📹 The US Congress has set its sights on Flock Safety, a vehicle surveillance system
Senators called for tighter rules and privacy safeguards around AI-powered license plate readers, as they raised concerns about the potential consequences of errors and unrestricted access to vehicle-location data. The demands emerged Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing focused on Flock Safety, whose network has grown to more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states.
Flock says its connected network allows law-enforcement agencies to share vehicle evidence across jurisdictions, with searches subject to audit controls. But senators and witnesses said the growing scale of the network raises new questions about privacy and Fourth Amendment protections.
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Senators called for tighter rules and privacy safeguards around AI-powered license plate readers, as they raised concerns about the potential consequences of errors and unrestricted access to vehicle-location data. The demands emerged Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing focused on Flock Safety, whose network has grown to more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states.
Flock says its connected network allows law-enforcement agencies to share vehicle evidence across jurisdictions, with searches subject to audit controls. But senators and witnesses said the growing scale of the network raises new questions about privacy and Fourth Amendment protections.
“Our Bill of Rights is still good no matter what the technology of the day is,” — Republican Senator Josh Hawley said.
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The plaintiffs claim OpenAI presented ChatGPT as a private, one-to-one exchange while failing to adequately disclose that human reviewers could access users’ prompts and other content.
The plaintiffs allege the practice is particularly concerning because consumers use ChatGPT to discuss highly sensitive subjects, including health, mental health, relationships, finances, employment and legal issues.
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Chinese medical scientists have shattered the brief window of time available to limit stroke damage, effectively shielding injured brain cells and dramatically improving the odds of a full recovery.
Brain cells start dying within minutes of a clot blocking an artery, leading to facial droop, affected speech and in severe cases, paralysis or death. Emergency treatments, such as clot-busting drugs or surgery, must be given within a maximum of six hours.
According to a study published by the top-tier Journal of the American Medical Association, clinical trials of the drug loberamisal found it was possible to expand the time available to 48 hours.
The large-scale multicentre phase 3 trial found that 70% of patients who received loberamisal intravenously within 2 days of a stroke regained complete functional independence — an increase of 13% points over standard care alone.
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The US State Department is moving to give state and local officials, as well as potentially some nonprofit organizations, access to passport records to verify voters’ citizenship.
The plan, laid out in a notice recently sent to key lawmakers on Capitol Hill, would add “voter eligibility” to the official list of “routine uses” for the State Department’s passport services records and provide access beyond government entities. Historically, uses of the data have primarily involved domestic and international government agencies and officials.
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Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China. Tremendous things will be happening.
Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be “SUPER!” Everyone last night agreed, also.
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Federal Reserve researchers published a paper titled “Heraclius: A Byzantine Fault Tolerant Database System with Potential for Modern Payments Systems.” Crypto researcher SMQKE resurfaced it and connected it to three specific digital assets: XRP, XLM, and HBAR.
The paper is in the Fed’s Finance and Economics Discussion Series and carries authors from FRB Boston, FRB San Francisco, and FRB NIT. It examines Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus as the architecture best suited for secure, high-speed payment infrastructure.
📝 The Fed’s paper identifies what it calls “Federated Byzantine Agreement” in Ripple and Stellar. According to the document, “Ripple and Stellar use a federated voting process that is a variant of the Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus model.”
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President Xi and Madam Peng have just left D.C., heading for China. The meeting was one of Friendship, Strength, and Success, for both China and the U.S.A.🇨🇳 🇺🇸
We will be meeting again in November, in China, and then at the G20 in December, in Miami, Florida. Much has been, and will be, accomplished. I look forward to our next meeting!
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said it would make AI, tokenization and other emerging technologies relevant to finance a new supervisory priority from 2027.
📝 “Firms are increasingly using AI and tokenized products in day-to-day financial services to gain market share,” the financial watchdog said in a report, explaining why it is focusing on these two areas initially. “Technological innovation brings benefits but also risks.”
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NVIDIA has joined a coalition of global research organizations, including Google DeepMind and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), to release predicted 3D structures for the protein complexes of more than 2,800 viruses — openly available to any scientist, anywhere, through the AlphaFold Database.
AlphaFold2, which was optimized with NVIDIA BioNeMo to efficiently run on NVIDIA GPUs, predicts a structure in minutes and can be run in bulk. Scientists can then verify high-confidence predictions through experimental methods. For this project, the team systematically worked through the protein structures of viral families known to infect humans, from common-cold viruses to emerging threats like Mpox.
“This database is an engine for hypothesis generation,” — said Chris Dallago, applied research science team lead in digital biology at NVIDIA.
“We’re enabling biologists and the AI community to investigate protein interactions, not just as single molecules but as complexes, so the whole field can move forward.”
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Researchers have outlined a proposed Bitcoin privacy architecture that would conceal transaction amounts, counterparties, and the specific notes being spent without requiring a Bitcoin soft fork, a separate blockchain, or trusted operators.
