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Looks Like American TikTok’s Problems Are Sending Users Flocking to Alternatives

Posted on January 28, 2026 by Robin Edgar

According to Appfigures, the top five free iPhone apps right now in the U.S. are: ChatGPT JumpJumpVPN V2Box UpScrolled Threads Yesterday, Apple blogger John Gruber of Daring Fireball posted the overall most popular iPhone apps for all of 2025, and … Continue reading →

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What Happened After Security Researchers Found 60 Flock Cameras Livestreaming to the Internet

Posted on January 18, 2026 by Robin Edgar

A couple months ago, YouTuber Benn Jordan “found vulnerabilities in some of Flock’s license plate reader cameras,” reports 404 Media’s Jason Koebler. “He reached out to me to tell me he had learned that some of Flock’s Condor cameras were … Continue reading →

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How Cops Are Using Flock’s license plate camera Network To Surveil Protesters And Activists

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Robin Edgar

It’s no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, law enforcement officers—including U.S. Border Patrol agents—were quietly watching those same streets through different lenses: Flock Safety automated license plate readers … Continue reading →

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Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police with little oversight

Posted on October 18, 2025 by Robin Edgar

Amazon’s surveillance camera maker Ring announced a partnership on Thursday with Flock, a maker of AI-powered surveillance cameras that share footage with law enforcement. Now agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with … Continue reading →

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The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World

Posted on November 13, 2024 by Robin Edgar

[…] Flock is one of the largest vendors of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) in the country. The company markets itself as having the goal to fully “eliminate crime” with the use of ALPRs and other connected surveillance cameras, a … Continue reading →

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Another new browser: Flock

Posted on October 5, 2005 by Robin

These guys are coming out with a new browser: Flock – it integrates galleries, blogging, online bookmarks with descriptions, etc – they say there’s more to browsing than just looking at websites. Which is fair enough, I guess. With Opera … Continue reading →

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Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Robin Edgar

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily “complied with some of the requests” for identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent as part of a recent wave of administrative subpoenas the Department of Homeland Security has been … Continue reading →

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How to Disable Ring’s Creepy ‘Search Party’ Feature – But if you bought a Ring, you probably don’t mind blanket corpo and govt surveillance anyway I guess.

Posted on February 10, 2026 by Robin Edgar

If you tuned into Super Bowl LX on Sunday, you may have caught Ring’s big ad of the night: The company tried to tap into us dog owners’ collective fear of losing our pets, demonstrating how its new “Search Party” … Continue reading →

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Detecting Surveillance Cameras With The ESP32 from Colonel.Panic

Posted on September 28, 2025 by Robin Edgar

These days, surveillance cameras are all around us, and they’re smarter than ever. In particular, many of them are running advanced algorithms to recognize faces and scan license plates, compiling ever-greater databases on the movements and lives of individuals. Flock … Continue reading →

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AI Slop Is Great For Internet (Re-)Decentralisation

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Robin Edgar

In this article I take a look at AI Slop and how it is effecting the current internet. I also look at what exactly the internet of today looks like – it is hugely centralised. This centralisation creates a focused … Continue reading →

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Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Robin Edgar

[…]the real kicker is what content is now being gatekept behind invasive age verification systems. Users in the UK now need to submit a selfie or government ID to access: Reddit communities about stopping drinking and smoking, periods, craft beers, … Continue reading →

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Mazda’s $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option

Posted on October 1, 2024 by Robin Edgar

Mazda recently surprised customers by requiring them to sign up for a subscription in order to keep certain services. Now, notable right-to-repair advocate Louis Rossmann is calling out the brand. He points to several moves by Mazda as reasons for … Continue reading →

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EFF: New License Plate Reader Vulnerabilties Prove The Tech Itself is a Public Safety Threat

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Robin Edgar

Automated license plate readers “pose risks to public safety,” argues the EFF, “that may outweigh the crimes they are attempting to address in the first place.” When law enforcement uses automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to document the comings and … Continue reading →

