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Newest story built on 404media.co reporting: Trump cancels Hegseth's livestream of Nidal Hasan's firing-squad execution (October 16, 2026). 404media.co reporting informs the Security, Product, Science, Invest, and Leadership desks, most often on Automated License Plate Readers, Police Surveillance Technology, and Automatic License Plate Readers. At least 60 of our current stories draw on it.
OpenAI lets advertisers target ChatGPT users by uploaded email, phone number or Android advertising ID, according to 404 Media's tests. Prompts that users may assume are private are a targeting input too.
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Accenture told employees it will centrally fund only $29 a month per person for Claude Enterprise from October 1, 404 Media reported. Some of those employees had been spending as much as $1,000 a month.
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Trump said Thursday that Nidal Hasan's Dec. 3 firing-squad execution will not be livestreamed, reversing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Pentagon says the two are aligned and the execution still goes ahead.
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Decomp.dev, the video game decompilation site, is shutting down because its administrator cannot tell human-led projects from AI ones. 404 Media's report relies on the pseudonymous admin's post and does not include a count of AI-assisted projects.
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Cologne police seized a robot and are investigating whether two teenagers piloted it in an alleged groping of a 16-year-old girl. They have not yet established whether it was steered live or ran a stored routine, and that finding decides where responsibility starts.
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Ukrainian drones hit Sberbank's Balakovo data center on Wednesday, the fourth Russian site struck in a week after three of Yandex's. Neither company has said whether a supercomputer was damaged.
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Disney will open bidding at $20 million for a license to Character.AI's IP after the chatbot startup filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware. Character.AI says it will wind down the service if the sale produces no bid sufficient to keep the platform running.
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Graylark added interior-photo geolocation to Raven, its police AI tool, across what its CEO called millions of short-term rental units. The LAPD and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office bought access earlier, 404 Media reported.
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Graylark Technologies says its Raven tool can geolocate interior images across millions of short-term rental units, according to CEO Daniel Heinen. 404 Media previously reported that LAPD and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office bought Raven access, and the interior matches it checked come from Graylark's own demo videos.
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Sen. Ron Wyden wants the White House drug office to publish a 2024 MITRE privacy review covering its federal plate-reader database. His letter puts a senator's name behind 404 Media's finding that city plate data from Flock, Axon and Motorola cameras reaches federal databases through local agreements.
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Footage obtained by 404 Media shows a Tulsa deputy scrolling 79 plate-reader hits on a driver whose Flock search a federal judge ruled unconstitutional. The judge threw out the Flock evidence and everything the car search found, including more than 91 pounds of meth.
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Federal judge Sara E. Hill ruled Oct. 1 that a Tulsa County deputy's warrantless search of Flock's cross-state camera network was unconstitutional. The search she faulted was a plate lookup run without probable cause, the query a plate-reader network is built around, so agencies now have to decide how they control it.
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Kallel-led researchers found 287 gene changes unique to Jonathan, the 194-year-old Aldabra tortoise, touching DNA repair, inflammation, insulin and cancer. Because the baseline was just four other tortoises, the 287 are candidates to explain his slow ageing.
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Arizona's Court of Appeals vacated Gabriel Horcasitas's 10.5-year sentence because the judge weighed an AI-generated video of his victim. The manslaughter conviction stands, so the new risk falls on whoever builds or plays synthetic media at sentencing.
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Bernie Sanders' Ban Flock Act would strip local governments of grants from five federal departments unless they ban license plate readers. For the city officials who sign camera renewals, that turns a police tool into a grant-budget question while Congress waits out the midterms.
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Magnet Forensics tells police in a leaked video that GrayKey can hold seized iPhones in After First Unlock state through Apple's 72-hour reboot. If it holds, police need only reach a seized phone before the reboot and can unlock it on their own schedule.
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Meta began fixing KVM escapes in its Muse AI agent on August 27, 11 days before launch, an internal post seen by 404 Media shows. Each agent's VM holds its owner's email and account access, so a break-out would reach other users and Meta's own systems.
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Meta found several pre-launch flaws in its Muse AI agent, one of which could let an ordinary user escape its KVM sandbox into internal databases, 404 Media reports. Users give Muse access to their own accounts, so its hypervisor is what keeps each tenant apart from Meta's systems and from other users.
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arXiv now limits each researcher to two submissions a calendar month and three active at once to curb a flood of AI-written papers. Moderators who once throttled heavy submitters at their own discretion now apply one fixed rule to every account.
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UMass Amherst biologists measured calls from 123 bird species in the field and found the loudest, above 120 decibels, come from big birds with wide beaks. Their tests of flight ability, forest habitat and mating system as reasons for loudness found no clear pattern.
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