Storms that once seemed exceptional are showing up more often, and the added-up destruction they cause is growing. A new study suggests one practical way to limit some of that damage may already be in place through tougher building standards that make homes less vulnerable to hurricane winds. Here's what to know Researchers from Kyoto University and Kobe University described in a press release how they created a large-scale way to detect wind damage from hurricanes by scanning drone and satellite imagery taken after storms for blue tarps. Those tarps are commonly used to cover damaged roofs. Using images collected after Hurricane Irma struck Florida in September 2017, they estimated both where wind damage occurred and how severe it was. That damage information was then linked to building-permit data for more than 1 million homes across eight counties in South Florida. To assess the impact of Florida's 2001 building code, the study compared homes constructed just before the new rules took effect with those built just after. The code required stronger roof-to-wall connections, thicker roof sheathing, and, in some areas, impact-resistant windows and doors. In the analysis, homes built under the newer code were about 22% less likely to sustain wind damage, and the damage they did experience was roughly 27% less severe. "This study provides large-scale evidence that stronger building codes are effective for reducing wind risk and adapting to climate change," commented co-author Kenji Takeuchi, in the release. More background When hurricanes damage homes, the losses generally come from flooding and wind. After Hurricane Ian in 2022, 44% of insurance claims were tied to flooding and 56% to wind damage. Even with that split, researchers have often devoted more attention to flooding because elevation data and hydrology models make flood risk easier to estimate. Tracking wind damage over
Aug 25, 2026 · via thecooldown.com
Who is watching Mid-Michigan? Inside the use of Flock license plate readers An investigation into how Lansing and Jackson police use automatic license plate readers, and the growing debate over oversight LANSING, Mich. — Automatic license plate readers have been surveilling Mid-Michigan roads for years, and a review of how the technology is used by the region’s two largest city police departments shows differences in policy, oversight and public trust. The cameras, made by Flock Safety, are mounted on utility poles, street lamps and traffic lights. They are subtle enough that most drivers would not give them a second glance, but they scan nearly every car that passes by. Flock cameras are in use in 50 Michigan counties. Customers include private businesses and law enforcement agencies, including the Lansing and Jackson police departments. Both departments say their goal is to solve crime faster. How the technology works The camera captures an image of a passing car. That image uploads to a searchable database. Officers can then search by plate, vehicle type, or an identifier like a cracked windshield. Lansing Police Chief Rob Backus said his officers use Flock data to find missing people, track down traffickers and catch thieves. “We’re always looking for what that next component of our investigations is going to be. So as we saw license plate readers start to be more advanced and more applicable to investigations, we definitely looked into that,” Backus said. “This is almost like a needle in a haystack,” Backus told News 10 Investigates. “We need to connect it to a person. We need to connect it to a location. That’s how we’re going to make progress in solving these crimes.” Jackson Police Chief Chris Simpson said the technology saves time during investigations. “Instead of relying or trying to comb through hours
Aug 24, 2026 · via wilx.com
NYC authorities have yet to nab ‘mole people’ in manhole next to Penn Station last week: ‘Reconnaissance, 9/11’ See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google The NYPD on Monday said no busts have yet been made involving the “mole people’’ who climbed from a manhole just feet from the main entrance to Penn Station last week — terrifying the public. “I just immediately thought, reconnaissance, 9/11,” said an Arizona tourist named Mark to The Post in packed Herald Square in Manhattan. “If you’re an Iranian soldier, you need to cripple New York City? Under Penn Station? Under Madison Square Garden? Aren’t all the train lines crisscrossing here?” A trio of underground scofflaws was caught on video around 4:20 a.m. Aug. 18 wearing headlamps and overalls and pulling themselves out of a sanitation and drainage manhole about 150 feet from Penn Station — just a block from Madison Square Garden — then hurriedly walking away. A worker with nearby Penn 2 developer Vornado Realty Trust said he was aware that cops had been snooping around the tourist- and business-choked area collecting potential surveillance footage of the creepy nightcrawlers. “The more they told me about it, the more I wanted to get transferred to another area,” the man said. The disturbing incident was eerily similar to two “mole people” sightings in Brooklyn earlier in the year, which led to a handful of arrests involving people who cops believe were hunting for valuables. Police have collected surveillance footage that possibly captured the latest incident to try to ID the three people using facial recognition technology and track them down to figure out what they were up to, law-enforcement sources said. Cops only became aware of the incident Sunday after other video of the “mole
