In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.

Flock misread license plates in 71% of the alerts it sent to police in one California town

Flock sent 1,427 alerts to Roseville police over two years, flagging cars as stolen or used in a felony. In 71% of them, Flock read the plates wrong.

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A couple that was stalked and harassed by eBay for years has settled with the company, and three former executives including the former CEO, for $56 Million. David and Ina Steiner were harassed by eBay security because eBay executives were furious about Ms. Steiner's reporting on the company.

Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56 Million

Two Massachusetts journalists were harassed by a Silicon Valley security team in a case that raised questions about when executives should be held responsible.

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BREAKING: New York just sued Kalshi — alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation. New York AG Letitia James alleges Kalshi failed to obtain a state gambling license and pay taxes. Her office is seeking an order enjoining Kalshi’s operations, plus fines, restitution and forfeiture of profits.

New York sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation | CNN Politics

The New York attorney general’s office is suing Kalshi, one of the largest prediction markets, alleging it’s running an illegal gambling operation in the state.

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AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...

AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business

AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.

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In 2017 Mark Zuckerberg decided that Meta's top priority would be teens, according to documents revealed by the state of Tennessee, which is suing the social media giant. The state said Meta's overall goal was to maximize the time teens spent on their social media platforms. /1

Tennessee Puts Meta on Trial over Instagram Claims

Tennessee began a civil trial Monday, alleging Meta designed Instagram to be addictive for children and concealed its known impacts.

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FIFA president Gianni Infantino is now planning to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors. Critics say the scheme could ruin the sport. It could also potentially earn him tens of millions of dollars, per Martyn Ziegler.

Billionaires have already poured $433 million into the 2026 midterm elections—and 80% of it is going to Republicans.

U.S. taxpayers spend about $2 billion every year on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees, subsidizing the companies that refuse to adequately pay hundreds of thousands of workers, or give them healthcare. /1

Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees

American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

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Trump is on the verge of changing nuclear safety regulations so that the government no longer tries to keep human exposure to radiation as low as possible. For over 50 years the standard has been keeping radiation exposure "as low as reasonably achievable." /1

A 50-year radiation safety rule is on the chopping block under Trump’s nuclear agenda

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is proposing to eliminate a foundational safety principle that has for 50 years minimized the radiation people in the United States are exposed to, and that has been ...

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Today Zohran is announcing that the New York City-owned grocery stores his administration is piloting will discount staple items 30%. Core groceries like produce, meat, seafood, pasta, bread, yogurt, butter, nuts, rice and beans will all receive this price cut.

MAJOR: Paramount will not take over Warner Bros. until summer 2027 at the earliest, while a judge considers the lawsuit from 12 states seeking to block the mega-merger.

The intensity of this wildfire season is calling attention to the fact that the Trump administration closed all nine regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service, and shut down 57 of its 77 research facilities.

BREAKING: The House just passed a war powers resolution that would limit Trump's war on Iran. The vote was 214-208, with four Republicans joining every Democrat in passing the resolution.

Wikipedia workers have unionized, and they're demanding recognition. Wiki Workers United in the U.S. is demanding voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia. WWU-US is organizing with the CWA. cwa-union.org/news/release...

Wiki Workers United U.S. Branch Demands Voluntary Recognition from Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia

Today, Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU-US)/Communications Workers of America (CWA) demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and siste...

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Italian unions just won the first-ever workers’ rights agreement with Amazon. The deal expands parental leave rights and protects workers from being disciplined by the company based on video surveillance footage. Amazon has 19,000 workers in Italy. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Italian unions agree workers' rights deal with Amazon

Italian unions have signed ‌an agreement with Amazon.com covering leave, employee rights and video surveillance, the unions and the U.S. e-commerce ​giant said on Wednesday.

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Zohran Mamdani has appointed Lina Khan the board chair of New York City's Economic Development Corporation. The EDC is a non-profit that serves as New York City’s official economic development agency.

Certain grocery stores are now scanning every customers' face. Some Grocery Outlet stores are using facial recognition software from the company SAFR Guard to identify people on retail watchlists. As you enter these stores a sign reads "Face matching software being used to prevent shoplifting."

Apple is partnering with Klarna to launch a leasing program for its devices. The program, which they're calling Apple Upgrade, will lease most iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watches to people. Apple Upgrade will work like a subscription model, and launches a week from today.

Today Pete Hegseth asked the Senate for an additional $87,600,000,000 for the Pentagon, claiming the Iran war means the military needs this money, despite their trillion dollar budget. Remember, the Pentagon has never passed an audit.

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

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BREAKING: A judge has temporarily paused the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. Twelve state attorneys general requested a restraining order barring Paramount Skydance from closing their deal. And a judge has granted the request for two weeks to review the mega-merger. www.nbcnews.com/business/med...

Judge puts temporary pause on Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Twelve state attorneys general requested a temporary restraining order barring Paramount Skydance from closing the blockbuster deal.

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The World Cup was the most lucrative sporting event in history, and FIFA is poised to announce $15 billion in revenue from the tournament.

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have in the first place with Palantir. First Medicaid officials shared data about millions of people with ICE. ICE then shared that data with Palantir, according to a new court filing reported on by @NPR. /1

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

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The Pentagon withheld the fact that dozens of US soldiers were injured by Iran over the last ten days. In the week leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers, Iran carried out three other strikes that injured dozens of US service members, according to the NYT. /1

Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War

Central Command is not required to release information about injured troops, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.

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The biggest landlord in the US is being accused of civil rights violations. Greystar, the largest owner of apartments in the US, systematically breaks local laws designed to make housing affordable to the poor, according to civil rights complaints filed in six states and DC. /1

Largest landlord in the US accused of civil rights violations

Fair housing complaints accuse Greystar of turning away tenants who use federal rent vouchers

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The noise from a plant powering Elon Musk's xAI data centers in Mississippi is keep residents awake and destroying their quality of life. Residents of Southaven, MI, have organized, gone to hearings, and talked to the media. But so far the mayor's advice is: "Consider selling."

Billionaire oligarchs are out to destroy cinema as we know it. Workers are sounding the alarm that the $110 billion Paramount-Warner megamerger will bring mass layoffs, cutbacks, and movie theater shutdowns across America. /1

The Trump administration scrapping CFPB limits on credit-card late fees and overdraft charges has cost Americans $22.5 billion so far, according to a report release by Senator Elizabeth Warren's office.

A Pennsylvania state senator and chair of the state’s GOP profited from the $30 million property sale to a data center developer. Republican Greg Rothman’s constituents are outraged he made money off the data center project they’ve been actively opposing. www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/07... /1

PA state senator profited from property sale for data center

PA Sen. Greg Rothman says while he did make money on the 2025 sale, he had nothing to do with the actual data center deal.

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Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...

Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care

A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.

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