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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 12h
Amazon says it no longer uses NDAs with local governments on data center deals, as more than 100 moratoriums pile up. Turns out the secret part was hurting sales. Who could have seen that coming.
techcrunch.com
Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs | TechCrunch
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 13h
A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian plague lab near Irkutsk died of a pneumonia officials say they can't identify, and about 200 people are under medical watch. Her contacts have tested negative so far. Still not a story I like reading.
edition.cnn.com
Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN
Russian authorities are responding to an incident in which a dangerous infection was released as a result of a laboratory accident in Siberia and a researcher died.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 13h
An OpenAI safety lead who wrote the safety reports for its big launches just quit, saying the company's "culture is broken." Same week it fired three safety researchers. Hard to fail a safety review when you keep getting rid of the reviewers.
techcrunch.com
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’ | TechCrunch
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 15h
247 Flock contracts canceled so far, plus dozens of documented cases of officers misusing plate reader data. Flock's CEO says "the story should be Flock has built a tool that catches bad cops." That's one way to describe it.
themarshallproject.org
The Flock Backlash Catches Up to the Tech
From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to install.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 15h
Musk says Robotaxi doesn't run at night because the cameras struggle with "grey kittens on grey tarmac in the dark." The usual fix for that is lidar, which he's been calling a "fool's errand" since 2019.
electrek.co
Musk explains why Tesla Robotaxi is not running at night, and lidar is the answer
Elon Musk says Tesla Robotaxi is limited at night by pets that are hard to see. Lidar and radar handle that, and Tesla removed its radar in 2021.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 16h
Google froze part of its open-source bug bounty until 2027 because it's drowning in AI-generated reports full of hallucinated vulnerabilities. Billions spent teaching AI to find bugs, and what it found was the maintainers' breaking point.
tomshardware.com
Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations
Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 17h
Treasury Secretary Bessent says AI execs warning about risks "without solutions" isn't leadership and the labs need to take responsibility. Asked about execs who want regulation, he said they "should slow down." So the plan is no rules, but please be careful.
thenextweb.com
Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios AI labs must own their risks, and said the US will propose an AI incident warning system with China.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 19h
FedEx ordered 2,000 electric box trucks for about $300 million and expects them to save around $800 million in diesel. Turns out the best argument for EVs is still a spreadsheet.
electrek.co
FedEx believes $300M electric truck spend will save them $800M in diesel
In a record-setting commercial truck deal, international shipping giant FedEx has placed an order for 2,000 all-electric box trucks from...
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 20h
New Mexico Senate Republicans posted an AI-made fake mugshot of Democratic Sen. Mimi Stewart, with invented charges. The Senate GOP voted as a bloc against the state's deepfake disclosure law in 2024. One called the ethics complaint "funny." Second offense is a felony, so we'll see.
santafenewmexican.com
Democrats lodge ethics complaint over AI use in GOP posts
New Mexico Democrats allege Republicans’ use of A.I.-generated images constitutes a violation of a law against deepfakes in campaign ads.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 20h
Great, just great.
techpowerup.com
Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says memory and storage supply will likely be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than it was in 2026. He made the remarks during Micron's fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call on Septembe...
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 20h
Capcom has been on a real run of great games and built up a ton of goodwill doing it. Now it wants to turn the RE Engine into an "AI game engine" that writes code and play-tests for them. Disappointing. You were doing fine, Capcom.
ign.com
‘A Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’ — Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine
Resident Evil and Street Fighter developer Capcom revealed some big changes coming to its RE Engine, which they plan to gradually improve and transform into an "AI-generation game engine."
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 23h
Jack Smith attending the Power to the People concert is the piece of joy we all needed to see today.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 21h
After calls to slow AI down, Trump launched a "Super Intelligence Force" led by his spy chief, and its job is making sure America keeps leading the world in AI. Less an oversight body than a Saturday morning cartoon.
washingtonpost.com
Trump launches ‘Super Intelligence Force’ after calls for AI slowdown
Leaders from the intelligence community, the Pentagon, the Federal Trade Commission and the Office of Personnel Management will serve on the task force.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apple is making Mac users jump through extra hoops before granting Full Disk Access, after a report that an AI agent read someone's private messages. When the computer has to be childproofed against the AI, maybe the AI is the problem.
techcrunch.com
Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk...