Aug 24, 2026 · via nypost.com
GEO donations coincide with expanding ICE detention and biometric monitoring contracts A subsidiary of GEO Group, whose ICE business spans detention, biometric monitoring and location intelligence, gave more than $1.4 million in July to a political committee supporting President Donald Trump. The payments by GEO Reentry Services came within days of GEO announcing two new ICE detention contracts expected to generate a combined $165 million in their first full year of operations. A Biometric Update review of ICE procurement records found that one of those agreements is substantially larger than GEO’s public description suggested. The government estimates the five-year requirement for GEO’s Rivers Facility in North Carolina at nearly $457.1 million and awarded it without full and open competition after receiving seven responses to earlier market research. Another wholly owned GEO subsidiary, BI Incorporated, operates ICE’s nationwide Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP) using electronic monitoring, biometric reporting and case management to supervise people on the agency’s non-detained docket. BI also holds one of ICE’s new skip-tracing contracts, allowing it to use government case information and commercial data to help locate people ICE is trying to find. The political spending was first reported by The Lever and subsequently by The New York Times after MAGA Inc. disclosed its July receipts to the Federal Election Commission (FEC). GEO Reentry gave MAGA Inc. $1 million on July 16, three days after GEO announced a five-year agreement for the 1,188-bed Big Horn Facility in Hudson, Colorado. It gave another $413,000 on July 31, two days after GEO announced its agreement for the 1,320-bed Rivers Facility in Winton, North Carolina. The July payments were not GEO Reentry’s first to MAGA Inc. FEC records and campaign finance disclosures show the subsidiary gave the committee $1 million in October 2025, another $1 million in March and another
Aug 24, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
BRENHAM — The Brenham Police Department has been awarded a state grant to fund key public safety initiatives, including the deployment of additional Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) cameras and a first-responder drone platform. The grant, totaling approximately $81,666 from the State of Texas Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority for the fiscal year 2027 Catalytic Converter Theft Prevention Grant Program, was formally accepted following a unanimous vote by the Brenham City Council. The department will contribute a matching requirement of $16,334, funded through its asset forfeiture account. Police Chief Gary Boshears presented the grant details during a recent council meeting, highlighting that the application ranked near the top of over 100 statewide submissions. The funding will support the installation of six to seven new ALPR units placed on mobile platforms and strategic roadways. These specialized cameras capture high-speed images of license plates to help law enforcement locate stolen vehicles, track suspects in active investigations, and detect vehicles tied to violent crimes or catalytic converter thefts. During the meeting, Councilmember Steve Soman inquired about data privacy, user management, and the potential integration of artificial intelligence or third-party databases with the new systems. Chief Boshears clarified that the department is working with technology provider Axon and emphasized that the system does not utilize facial recognition technology. "The LPRs do not use facial recognition," he explained. "They can build a small profile on the vehicle itself. I.E. it's a red Ford F-150, but it doesn't use any type of facial recognition. It's specifically designed to take a picture of the license plate on the rear of the vehicle." Addressing concerns regarding national databases and unauthorized searches, Chief Boshears emphasized that data sharing is strictly controlled at the local level. "By default, Axon's data sharing is turned off for everyone, and so we can
Aug 24, 2026 · via southtexasnews.com
