Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Getting Technical with Mashable Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series Surveillance cameras are becoming a legal defense. Chase joined Mashable's Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. Law enforcement's use of Flock cameras may become a legal risk. A Texas man sentenced to 60 years in prison for armed robbery is seeking to overturn his conviction based on the use of Flock cameras to track his movements. The man, 37-year-old Charles Brownlee, was found guilty of five armed robberies in 2024.

Barnabas and Mainspring grew up near at hand, about an hour apart with good traffic, but for a long time they weren't close. They traded glimpses and occasional hellos and then went about their business. Both of them carried on livelier conversations with farther-flung neighbors, who were richer and had more to offer. When Mainspring did interact with Barnabas, it was cringe. Mainspring liked to puff themself up, to strut around like a big deal--an innovator, a titan of industry--but they would turn shy at the worst moments, especially in any intimate conversation. Barnabas, meanwhile, had a dancer's flair, an artsy, enigmatic glamour, except that when they tried to talk about real life, they'd blurt out hundreds of rapid-fire words--overtalking, overthinking, and generally overwhelming whomever they were trying to impress. So when Barnabas and Mainspring were young, they minded their own business. Until they'd both come into their own, and they saw each other properly. A group of geographers got together every year in a different place to talk about everything they had learned, and they were considering coming to visit either Mainspring or Barnabas. Both of them put on their best faces and tried to coax the geographers into choosing them as host. "Uh, hi-hello," Mainspring said haltingly to Barnabas, whose full official name was St. Barnabas. "I really think it would be better if those geographers came to my place. I have more space, you see, and and I am a titan of industry. I can show them practical applications of their research. It just makes more sense." Barnabas laughed, making Mainspring more antsy. "Well, can give them an elevated, artisanal experience. I have fresh croissants that were just written up in the . And I have plenty of space! I have so many friends who are great thinkers and architects. Barnabas carried on, basically calling Mainspring uncultured. Mainspring had a prickly feeling, like the worst heat dome of midsummer. For their part, Barnabas couldn't bear the meanness they were inculcating inside themself. This feeling that they were small-time, no-account, a dilettante. At last, Mainspring had had enough--with the help of their city council and mayor, they offered the geographers a much-too-lavish deal that Barnabas could never hope to match. Totally worth it to hear Barnabas's stream of self-aggrandizing nonsense peter out as they realized they'd been defeated. "I'm going to show these geographers a time they'll never forget.

United States federal agents have arrested a Saudi national and charged him with planting a hidden audio recording device in a conference room at the California offices of OpenAI, where he was working as an engineer. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, had been working at the AI company since July 2025, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Tuesday. Following the discovery, the company placed a camera in the room, which captured Alfozan entering last week and checking behind the television where the listening device had been installed, the FBI alleges. The case highlights growing security concerns around sensitive AI research as companies and governments compete for the best talent and technology with the potential to alter regional economic and strategic dynamics. Who is Abdulrahman Alfozan and what is he charged with?

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Madison Square Garden's James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York's Governor Race James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he's getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers. Bruce Blakeman, the Republican nominee for New York governor, promised last November to erect a wall of spy gear, license plate readers, and biometric surveillance between the city and the suburbs. He has since received millions of dollars in donations from the family and businesses of James Dolan, the owner of Madison Square Garden, where a network of cameras capture the faces of (nearly) every patron who walks in the arena and corporate security forces hunt for critics of the boss. Dolan's support of Blakeman, the executive of suburban Nassau County, could be seen as something of a counterintuitive move in a state long run by Democrats, and in a year when political surveys are picking up indications of a blue wave.

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Euan Blair co-founded Multiverse, which supplies AI and digital skills training to workers in the NHS, local councils, universities and the private sector. Euan Blair co-founded Multiverse, which supplies AI and digital skills training to workers in the NHS, local councils, universities and the private sector. Teachers at Euan Blair firm report'horrendous stress' after AI used to rate their work Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at'remorseless' and'unnerving' monitoring system Teachers at Euan Blair's £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the whistle about "horrendous stress" and feeling constantly watched after bosses started using AI models to surveil and rate their teaching. Staff delivering apprenticeship training in computer and AI skills to thousands of UK public and private sector workers now have transcripts of online classroom sessions analysed and scored by an AI programmed to alert human managers when they are suspected of doing things wrong. The AI is trained to flag problems in their performance ranging from not fixing a disruption to the online connection quickly enough - within about a minute - to using too many "filler" phrases, such as "sort of" and "kind of".

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City Detects's Blight Scores can help catch code violations, but critics aren't so sure. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Garbage trucks have a new side hustle: unkempt yard snitches. Garbage trucks now do more than just pick up tossed-out food scraps and junk. In at least four states (California, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas), some city-run sanitation vehicles are being outfitted with AI-equipped cameras from a company called City Detect .

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.