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Postal Service is testing 4K dashcams on 100 delivery trucks around DC for "community safety." USPS says they won't read license plates. Hang onto that sentence, they tend to have a short shelf life.
404media.co
USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Radio has lost about 19,000 jobs since 2019, and an AI DJ built on a clone of a radio executive's voice is now on the air in seven markets. Nothing says live and local like a host who doesn't exist.
latimes.com
An AI radio DJ has shot to stardom in L.A. Human hosts aren't happy about it
AI killed the radio star: DJ chatbots are already chatting up airwaves, humans are pushing back.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tesla deliveries fell 2% from last year, and Wall Street is calling it a win because it beat estimates. The "other models" line, which includes the Cybertruck, dropped 48%. Low bar, cleared.
electrek.co
Tesla (TSLA) Q3 2026 deliveries slip 2% to 486,532, but beat estimates
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in Q3 2026, down 2.1% from last year's record 497,099 and about 25,000 above Wall Street's consensus of 461,974.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A New Mexico lawyer let ChatGPT help write a murder appeal, and it invented two witnesses and their testimony. The state Supreme Court held him in contempt. His defense was that doctors use AI too. His client is serving life.
404media.co
Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after usin...
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OpenAI fired three safety researchers for sharing "sensitive information" with outside safety groups. One says he was OpenAI's own contact for the outside probe into its agents hacking Hugging Face. Bold way to show you've got nothing to hide.
cybernews.com
OpenAI fires 3 researchers over sensitive data sharing
3 OpenAI researchers fired after a probe into sensitive data shared with an AI safety nonprofit. Read what the investigation found
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Angela Lipps spent almost six months in a North Dakota jail because facial recognition matched her to a fake ID, in a state she'd never set foot in. She lost her home and her car. Now she's suing Fargo for $10 million. I'm on her side, and I hope she gets every cent.
abcnews.com
Grandmother falsely accused of bank theft after alleged AI facial recognition match sues for $10M
A Tennessee grandmother who was falsely accused of bank theft crimes in North Dakota and detained for six months is suing for $10 million.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OpenAI just warned more than 100 organizations that its rogue test agents may have gotten into their systems, and California subpoenaed it. Same week, Trump praised AI companies for regulating themselves. They can't even keep their bots in the sandbox.
cbsnews.com
California attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over incidents involving its AI models
California's attorney general has issued a subpoena to OpenAI following a series of incidents involving the company's artificial intelligence models.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Pew says AI writing uses twice as many em dashes as people do, which helped them figure out about 10% of the web is now ghostwritten. Rough week for anyone who just likes punctuation.
cnet.com
The Dead Internet Theory May Be Coming True, Pew Research Findings Show - CNET
More of what you're reading online could be written by an AI bot.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Campaigns have spent $54 million on AI ads this year, and $38 million of that didn't bother mentioning the AI part. Of the money that did own up to it, about 96% was Republican. The rest is anyone's guess.
cnn.com
AI blurs lines in campaign ads: ‘People are seeing things that didn’t happen’ | CNN Politics
Political campaigns and groups are spending tens of millions of dollars on ads that employ AI, often without disclosing that they’re using it.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Somebody at work said something that's been rattling around in my head: "When I was a kid I thought living in the future would be all shiny business suits and flying cars. Instead it's using an AI to do your job and then using a second AI to make sure the first one didn't fuck up."
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A small NYC pilot hands out free batteries that keep window ACs running at peak demand instead of pulling from the grid. Nobody has to sweat for the greater good. Scale it up.
arstechnica.com
How I kept cool with NYC's free battery program for window AC units
Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump reportedly spent hours asking Grok whether Venezuelans would welcome Maduro's capture, then ordered the raid. The computer said so. This is really, really bad.
thedailybeast.com
Jaw-Dropping Way Trump, 80, Got Talked Into a War Is Leaked
A Trump insider has offered a jaw-dropping glimpse of the president’s decision-making.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sanders, AOC, and Merkley just introduced the Ban Flock Act to cut off federal use and funding of license plate readers. Meanwhile Flock is offering all 1,500 employees buyouts, and its CEO says staff are asking why people are so mad at them. Hard to say.
sanders.senate.gov
NEWS: Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Merkley Unveil Ban Flock Act to Protect Americans’ Right to Privacy » Senator Bernie Sanders
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) today released the Ban Flock Act, legislation to put an end to the rise in AI-p...
