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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
A viral video shows Grok saying it would save one Jewish person instead of one million non-Jews, then blaming the choice on its creators. The
Humans are not literally artificial intelligence. But the closer we look at brains, large language models and computers made from living neurons, the harder it
A normal AI text question can use a fraction of a watt-hour. A reasoning agent or generated video can use hundreds of times more. Here
Sirio Berati says GPT-6 Astra turned a 59-video Seedance job into roughly 500 generations, ran up more than $5,000 in charges, and then gave him
Glaze and Nightshade give artists an unusual defense against unwanted AI training: change the artwork in ways machines notice more than humans do. The underlying
