Justin Hendrix

OS Investigate lets police identify drivers and track vehicles from movement patterns alone, despite Flock's public claim its cameras cannot do so.
The tool ships with 69 prewritten prompts; 19 focus on patterns and 14 require no plate, name or physical description at all.
WIRED reporters reconstructed the software from files exposed through Flock's own login pages; it is being tested with a small group of agencies.

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NEW: Meta’s AI strategy is ripping the company to shreds — and the tea is piping hot! Among the many scoops in this story, someone interrupted an internal Meta call this week to describe a company exec as “a piece of shit.”

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com View on Bluesky →

"An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans."

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Researchers from Oregon, Purdue, UC San Diego, NYU and Princeton ran six experiments. The overarching finding: state control of media in many countries is already baked into the training data of widely used commercial models, and is shaping the answers those models give right …

State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com

Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.

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"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."

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"The report, according to one of the sources, was 'entirely false.' But it also 'almost started a war,' the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations."

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"Just as providers are using sophisticated A.I. tools to say their patients are sicker, insurance companies have been accused of using the tools to delay or deny care.... But as more hospitals and doctors use A.I., costs will continue to rise."

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association attributes about $942 million in extra plan costs between 2023 and 2025 to hospital AI coding tools.
Hospitals were paid nearly $12,000 more per case on average as AI flagged secondary diagnoses without matching changes in treatment.
More than 60% of hospital systems have adopted AI coding tools that read lab reports and clinician notes.

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"OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety."