UPDATE: The Little Rock Board of Directors did not come to an agreement on a vote, and will revisit the ordinance at a later date.
The Little Rock Board of Directors is set to vote Monday night on an ordinance aimed at increasing transparency and oversight of how the Little Rock Police Department uses surveillance technology, including Flock license plate readers and facial recognition software.
Under the proposal, LRPD would be required to conduct monthly audits to identify potential misuse of surveillance technology.
This is not Phillips’ first attempt to establish additional oversight of police surveillance technology.
Last December, Phillips introduced a separate ordinance focused on police surveillance transparency, but the Board of Directors voted it down.
Nov 3, 2026 · via katv.com
Trump faces crucial test as US votes for midterm elections Americans are set to vote on Tuesday in crucial midterm elections, widely viewed as a referendum on President Donald Trump's tenure.
The vessel was hijacked by pirates last month.
The operation involved a mission-deployed warship, maritime... ACP who led protest outside Delhi Police HQ suspended Delhi Police Assistant Commissioner Manasvi Vashistha has been suspended by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
This suspension follows his participation in a protest by police personnel against his transfer and that of an SHO.
The transfers...
Nov 3, 2026 · via rediff.com
Japanese carmaker Toyota has decided to have a crack at the market for AI processors.
Toyota is the major shareholder in a company called AISIN, a manufacturer of automotive components.
The chip includes built-in STT-MRAM, which stores both model weights and an operating system.
“By combining 16x16, 16x8, and 8x8 bit multiplication, the amount of weight data for the AI model was reduced by 53 percent, from 17.7MB to 9.36MB, while maintaining 16-bit precision.”
AISIN is an established parts supplier and already sells to Toyota and other automakers but hasn’t said if or when it can get this chip into production.
Nov 3, 2026 · via theregister.com
Ahead of the 2026 Kentucky high school volleyball state tournament, the Kentucky Volleyball Coaches Association has named its all-state teams, as well as several top individual awards.
Eight Northern Kentucky players and a coach were honored for their excellent seasons.
Sieg, St. Henry's junior libero, was named the KVCA Defensive Player of the Year.
The University of Cincinnati commit totaled 467 digs and had over 450 serve receptions this year, according to the KVCA press release.
Northern Kentucky has won three Ms. Volleyball awards since it was instituted in 2007.
Nov 2, 2026 · via sports.yahoo.com
Participating retailers have included Home Bargains, B&M, Budgens, Costcutter and Sports Direct, according to Big Brother Watch’s research.
In documented cases, however, alerts have been treated as sufficient to justify confrontation, bag searches, removal and store bans.
Big Brother Watch reported the case of Danielle Horan, who was wrongly placed on Facewatch’s watchlist and labeled a thief.
Facewatch later acknowledged, according to Big Brother Watch, that both its technology and a human “super-recogniser” had mistaken her for someone else.
Big Brother Watch describes the process, as quoted by TechRadar, as a bureaucratic ordeal.
Nov 2, 2026 · via gadgetreview.com
Instead, both were victims of private facial recognition systems that have quietly rolled out across UK high streets in recent years.
It also invited representatives from Sainsbury's, a company that is currently in the process of introducing facial recognition to 200 of its stores.
Crucially, ask which third-party facial recognition company the retailer uses.
Submit a Subject Access Request (SAR): Under UK data protection law, you have the right to see the data held about you.
Send a formal SAR to both the supermarket's data protection officer and the facial recognition provider.
Nov 2, 2026 · via yahoo.com
The government said Westminster, Croydon and 16 other London boroughs had received more than £8.1 million through its Knife Crime Concentrations Fund to support targeted interventions.
In London, knife crime reportedly dropped by 14 per cent over the same period, with knife-related homicides falling by 34 per cent and knife-enabled robberies by 19 per cent.
We know that hearing of knife crime incidents happening in your city can have the opposite effect and we want to stop that,” she said.
Jones added that the government was working with police to focus on areas where knife crime caused the greatest harm.
The initiative forms part of the UK Government’s wider commitment to halve knife crime within a decade through increased enforcement, prevention and early intervention.