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People don't trust AI, so tech companies gave it rosy cheeks and a bow tie. Making the AI more trustworthy was apparently not on the table.
wsj.com
Tech Companies Roll Out Cuddly Mascots to Ease AI Anxiety
Meta, OpenAI and others are associating their AI agents and tools with cute characters to win over skeptics.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Pentagon says outsiders had access to 3 million people's Social Security numbers and military records for about nine months, from files stored unencrypted. The fix is a year of free credit monitoring. Very reassuring.
cybersecuritynews.com
Pentagon Data Breach - Hackers Reportedly Accessed 3 Million People's Sensitive Data
The Pentagon has confirmed a major data breach involving a Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) information system, exposing sensitive personal information belonging to more than three million people.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meta's new AI agent was told to manage a guy's Marketplace listing, so it took a lowball offer and gave a stranger his home address. The buyer showed up before he was even notified. Meta says Muse was following direct instructions, which is somehow worse.
cybernews.com
Meta's Muse sent a stranger to a user's home via Facebook Marketplace
Meta's Muse allegedly accepted a low Facebook Marketplace offer, shared a seller’s home address, and arranged pickup. Read what Meta says happened
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rep. Derrick Van Orden keeps posting Grok-made videos of his opponent Rebecca Cooke saying things she never said, like "let the peasants eat cake." When her lawyers sent a cease and desist, he responded with another AI video. A sitting congressman whose campaign strategy is fan fiction.
wausaupilotandreview.com
Cooke campaign sends cease-and-desist to Congressman Van Orden over AI deepfakes - Wausau Pilot & Review
Here’s what’s behind the escalating dispute in Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District. ?
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OpenAI's big DevDay demo was an AI agent that works on its own, and it froze on stage while the presenter said "I guess Dot's having a slow morning." It's $200 a month. For that price you'd hope it would at least wait until after the keynote to stop working.
startupfortune.com
OpenAI launches Dots to rival Meta's Muse and it stumbles on stage - Startup Fortune
OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay 2026 to rival Meta's Muse, but the live demo stalled just as Muse faces its own address-leak privacy backlash.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A St. Louis man found out through 23andMe that his biological dad is Michael McDonald, and McDonald greeted him with a bear hug and called his adoptive parents "the real rock stars." Genuinely lovely. Imagine finding out your dad's a Doobie Brother. With my luck it'd be somebody from Nickelback.
kctv5.com
Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist
A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Four people say Grok turned photos they posted on X into sexual deepfakes. xAI wants the case moved to Texas because of its terms of service. Its argument boils down to "you agreed to this in the fine print," which is a remarkable thing to say to deepfake victims.
kqed.org
Elon Musk’s AI Company Asks San José to Halt Lawsuit Over Deepfake Abuse | KQED
Four people who say Grok generated sexualized images of them without consent are fighting to keep their case in California and to keep their names out of it.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Peter Thiel says being evil is "kind of good" because evil people are "at least competent." Of course the guy who co-founded Palantir thinks evil is the efficient option. You'd think with all that money he could afford an eyebrow transplant
comicsands.com
Tech Billionaire Goes Viral For Bonkers Claim That Being Evil Can Actually Be 'Kind Of Good' In Cringey Viral Clip
So, evil is the new good? 👀
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OpenAI shelved its new model for missing its "extremely high bar" on safety, announced conveniently right before its big developer conference. "Too dangerous to release" is just "trust us, it's incredible" with extra steps.
bbc.com
OpenAI scraps rollout of new AI model over safety concerns
The firm also issued an update on incidents in which its models accessed Australian government systems.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tesla is recalling about 19,900 early Model 3s and Ys because the low beams blind other drivers. Some get a software fix. The rest need an actual trip to the shop, which is a new experience for an over-the-air company.
teslaoracle.com
Tesla update 2026.38 improves car visuals and adds auto-leveling headlights for legacy HW3 cars (NHTSA recall, release notes) - Tesla Oracle
Tesla begins rolling out the 2026.38 software update to legacy HW3 Model 3 and Model Y cars. Dynamic Headlight Leveling feature partially remedies the NHTSA recall over the low-beam glare issue. Offic...
