Amanda Smith answered the door one afternoon in April and came face to face with the local Sheriff’s department in upstate Pennsylvania. The officers said they had a warrant for her arrest for a crime she had allegedly committed more than a thousand miles away in Arkansas. “I was completely ...
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Cops Warned to Look for ‘Suspicious Behavior’ From People Opposing Flock at City Council MeetingsCops Warned to Look for ‘Suspicious Behavior’ From People Opposing Flock at City Council Meetings
A federal intelligence center warned police that city council meetings about Flock “may be viewed by extremists as a desirable target,” and told them to be on the lookout for “emotional confrontations” between people who oppose surveillance and government officials, according to a copy of the warning obtained by 404 ...
People Are Using ‘AI Decompiling’ to Hack Their ThingsPeople Are Using ‘AI Decompiling’ to Hack Their Things
A gang of hackers targets Staples, but not to buy things from Staples. ...
DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They LiedDHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied
When a Department of Homeland Security official sent out an alert to stop Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, at an airport in January 2025, they said the reason was because he was suspected of “terrorist activities,” according to new filed court records which include a screenshot of the ...
‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI
Over the weekend, it became fashionable to use AI to replace the operating systems on smart TVs with vibe coded or AI reverse-engineered ones to make them less bloated. People have taken proprietary internet-of-things devices that were bricked and abandoned by their creators and used AI to hack them and ...
Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of RealityScientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality
Scientists have discovered that an exotic particle that existed at the birth of the universe might solve one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology and help explain reality as we know it, according to a new study in Physical Review Letters. Our modern universe is dominated by matter, but it ...
‘It Ain’t Right:’ Texas Said It Would Halt Data Center Permits. The State is Pushing Ahead Anyway‘It Ain’t Right:’ Texas Said It Would Halt Data Center Permits. The State is Pushing Ahead Anyway
A group of Texans believe they’ve discovered evidence that the state’s environmental regulatory agency has continued to issue permits to data centers despite Governor Greg Abbott’s call for it to stop. The nonprofits Public Citizen and FracTracker Alliance, working with local activists in Texas, looked through the public database of ...
How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal MillionsHow a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions
A Chinese organized crime hacked into retail giant Staples, used that access to fraudulently issue millions of dollars worth of gift cards for stores like Target and Sephora, then went on a nationwide shopping spree, shipping many of the stolen electronics and other products back to China as part of ...
The Staples Gift Card HeistThe Staples Gift Card Heist
A gang of hackers targets Staples, but not to buy things from Staples. ...
Police Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s VoicePolice Say Scammers Used AI to Clone a Sheriff’s Voice
A Florida police department claims that scammers used AI to clone a sheriff’s voice, with scammers increasingly using voice clones that trick people into thinking they’ve missed jury duty or have a warrant out for their arrest are increasing. According to Florida news outlet News6, scammers cloned Osceola County Sheriff ...