@Techmeme@techhub.socialDuring a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend (Christian Robles/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2026/0…
@cdarwin@c.imA new website lets drivers see if their vehicle has been looked up using Flock’s surveillance camera system
— amidst growing backlash over the company’s sprawling network of automated cameras.
The “Have I Been Flocked” site compiles Flock Safety’s audit logs,
allowing drivers to look up their license plate number to see if authorities
— or someone else
— has run their information through the system.
If a person’s license plate appears in the database, it…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzIs Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help https://www.404media.co/is-your-city-using-axon-license-plate-cameras-we-need-your-help/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUK PM Andy Burnham keeping Lisa Nandy on as culture secretary renews pressure over potential streaming license fees and puts the WBD deal back in the spotlight (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/lisa-nandy-big-decisions-…
@crell@phpc.socialI don't agree with all of their licensing, but I absolutely salute the attitude behind the Acadia licensing approach:
https://acadia.engineering/license/faq
(Be sure to read past "what if our plan is wrong", because that's where the spicy bits start.)
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI ride a bike in Wisconsin but I still own a car... thinking I'll need to get one of these!
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2026/07/15/wisconsin-bike-fed-license-plate/90676326007/
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldFlock's Gunfire Alerts Raise a New Fourth Amendment Question
https://reason.com/2026/09/22/flocks-gunfire-alerts-raise-a-new-fourth-amendment-question/ via @reason
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaMasked ICE Fascist Demands ID from Naturalized Citizen After Ramming Car, Refuses to Identify Himself, and Lies About License Plate Number
Please help identify when and where this happened. I was not able to find it on iceout.org.
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1v2nx0a
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Flock Safety is weighing a potential sale and has held preliminary talks with outside advisers (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/23/2026/flock-safety-weighs-selling-itself
@servelan@newsie.socialLicense plate cameras can track your AirPods, smartwatch, and more, disturbing study finds | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/license-plate-cameras-track-surveillance-b3001657.html
@nerb@techhub.socialLook out world, I'm back!!
Drivers license was on hold until the ophthalmologist said my vision was good enough.
Had my appointment at the drivers license office this morning. Glad all they wanted to do was the eye test in the little box. Was able to read the little itty bitty stuff abet with a little difficulty. But I passed. Only restrictions glasses which were a given both outside rear view mirrors and no night time driving.
Probably will stick to letting the wife dr…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"'The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum..." Mr. Vader said.
'Because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers, they are following children. They are following children in parks and gymnasiums. And we need this. I need this so I can stalk my ex-girlfriend,' the Dark Lord continued."
@newsie@darktundra.xyz'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman https://www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shiny-thing-cop-explains-why-he-used-license-plate-reader-to-stalk-woman/
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageAuthProbe: Specification-Driven, Multi-Identity Detection of Broken Object-Level Authorization in Recruitment API
Jay Barach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20574 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20574 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20574
arXiv:2607.20574v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA), also known as Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR), has topped the OWASP API Security ranking since 2019 and is the root cause of some of the largest exposures of applicant data in recruitment technology. The defining feature of this flaw class is that a malicious request is byte-for-byte indistinguishable from a legitimate one, which is precisely why web application firewalls and single identity scanners fail to catch it. We present AuthProbe, an open-source, black-box scanner that detects BOLA and IDOR in HTTP APIs by driving its tests from an OpenAPI specification and by acting under two or more identities that the operator controls. AuthProbe discovers, for each identity, the objects that identity legitimately owns, then attempts to read one identity's objects while authenticated as another and confirms a leak by comparing the response against a ground-truth fetch by the true owner. It also walks predictable identifiers to expose enumeration and reports missing authentication and existence oracles. The tool returns a severity-thresholded exit code and machine-readable reports so that it can gate a continuous integration build. On a synthetic recruitment API in which the McHire failure class is reproduced, AuthProbe detects every planted cross-identity read with no false positives on a hardened counterpart, and its running time grows linearly with the number of objects under test. AuthProbe is released under the Apache 2.0 license with an authorized-use guardrail.
