@Techmeme@techhub.socialProcurement records: the FBI seeks a vendor that can provide access to automated license plate readers nationwide; Flock and Motorola are among the few options (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-li…
@servelan@newsie.socialMayor pulled a Trump and did an emergency order to keep it going when the town council stopped paying for it
Small Town Fights Over Flock's AI-Enhanced Network of License Plate-Reading Cameras - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/17/2236232/small-town-fights-over-flocks-ai-enhanced-network-of-license-plate-reading-cameras
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p88#a260518p88
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThe FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/
@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/
@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
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
@johl@mastodon.xyzAdrian Mastronardi has published “Half a Second”, a book about the 2024 XZ Utils backdoor attempt, social engineering, an Open Source developer’s burnout, what is known about the attacker behind the backdoor, and how a pedantic performance measurement revealed it all.
The book is available free of charge under a (non-free) Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license.
@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
@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... @…
@gray17@mastodon.socialthe new VCS "lore" from Epic is really interesting. lots of thoughtful design decisions. it's not going to replace git (lore needs a central server), but it might replace perforce completely (lore fixes everything perforce is bad at, with MIT license).
(the main reason to use lore instead of git is binary assets, but it's also aimed at solving problems of massive scale, like world-sized monorepos)
@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…
@mia@hcommons.socialPart of important experiments with 'types of data governance that establish a global knowledge commons, while supporting local communities'
How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License https://community.mozilladatacollectiv
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeGotta love that midwestern sense of humor.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialBye, Felicia.
Fort Collins, CO, City Council has voted to immediately cancel its contract with Flock Safety, ending the city's participation in the company's automated license plate reader system. The 6-1 vote during a June 16 council meeting follows six months of public pushback on the use of the system. Council directed staff to immediately stop the collection of Flock data, immediately initiate the cancellation of the Flock contract, and remove cameras as expeditiously as pos…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA legal watchdog group asks bar associations in Maryland and DC to examine whether FCC Chairman Brendan Carr broke rules of conduct by targeting media outlets (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/05/legal-accountability-center-fcc-complaint-…
@adulau@infosec.exchangeI’m still completely lost with logic of JA4 patent licensing and actual incompatibility with the copyleft-license. So it seems to be a patent-based license and really risky to implement if you want to keep your actual software open source.
Did someone explore alternatives to avoid this? and especially other format which are open source friendly?
#ja4
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThe give-me-money-if-you-are-a-publicly-traded-company-otherwise-free software license
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPatriots, Robert Kraft file complaint against town of Foxborough over 'improper' fees https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7367933/2026/06/16/patriots-owner-robert-kraft-complaint-foxborough-stadium-licensing-fees/
@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…
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukOne of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzFlock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-searches-via-duckduckgo-bing/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives Anthropic the license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the US government (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropics-safety-superpower/
@deabigt@universeodon.comThis would seem to point to a problem with the police and access to these readers more than the systems. Though some of these systems have also been cited for insecurity.
Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 18 Times in Recent Years https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialDev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable ads — delivers 360p video at 30 FPS and acts as a ‘bridge for AI’
A new and unique ASCII video streaming solution has been released under the MIT license. ASCILINE Engine by YusufB5 is pitched as a “high-performance, real-time ASCII video rendering engine” that can be used to broadcast “an unblockable video stream.”
📺
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI wish this weren't on xitter; calling out bad behavior on that platform feels ironic. But @… seems to me to be sanely connecting dots:
https://xcancel.co…
@a@paperbay.org
@chrysn@chaos.social
@grindcrank@fnordon.deFinished "Into The Light". Special thanks to @… who of course was mentioned in the credits (or BOM):
@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.
@matthiasott@mastodon.social🤫 Psst, if you’re into #audio #plugins – and have heard about the all-buttons-in mode of the 1176 – Pulsar’s Smasher is free at the moment:
https://pu…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Malawi government suspends coal miner’s license over river pollution"
#Malawi #Pollution #Environment
@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…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.iois there an open source license that specifically disallows use by Republicans
asking for a friend
@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…
@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…
@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…
@servelan@newsie.social“Beginning June 2027, Bethany will only license and re-license foster families whose Christian faith and beliefs align with our Statement of Faith and Belief,” they said.
The country’s largest Protestant adoption agency is dropping LGBTQ couples — again
https://religionnews.com/2026/06/10/the-countrys-largest-protestant-adoption-agency-is-dropping-lgbtq-couples-again/
@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
@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…
@skaverat@skaverat.netI do not like that man, Ted Cruz
I do not like him reading the news
I do not like his sorry stick
And while he's right this time,
He can suck my dick
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ted-cruz-fcc-abc-broa…
@cheeaun@mastodon.social
@jeang3nie@social.linux.pizzaBounced the Super Meteor off the rev limiter for the first time today. Got lost in the moment for a sec and forgot is still in is break-in period. But it does strike me how this bike encourages such a more laid-back riding style compared with what I was used to. Probably a good thing, both for my health and my license.
At the same time, the couple of times I've taken it on the freeway it feels so much better suited to it with that sixth gear. And it's comfortable at those speed…
@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.…
@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…
@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/
@compfu@mograph.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@iBlessi/116902807515565288
Also true for that old Supermicro your company might still have running as a license server or bare metal intranet host… both can be moved to VMs on a refurbished Mini PC (or a cluster of two for fail…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialCity Silhouettes V🏙️
城市轮廓线 V 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kentmere 400 (6x7)
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
@memeorandum@universeodon.comOregon governor halts undercover license plates for ICE (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5904548-oregon-halts-ice-license-plates/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p90#a260601p90
@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
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.netA Fortune 500 company can do a hell of a lot more damage than an automobile. You shouldn't get to drive one unless you've demonstrated that you know how. And if you fuck up sufficiently badly, your license should go away.
