Misconfigured license plate readers are leaking data and video in real time
Video feeds from at least 150 Motorola license plate readers accessible without a password.
Policy // Civilization & Discontents
EU “energetically” probing disinformation, right-wing bias on X, report says
Elon Musk wading further into global right-wing politics raises alarms in EU.
US sues six of the biggest landlords over “algorithmic pricing schemes”
Six landlords added to RealPage lawsuit; Cortland settles and will cooperate.
Dirty deeds in Denver: Ex-prosecutor faked texts, destroyed devices to frame colleague
Sometimes, data collection can work for you.
Meta axes third-party fact-checkers in time for second Trump term
Zuckerberg says Meta will "work with President Trump" to fight censorship.
“I’m getting dizzy”: Man films Waymo self-driving car driving around in circles
Waymo software fix addressed "looping events" after car kept circling parking lot.
Do Kwon, the crypto bro behind $40B Luna/Terra collapse, finally extradited to US
Kwon pled "not guilty" before a federal judge.
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
A small win for music publishers in the fight over Claude outputs.
Appeals court blocks FCC’s efforts to bring back net neutrality rules
A three-judge panel ruled the FCC exceeded its authority reviving net neutrality.
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
It’s January, which means another batch of copyrighted work is now public domain
More Mickey Mouse versions, early talkies, and classic novels all go public.
Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub
Supreme Court ruling could end Pornhub blackout across US South.
Power company hid illegal crypto mine that may have caused outages
Russia's crackdown on illegal mines outs power provider as unexpected accomplice.
Trump told SCOTUS he plans to make a deal to save TikTok
TikTok ban could be delayed, if “consummate dealmaker” Trump gets his way.
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
Advocates say tech workers movements got too big to ignore in 2024.