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FedEx’s Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build An AI Car Surveillance Network

Posted on June 24, 2024 by Robin Edgar

[…] Forbes has learned the shipping and business services company is using AI tools made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion car surveillance startup, to monitor its distribution and cargo facilities across the United States. As part of the deal, … Continue reading →

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Why Video Editors are Switching to DaVinci Resolve in Droves

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Robin Edgar

Video editors are flocking to DaVinci Resolve in droves, marking a major paradigm shift in the editing landscape that we haven’t seen since the dreadful launch of Final Cut Pro X drove users to Adobe Premiere Pro. […] More a … Continue reading →

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D&D Publisher In All kinds of trouble Over Controversial License changes – unsubscribes caused server crash, PR statement made

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Robin Edgar

After a week of silence amid intense backlash, Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast (WoTC) has finally addressed its community’s concerns about changes to the open gaming license. The open gaming license (OGL) has existed since 2000 and … Continue reading →

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FIFA 23 Accidentally Sells For Six Cents, EA Honors The Mistake

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Robin Edgar

FIFA 23 is currently up for preorder around the world, and is supposed to be a full-price retail release, but in one particular market on one particular store, customers could get one hell of a bargain. Last month, anyone browsing … Continue reading →

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Riot Blockchain Made More in Power Credits Than Mining Bitcoin

Posted on August 5, 2022 by Robin Edgar

At least one big bitcoin mining operation in Texas that was not actually mining much bitcoin during this season’s record-breaking heat netted millions of dollars in profits—more than they would have if they just kept on mining without any shutdowns. … Continue reading →

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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by 6 hr + global outage, stock tanks

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Robin Edgar

Facebook offered “sincere apologies” Monday afternoon as a sweeping outage of its site and various other properties, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, stretched for more than six hours and helped to wipe more than $50 billion off Facebook’s market cap … Continue reading →

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Former Patent Litigator Becomes Federal Judge And Begins Advertising For Patent Trolls To Come To His Court (And They Have In Droves)

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Robin Edgar

For years, you may recall that we would write about the insane nature of forum shopping for patent trolls, in which the trolls would flock to the federal courts in East Texas. Going back nearly 15 years, we wrote about … Continue reading →

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AI helps drone swarms navigate through crowded, unfamiliar spaces

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Robin Edgar

Drone swarms frequently fly outside for a reason: it’s difficult for the robotic fliers to navigate in tight spaces without hitting each other. Caltech researchers may have a way for those drones to fly indoors, however. They’ve developed a machine … Continue reading →

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Zoom’s Security Woes Were No Secret to Business Partners Like Dropbox – in 2018!

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Robin Edgar

One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight-hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking competition sponsored by Dropbox. At 30,000 feet, with nothing but a slow internet connection, they decided to get a head start … Continue reading →

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cheap High-frequency, high-power and nanoscale semiconductors that can see through walls

Posted on March 27, 2020 by Robin Edgar

Scientists have crafted a tiny flexible electrical device capable of generating terahertz waves that can penetrate walls and microscopic cells, potentially paving the way for new imaging techniques – and fast switching in chips. Terahertz radiation lies in the electromagnetic … Continue reading →

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Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way to Stop Piracy Is to Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives

Posted on March 3, 2019 by Robin Edgar

Study after study continues to show that the best approach to tackling internet piracy is to provide these would-be customers with high quality, low cost alternatives. For decades the entertainment industry has waged a scorched-earth assault on internet pirates. Usually … Continue reading →

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Huawei reverses its stance, will no longer allow bootloader unlocking – will lose many customers

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Robin Edgar

In order to deliver the best user experience and prevent users from experiencing possible issues that could arise from ROM flashing, including system failure, stuttering, worsened battery performance, and risk of data being compromised, Huawei will cease providing bootloader unlock … Continue reading →

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