Discuss.
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThis Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/
⭐ Starred a repository
Zuhaitz-dev/URPL
UNO Reverse Public License v. 4.20
github.com/Zuhaitz-dev/URPL
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance is set to lose permission to offer services to EU clients from the start of July as its application for a license is about to be turned down (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bin…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaDrivers of Reddit, why isn't my driver's license sesquipedalian?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Binance is set to lose permission to offer services to EU clients from the start of July as its application for a license is about to be turned down (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bin…
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… The index provider doesn't owe any fiduciary duties to anyone. It's not regulated and it simply contracts with fund sponsors to license usage of the index.
Now, self-indexed funds (didn't exist 10 years ago when I retired) may be a different story. For those funds, their adviser or an affiliate of their adviser creates the…
@smurthys@hachyderm.io @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Czech government draft law ends license fees for public media in favor of state funding, shrinking outlets' budgets; the bill needs parliamentary approval (Radio Prague International)
https://english.radio.cz/funding-shake-sparks-political-…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… appreciate you! You won’t have to buy another license.
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… After all, that is why just about every FOSS license allows you to fork and develop onwards on your own.
It’s okay to just use my project as a stepping stone towards the project *you* want, without expecting me to get involved.
Feels like a lot of folks out there don’t consider that option for whatever reason.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialZhipu launches GLM-5.2, says it markedly improves coding and agentic tasks, with strong long-horizon capabilities and a 1M context window, under an MIT license (Z.ai)
https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.2
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🆕 v2.5 adds task cancellation from the UI, user-input delivery on permission prompts, persistent session resume across Bridge restarts & follow-up files for all providers. Licensed under Elastic License 2.0
🌐 https://github.com/ctrlnode-ai/ctrlnode
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horse
@tarah@infosec.exchange@macmsp@vmst.io What's the per user license cost on that?
@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-…
@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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVirginia bus crash that killed 5 involved non-English speaking driver who got license in NY, says Sean Duffy (Nicholas McEntyre/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/us-news/virginia-bus-crash-that-killed-5-involved-non-english-speaking-driver-who-got-license-in-ny-says-sean-duffy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p35#a260530p35
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSony confirms that some digital PS4 and PS5 games require a one-time online license check "to confirm the game's license", likely to combat refund scams (Gabe Gurwin/GameSpot)
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/playstat
@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…
⭐ Starred a repository
Gutenberg-Labo/GL-Nummernschild
Font of German license plates typeface
github.com/Gutenberg-Labo/GL-Nummernschild
@gray17@mastodon.sociallicense: AGPL, with commercial license available to entities that donate either $N or P% of gross revenue, whichever is larger, to that kid in the Omelas hole
@adulau@infosec.exchangeAn idea for next year workshop @… - open source license for developers? It could be a nice opportunity because it seems to be a never ending learning process.
#opensource
@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/
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Could be because the S&P index committee still has integrity. Or could be because the index providers make $ from licensing their indexes to fund providers, and if an index performs poorly investors will avoid funds that license the index.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJudge: Paedo Sex Offenders May Use Girls' Locker Room (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/06/03/judge-paedo-sex-offender-may-use-girls-locker-room-because-his-license-says-he-is-a-woman-n3815570
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p105#a260603p105
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSAG-AFTRA's tentative contract lets studios use synthetic actors if they add "significant" value and requires bargaining if studios license performances for AI (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/sag-aftra…
@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…
@gray17@mastodon.socialgonna publish two versions of a library: AGPL and MIT. the MIT-license version will occasionally send a screenshot of your desktop to a random person in your address book
LOWPOLY
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMoonshot AI releases Kimi K2.7-Code, claiming 30% lower reasoning token usage compared to K2.6, available under a modified MIT license (Sean Michael Kerner/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/kimi-k2-7-code-cut…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCanadian challenger bank Koho raised a CA$130M Series E at a CA$1.33B valuation, up from $800M in 2023, as it nears obtaining a Canadian banking license (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/koho-becomes-canadas-latest-unicorn-following-130-mi…
@cdarwin@c.imThis goes hand in hand with the administration's many other attempts to keep people in the dark,
including its new proposed government wide NDA system.
They want full license to enrich themselves and abuse others without the rest of us knowing about it.
-- Heidi Kitrosser
https://
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialABC submits license renewal applications for its eight local TV stations to the FCC as ordered by the agency but says FCC's order violates the First Amendment (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/abc-b
@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.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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio working with ElevenLabs and voice actors to create and license AI-native versions of its characters and franchises (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hasbros-new-ai
@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.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.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.socialSky ends its UAE joint venture with IMI amid criticism of Sky News Arabia's Sudan war coverage; IMI will take full ownership, and Sky will license the brand (Sherry Su/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Revolut is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value it at $115B, after receiving a UK bank license and applying for a charter in the US (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/revolu…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Texas court stays the turnover of Infowars to the official who agreed to license it to The Onion; Sandy Hook families will seek emergency relief from courts (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/alex-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe FCC officially orders early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations, in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and more (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/fcc-orders-early-reviews-di…
@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.socialXiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic "claw" tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/open-source…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBinance tells EU customers that it will stop providing services for them from July 1, after Greece rejected its application for a bloc-wide license last week (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c1765ad5-022c-4bc3-9295-ef80791a2977
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia's central bank cancels Paytm Payments Bank's banking license, after imposing business curbs over non-compliance with rules in January 2024 (Gopika Gopakumar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-central-bank-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBinance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/binance-vows-stay-europe-despi…