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@scott@carfree.city"While much of the automatic license plate reader’s most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles."
I hope this will put to rest the canard that if you don't drive/are anti-car, you shouldn't be worried about Flock.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialMy new license plate arrived!
(It’s a reward for pledging to get the real one made. If enough people pledge support they’ll make an actual car license plate that will raise funds for the Bike Fed.)
#bikeTooter #wisconsin
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street
@cdarwin@c.imOn Wednesday, a grand jury in Ohio
refused to bring felony charges against a Clermont County man
accused of destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader (ALPR).
https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-alpr-surveillanc…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street
@seeingwithsound@mas.toNanoscope Therapeutics announces another step towards FDA approval of their gene-agnostic MOGENRY optogenetic gene therapy for RP https://nanosther…
@cdarwin@c.imA surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)
that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars,
-- potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called #SignalTrace…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialIt must be galling to him that we no longer have the pre-Reagan pre-cable FCC regs and station norms that empowered the POTUS to monopolize the media in primetime.
I expect that many non-olds don’t even realize that was a thing. Once upon a time all TV was broadcast and most was network-affiliated or network-owned, and those all took the feed from the White House when it was offered. There was no escape... @…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face "real jeopardy" as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bbc-real-je…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialReconstructed code from Flock's login pages shows a new AI-powered system, called OS Investigate, that integrates license plate scans, case files, and more (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/
@paulwermer@sfba.socialLooks like the FCC is going after a local San Francisco station, and public comment in support of ABC7/KGO-TV's license renewal is needed.
San Francisco ABC affiliate KGO-TV at risk of losing FCC license
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/abc-kgo-t…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialLooks like the FCC is going after a local San Francisco station, and public comment in support of ABC7/KGO-TV's license renewal is needed.
San Francisco ABC affiliate KGO-TV at risk of losing FCC license
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/abc-kgo-t…
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🧱 #AWS Blocks is a new #opensource framework from AWS (#Apache2 license) built specifically for the era of #Ai #coding
@floheinstein@chaos.socialIf you have problems with your Atlassian Confluence Wiki today (unable to change formatting of text, change tables etc.), then you might want to take a look at this ticket here:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-104454
@brian_gettler@mas.toIf the press charges $4851 US for an open access license fee for a book review (a mere $4.85 a word!), how much does it charge for an actual article?
@arXiv_physicsmedph_bot@mastoxiv.pageCOBRA2026: a large-scale multicenter pelvic cone-beam computed tomography projection dataset
Adrian Thummerer, Simon Rit, Florian Kamp, Matteo Maspero, Martjin P. W. Intven, Thomas G. Bon\'e, Christopher Kurz, Guillaume Landry, Thomas Baudier, Mustafa Kadhim, Julius Arnold, Michael Rauter, Barbara Kn\"ausl, Lukas Zimmermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20037 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20037 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20037
arXiv:2607.20037v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The COBRA2026 dataset is a large-scale, multicenter resource of raw radiotherapy cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) acquisitions created for the development and evaluation of conventional and learning-based reconstruction and image-correction methods. It contains data from 867 patients undergoing pelvic radiotherapy at six European centers, acquired using Elekta and Varian imaging systems. For each case, the dataset includes raw projection data, acquisition geometry, calibration and correction information, clinically reconstructed CBCT images, and corresponding planning CT images. Vendor-specific files were anonymized and converted into open formats. Planning CT images were deformably registered to the daily CBCT anatomy, and matched projections were simulated using the corresponding acquisition geometry. All cases underwent visual quality control, and cases with substantial processing or registration errors were excluded. The approximately 950 GB dataset is divided into training, validation, and test sets containing 692, 52, and 123 cases, respectively. Projection stacks and volumetric images are provided as compressed MetaImage files, with geometry and metadata supplied in XML and YAML formats. COBRA2026 supports research on full- and sparse-view reconstruction, low-dose imaging, artifact and scatter correction, motion compensation, and synthetic CT generation. The dataset is released under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, indexed on Zenodo (doi:10.5281/zenodo.21322350), and accompanied by openly available preprocessing and baseline reconstruction code. It also forms the basis of the COBRA2026 reconstruction challenge.
