Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/
https://www.wired.com/story/sfpd-drone-video-leak-surveillance/
WIRED
A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.
Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers
https://twitter.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159
https://twitter.com/a_green_being/status/2076598897779020159
X (formerly Twitter)
A Green Being (@a_green_being) on X
@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...
Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk
https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk
GitHub
GitHub - clawkwork/clawk: Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop - clawkwork/clawk
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/
TechCrunch
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing 'serious concerns' over civil liberties and privacy | TechCrunch
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_report
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_report
Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-07-13/Special report
For background on Wikipedia and the UK Online Safety Act, see prior Signpost coverage: "Legal status of Wikimedia projects 'unclear' under potential European legislation" (Special report, February 4, 2023, analysis from when the Online Safety Act was still…
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html
https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html
Get-Inscribe
Apple's New Speech API vs Whisper: The First Real Benchmark
SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances. Apple never published accuracy numbers. Here they are, with raw transcripts you can rescore.
PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pgdog/jobs/uWymUYy-founding-software-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pgdog/jobs/uWymUYy-founding-software-engineer
Y Combinator
Founding Software Engineer at PgDog | Y Combinator
Hey! PgDog is a tiny database startup, based out of SF, with a global team. We’re scaling the world’s most popular database, PostgreSQL. PgDog is in production, used by dozens of companies, large and small. The problem is big, but so is the opportunity, and…
Ask HN: Should I do a masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896372
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896372
xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Git Repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket
https://www.internationalcyberdigest.com/xais-grok-build-cli-uploads-entire-git-repositories-to-a-google-cloud-bucket/
https://www.internationalcyberdigest.com/xais-grok-build-cli-uploads-entire-git-repositories-to-a-google-cloud-bucket/
International Cyber Digest
xAI's Grok Build CLI Uploads Entire Git repositories to a Google Cloud Bucket
A wire-level analysis showed xAI's coding agent uploading full Git repositories, private code and unredacted secrets included, to a company cloud bucket. A day later the uploads silently stopped. xAI has said nothing about scope, retention, or deletion.
A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking
https://entropicthoughts.com/full-body-mri-earns-you-a-base-jump
https://entropicthoughts.com/full-body-mri-earns-you-a-base-jump
Entropicthoughts
A full body MRI earns you a year of smoking
The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.php
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/meta-social-media-teenagers-22337724.php
SFGATE
The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
Behemoths like Meta and Reddit might have to create teen-friendly versions.
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers (SF)
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SalesPatriot/df223727-5781-433e-bc75-2aa5bf8dc8d7
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SalesPatriot/df223727-5781-433e-bc75-2aa5bf8dc8d7
Ashbyhq
Full Stack Engineer (San Francisco)
Experienced full stack developer responsible for building the application's core infrastructure and features.
Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes
https://1shotchallenge.ai
https://1shotchallenge.ai
One Shot Challenge
One Shot Challenge — One Prompt, One AI Model, One Shot
One prompt, one AI model, one shot. Write a single prompt, run it once with any model, and the result is your entry. Six winners take a GTA VI copy (first place a PS5 too), one of them chosen by community vote. Winners showcased at the SIGGRAPH Hack Awards…
An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2drrv6q54o
Bbc
The Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
Emily Eden travelled across northern India in the 1830s, sketching princes, warriors, hill communities and even animals.