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Flock Highlighted Police Departments Using Its Tech. Now 4 Face Allegations of Misuse

Flock, the increasingly controversial automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company, has previously highlighted at least four police departments on its YouTube page that have since faced allegations of misusing the company’s technology.

The company featured the Savannah Police Department in a March 2022 YouTube video. Four officers and two workers from the department were recently placed on administrative leave after an internal investigation found “potential misuses” of Flock’s ALPR system. Also in Georgia, the Albany Police Department was the subject of a glossy 2024 video. Five officers from the department were recently arrested and charged in connection to their alleged misuse of the technology.

Flock also highlighted the Sandy Springs Police Department in a 2020 video about how the company was helping police combat so-called porch pirates. Last year, a Sandy Springs Police Department officer was terminatedamid an internal investigation into alleged misuse of Flock’s technology. The...

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Doom Just Found Its Weirdest New Home: Microsoft Paint

DoomPaint is the latest in the series of unusual Doom ports, from Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure. Russinovich whipped DoomPaint up in his spare time with the help of Claude Opus 4.8, based on information in his LinkedIn posts and the code itself. DoomPaint is about what

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