A Munich court has dealt a significant legal setback to Suno, ruling on Friday that the AI music company violated German copyright law by training its model on songs without securing licenses from the rights holders. The decision, issued by the Munich Regional Court, hands a major victory to GEMA,... Read More » Twitch Streamer Sues Amazon Over AI Training, Claims Creator Content Used Without Consent A Twitch streamer has sued Twitch and Amazon in a proposed class action, claiming the companies used creators’ videos, chats and other content to train generative artificial intelligence models without their consent or compensation. Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut creator who has streamed on Twitch for nearly a decade, filed the lawsuit Aug. 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. He claims Twitch gave Amazon access to creator content for AI training even though the platform’s agreements with users did not authorize that use. The lawsuit followed an Aug. 12 announcement from Twitch introducing a setting that allows creators to opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon’s generative AI models. The setting is enabled by default, requiring creators to turn it off if they do not want their content used for future AI training. Pandiscia argues the alleged use began before Twitch disclosed the new setting. His complaint claims the companies had already used creator material for AI work without first obtaining permission and benefited from content produced by streamers at their own expense. Twitch Chief Product Officer Mike Minton acknowledged in 2024 that Amazon was using Twitch content in some AI work, which he described at the time as prototyping rather than production use. During an Aug. 12 Twitch discussion, Minton said he did not know what Amazon had previously used for model training. Pandiscia
Aug 24, 2026 · via lawcommentary.com
The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday will discuss the termination of its contract with Flock Safety amid national backlash and concerns over privacy vulnerabilities. Though it won’t be the end of automatic license plate readers in Santa Barbara. While the city’s contract with Flock Safety has ended, the city will propose a replacement to the cameras from a different company: Verkada. Verkada, a California based security company, is the expected new provider of the automatic license plate readers. The City Council is set to vote on Tuesday at its 2 p.m. meeting. City Councilmember Meagan Harmon told the News-Press that she has a “deep discomfort” with surveillance cameras such as Flock Safety ones. “However, cameras in general have been a hugely important tool in our ability to open and close criminal cases and quite literally solve crimes,” Harmon said. “I’m very glad that the community conversation is happening, there are real costs and consequences with video surveillance but there are also huge benefits.” She said that the new proposal involving Verkada is an improvement from the Flock Safety cameras. “Opposed to the Flock contract, which was externally arranged, all of our footage now will be held within our own system. To me that is quite a meaningful difference,” Harmon said. What is Verkada? With headquarters in San Mateo, California, and regional hubs in nine other U.S. cities, Verkada offers a variety of security services. The company also has international offices in eight countries including Australia, Taiwan, and Poland. Verkada’s camera technology uses artificial intelligence to aid its security systems. AI is used to “locate footage of suspects or vehicles in seconds with powerful AI analytics,” wrote the company in their product description for “Smart solutions for city and county security”. The company recently announced Hard Rock Stadium, home of
Aug 24, 2026 · via newspress.com
You may have seen the widespread backlash over the recent popularity of smartglasses, such as those from Meta, which feature tiny cameras that can take still photos and videos of people without their knowledge, and project a heads-up display of information onto the lenses visible only to the wearer. They have already been banned by many theatres, restaurants and pubs and have now been banned from courts in England and Wales too. Sleazy owners have been quick to exploit their potential for creating sexualised content of women in the street, who they approach, chat up and secretly film. This has in some cases led to unsuspecting victims being named in the comments and even their addresses shared. In one case a user tried to blackmail the victim when she asked him to remove a video of her that he had posted on social media. No wonder they have already been dubbed ‘pervert glasses’, and the pressure group Everyone Hates Elon has been putting up billboard ads around London showing them being worn by Jeffrey Epstein with the tagline ‘Glasses for people who don’t do consent’. From the point of view of Meta, these smartglasses are essentially mass data collection and AI training devices. Which is fine for surveillance-state fans who want to share every aspect of their lives with Mark Zuckerberg and his tech billionaire buddies (including going to the toilet and other intimate moments, according to the poor Kenyans paid little over a dollar an hour to watch all this footage for Meta) but the people being unknowingly filmed by these glasses as they go about their day have not consented to being part of the program. Some defenders of the new technology point to how useful they are for blind and partially sighted people and claim that the
