Three Amazon data centers are still under construction, but local residents are already paying at least $10.60 extra per month for them, according to a new study.

Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, exposed some of the license plate cops were looking for and the reason for doing so.

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon books. Researchers are trying to discover why.

Researchers report a "serendipitous" discovery while watching videos of crowds: an inexplicable bias toward counterclockwise turning that may be rooted in biology.

Memes at Google; Microsoft wants to make its new AI assistant addictive; and manipulating Reddit.

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

Amazon employees have a Slack channel for memes where the mock and commiserate about the company’s faulty AI coding product.

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

Microsoft took the highly unusual step of shutting down more than 70 of its own GitHub repositories after hackers pushed malware that would steal credentials from AI coding agent users.

Emanuel talks to Devindra Hardawar about AI in Hollywood and the state of the movie industry.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.

The north-south albedo symmetry may be fading as both hemispheres get darker.

ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.

This week, we discuss controversial memes, good times at Meta, and more.

A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.

With some fans making sexualized AI-generated images and videos of idols, the rest of the fandom is standing up against the behavior.

Microsoft's CEO seems unaware of what's going on at his own company.

The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is breaking containment and can no longer be ignored.

Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.

“It's striking, concerning, disappointing, and saddening to think that members of the bar would forward cases to a court that don't exist, and to think that the lawyers on the other side of that didn’t read it for whatever reason, didn’t check it.” 

Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated. The people who write that code say the AI they’re using is overhyped.

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.

Peptide companies have been doing AI-engine optimization by spamming the biohackers subreddit to manipulate ChatGPT and Google.

Google is trying to buy code from some Android developers as part of a "confidential" program.

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

The researchers compared AI to the near-sighted cartoon character Mr. Magoo, who can’t see he’s stumbling through dangerous situations.

The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.