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe American Astronomical Society (AAS) is dismayed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decision on 9 July to grant a license to #ReflectOrbital: https://aas.org/press/aas-public-policy-experts-available-comment-fcc-approval-reflect-orbitals-earendil-1-mission - as the AAS expressed to the FCC, Reflect Orbital's proposed satellite, which would reflect sunlight back to Earth at night, carries the potential for significant harm to our members and the broader community of those who depend on a dark night sky.
@grindcrank@fnordon.deFinished "Into The Light". Special thanks to @… who of course was mentioned in the credits (or BOM):
@servelan@newsie.social"404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too."
Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
https://www.404media.co/is-your-city-using-axon-license-plate-cameras-we-need-your-help/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn response to ABC's suit, the FCC says Disney has been engaging in an "ongoing campaign of disinformation" and maintains it is probing Disney's DEI practices (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-
@chrysn@chaos.social @davidaugust@mastodon.onlineFlock cameras, and automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are _inherently_ unlawful, _unavoidably_ contrary to the U.S. Constitution.
Yet another expert's view: #USpol
@cdarwin@c.imThe American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys
designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies
—facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, gunshot detection systems, and more
—to build the cases against their clients in secret.
The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judg…
@cheeaun@mastodon.social
@ruario@vivaldi.net@… And FWIW the cost of per user to license just AAC would be more than we make per user. Thus for Linux it is messy stuff like this or we would just have to drop the product entirely.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzLAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen https://www.404media.co/lapd-regularly-pulled-over-innocent-people-because-license-plate-readers-flagged-their-cars-a…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukI found another bunch of SWL cards from the 1950s from before my dad got his license and added them to the page:
#hamradio
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeYikes, today's Metacurity email will surely get clipped by Gmail because it's so packed with cyber and infosec-related AI news you need to know, including
--AI watch: AI companies are building digital workers and attackers may benefit too,
--Interpol fraud crackdown nets 5,800 arrests and $293m,
--Fake Brazilian police station discovered in African scam operation,
--Mystery zero-day broker tied to convicted fraudsters,
--AssuranceAmerica breach exposes 6.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPresident Trump expresses support for Flock "because of law enforcement", while acknowledging some people consider the surveillance technology "an infringement" (Aoife Walsh/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technol…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC reports license fee payers fell 539K YoY to 23.3M in 2025-26, the biggest fall since 2020-21; license fee income rose £36M to £3.9B after the fee uplift (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/bbc-licence-fee-payers-plummet-c…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WordWeavers July 7: What writing or publishing resource do you think everyone should know about?
I'm one of those people who write in a text editor. I'm using UltraEdit without AI bullshit. I create eBooks using LibreOffice and Calibre. It's not a particularly mind-blowing process but it works well for me and it is free except for the UltraEdit license if you don't pay…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzMontorie Foster Jr.: "Every Time I Play, I Play To A Standard" https://www.seahawks.com/video/montorie-foster-jr-every-time-i-play-i-play-to-a-standard-press-conference-august-15-2026
@aardrian@toot.cafeIn 2022 I installed my archive copy of 1Password 4.1 on a new machine. It would not honor my 2016 license key (1Password killed its license server killed when it went SaaS).
1Password support tried very hard to move me to the SaaS model (3 free years!), but I repeatedly declined.
I eventually got 1Password support to give me an _older_ version that didn’t talk to a license server.
And I feel much better about standing firm now that 1Password has gone full fash.
@cdarwin@c.imFrom Florida to Washington state,
local governments across the country are canceling their contracts with Flock,
the company behind the controversial AI-enabled license plate readers,
in response to public outcry.
