Mikael Thalen

The Los Angeles Police Department has let its contract with Flock Safety expire after an audit found the company's license plate reader cameras were incorrectly flagging vehicles as stolen.

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A vulnerability in the pope's official prayer app, Click To Pray, has reportedly left the information of its nearly 720,000 users exposed.

A high school teacher in Kansas was arrested at a city commission meeting last week after clapping in support of an anti-data center speaker.

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, is suing the state of Minnesota over a law banning deepfake technology that can be used to generate artificial nude imagery.

The Roomba cleaning your floors while you sit on your sofa is more than an autonomous vacuum cleaner, according to the U.S. government.

Public backlash against license plate readers is escalating. Plus, how easy it is to purchase personal info from a data broker.

Advertisers don't need access to your phone's microphone to anticipate what might grab your attention, said Alessandro Acquisti, the Trustees Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College.

A hacker who leaked 20,900 Epstein files describes the personal toll of living in fear. Plus, an attempt to trick AI in the courtroom.

While details on the grand jury's decision are limited, it comes amid a growing backlash against Flock and its cameras.