Aug 24, 2026 · via amateurphotographer.com
The data center political attacks are here As public sentiment on data centers continues to sour, both Democratic and Republican candidates are taking a more oppositional stance to them. • 3 min read TL;DR: There might be nothing more politically unpopular right now than being a data center cheerleader. Politicians on both sides of the aisle are taking note—and changing their stance—as the midterm elections approach, while AI companies are desperately trying to buy back some goodwill. What happened: In an interview this past Sunday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared that AI companies “dug their own grave” amid the data center backlash they’re facing—weeks after he ordered a moratorium on new data center power approvals in the state. It’s a big shift in tone from a governor who called Texas the “epicenter of AI development” last November. And he’s far from alone: An analysis from The Washington Post shows that American politicians have gotten a lot more negative about data centers since last year. Republican leaders have typically been more welcoming of them than their Democratic counterparts, but a few pro-data center elected officials have either lost their elections or faced recalls in recent months. Now, politicians from both parties are adjusting their stance and ramping up attack ads accusing opponents of being too data center-friendly. AI’s expensive charm offensive: AI firms, meanwhile, are probably feeling the walls closing in on them. In a private memo that leaked last week, the National Republican Senatorial Committee told AI companies to fix their PR problem, saying they had a “toxic brand.” Tech Brew breaks down the biggest tech news, emerging innovations, workplace tools, and cultural trends so you can understand what's new and why it matters. By subscribing, you accept our Terms & Privacy Policy. To be fair, the industry has been
Aug 24, 2026 · via techbrew.com
Which are the best cameras, lenses and photographic accessories you can buy right now? The answer can be found right here, in the EISA Awards 2026-2027, as voted for by the magazines and websites that form the photography group within the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA). EISA is a group of 51 special-interest magazines and websites from 26 countries around the world, covering Hi-Fi, photography, mobile devices, in-car electronics, and home theatre and vision. Each member is a renowned expert within its subject area and known for the rigour and integrity of its testing. As one of the organisation’s founding members, Amateur Photographer is an integral part of EISA’s Photography Panel. We work closely alongside 15 other magazines from Europe, India and the USA, all of which are among the most respected in their home countries. To ensure that the winning products are truly worthy of your hard-earned money, each one must have been tested in depth by multiple panel members. We don’t give awards based on quick first looks, or on the basis of specifications alone. While each country has its own particular preferences for which features and characteristics are the most important in different kinds of cameras and lenses, there is often a strong consensus as to which should be recognised with an award. Read on to discover the winners of the EISA Awards 2026-2027 – the best photography products of the year! EISA Camera of the Year 2026-2027 Sony Alpha 7 V The Sony Alpha 7 V is a weather-sealed full-frame camera that’s suitable for virtually any application. It combines tried-and-tested features such as 5-axis image stabilisation with cutting edge photographic technology. Its partially stacked Exmor RS CMOS image sensor delivers 33 megapixels while enabling shooting at 30 frames per second to provide blackout free continuous
Aug 24, 2026 · via amateurphotographer.com
Label-free imaging offers considerable benefits compared to traditional fluorescence-based methods, including faster processing, reduced reagent costs, and the ability to monitor live cells. Label-free detection also offers key advantages by allowing observation of biomolecular interactions without sample modification, resulting in more accurate data, deeper characterisation, and real-time monitoring of cellular dynamics. This article outlines the use of customisable artificial intelligence (AI) models within IN Carta® image analysis software to develop deep-learning-based segmentation models suitable for accurate cell and nuclear detection that only use transmitted-light (TL) images. Label-free analysis was initially established using the U2OS cell line. A pre-trained AI model was first applied to segment nuclei in Hoechst-stained images, enabling the development of a TL-based nuclear segmentation model. The resulting segmentation masks were paired with