law How a law prof got a judge to rule that speeding cam tickets are unenforceable Cory Doctorow

law Sad news: red light camera revenue down due to coronavirus Rob Beschizza

tesla Changing a 35 MPH traffic sign to 85 MPH with a piece of tape causes Tesla to drive 85 MPH Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets A company that makes spy-tech for cops threatened to sue Vice for publishing its sales literature (because Iran!) Cory Doctorow

apple Apple reverses ban on HKmap.live app tracking Hong Kong protests & police Xeni Jardin

crime Inmate attempts prison escape disguised as his teenage daughter David Pescovitz

jeffrey epstein Asking for pre-trial release, Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers say he has 'spotless 14-year record of walking the straight and narrow' Xeni Jardin

law Germany demands an end to working cryptography Cory Doctorow

kramer vs kramer NYPD demands Google Waze stop telling us where the cops are Jason Weisberger

Technology Arizona: People are violently attacking driverless cars from Google/Alphabet's Waymo Xeni Jardin

sports Watch runners cheat in big Shenzhen half marathon David Pescovitz

china Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking Cory Doctorow

surveillance ICE and the DEA have secretly hidden cameras in some streetlights Cory Doctorow

politics Marco Rubio and Alex Jones threaten one another in pathetic confrontation Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Machine-learning-based image classifier can tell when the bus and bike-lanes are illegally obstructed Cory Doctorow

privacy Chinese transit cops deploy face-recognition glasses to spot indebted people, oppressed ethnic/religious minorities and criminals Cory Doctorow

corruption Elite Baltimore police unit robbed with impunity, sold guns and drugs, loaned guns and armor to civilians sent to commit robberies Cory Doctorow

reality tv Reality TV is the New French Novel Marc Weingarten

law Federal prosecutors say that Ohio man used MacOS malware that covertly operated cameras and mics and exfiltrated porn searches for 13 years Cory Doctorow

Business How to investigate and report on modern slavery Cory Doctorow