Nov 2, 2026 · via arise.tv
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Nov 2, 2026 · via airmedandrescue.com
The United Kingdom Government has launched a new knife crime prevention campaign in parts of London.
In London, “knife crime reportedly declined by 14 per cent over the same period, while knife-related homicides fell by 34 per cent and knife-enabled robbery by 19 per cent.”
We know that hearing of knife crime incidents happening in your city can have the opposite effect and we want to stop that,” she said.
She added that the government was working with the police to target knife crime in areas where it caused the greatest harm.
Commander Pete Stevens of the Metropolitan Police said knife crime had devastating consequences for victims’ families and entire communities.
Nov 2, 2026 · via punchng.com
“Sure, I’ve had my personal information exposed in the Coupang and SK Telecom data breaches, among many others.
Our apartment complex, like many newer developments, relies on smart home services for everyday tasks.
Apartments account for a staggering 65.8 percent of all homes in Korea, according to 2025 data from the Ministry of Data and Statistics.
The potentially exposed data goes beyond basic identifying details, such as residents’ names, dates of birth and contact information.
The potential impact could also extend beyond a single apartment complex.
Nov 2, 2026 · via koreatimes.co.kr
More than a million people have had their faces scanned in a trial of real-time facial recognition technology in Western Australia, resulting in 122 arrests and nine incorrect alerts.
WA police said under the five-month trial, which concluded on Saturday, the technology scanned 1,380,882 faces after 100 deployments across 43 regional and metropolitan locations.
Alongside the 122 arrests, the alerts led officers to engage with 146 registered sex offenders and locate 10 people for a welfare check.
A police spokesperson confirmed the system generated nine incorrect alerts against the total 1.38m scans, meaning there was an error rate of 0.00065%.
“We will only know what the incorrect rate is when the 122 people arrested have their day in court,” he said.
Nov 2, 2026 · via theguardian.com
To resolve these trade-offs, we present the Privacy-Conscious Velocity-Weighted Graph Attention Network (P2-VGAN; retaining “P2” as a legacy designator indicating a privacy-conscious representation rather than a cryptographic claim).
2.4 Weakly supervised video anomaly detection (WSVAD) Frame-level anomaly annotation is labor-intensive and difficult to scale.
3.3 Stage 3: Velocity-weighted attention mechanism (VW-AM) The VW-AM module embeds kinematic priors directly into the graph attention kernel.
7 Conclusion This paper presented P2-VGAN, a lightweight skeleton-based graph attention network for privacy-conscious video anomaly detection on edge CPU gateways.
doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00133 Summary Keywords edge computing , graph attention networks , kinematic features , lightweight deep learning , privacy-conscious surveillance , real-time inference , skeleton-based action analysis , video anomaly detection Citation P. M and C. M. V (2026) P2-VGAN: a lightweight velocity-weighted graph attention network for privacy-conscious edge anomaly detection .
Nov 2, 2026 · via frontiersin.org
Singapore’s Roadbuster system processed 120,000 speeding cases in two years by using existing red-light cameras, according to a CNA report.
Roadbuster was developed by OGP in early 2024 to help the Traffic Police process speeding offences detected by red-light cameras, at a time when road safety concerns were mounting.
Although the cameras could capture images of speeding vehicles, the legacy system lacked the capability to process these cases in bulk.
Over its two-year run, the tool processed approximately 120,000 speeding cases.
Red-light cameras can also help detect speeding, and their enforcement capabilities are increasingly supported by automated data processing.
Nov 1, 2026 · via motorist.sg
6 votes Two familiar features Andy Boxall / Android Authority The Pixel 11 Pro (and the Pixel 11 Pro XL) features a 48-megapixel telephoto camera that enables a 5x optical zoom.
Combine them for a special camera mode Andy Boxall / Android Authority Open portrait mode in the Pixel 11 Pro’s camera app, and you have the choice of 1x, 2x, or 5x zoom.
