. was designed for Sheriff's Offices to identify known persons with their iris. Now ICE says it plans to buy the tech.

America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.

Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

Stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi reveal a long-lost population of human relatives; their identity, and how they crossed the sea, is a mystery.

Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

Kilopixel by Ben Holmen turns a CNC machine and a thousand wooden blocks into pixel art.