corresponding TL images and used to train a new model able to segment nuclei using only TL images. This approach enabled label-free nuclear detection with over 97% accuracy, as validated against Hoechst-based nuclear counts. The model was also able to reliably quantify both damaged and live cell phenotypes. The model was further trained using images from additional cell lines, including HCT116, U2OS, HeLa, MCF7, and HEK. The model achieved more than 90% detection accuracy across the majority of these cell types. The five cell lines were treated with 10 anti-cancer compounds using a seven-point dilution series to evaluate the model’s utility in compound screening. Cell counts acquired via TL-based nuclear segmentation were compared against conventional nuclear staining methods across treatments. The results showed strong correlation and comparable IC50 values, verifying the label-free approach’s accuracy and reliability. This label-free approach offers important advantages in streamlined processing speed and workflow simplicity, allowing real-time analysis of compound effects. This makes the approach a powerful tool in high-throughput and phenotypic screening applications. Label-free detection and analysis offer a range
Aug 24, 2026 · via news-medical.net
Abstract Brain tumour classification from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) requires both high diagnostic accuracy and computationally efficient model adaptation. Although deep transfer learning has improved automated tumour recognition, most existing approaches remain limited by dependence on generic ImageNet-pretrained weights, prolonged fine-tuning time, and weak institution-specific adaptability under small local medical datasets. To address these limitations, this paper proposes an Adaptive Incremental Domain Pretraining and Frozen-Weight Local Rapid Adaptation framework built on the ResNet18 backbone. Unlike conventional one-step transfer learning, the proposed method recursively preserves and updates tumour-specialised parameter states across multiple same-domain MRI repositories, progressively constructing a domain-adapted diagnostic backbone. The final inherited model is then subjected to frozen-weight local rapid adaptation for institution-specific MRI customisation. Experimental evaluation shows that direct ImageNet-based ResNet18 transfer learning achieves 93.27. Similar content being viewed by others Subjects Introduction Brain tumours constitute one of the most critical neurological disorders because of their direct influence on the central nervous system and their potentially life-threatening progression. Uncontrolled abnormal growth of intracranial or spinal cells can severely impair physiological regulation, cognitive activity, and neural communication, thereby resulting in substantial morbidity and mortality. Clinically, brain tumours are broadly categorised as benign or malignant, with benign tumours generally slow-growing and localised, whereas malignant tumours are highly invasive, aggressive, and rapidly progressive1. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) classification, low-grade tumours (Grades I and II) exhibit comparatively better prognosis, whereas high-grade tumours (Grades III and IV) are associated with extremely poor survival outcomes, thereby making early-stage identification and precise grading an indispensable requirement for effective treatment planning and prognosis estimation2,3. Among the various diagnostic modalities available for tumour identification, including computed tomography (CT), electroencephalography (EEG), and invasive biopsy-assisted examinations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has emerged as the most reliable and widely preferred non-invasive clinical tool for brain tumour assessment
Aug 24, 2026 · via nature.com
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Europe’s new biometric border wants four fingerprints from American visitors. Many of them would prefer to give it one particular finger instead. The Entry/Exit System was declared fully operational on April 10, before the Summer crowds arrived and began testing what “fully operational” meant. Now airports are packed, connections are tight and older travelers are spending the opening minutes of their vacation trying to persuade a kiosk that they still possess fingerprints. Under EES, passport stamps give way to facial images, fingerprints and digital travel records. The rules apply to Americans and other non-European visitors making short stays in the Schengen area. On their first crossing, travelers register their passport details, face and fingerprints. Later checks are supposed to be faster because the information is already stored. The database also records entries and exits and identifies possible overstays, taking over from the passport stamp, which was administratively imprecise but at least made a decent souvenir. The strain is most visible at the registration kiosks. A 72-year-old woman told Connexion France that she tried five times to register