Get closer with 5x zoom portrait mode Andy Boxall / Android Authority Taking photos of relatively common objects outside is one thing, but the Pixel 11 Pro’s 5x portrait mode is much more versatile than that.
Google Pixel 11 ProGoogle Pixel 11 Pro Excellent cameras • 7 years of Android updates • Built-in magnets with Qi 2.2 MSRP: $1,099.00 The best of Pixel gets even better The Pixel 11 Pro represents the best of Google smartphones in 2026.
The 5x telephoto and portrait mode combo adds another fun, creative tool to the already versatile Pixel 11 Pro’s camera.
Nov 1, 2026 · via androidauthority.com
Listen to this article5 min listen 00:0005:00 The AI investment gamble is starting to pay dividends.
After quarters of mounting pressure to justify their AI spending sprees, major corporations are finally showing investors the money—and it's showing up in their earnings reports.
The question hanging over every earnings call has been the same: when will AI spending translate to actual profits?
The appearance of concrete AI gains in corporate earnings marks a watershed moment for enterprise technology investment.
The earnings evidence is in, and it's reshaping how investors and executives think about AI spending—from speculative bet to strategic necessity.
Nov 1, 2026 · via techbuzz.ai
TCU forward Xavier Edmonds is entering the 2026-27 college basketball season with plenty of expectations, and CBS Sports is recognizing his potential to become one of the top players in the country.
Edmonds arrived at TCU before last season after beginning his collegiate career at the junior college level.
Maintaining that level of production will be essential as TCU looks to compete against some of the nation's strongest programs.
The timing of Edmonds' recognition is also significant because TCU will need experienced players to step forward following changes to its roster.
His experience and production could help provide stability while allowing younger players and newcomers time to adjust to the demands of Big 12 basketball.
Oct 31, 2026 · via sports.yahoo.com
Facial recognition has been a major source of controversy across the globe over the past decade, with human rights campaigners highlighting privacy concerns, but the world’s biggest coffee chain may see it as a worthwhile investment.
In its latest earnings call, Starbucks implied it could be exploring the deployment of facial recognition technology.
Many consumers have already expressed their opposition on platforms like X and Bluesky, with one user dubbing the potential rollout of facial recognition an example of “intrusive and weird business practices.”
However, Starbucks never explicitly named the tech in its earnings call.
Taco Bell owner Yum Brands told investors in an April call that it is testing the use of AI to present customers at its drive-thrus with different menus.
Oct 31, 2026 · via pcmag.com
The system, called “Cat ID,” correctly identified 97 out of 100 of the cats’ owners in nearly 10,000 visits confirmed by the owners, according to a press release from Flappie Technologies AG.
The cat flap’s artificial intelligence therefore makes the decision directly within the device rather than via a cloud connection.
According to the company, the startup from Freienbach in the canton of Schwyz has so far delivered over 3,000 devices to Switzerland and the EU.
The Widler twins have always loved tinkering, as ETH noted in a press release even before the product went on sale.
She was also the one who most often had to clean up after the family’s two cats.
Oct 31, 2026 · via bluewin.ch
Constance Smith, left, 60th Surgical Operations Squadron lead surgical clinical nurse reviewer, and Valerie Roldan, surgical clinical reviewer, pose for a photo at David Grant USAF Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base, California, Oct. 23, 2026.
Surgical clinical reviewers help evaluate surgical patient outcomes and identify opportunities to improve the quality and safety of patient care.
(U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ashley Rowell)
Oct 31, 2026 · via dvidshub.net
Google Deepmind and the World Resources Institute have developed ForTy, an AI map that distinguishes primary forests, timber plantations, and tree crop farms worldwide.
These cover primary forest, naturally regenerating forest, planted forest, plantation forest, tree crops such as oil palm, rubber, or cocoa, and other land.
Planted forests cover about 250 million hectares, and tree crops cover nearly 200 million hectares, mostly in Asia.
The map overestimates primary forest in Asia by about 200 million hectares, largely in Russia's conifer forests.
About two-thirds of Sweden's forest area is planted, and natural forest covers only around one-fifth of the country.
Oct 31, 2026 · via the-decoder.com