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Shotspotter Starts Listening

Flock’s gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices By Matthew Guariglia Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States,…


Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records

By Joseph Cox A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including American Airlines, United, and Delta, is selling access to five billion plane ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching and monitoring…



Israel Wants to Pay US Pastors a Stipend

to Spread the Word By Nick Cleveland-Stout A newly-created firm called Show Faith by Works is embarking on a “geofencing” campaign to target Christian churches and colleges across the American Southwest with pro-Israel advertisements. The…


The Eighth Front

Israel’s digital Iron Dome and the narrative battle By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the “Eighth Front” of his war as the battle over truth. “Seven fronts against Iran and…


How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?

The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy By Servaas Storm OpenAI’s Altman boasted that AGI can “discover new science,” because “I think we’ve cracked reasoning in the models,” adding that “we’ve a long way to…


Wikipedia: ‘Speedy Deletion’ for AI Slop

By Emanuel Maiberg Wikipedia editors has adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online en­cy­clopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly…


AI Needs Global Sweatshops

By Patricia Gestoso The hype around idyllic tech workplaces that originated in Silicon Valley with tales of great pay, free food and Ping-Pong tables reaches a whole new level when we talk about artificial intelligence…


AI and Deepfake Abuse on Women

By Maria Onatt Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly become one of the most transformative tools of our time. Many of us use it on a daily basis, from asking automated software or chat bots for…


Calling Mark Zuckerberg’s Bluff on Safety

By Jenna Sherman  It’s been a troubling year of coincidences for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The social media magnate announced in January that the company, which owns Face­book and Instagram, would im­plement a startling fact-checking…