Called Shielded Bitcoin, the metaprotocol would publish encrypted transaction data and zero-knowledge proofs to Bitcoin. Separate software would verify those proofs and derive the system’s state from the transaction history recorded on the Bitcoin network.
The proposal comes from Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin of Alloc Init. The researchers describe it as a way to add shielded transfers around Bitcoin’s existing consensus rules rather than modifying the Bitcoin protocol itself.
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Paying for your new games or in-game content like new levels and skins might be about to get even easier if a newly published PlayStation patent is anything to go by. The patent, titled “Video Game Controller-Driven Information Transfer,” details a system that would allow a PlayStation controller to accept payments whenever a gamer taps it with their credit card or smartphone. It would work with gift cards, too.
The patent was first filed way back in March 2025, but it was only made public on September 17. It describes a controller acting as a bridge between a payment method and a console.
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📹 Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A newly published map has revealed just how extensive Flock Safety’s surveillance network may be. While the company has said it operates more than 120,000 cameras across the U.S., cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael mapped more than 170,000 cameras and over 130,000 additional devices using location data from Flock’s own systems.
The map also includes devices such as acoustic sensors and equipment connecting third-party cameras, giving a much broader picture of the network. The data reportedly came from a vulnerability that Michael discovered in 2025, allowing access to Flock device locations through publicly exposed information.
After the map was published, Doppel, an “AI-native social engineering defense platform” working on Flock’s behalf, filed a trademark infringement complaint, arguing that the site’s use of “FLOCK SAFETY” was unauthorized and could cause confusion or harm. Doppel requested that the site be taken down, adding another layer to the debate over transparency around large-scale surveillance networks.
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A newly published map has revealed just how extensive Flock Safety’s surveillance network may be. While the company has said it operates more than 120,000 cameras across the U.S., cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael mapped more than 170,000 cameras and over 130,000 additional devices using location data from Flock’s own systems.
The map also includes devices such as acoustic sensors and equipment connecting third-party cameras, giving a much broader picture of the network. The data reportedly came from a vulnerability that Michael discovered in 2025, allowing access to Flock device locations through publicly exposed information.
After the map was published, Doppel, an “AI-native social engineering defense platform” working on Flock’s behalf, filed a trademark infringement complaint, arguing that the site’s use of “FLOCK SAFETY” was unauthorized and could cause confusion or harm. Doppel requested that the site be taken down, adding another layer to the debate over transparency around large-scale surveillance networks.
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The UK government is investing £90 million ($119 million) to build and upgrade heat networks that capture excess heat from data centers, factories and other sources and redirect it to homes and other facilities. According to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), the scheme could provide cheaper heating for more than 750,000 homes.
The funding includes £41 million ($54 million) for a major project in London that would distribute hot water through a tunnel beneath the River Thames. The government says the system could provide “clean heat” to 650,000 London homes while reducing reliance on gas. Similar district heating systems have been operating for decades in cities including Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Vienna and Berlin.
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Quantum computing is moving from something that once seemed like science fiction toward a technology with real commercial potential. Breakthroughs in quantum error correction, logical qubits and scalable architectures are bringing researchers closer to machines capable of solving problems that are extremely difficult for classical computers. The science is impressive — but the real test is whether it can become a useful product.
That’s where the “money” comes in. If quantum computers can deliver better answers to valuable problems — from discovering new drugs and materials to optimising financial portfolios, logistics or complex industrial processes — businesses could eventually pay for that advantage.
The opportunity is potentially enormous, but so is the challenge: turning quantum “magic” into reliable, scalable computing that creates measurable economic value — and perhaps, along the way, opening doors we haven't even imagined yet.
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Brazil’s government plans to spend 15 billion reais to buy as much as 150 billion reais ($28 billion) of delinquent consumer debt from banks, part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s push to ease the financial strain on households and bolster his bid for a fourth term.
The government will hold an auction in November to acquire bank debt portfolios covering individual obligations of as much as 10,000 reais that are between two and four-and-a-half years old, Planning Minister Bruno Moretti said.
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Franklin Templeton's Chris Perkins highlighted how tokenization is pulling traditional finance into nonstop markets, contrasting slow legacy systems with always-on blockchain rails.
"Given the choice to buy the token or the non-token, assuming the compliance is okay and the security is okay and there's liquidity, I have to buy the token because it's a better product. I can risk manage it 24-7. 24-7 markets are here, that's what tokenization does.
Who do you think is going to have the liquidity problem? The guys who balance 24-7 and recollateralize or the guys that are asleep? People can decide for themselves. So it's going to be slower than all at once and they're going to be winners and losers and the stakes are incredibly high," — Chris said.
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President Donald Trump will host an event with tech and AI leaders on Tuesday to launch a new government website, as his administration faces pressure to adopt new guardrails for the use of AI. The new website, America.gov, is designed to help Americans access federal information and resources currently spread among numerous agencies, according to a White House official.
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