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• Five Police Officers Criminally Charged for Misusing Flock Cameras in Indianapolis

  24-09-2026 21:04 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Nationwide, at least 100 police department employees have been charged with or accused of misusing license-plate readers for unauthorized purposes," reports the Washington Post. They cite their past investigations "based on thousands of pages of police and court records," which found that "In many of these cases, officers used Flock's roadside cameras to track the location of romantic partners and exes."
  In fact, five Indianapolis police officers were just criminally charged Wednesday with frau
  
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• OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Urge UN Countries to Cooperate on AI Safety Standards

  24-09-2026 16:34 via slashdot.org
  "The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing," writes the Associated Press."If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: "We could lose control of the future to AI."Yoshua Bengi
  
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• Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Series Processors Will Support Linux

  24-09-2026 12:04 via linux.slashdot.org
  Snapdragon X2 Series processors feature a neural processing unit (NPU) delivering 80 trillion operations per second and allowing advanced AI features to run locally. And Snapdragon X2 Series "is expanding to Linux," Qualcomm announced today, calling it one of their most-requested capabilities:
  Qualcomm Technologies is a top contributor to Linux development at a kernel level, and now we're embracing support for Snapdragon X2 Series as a platform directly. We're upstreaming core drivers for Snapdr
  
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• Rogue OpenAI Agent Tried to Breach Government Site in May When Prompted for Simple Data-Retrieving Tasks

  24-09-2026 07:34 via slashdot.org
  OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials."
  The attacks took place in May and June, before OpenAI's technology breached the A.I. start-up Hugging Face in July and set off a global debate about A.I. safety. Unlike the Hugging Face attack and other inciden
  
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• Cities Across US Oppose Trump FCC Plan to Preempt Local Broadband Rules

  24-09-2026 03:04 via news.slashdot.org
  Ars Technica reports:
  Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks... The Federal Communications Commission [FCC] argues that too many local governments "excessively delay approvals and seek to extract exorbitant sums from providers, resulting in costs that render some deployments infeasible." The FCC plan is supported by broadband providers, but local governments told the
  
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