her fingerprints at Rome Fiumicino before being sent to a long line for an officer. A new report published Sunday describes similar trouble involving elderly and visually impaired passengers, along with three-hour queues and entries or exits going unrecorded. Some travelers were left wondering whether the database now regarded them as overstayers. The fingerprint failures themselves are no mystery. NIST research has found that age affects fingerprint image quality, with older people more likely to produce borderline-quality prints. Moisture and occupation can also affect a sensor’s ability to capture a usable image. Scars and years of manual work can make prints harder to capture, which is why older people may need several attempts to produce a usable image. The kiosk merely decides whether
Aug 24, 2026 · via floridapolitics.com
Hershey is using AI to strategize for s’mores season The Hershey Company has started using new AI tools to maximize sales of s’mores ingredients in stores — including its own chocolates, as well as marshmallows and graham crackers. This year, the company started using a new proprietary AI tool developed in-house that uses computer vision and augmented reality to identify where to place s’mores displays in stores and determine how they perform based on consumer data, according to Stephanie Berman, vp of retail at The Hershey Company. Hershey also started using AI this year in its marketing-mix model to better understand real-time consumer data. “The big thing for us as we look at AI: It’s been about real-time data, it’s been about getting closer to the consumer in more real time, and it’s about partnering with our retailers on how we see the consumer behaving, so that we can iterate faster and more meaningfully with the consumer,” Berman said. “It’s all about real-time data, faster decisions and then optimization, both in-store and online.” S’mores-related sales of Hershey products have grown in the double digits year over year to date, the company said. Hershey estimates that s’mores generate $200 million to $250 million in overall sales during its peak season, roughly from Easter through Labor Day. Hershey’s sales performance was also helped by the new, limited-time-only caramel Hershey’s chocolate bar, which may inspire similar product launches next year. “We’re going to look at what that may mean for 2027 with emerging trends in the s’mores occasion, and then what may be the right proposition, knowing the success we had with our caramel item,” Berman said. Circana merchandising data shows that sales of marshmallows and graham crackers increase most around major summer holidays such as Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day,
Aug 24, 2026 · via modernretail.co
How has AI and tech changed your life? Australians share their stories — as it happened Technology is creeping into every facet of our lives. Whether it is for better or for worse is in the eye of the beholder, but it is certainly here to stay. Australians are grappling with the prospect of AI replacing jobs, breaching privacy, and creating misinformation and digital exclusion, while also developing technology designed to make everyday tasks easier. We heard your stories and experiences in our live blog below, plus put your questions to Curtin University cybersecurity expert Mihai Lazarescu and the ABC's AI reporter Cam Wilson. Live updates New: Filters Choose what information you see below by using filters Thanks for being with us That's where we'll wrap up today's blog. Thanks for taking part! We received a huge number of comments and questions and while we haven't been able to get to them all, we really appreciate you sending them in. There's plenty more to unpack on these issues, so stay tuned to the ABC News website, where we'll continue to navigate these stormy seas together. Loading Poll results so far! We're about to wrap up our live blog for today. But let's take a moment to tally the poll votes, all 7.4k of them! What do you see as the biggest threat to you or your family? - 29% - AI replacing jobs - 20% - misinformation or deepfakes - 20% - privacy breaches - 13% - online or email scams - 10% - digital exclusion - 8% - data centres Are there environmental guardrails in place for data centres? My main concern with AI at the moment is the environmental impact of data centres that AI use. The ongoing resource demand of data centres for electricity and water risk
Aug 24, 2026 · via abc.net.au
