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How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast--and invasive--the network has become. Alpharetta, a prosperous suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, is home to about 67,000 people, served by about 120 local police officers. It also hosts several dozen cameras sold by Flock Safety, the increasingly controversial surveillance company that collects license plate data and other information and makes it searchable by police. WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from public records requests. Please consider subscribing to support our journalism.
A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend
After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements--and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show. In recent months, there has been a surge in reports of police officers misusing automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) sold by Flock Safety to stalk former romantic partners--but details about these incidents are often scarce. Now, with documents obtained via a public records request, WIRED can reveal specific details about one extensive Flock-fueled surveillance campaign and the subsequent investigation and fallout. Dustin Bozzo, who until this month worked as a patrolman in the Atlanta-area suburb of Alpharetta, Georgia, allegedly used Flock 56 times between March and May to search for the license plate of a former romantic partner--a fellow member of the Alpharetta Police Department. When Bozzo noticed that his ex's car was often near that of another police officer, he began searching for that officer's vehicle as well.
Sam Burns is one of America's best golfers, but faith, family and the USA matter more to him than golf
Donald Trump waves a patriotic green flag and the liberals are furious, Bubba Wallace locks up & 'F-K HIM!' Scottie Scheffler reveals he played through'pretty painful' illness during the BMW Championship Fever coach dismisses Enes Kanter Freedom's women's sports fight as a'social media thing' Harrison Butker's 69-yard field goal demonstrates the NFL's latest big scoring controversy Nationals outfielder does his best Spider-Man impression for one of baseball's best catches of the year Humanoid robot beats Usain Bolt's 100m dash record at Beijing games Bessent SENDS WARNING to Iran: 'We are entering the ENDGAME' South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham makes her case ahead of GOP runoff Psychologist raises questions after Lindsay Clancy's courtroom breakdowns Lindsay Clancy could be released in'not so many years' OutKick Sports Sam Burns is one of America's best golfers, but faith, family and the USA matter more to him than golf Burns nearly won both the U.S. Open and The Open this summer while balancing life as a new father of two Sam Burns joins OutKick's own Dan Zaksheske to discuss golf bringing people together, family & faith, the LSU Tigers, and much more! Sam Burns is headed back to represent the United States . Burns officially clinched an automatic spot on the U.S. Presidents Cup team Sunday, giving the 30-year-old his third Presidents Cup appearance and fifth consecutive Team USA appearance across the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup . If you're a diehard golf fan, none of that is particularly surprising. Team USA's Sam Burns walks on the 17th green during the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black.
Laptop catches fire on US flight, with passenger treated at airport
One person has received medical treatment after a passenger's laptop caught fire on an American Airlines flight. The pilot had reported a cabin fire in the back of the airplane to air traffic control, saying the flight attendants are trying to put it out now, according to audio obtained by the BBC's US reporting partner CBS News. I think we have about four to five passengers that were burned by the laptop. The laptop is contained about mid-aircraft. One passenger received medical attention on site and was released after American Airlines Flight 2398 - coming from Atlanta, Georgia - landed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Texas on Friday.
Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse
Flock posted videos on its YouTube channel highlighting at least four police departments whose officers have faced allegations of misusing the company's tech. Flock, the increasingly controversial automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, has previously highlighted at least four police departments on its YouTube page that have since faced allegations of misusing the company's technology. The company featured the Savannah Police Department in a March 2022 YouTube video . Four officers and two workers from the department were recently placed on administrative leave after an internal investigation found "potential misuses" of Flock's ALPR system. Also in Georgia, the Albany Police Department was the subject of a glossy 2024 video .
Rally attendee steals the show by mimicking Trump's gestures
Trump's 50 percent Canada tariffs: What to know Rally attendee steals the show by mimicking Trump's gestures NewsFeed Rally attendee steals the show by mimicking Trump's gestures A rally attendee seated directly behind US President Donald Trump drew attention by appearing to mimic the president's signature hand gestures and facial expressions throughout a campaign speech in Marietta, Georgia. Is this Italy's'George Floyd moment'?
Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. No One Knows What Will Happen Next
Ballots Have Been Seized Across the US. So far this year, authorities have seized or demanded ballots from elections in four states. Experts fear the trend could throw the midterms into chaos unless courts draw a line. As US voters look to the November midterms, the Trump administration is obsessed with looking back to past elections, seizing ballots cast years ago in several states in search, it claims, of fraud or other malfeasance. But experts believe the goal may be more varied. The seizures began in January when FBI agents armed with a warrant raided an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, and grabbed 600 boxes of ballots from 2020.
NeuroMAS: Multi-Agent Systems as Neural Networks with Joint Reinforcement Learning
Lu, Haoran, Fang, Luyang, Zhong, Wenxuan, Ma, Ping
Multi-agent language systems are often built as hand-designed workflows, where agents are assigned semantic roles and communication protocols are specified in advance. We propose NeuroMAS, a method that first treats a multi-agent language system as a trainable and scalable neural-network-like architecture with LLM agents as nodes and intermediate textual signals as edges. In NeuroMAS, agent nodes are role-free but structure-aware: the topology only determines how information can flow in general, while reinforcement learning training determines how nodes communicate, specialize, and coordinate. This formulation shifts multi-agent design from workflow engineering toward architecture design, where depth, width, connectivity, and growth protocol become scalable sources of capability. Further, we provide a theoretical perspective showing why such modular textual computation is more parameter-efficient when tasks admit hierarchical decompositions. Experiments show that NeuroMAS improves significantly over both inference-time and trained multi-agent baselines. We further find that organizational scaling is path-dependent: larger systems can be challenging to train from scratch, but become feasible when grown progressively from smaller trained systems. These results suggest that learned neural multi-agent systems are a promising scaling axis for LLMs.