Author: Vidya Saras

Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling workers how to review and categorize footage including images people and vehicles in the United States, according to material reviewed by 404 Media that was accidentally exposed by the company.The findings bring up questions about who exactly has access to footage collected by Flock surveillance cameras and where people reviewing the footage may be based. Flock has become a pervasive technology in the US, with its cameras present in thousands of communities that cops use…

December 1, 2025 West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrisey is inventing reasons for the National Guard to occupy Washington, DC. We cannot let his outrageous fabrications take hold. Ad Policy Members of the National Guard patrol along Constitution Avenue on December 1, 2025, in Washington, DC. Two West Virginia National Guard troops were shot on November 26, resulting in the death of Sarah Beckstrom on November 27.(Heather Diehl / Getty Images) Over the holiday weekend in Washington, DC, two members of the West Virginia National Guard, 20-year-old Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe, were shot at a short metro ride from…

Norway is the world’s largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon and a top exporter of seafood, while the United States remains the largest importer of these products, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Two MIT students recently traveled to Trondheim, Norway to explore the cutting-edge technologies being developed and deployed in offshore aquaculture. Beckett Devoe, a senior in artificial intelligence and decision-making, and Tony Tang, a junior in mechanical engineering, first worked with MIT Sea Grant through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). They contributed to projects focusing on wave generator design and machine learning applications for analyzing oyster larvae…

When it comes to cybersecurity, visibility is everything. Without it, even the most advanced tools can’t help teams detect, investigate, or respond effectively to threats lurking in their networks. That’s why we’re proud to announce that NETSCOUT’s Omnis Cyber Intelligence has been named “Overall Network Security Solution of the Year” in the ninth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards. This recognition honors the most innovative companies and technologies shaping the future of cybersecurity, and we’re thrilled to be counted among them. What sets us apart The challenge: Visibility gaps create risk Modern enterprises face expanding attack surfaces, hybrid cloud environments, and increasing operational…

Top SOL treasury company Forward Industries has appointed Ryan Navi as chief investment officer to oversee the execution of the company’s Solana-focused treasury strategy.According to Monday’s announcement, Navi will handle sourcing and structuring capital markets opportunities and direct how Forward Industries uses its staking and validator infrastructure to support the accumulation of (SOL), Solana’s native token.Navi joins Forward Industries after leading digital-asset investments at ParaFi Capital and previously serving as a principal at investment company KKR, where he focused on liquid and distressed credit strategies. He began his career in investment banking at Citi.Forward Industries, which pivoted from a global…

This year gave audiences some of the boldest and best female performances in years. Many films this year were unafraid to show womanhood in all its messiness, whether it’s grieving mothers, singing revolutionaries, or religious leaders.  Finally, women were allowed to show their rough edges, admit that motherhood was quite the gift promised, and shatter the glass ceiling of expectations. This year felt like unspoken truths were finally said out loud, and women on the big screen were allowed to be more than wives, mothers, and conduits for the stories of their leading men. These 10 stars defined the Best…

THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT expects to complete three additional infrastructure flagship projects (IFPs) by yearend, the Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev) said. “All are expected to be completed within the year,” Economy Undersecretary Joseph J. Capuno said during the agency’s year-end press chat on Monday. The Central Luzon Link Expressway Phase 1 is a 30-kilometer (km) four-lane expressway that connects Tarlac City to Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija. Another project is the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX)-South Luzon Expressway Connector Road, 7.7-km four-lane elevated expressway that extends the NLEX from the end of Segment 10 in C3 Road, Caloocan City to…

Simple Proof, the bitcoin-based document timestamping company, recently announced official partnerships with El Salvador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Environment to protect government records using the Bitcoin blockchain technology. The announcement was made during the Bitcoin Histórico conference at the National Theatre in San Salvador, where CEO Carlos Toriello presented alongside OpenTimestamps creator and Bitcoin Core Contributor Peter Todd. The collaboration marks El Salvador’s continued leadership in applying Bitcoin technology beyond financial applications. Both ministries have begun registering official documents on the Bitcoin blockchain, with verified records now publicly accessible through dedicated government portals. “Bitcoin is not just…

Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol In the last post in this series, we discussed one of the two flagship feature sets of Serenity: a heightened degree of abstraction that greatly increases the flexibility of the platform and takes a large step in moving Ethereum from “Bitcoin plus Turing-complete” to “general-purpose decentralized computation”. Now, let us turn our attention to the other flagship feature, and…

Crypto market analysis currently shows a critical divergence in on-chain data, indicating strong potential for a significant upside move. Recent findings confirm that influential Ethereum Whales are aggressively accumulating ETH, which pushed their total holdings to a historic high. Simultaneously, Binance has seen ETH reserves plummeting, while stablecoin reserves surged to a new record.Historic Accumulation by Ethereum WhalesEthereum’s most influential market participants have shifted their strategy toward aggressive long-term accumulation. Data identifies holders with balances between 10,000 and 100,000 ETH as the primary drivers of this trend. The influential group recently pushed their total balance past 21 million ETH, setting…