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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People "Brown’s case was not a one-off. Local news reports from around the country repeatedly detail police abusing the Flock surveillance systemic order to stalk their partners or ex-partners. The contours of each story are much the same, with the police officer in question using their access to the system to repeatedly track a specific person over the course of weeks or months... "For months during the summer of 2024, Jarmarus Brown, an Orange City, Florida police officer, ran his ex-girlfriend's license plate through the Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) system lookup database at least 69 times. He searched for the license plate belonging to her mom at least 24 times, and searched for the license plate belonging to her dad at least 15 times. Brown’s searches were happening so often, and were so commonplace, that even one of his colleagues noticed Brown researching his ex-girlfriend's whereabouts while the law enforcement officers sat in their police cruisers, according to court records obtained by 404 Media." https://archive.is/qYiok

Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2026/06/07/a-flock-license-plate-reader-linked-a-san-diego-man-to-a-violent-crime-he-was-five-miles-away/

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/

London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time https://reclaimthenet.org/london-police-deploy-facial-recognition-at-protest-for-first-time

NEW: 🟠 Bitcoiner cprkrn says Anthropic’s Claude AI helped recover access to a Bitcoin wallet with 5 BTC locked for more than 11 years. According to him, he had changed the wallet password while high in college and completely forgot it, despite still having the mnemonic phrase. After years of failed attempts and spending hundreds of dollars on recovery efforts, he uploaded data from an old college computer into Claude. Claude reportedly discovered an old wallet file that helped decrypt the mnemonic and recover the funds. The forgotten password: “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)” Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2054609160633758108?s=20

Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/administrative-tech/2026/05/11/instructure-pays-ransom-canvas-hackers

Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/google-account-registration-now-requires-sending-an-sms-via-phone-instead-of-receiving-an-sms/36082

EU calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing" in age verification push https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/

AWS says data center overheating in North Virginia disrupts services https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-cloud-unit-says-data-center-overheating-north-virginia-disrupts-services-2026-05-08/

Gov released UFO files today....yawn.

Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads https://www.neowin.net/news/if-you-downloaded-this-popular-software-recently-you-might-have-installed-malware/

NEW: 🟠 Bitcoin Core patches CVE-2024-52911 — its first memory safety bug — before disclosing it this week. The vulnerability, affecting versions 0.14.0 through 28.x, let miners remotely crash nodes with invalid blocks. Roughly 43% of active nodes were still vulnerable before 29.0. Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2052470773873357103?s=20

NEW - Anthropic and FIS are developing an AI agent designed to be embedded in financial institutions to help banks police financial crime. Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/2f6qxvlf2v/ @disclosetv

Under 55 population is shrinking significantly, even in the US (much worse elsewhere). This is framed from Economica as a reason we cannot grow our way out of debt. This is true, but we can default our way out of debt. Invest accordingly.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/ Google's Gemini AI can access your entire photo library to produce personalized AI images, using real photos of you and your family.

NEW - U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of GDP. Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/tdpf5vkcox/ @disclosetv

LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462