"If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them." — George Orwell, 1984 AI, over a relatively short period of time, has infiltrated many aspects of our lives. As a technology, however, the concept of Artificial Intelligence has been around since the 1950s. The first chatbot was named ELIZA and was created in 1966 by a computer scientist at MIT. However, in the span of just 6 years (since 2020), AI has gone fr

On March 4, 2026, the Ithaca Common Council in Ithaca, New York, U.S., voted to non-renew its contract with Flock Safety. Flock, among other things, is a vendor of fixed-location automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems. You may have seen them pop up in your city or county in the past couple of years, as they have become a popular surveillance tool for many law enforcement agencies. And while Flock claims the primary purpose of its network of tens of thousands of AI-powe

by Olga Lautman, Republished from Dilate Magazine Documents reviewed by 404 Media reveal that ICE is purchasing access to a powerful surveillance tool that harvests billions of pieces of location data daily from hundreds of millions of phones. This move reverses Biden-era curbs and marks a dramatic expansion of ICE’s ability to track people inside the U.S. without a warrant. The contract has been awarded to PenLink, a little-known surveillance company headquartered in Nebras