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Texas Suburb Seeks $2.3 Million for Flock Records, Citing 14-Year Search
Report says North Richland Hills, Texas, quoted a $2.3 million fee for public records on Flock's AI camera system.
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Report says North Richland Hills, Texas, quoted a $2.3 million fee for public records on Flock's AI camera system.
Judge: Flock's license plate network is 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'; a police database search violated the Fourth Amendment.
Woman says Flock camera error led to 13 days in jail as Senate pressure grows over data privacy.
Car thefts in San Francisco fell nearly 59% in the first eight months of 2026 compared with 2022, and break-ins dropped more than 82%. Police credit surveillance technology including Flock Safety's AI license plate cameras, but a new study and privacy concerns leave questions about how much credit the system deserves.
VIDIZMO pitches facial recognition for Flock camera data, despite Flock CEO saying his firm won't add it.
Neko Health, co-founded by Spotify's David Ek, has launched in New York with a $500 one-hour body scan and a 300,000-person global waitlist.
Senator Bernie Sanders introduces the Ban Flock Act to bar federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers or accessing data from local police and private companies.
Insta360 launches Spatial Capture, a free beta feature turning 360 video into navigable 3D scenes for X6, X5 and X4 Air.
Engadget reports Apple is developing a smart home camera that uses AI, not video, to analyze activity.
Sony unveiled QSSR, an AI upscaler for base PS5. Tests show exceptional gains in Wolverine but less dramatic results in Ghost of Yōtei.
iOS 27 adds AI Extend wallpapers, Image Playground wallpaper generation, a movable clock and a swipeable Now Playing widget to the iPhone Lock Screen, 9to5Mac reports.
Apple reportedly developing a smart home camera that records no video, using AI for text descriptions, per Mark Gurman.
St. Lucie County, Florida, found 14 unpermitted Flock license plate readers while removing the cameras; the sheriff's office claimed three, leaving 11 with unknown owners.
A team led by Kaiming He has proposed NAT-ARC, a pure-vision method that uses ImageNet MAE pretraining to solve ARC abstraction tasks. Its best single model reached 63.4% pass@2 on ARC-1, and an ensemble reached 70.2%.
TechRadar's six-month review of the $299 Bird Buddy 2 smart feeder praises its solar roof, 2K video and app, while flagging missed sightings and a premium price.
Android Authority's October 2026 roundup features Adobe Premiere's long-awaited Android debut, plus SongFlip, Memoria, Rowtine and a long-delayed Material Files update.
Nikon is re-reviewing a first-prize microscopy video by Tsinghua University’s Dr. Ning Xu after scientists questioned whether AI altered its airway cilia motion; the entrant denies AI generated the film.
Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science have built an AI tool that reconstructs what a person is looking at from fMRI brain scans and predicts brain activity from images. Ethicists call it promising, while neuroscientists warn it could extract mental imagery without consent.
Peloton announced the Tread Flex, Tread Vision and Tread Vision Plus, launching from October 1, with prices from $2,195 to $6,695. The lineup adds AI camera-based running analysis, ReRun route replication and a Hyrox-style Sled Mode.
Leiphone's Sept. 30 reports detail tests of Step 5 Preview, PixVerse R2, HiDream-O1-Video, Aholo Lux3D and AgnesCode, showing Chinese AI teams pushing real-time world models, open-source foundation models, video causality and 3D asset pipelines into production workflows.
At ECCV 2026 and in tests reported on September 30, researchers and companies moved AI beyond visual recognition: NVIDIA generated missing audio and manipulation data, GPT-6 Astra controlled a Unitree G1 and a gimbal, while office agents exposed the gap between execution and judgment.
Android Authority teardowns of Google Photos 7.95 show work-in-progress tools to regenerate AI wardrobe images, add outfits without resetting the wardrobe, and delete all Ask Photos Remember List entries.
UK rail facial recognition trial scanned 500,000 faces, cost over £320,000 and led to no arrests, but was extended.
A six-month British Transport Police trial of live facial recognition in London railway stations cost £320,786 and scanned more than half a million faces, but led to one false positive and no arrests, documents show.