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BIOMETRICS

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Flock’s nationwide surveillance network faces mounting scrutiny

Flock’s nationwide surveillance network faces mounting scrutiny

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Clearview AI operational at BIA months before new facial recognition procurement

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

Who verifies the verifier? Indicio on the race to give AI agents an identity

Who verifies the verifier? Indicio on the race to give AI agents an identity

Discord launches age-adaptive design, says 90% of users won’t need active checks

Discord launches age-adaptive design, says 90% of users won’t need active checks

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  • #Neuroscience
  • #Robotics
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Robotics

Robots in society, business and culture: August 2026

Robots in society, business and culture: August 2026

Building and programming autonomous robots at the York Micromaze Hackathon

Building and programming autonomous robots at the York Micromaze Hackathon

A.I.

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

How AI Chatbots Are ‘Deskilling’ Human Empathy

How AI Chatbots Are ‘Deskilling’ Human Empathy

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

CEOs Are Losing Control of AI

CEOs Are Losing Control of AI

Neuroscience

Mitochondria in the Brain’s Reward Hub Drive Nicotine Dependence

Mitochondria in the Brain’s Reward Hub Drive Nicotine Dependence

Molecular Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s Risk

Molecular Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s Risk

Firsthand Experience Dictates Social Judgment

Firsthand Experience Dictates Social Judgment

Shared Neural Noise Does Not Cap Brain Information

Shared Neural Noise Does Not Cap Brain Information

Can Mathematics Solve the Molecular Puzzle of Alzheimer’s Disease?

Can Mathematics Solve the Molecular Puzzle of Alzheimer’s Disease?

How Severe Illness During Pregnancy Alters Fetal Brain Development

Posted on 09.02.202609.03.2026

When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – new brain study

Posted on 09.02.202609.03.2026

LAW

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
#Business #Ethics #Law #USA

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

09.24.2026
Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match
#Biometrics #Crime #Ethics #Law #USA

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

09.24.2026
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
#Behavior #Business #Crime #Data #Law

‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

09.17.2026
Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable
#Crime #Ethics #Law

Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

09.15.2026
Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange
#Biometrics #Business #Ethics #Law

Meta sued over alleged facial recognition training for smart glasses

09.07.2026
Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
#Ethics #Government #Law #USA

Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters

09.03.2026

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Tencent is extending its palm biometric technology to devices without specialized palm reading hardware. Its new Palm X […]

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Moldova’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is proposing a national facial image registry to help law enforcement identify suspects, […]

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory

We debated for a long time about whether to write about the following video, which comes from a […]

Flock’s nationwide surveillance network faces mounting scrutiny

Flock’s nationwide surveillance network faces mounting scrutiny

A month of disclosures about police misuse, data-sharing failures, and security weaknesses surrounding Flock Safety’s automated license plate […]

Mitochondria in the Brain’s Reward Hub Drive Nicotine Dependence

Mitochondria in the Brain’s Reward Hub Drive Nicotine Dependence

UCF neuroscientists study how nicotine alters brain mitochondria in the nucleus accumbens to discover more effective addiction therapies.

Molecular Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s Risk

Molecular Link Between Menopause and Alzheimer’s Risk

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ETHICS ▶︎ IDENTITY | PRIVACY | SECURITY | SURVEILLANCE

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Clearview AI operational at BIA months before new facial recognition procurement

Posted on 09.24.2026
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Posted on 09.24.2026
Who verifies the verifier? Indicio on the race to give AI agents an identity

Who verifies the verifier? Indicio on the race to give AI agents an identity

Posted on 09.24.2026
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

Posted on 09.24.2026
Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

Posted on 09.24.2026
ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations

ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations

Posted on 09.24.2026

BUSINESS

CEOs Are Losing Control of AI
09.24.2026

CEOs Are Losing Control of AI

Peter Kuper With no slowdown from Trump’s administration. The post CEOs Are Losing Control of AI appeared first on The...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

09.24.2026
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

09.24.2026
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

09.17.2026
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

09.16.2026
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

CRIME

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
09.24.2026

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

The catastrophic hack of at least thousands of FBI officials’ personal data, including their addresses, phone numbers, and even their...

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

09.24.2026
Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

09.17.2026
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

09.15.2026
Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

09.14.2026
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

USA

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs
09.24.2026

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
09.24.2026

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
09.24.2026

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match
09.24.2026

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations

ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations

09.24.2026
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

09.16.2026
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’

09.14.2026
New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites

New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites

09.14.2026
‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center

‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center

09.11.2026
Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras

Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras

09.09.2026
Hollywood gives indiscriminate live facial recognition the superhero treatment

Hollywood gives indiscriminate live facial recognition the superhero treatment

09.09.2026

WORLD

OpenAI and Microsoft Admit LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

OpenAI and Microsoft Admit LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

09.17.2026

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models...

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
09.15.2026

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide

Australia shifts online safety debate from age checks to platform accountability
09.09.2026

Australia shifts online safety debate from age checks to platform accountability

NEC, SoftBank launch face biometrics payments pilot in Tokyo
09.09.2026

NEC, SoftBank launch face biometrics payments pilot in Tokyo


DIG DEEPER

AI Companies Begin to Align Around Slowdown
2 weeks ago

AI Companies Begin to Align Around Slowdown

Meta Just Settled for  Billion. Here’s What That Means for You.
3 weeks ago

Meta Just Settled for $18 Billion. Here’s What That Means for You.

How to deal with the data center dilemma
3 weeks ago

How to deal with the data center dilemma

Higgsfield Genjutsu Just Changed AI Video Forever
4 weeks ago

Higgsfield Genjutsu Just Changed AI Video Forever

Where to Start AI Coding if You’re Not Yet
4 weeks ago

Where to Start AI Coding if You’re Not Yet

VIDEODROME

ChatGPT-6 Astra: Almost Human or Just Hyped?
2 weeks ago

ChatGPT-6 Astra: Almost Human or Just Hyped?

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra vs Anthropic Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
3 weeks ago

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra vs Anthropic Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Japanese ATOM Robot Demos Shocking AI, Omni 1.1 Flash, OpenAI Astra
4 weeks ago

Japanese ATOM Robot Demos Shocking AI, Omni 1.1 Flash, OpenAI Astra

How We Deal with Rogue AI
4 weeks ago

How We Deal with Rogue AI


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