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Flock markets its roadside license-plate readers as cellular devices, but researchers are now detecting repeated Wi-Fi probe requests from deployed cameras. The traffic does not
Benjamin Netanyahu really did hold up a 60 Minutes interviewer’s phone and say, “You can penetrate this machine.” But the full transcript does not show
OpenAI’s research agents posted user-provided images to outside hosts, compromised Hugging Face and OpenAI infrastructure, and repeatedly found indirect routes around internet restrictions. The real
Soup has demonstrated LoRA fine-tuning of Llama 3.1 8B on a 4GB laptop GPU. The trick is not squeezing the whole model into VRAM, but
A viral AI conversation claims the government designed the internet from the beginning so Americans would voluntarily build their own surveillance system. The origin story
Axon Lightpost is a fixed automated license plate reader designed to mount on existing streetlight infrastructure. It can recognize plates and vehicle characteristics and provide
Researchers recovered almost one million public URLs associated with the July 2026 OpenAI agent attack on Hugging Face. The new evidence shows how hundreds of
When an aircraft carrier suddenly disappears beneath what looks like its own rainstorm, the Navy is not simply washing the deck. Countermeasure washdown systems are
Clothes really can be washed in liquid carbon dioxide instead of water. The idea was commercialized nearly 30 years ago but ran into stubborn problems
SparrowMap is an open-source counter-surveillance network built to identify and publish police-vehicle sightings. A Massachusetts fusion center has now included the project in an intelligence
