FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Wired - Caught on Camera

Flock Workers Have Seven Days to Accept 'Generous' Severance as Customers Cut Ties With the $8B Surveillance Firm

Flock Safety's 2nd October buyout deadline nears as government customers leave, camera vandalism rises, and backlash over its surveillance technology fuels layoff fears.

International Business Times UK · Sep 25

New Meta Glasses Pitch an 'Enhanced Privacy Platform' but Face-Recognition Code Already Hit Millions of Phones

Meta plans private AI processing for its smart glasses after dormant NameTag code raised unanswered questions about faceprints, storage and consent

International Business Times UK · Sep 24

Less Tech, More Meaning: MIT couple’s 18-month low-tech life; leisure and community deepen

Eric Brende and his wife dedicated 18 months to experiencing life in a low-tech community, seeking to understand technology's impact on daily living. By disconnecting from modern conveniences and engaging in manual labor and community bonding, they learned that simplicity often provides deeper recreational moments. Brende's findings suggest that convenience…

The Times of India · Sep 24

Flock's Cameras Reportedly Track More Than Plates: Here's What a Hacked Device Revealed

A hacker group cracked a Flock Safety camera and found an exposed encryption key — but not everything the company claimed was protected.

Latin Times · Sep 19

80 Weirdly Specific WikiHow Images Nobody Asked For But Everyone Needs To See

WikiHow is supposed to help you figure things out, but its illustrations are famously so bizarre they often look more like memes than actual tutorials. r/notdisneyvacation has made a whole community out of spotting the strangest ones. Between the oddly specific instructions and wonderfully out-of-pocket drawings, there’s plenty here to…

Bored Panda · Sep 18

Flock Camera Captured 1.6M Images in 21 Days as Leaked Code Shows It Detects People

A recovered Flock camera logged about 50,200 vehicles and 1.6 million images, revealing how its software captures and classifies roadside scenes

International Business Times UK · Sep 16

Florida student’s alleged non-consensual video shared by sports ‘burner’ accounts. Now she’s going public to address the network behind it

It’s hard to move on when the internet won’t let you

We Got This Covered · Sep 15

'Burnerverse' College Sports Accounts Accused of Targeting Women With Harassment and Doxing

A Wired investigation links a loosely connected college sports burner-account network to harassment and doxing campaigns against young women, including Florida student Maddie Kowalski.

International Business Times UK · Sep 15

'They Stole My Life': College Student Fights Back After Alleged Revenge-Porn Campaign Spread by X 'Burnerverse'

University of Florida student Maddie Kowalski has sued three students charged over the alleged distribution of an intimate video and the online harassment that followed.

International Business Times UK · Sep 14

Uploaded your photos for 1980s AI photo trend? Here's what happens to images sent to ChatGPT, Gemini

As millions join the viral 1980s AI photo trend by uploading selfies to ChatGPT and Gemini, a cybersecurity expert cited by Wired explains what actually happens to those photos after they are sent, how long companies store them, and why deleting a chat does not always mean the image is…

The Economic Times · Sep 14