LIVE: Fighting breaks out in eastern Yemen along border with Saudi Arabia
The separatist Southern Transitional Council accuses Saudi Arabia of bombing its forces near the border.
Day: January 2, 2026
Flock Exposes Its AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras
404 Media has the story:
Unlike many of Flock’s cameras, which are designed to capture license plates as people drive by, Flock’s Condor cameras are pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras designed to record and track people, not vehicles. Condor cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people’s faces as they walk through a parking lot, down a public street, or play on a playground, or they can be controlled manually, according to marketing material on Flock’s website. We watched Condor cameras zoom in on a woman walking her dog on a bike path in suburban Atlanta; a camera followed a man walking through a Macy’s parking lot in Bakersfield; surveil children swinging on a swingset at a playground; and film high-res video of people sitting at a stoplight in traffic. In one case, we were able to watch a man rollerblade down Brookhaven, Georgia’s Peachtree Creek Greenway bike path. The Flock camera zoomed in on him and tracked him as he rolled past. Minutes later, he showed up on another exposed camera livestream further down the bike path. The camera’s resolution was good enough that we were able to see that, when he stopped beneath one of the cameras, he was watching rollerblading videos on his phone…
Trump and top Iranian officials exchange threats over protests roiling Iran
U.S. President Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats Friday as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions between the countries after America bombed Iranian nuclear sites in Ju…
U.S. Navy takes delivery of new destroyer
The U.S. Navy has formally accepted delivery of the future USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128), a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer.
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How to kill a rogue AI – Vox
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Security Council: New faces, old tensions as five nations take their seats
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A woman dies from cervical cancer every two minutes, UN says
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Drop draft proposals on death penalty for Palestinians, UN rights chief urges Israel
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