Why is the 1-megapixel camera the most important component for Apple's AI? A few days ago, MacRumors unearthed a pre-made Apple promotional video directly from macOS Tahoe 26.7 RC: you wear AirPods, pick up a book, Visual Intelligence identifies the book title, and then Siri is asked to save it. The product code name in the video is B790. According to Mark Gurman, it was already on Apple's 2026 product roadmap, and the subsequent mass production version B798 will not be released until 2027. The recently unearthed system code also lets us see for the first time exactly how these headphones "see". The most interesting part is a seemingly underwhelming parameter: The camera on AirPods only has 1 megapixel. Photo | WIRED At a time when the mobile phone industry is already discussing 200-megapixel sensors and 8K video, the camera Apple prepared for its future AI hardware may actually capture images at a resolution as low as 320×320. It is obviously not designed for taking photos. Why does the camera on AirPods only have 1 megapixel? Judging from the currently unearthed code, this camera system has at least two working modes. In active mode, the camera can capture 640×640 images, with a maximum output of 1024×1024 after processing. In passive mode, it captures 320×320 images, and outputs 320×320 or 512×512 images. The code shows that the left and right AirPods can capture RGB still images synchronously, align the two perspectives through the same Frame ID, and then continuously collect data at a certain frequency for Visual Intelligence to process. The system processes ambient audio, changes in surrounding sounds, posture and head rotation information at the same time; the two cameras need to be calibrated, and the camera and motion sensors also need to be calibrated. If the head movement is
Aug 24, 2026 · via eu.36kr.com
A police officer uses the Flock Safety license plate reader system. Many left-leaning states and cities are trying to protect their residents' personal information amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, but a growing number of conservative lawmakers also want to curb the use of surveillance technologies. Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith told county supervisors that the Sheriff’s Office’s use of Flock traffic cameras complies with current constitutional protections, while acknowledging that broader tracking or future facial-recognition capabilities could raise different legal questions. Smith presented his office’s legal assessment to the Mohave County Board of Supervisors last week after members of the public raised questions about the cameras and their constitutionality with at least one supervisor. County Attorney Matt Smith got it right. The Board should quit treating license-plate cameras like a secret-police plot. These readers photograph license plates on public roads. That is not a bedroom or a phone in your pocket. It is a number the state already requires you to display. Smith’s office reviewed the law and said the Sheriff’s current use — no facial recognition, no round-the-clock tracking of regular drivers, and logged access for real investigations — meets the Constitution. That is the County Attorney’s job. He did it. Supervisor Gould’s “surveillance state” line sounds dictatorial until you read Smith’s limits: deputies are not watching every car, the system is not stalking people across the country, and the data is not a free-for-all. Courts have treated public-road license plate hits as legal. They have also said the analysis can change if government compiles long travel histories or adds face-ID. Smith said that out loud. That is an honest legal line, not a cover-up. Want accountability? Audit the logins. Punish misuse. Keep vendors from selling the data. Arizona already moved on third-party sharing. None of that requires
Aug 23, 2026 · via havasunews.com
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Aug 23, 2026 · via facebook.com
Table of Contents If you’re ready to dip your toes into the world of AI chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude are two of the best to start with. Both stand out for their impressive response quality and ease of use, though they are more different than you might realize. ChatGPT, for example, can generate images, while Claude can build HTML-based visualizations. But that's far from everything that makes them unique. I’ve spent a lot of time testing both chatbots, and here, I compare them across a variety of key categories, from pricing to privacy, to help you choose the best one for your needs. Full Specs | ChatGPT | Claude | | |---|---|---| | Free Version | | | | Free Version | | | | AI Model | | | | AI Model | GPT-5.6 | Fable 5, Haiku 4.5, Opus 5, and Sonnet 5 | | Cites Sources | | | | Cites Sources | | | | Ability to Browse Web | | | | Ability to Browse Web | | | | Can Resume Prior Conversations | | | | Can Resume Prior Conversations | | | | Image Generator | | | | Image Generator | | | Price: Similar Costs, But ChatGPT Starts Cheaper Both ChatGPT and Claude have free and paid versions. Free versions limit your access to features, models, and usage, while paid versions start at $8 per month for ChatGPT Go and $17 per month (billed annually) for Claude Pro. ChatGPT offers more features for free, including access to deep research. Moreover, both its free and paid versions have features that Claude doesn’t support at all, such as image generation. However, Claude also has some unique features, such as Claude Design (available on its Pro plan), which can generate designs, prototypes, slides,
Aug 23, 2026 · via pcmag.com