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No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

By far the best name for an AI model yet. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/m...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

The Trump administration is using a program from the 1980s to force cities around the country to funnel their ongoing Flock, Axon and other ALPR data into federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/how-cities-a...

Finally someone managed to hold one of these crooks accountable. But until we get real privacy laws on the federal level, people search sites will continue to be a plague in this country. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/data...

1/3 Here's a riddle: Why did a Goshen Police Department officer search 6,474 automated license plate reader (ALPR) networks, representing data from 82,413 cameras, on May 7, 2025? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

"This culture of abuse has allowed police to treat a mass surveillance network like their own personal search engine, permitting the tracking of the movements of everyday citizens for low-level complaints, personal whims, and sometimes, seemingly, for the lols.” www.404media.co/cops-search-...

EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

Patch Tuesday brings another record-breaking number of security fixes for Windows, including over 100 rated critical. Remember that the bad guys start reverse engineering the vulnerabilities once the updates are out. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/micr...

Flock cameras have no place in Texas. They can piece together an exact map of your behavior — the places you went and how long you were there. Flock calls this “pattern-of-life” mapping. Texans call it something else: government overreach.

LISTEN: EFF’s @htsuka.bsky.social joined @kpbssandiego.bsky.social to explain California’s new tool helping people remove personal data collected by data brokers: the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP).

“A lot of these companies are pre-IPO, so they’re focused on three things. They’re focused on market penetration, they’re focused on product differentiation, and they’re focused on valuation. And valuation includes the data that they own,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @kcdefender.bsky.social.

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NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

Looks like we've not been told the whole truth by Taylor Farms and the Trump FDA. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

The sad story of the destruction of public interest technology at the federal level by DOGE, and NYC's efforts to reinvent it: pluralistic.net/2026/08/08/f...

California's DROP system has started processing deletion requests this week. I just checked my status and my data has already been deleted at 12 data brokers, and hundreds more are pending. Sign up! privacy.ca.gov/drop/

NEW: A series of issues in Apple’s web browser engine — the tech underlying all browsers on iOS — means that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool, which is supposed to hide a user’s IP address, in many cases doesn’t actually work. In fact, its exposing users' real IP addresses.

One bit of paperwork filed to California’s privacy agency lets you tell hundreds of data brokers to delete and stop selling your information. Here’s what to know about DROP. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Maybe better to not connect your "smart TV" to the Internet ... "researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV." krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-t...

NEW: Cops around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

Cops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Media.

If you use Windows, better update soon before all these vulns get reverse engineered by the bad guys ... krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/micr...

Thought you can use the Internet anonymously? Think again. If you're using Windows, Microsoft can link your online activities to your device using telemetry and a persistent device identifier. A VPN doesn't help since the OS itself is reporting your activities. www.pcmag.com/news/a-hacke...

1. Since December, CNN and CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently. w/@atrupar.com

In light of this decision, the federal government should rethink if it can continue to buy Americans' location data without a warrant. I'll keep pushing for black-letter law that would stop the sale of your data to anyone, including the government.

NEW: Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen in an attempt to stop burning through AI tokens and curb their massive expenditure on AI, 404 Media has found. “Caveman save you token, save you money.”

This is an interesting read about what various DOGE alumni are up to these days ... thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

It seems the Trump regime can now dictate who gets to use which AI model. What could go wrong. www.anthropic.com/news/fable-m...

I have some doubts ... arstechnica.com/apple/2026/0...

We reported earlier this year on Meta's plans to roll out a facial recognition feature in its smart glasses and the company said it was "still thinking through options." Now Wired discovers that the code to do it is already in Meta's AI app: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...

"On May 31, word began to spread on several Telegram instant message channels that Meta’s AI bot would happily add an email address to an existing account as part of the bot’s standard password reset flow." krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hack...

I talked to @bcherny.bsky.social about the end of software engineering as we know it — and why AI may be responsible for more job creation than destruction www.platformer.news/boris-cherny...

Did anyone check for insider trades involving quantum computing companies?

Oh my. "[...] a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems." krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...

This is going too far. electrek.co/2026/05/13/d...

"[...] we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week’s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for 271 vulnerabilities identified during this initial evaluation." blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a...

Meta employees now subjected to total surveillance in order to train AI to replace them. Brave new world. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

"[The administration's characterization of Direct File] has it completely backwards. It is a calculation that only makes sense if you do not value the time and money of citizens, but regard the government doing anything to help the public as a burden."

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

Disable ad tracking on your phones, people! Be careful which apps you grant location access. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/jsra...

You may want to disable content previews in the Signal notification settings ... www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Just wow.