But ending the contracts doesn’t necessarily mean the cameras will come down immediately
— or that the information they’ve gathered will be deleted anytime soon
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA group of prominent conservative organizations petitions the FCC to deny license renewal requests from the eight local TV stations owned and operated by ABC (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/06/abc-license-renewals-fcc
@servelan@newsie.socialMassachusetts revokes medical license of doctor convicted in Capitol riot
https://www.wwlp.com/news/massachusetts-doctor-loses-license-renewal-after-jan-6-riot-conviction/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZ.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/zai-glm-weights-license/
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldA 1921 marriage license opens new questions about my grandparents. A genealogy search uncovers a veteran’s name change and three enlistments, including a “discharge by purchase.”
Plus, Michigan beats Oklahoma, and a troubling wrongful-conviction story.
More threads. More questions.
https://www.
@chrysn@chaos.socialIn the Opener Initiative, we collaborate on implementing the #DectNRPlus standard.
The standard provides license-free radio (no cellular operators) in the 1.9GHz band, with all bells and whistles of a 5G radio standard for #IoT applications.
In Opener, we are working on a portable
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers/
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaFascist Paramilitary Invaders with Covered License Plates Drive Over Curb Into Restricted Sheriff Lot (St.Charles, MO, 07/05/2026)
Video Source:
#ice
@cdarwin@c.imA group of prominent conservative organizations has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny license renewal requests from the eight local television stations owned and operated by ABC,
accusing the network of political, racial and sexual bias and supporting the Chinese communist party.
The petitions come after the commission, led by Trump appointee Brendan Carr, took the nearly unprecedented step of requiring the network, a frequent recipient of attacks fro…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Trump administration official says a "trivial" number of Nvidia's H200 chips were shipped to China after winning a US license, without offering specifics (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117169388027479476
Of course, if OSI certifies the “OpenMDW” license as “open” they will have torpedoed their credibility on openness. It’s a license whose only reason to exist is the fear of model distributors that the…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK's culture secretary Lisa Nandy says she backs an expansion of the BBC license fee to include subscribers to streamers, though many ideas remain in play (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/lisa-nandy-bbc-licence-fee-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFlock says it will now require US law enforcement to attach a criminal case number to license plate searches, after a WaPo investigation into police misuse (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026…
@servelan@newsie.socialHas your license plate been tracked by Flock cameras? Here's how to check. - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flock-license-plate-tracking-search-check/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFootage Shows Cop Stalking Woman He Met on a TV Set After Surveilling Her With a License Plate Reader https://www.404media.co/footage-shows-cop-stalking-woman-he-met-on-a-tv-set-after-surveilling-her-with-a-license-plat…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at security flaws, police misuse, and other concerns over the 100K AI-enabled automated license plate readers installed across the US, mostly from Flock (Max Miller/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2203000/flock-cameras-recording-license-plate/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe BBC's cash reserves fell from £369M in 2025 to £125M, their lowest level in 10 years; the license fee lost ~£1.3B in value in real terms since 2017 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/sep/18/bbc-cash-reserves-d…
@cdarwin@c.imA typo by California police led to violent arrest of innocent man who later died, officials say
San Francisco officers smashed a driver’s window, dragged him to the pavement and pepper-sprayed his face
after mistyping a license plate and wrongly flagging his car as stolen.
A city watchdog found the officers used unnecessary force and violated multiple policies,
while prosecutors pursued reckless driving and resisting arrest charges against the motorist until his app…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInternal email: Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program; sources say a significant number of Flock's ~1,500 employees may depart, as customers flee (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldGenealogy Answers Lead to More Questions
A marriage license opens new questions about my grandparents, while a search for a family veteran uncovers a name change and three military enlistments. Add a Michigan football victory and a troubling wrongful-conviction story, and it’s been quite a week.
http://www.
@servelan@newsie.social"A Wired investigation found that cops can search for vehicles and their drivers using prompts describing location, time, and patterns of movement."
