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Cities forced to feed license plate data into federal hub
A 1980s anti-drug grant program is being used to force city police to funnel license-plate data into federal surveillance centers.
Surveillance
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London expands facial recognition despite flop at rail trial
A six-month LFR trial at London stations cost over £320,000 and nearly 100 police hours but produced no arrests, Liberty Investigates found.
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Vendor pitches facial recognition add-on for Flock camera network
Vidizmo is pitching police a way to add facial recognition to Flock Safety camera data, despite Flock's stated no-biometrics stance.
Control
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Supreme Court again lets Trump deport migrants to third countries
The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to continue deporting migrants to countries other than their own.
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Nonprofit sues OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
LASST filed suit demanding OpenAI halt unauthorized access to third-party systems after its hack of Hugging Face.
Corporate
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Azure maintenance outage disrupts VPNs, hybrid cloud services
A Microsoft Azure maintenance issue degraded ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway and Azure VMware connectivity for customers.
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Teen researcher found Microsoft bug exposing 17.3 trillion rows
A 16-year-old found an authentication flaw in Microsoft's Titan analytics service granting admin access without valid credentials.
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AirPods 5 edge up from zero to two out of ten on repairability
iFixit scored Apple's AirPods 5 two out of ten for repairability, the first above-zero score for the product line.
Resistance
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France hit by mass public sector and student strikes over austerity
Hundreds of thousands protested and struck across France against austerity measures ahead of a new government budget.
Countermeasures
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Tails 7.14 ships updated Tor Browser and Linux kernel
The anonymous live OS Tails released version 7.14 with Tor Browser 15.0.24 and Linux kernel 6.12.111.
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Reitti adds open Street View to self-hosted location timeline
Reitti, a self-hosted alternative to Google Timeline, now includes an open Street View feature built from users' own GPS data.
Makers
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8BitDo controller firmware encryption reverse engineered
A hobbyist reverse engineered two ciphers used in 8BitDo controller firmware and published tools enabling custom firmware.
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ESP-SDR turns ESP32 Wi-Fi radio into a software defined radio
ESP-SDR captures raw I/Q samples from the ESP32's 2.4GHz radio, letting hobbyists study spectrum beyond ordinary WiFi packets.
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Decade-long open source tricorder project continues development
A hobbyist has spent over a decade building an open source tricorder, a handheld multi-sensor device inspired by Star Trek.