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How Journalists Used Claude to Map a Decade of Deaths Along the US-Mexico Border
MIT Technology Review spent 15 months building the first comprehensive picture of migrant deaths near US border surveillance towers. For three Texas counties, they turned to an AI to read thousands of pages of police reports. What that choice reveals about both the technology and the crisis.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras Are a Real Thing Now. Here Is What They Cannot Do.
From patterned jackets that trick face detectors to a DEF CON demo that scrambled eleven detection systems, a small industry is sewing privacy protest into everyday clothing. The catches are real.
Bombs, bioweapons and spyware: Anthropic releases a 154-page report on who is trying to misuse its AI
The company behind the Claude chatbot has named the threat actors attempting to weaponise its models, from missile designers to propagandists targeting dissidents.
Australia Proposes Its Biggest Privacy Shake-Up in Years. Here Is What Sparked It.
Facial recognition in shopping centres, 'pervert glasses' on sale at Kmart, and ad-targeting that poisons your social feeds. Australia's proposed Privacy Act changes are a direct response to all three.
Flock Safety's CEO wants a 'compromise' on surveillance. Critics say the cameras are already out of control.
Forty-six police officers have been accused of misusing Flock's licence plate cameras to stalk partners. The company is making small changes. Lawmakers on both sides want more.
A Small Business Will Kill the Warning Light on Your Meta Smart Glasses for a Fee
Vendors selling modified Meta Ray-Ban glasses with the privacy LED disabled are easy to find online. Here is what that means if you work, shop, or perform in public.
AI Could Cure Cancer or Cement Autocracy. Which Way It Goes Is Up to Us
Author and academic Katherine Rundell argues that artificial intelligence carries two entirely opposite futures inside it, and that education is the place where that choice gets made.
Meta's Smart Glasses Are Sparking a Privacy Backlash Across Europe
Activists, rights groups and now entire governments are pushing back against glasses that can film strangers in public without any visible warning.
Smart lamp-posts that recognise your face: should you be worried?
A Warwickshire company is fitting street lights with AI cameras, solar panels and number-plate readers. Civil liberties groups say Britain is sleepwalking into a surveillance network nobody voted for.
Clothes That Confuse Cameras: The Fashion Trend Born From Facial Recognition Fears
A new wave of designers is weaving patterns into jackets and tops built to trip up facial recognition software. Anti-surveillance fashion is here. Whether it works is a harder question.
AI Is Moving Into the Heart of American Policing, and Almost Nobody Is Watching
From facial-recognition cameras to AI systems that decide where officers go next, a booming industry is selling police departments tools that critics warn could make accountability much harder.