Flock’s New AI Tool Does Much More Than Track License Plates
https://gizmodo.com/flocks-new-ai-tool-does-much-more-than-track-license-plates-2000800372
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: ABC says the FCC hasn't refuted "substantial evidence" of Trump administration retaliation in ordering an early review of eight ABC TV station licenses (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/abc-fcc-lawsuit-donald-trump-1237107012/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June at the last minute, aiming to protect the bank's "digital euro" (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/chr
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Disney and ABC say the FCC is retaliating against ABC because Trump doesn't like its programming and urge the FCC to stop efforts to block ABC licenses (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-abc-reply-fcc-li…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThe National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed https://www.404media.co/the-national-park-service-is-using-flock-rangers-are-pissed/
@cdarwin@c.imRogue officers turned a nationwide camera network into a tool for stalking
Like thousands of other law-enforcement agencies across the United States,
police chief, Michael Steffman's
police force could follow cars spotted by Flock’s sprawling network of artificial-intelligence roadside cameras,
which record passing license plates into a mappable database that officers can search while investigating crime.
Flock had sold its system as a police officer’s dream…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Kraken is pursuing a full banking license in Europe, with a focus on Lithuania as the jurisdiction to secure it (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/07/crypto-exchange-kraken-is-trying-to-become-a-ba…
@servelan@newsie.social"Officials estimate that drivers in the state illegally pass school buses over 9,000 times a day"
Georgia district hopes to install license-plate capturing cameras to fine drivers passing school buses | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/georgia-school-district-stop-arm-license-plate-cameras-b3052123.html
@cdarwin@c.imTrump reopened old wounds among tNATO leaders by insisting again ahead of the summit that the U.S. should control Greenland, ka semiautonomous Danish territory.
That led Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen to say her country is “ready to defend every inch of NATO including our own territory.”
Trump also blasted some European countries for refusing to participate in the Iran campaign, singling out Spain as “a terrible partner in NATO” and renewing his threats to cut off trad…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding (@alibaba_qwen)
https://x.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where "every capability is a plugin" that can be swapped out (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/de…
@cdarwin@c.imID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems,
a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached during a year-long hack.
The company said in a website notice that hackers stole the driver’s licenses from the company’s cloud;
the stolen information includes people’s full names and driver’s license numbers,
along with identity numbers from other government-issued docume…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFlock CEO Garrett Langley acknowledges the company "got this one wrong" and is assuming greater responsibility for preventing US law enforcement misuse (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/979339/flock-ceo-audits-data-retention…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFormer FCC commissioners, lawyers, and advisers issue a filing saying the FCC's ABC early license renewal proceeding is "unprecedented" and a "grave violation" (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/28…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance is still operating in the EU months after it failed to get a MiCA license, using workarounds to onboard new customers and reroute its trading (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-04/how-bi…
@cdarwin@c.imDHS surveilled peaceful protesters and then yanked their Global Entry, federal lawsuit alleges
April Walker, a San Diego resident, was observing federal immigration agents in a Target parking lot in April
when she said they boxed her in and pointed a camera at her face and license plate.
👉 She said she never provided her driver’s license
and the agents only moved their vehicles and allowed her to leave after she called 911.
❌ Five days later, she learned that…
@Techmeme@techhub.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Department of Commerce loosens export controls to the UAE, letting G42 and US companies like Apple, Meta, and xAI export AI chips to UAE without a license (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Chinese platforms like ActID and New Claw are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, often using vague licensing terms (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-ai-microdramas-face-licensing/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Polymarket is seeking CFTC approval to offer margin trading in the US, a move that would let users bet on events with less capital upfront (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/polymarket-seeks…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (Sam Witteveen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/tencents-ap
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCoinbase secures UK FCA authorization to offer investment services, enabling it to expand into derivatives and equities trading, its largest UK expansion yet (Brian Danga/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/407410/coinba
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B , to hire some of its talent and license its tech (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mechanize-deal-talent-tech-ai-coding-2…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAlpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/alpamayo-2-super-open-model-now-available/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFlorida says it is revoking permits for Flock cameras and similar license-plate readers on state roads and no longer intends to issue such permits (Ryan Gillespie/Orlando Sentinel)
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/08/31/florida-orders-flock-cam…
