Georgia man sues Flock, sheriff's office over alleged ALPR-fueled retaliation

Plaintiff claims cameras enabled warrantless tracking and monitoring after he previously sued over excessive force.
Software development and rules stability: Prototype racing in 2030

With the end of IMSA’s 2026 season, we have thoughts about the future of the sport.
Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer

“Have you ever seen a world born?”
Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins

AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.
Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room

OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

“Small weight-based replicators” could usher in a new generation of computer worms.
The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a US mil…
The Internet’s undersea backbone is slipping into the danger zone

Elisabeth Braw’s book Undersea War on rising risks for undersea infrastructure.
OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say

Attack method exposes flaws in OpenAI, Google safeguards against AI nudes.
The US military’s race to make fake blood

Its call sign was Morphine 1-2. In February 2007, the hulking dual-rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when another call cam…