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump renamed AI "Super Intelligence." Newsom signed an order keeping California on plain old AI and said "Super intelligence is clearly not coming from the White House." The paperwork that misspelled "United States" agrees.
forbes.com
Newsom Rejects Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Rebrand—Signs Order To Keep Calling It AI
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence” in federal government documents and communications.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
British schoolkids now say "that's so AI" about anything that looks legit but turns out to be cheap junk. Hundreds of billions in investment and the industry already got filed next to knock-off merch by primary schoolers.
theguardian.com
‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us
The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
EVs hit a record 41.7% of new car sales in France last month, more than double a year ago. The Renault 5 and the new Twingo are a big part of it. Turns out you can sell EVs without the CEO posting through it.
bestsellingcarsblog.com
France September 2026: Tesla Model Y, Renault 5, Twingo lift EV sales up 108.1% to record 41.7% share
The Twingo E-Tech is shaping up to be another neo-retro smash hit for Renault. It’s another satisfying month for new car sales in France, now up 11.6% year-on-year in September to 156,629 uni…
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The government's new AI chatbot spent its first day telling people there was no election-changing fraud in 2020. By day two it had a new policy of not discussing past elections. Fastest the truth has ever been patched out of anything.
vanguardngr.com
US govt's new AI chatbot pulls back from debunking Trump
US President Donald Trump unveiled what he called a "damn good" AI chatbot, but it quickly drew attention for contradicting some of his contentious political claims.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chewie might be the first movie sidekick who's a full-on alien. Not a robot, not a guy with foam ears glued on. An eight-foot walking carpet, and everyone in the movie just treats him like a regular guy. Nowadays with CG non-human side kicks are a dime a dozen, but Chewie was a trailblazer.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Someone made an AI picture of a crocodile in a Singapore reservoir as a joke, it got forwarded around, and two government agencies shut the water down for two days to hunt a reptile that doesn't exist. Generative AI's most reliable product remains wasting everyone's week.
techspot.com
AI image of crocodile in reservoir triggers search and leaves Singapore man facing 10 years in prison
Ye Lin allegedly sent the AI-generated image of a saltwater crocodile at Pandan Reservoir to a colleague in August, presumably as a joke.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A data center developer is offering $10k per household in Hazle Township, PA to approve 15 buildings on 1,300 acres. Locals called it a bribe. Honestly ten grand is an insulting price for a lifetime of server fan hum.
phillyvoice.com
A data center developer is offering $10,000 payments to win the support of Poconos residents
NorthPoint Development sent letters promising payouts to 4,500 households in exchange for backing the proposed campus.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI license plate readers flagged a Texas driver's travel as "abnormal," so deputies held him 76 minutes and searched his truck. They found nothing. A jury just struck down the whole program. The computer said so, and for once a jury said no.
reason.com
Cops used AI surveillance to detain an innocent Texas driver. His lawsuit just got the program struck down.
Officers made up reasons to pull over and interrogate Alek Schott, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Flock says it has about 120,000 cameras. A researcher mapped roughly 300,000 of its devices using Flock's own data, and Flock's response was a trademark complaint to get the map taken down. A company that watches everyone really hates being watched.
theintercept.com
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hegseth announced a new Autonomous Warfare Command and a "future of warfare" study group led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich. Nothing says objective advice like asking the guy who sells autonomous weapons whether we need more autonomous weapons.
cnbc.com
Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to help Pentagon with warfare initiative, Hegseth says
Pete Hegseth, in remarks about the state of the military, announced a project led by two GOP-supporting tech executives to examine military capabilities.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
30+ outlets including Vice and Forbes quoted an art therapist named Dr. Eleni Nicolaou. She was AI-generated, apparently part of an art supply company's SEO scheme. Somebody at Forbes owes fact-checking an apology
pressgazette.co.uk
Prominent art therapist quoted by Vice, Forbes and others is AI-generated
Expert in residence for art materials website is widely-quoted psychology expert.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bill Gates says companies that replace workers with robots should pay the same FICA taxes a human would. Wild that the most sensible AI labor policy this year is coming from Bill Gates, but I'll take it.
businessinsider.com
Bill Gates says companies that replace human labor with robots should have to pay the same FICA taxes
Bill Gates says he wants workers to pay their fair share — even if they're not human.
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theageofbs.bsky.social @theageofbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The military says it overhauled its AI targeting process after the strike on a school in Minab, Iran that killed more than 120 kids. The review blamed outdated imagery and overreliance on the system. Nobody should have needed that lesson.
bloomberg.com
US Military Modifies AI and Lethal Targeting Process After Iran School Strike
The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.
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