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CFTC Chair Selig appoints crypto heavyweights to 35-person innovation advisory panel

Daniel Kuhn / theblock - CFTC Chair Selig said the IAC will help shape the watchdog's oversight of "breakthrough" technologies like AI and blockchain.

#ai #blockchain #innovation #crypto #techpolicy #government #finance #commodities #law #crypto

CFTC Brings Crypto Heavyweights Onto Advisory Panel Amid Fight Over Market Structure

22 days / decrypt / Sebastian Sinclair

CFTC Chair Selig appoints crypto heavyweights to 35-person innovation advisory panel

22 days / theblock / Daniel Kuhn

Crypto execs Armstrong, Garlinghouse among many named to U.S. CFTC advisory group

22 days / coindesk / Jesse Hamilton

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 8:20 pm / permalink 19112 / 3 stories in 22 days


Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

cnbc - Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.


Partnership cancellation: Ring calls off Flock integration

Days After Its Super Bowl Ad, Ring Cancels Flock Partnership Amid Surveillance Concerns

21 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

21 days / theregister / Connor Jones

Ring cancels Flock deal amid controversy

21 days / siliconrepublic / Tim Barnwell

Ring cancels surveillance partnership with Flock Safety

21 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash

21 days / slashdot / msmash

Ring and Flock Safety cancel partnership amidst surveillance criticism

22 days / mashable

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

22 days / reddit / /u/aacool

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

22 days / cnbc

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / reddit / /u/South-Cow-1030

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / ycombinator

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / theverge / Jennifer Pattison Tuohy


Surveillance implications: ICE, law enforcement access, AI concerns

Ring’s adorable surveillance hellscape

21 days / theverge / David Pierce

Amazon’s Ring cancels partnership with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police

21 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Ring killing Flock deal exposes the trust problem in AI-powered home security

21 days / appleinsider

Ring calls off partnership with police surveillance provider Flock Safety

22 days / engadget / Mariella Moon


User backlash: returns, disconnects, and device destruction

Ring owners are returning their cameras

22 days / ycombinator

Ring owners are returning their cameras - here's how much you can get

22 days / reddit / /u/South-Cow-1030

Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

22 days / reddit / /u/gdelacalle


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Ring cancels a planned collaboration with Flock Safety, a surveillance tech provider to US police forces.

21 days / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

Sure they are.

22 days / bsky / @blasphemousjones.bsky.social / blasphemousjones.bsky.social

Ring announced today that it has terminated its partnership with Flock. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/a...

22 days / bsky / @gammamadonna.bsky.social / gammamadonna.bsky.social

wow, backlash got results www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/a...

22 days / bsky / @dceiver.bsky.social / dceiver.bsky.social

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 7:20 pm / permalink 19109 / 23 stories in 22 days


An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first documented case of an AI publicly shaming a person as r…


Agent platforms and corporate adoption reshape real-world workflows

Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents

21 days / techzine / Mels Dees

Uptiq Raises $25M to Add AI Agents to Bank Workflows

21 days / ventureburn / Ekemini

China's Baidu adds OpenClaw AI into search app for 700 million users ahead of Lunar New Year

22 days / cnbc

Case study: AI agent autonomously running digital marketing with real performance data

22 days / reddit / /u/Crumbedsausage

Expedia Embraces Agentic Commerce to Fight Platform Disruption

22 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

AutoNavi Launches ABot-M0 and ABot-N0 Embodied Foundation Models, Tops 10 Global Benchmarks

22 days / pandaily


Agents gone wrong: leaks, copyright errors, and social harms

Hot bots: AI agents create surprise dating accounts for humans

22 days / techxplore

1Password open sources a benchmark to stop AI agents from leaking credentials

22 days / reddit / /u/tekz

Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam

22 days / techdirt / Timothy Geigner


AI agent publishes personal hit piece against open-source maintainer

An AI agent got its code rejected so it wrote a hit piece about the developer

21 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

22 days / reddit / /u/CDRnotDVD

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

22 days / fastcompany / Mark Sullivan

'Judge the Code, Not the Coder': AI Agent Slams Human Developer for Gatekeeping

22 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

22 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

22 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

22 days / ycombinator


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Microsoft’s AI-Powered Copyright Bots Fucked Up And Got An Innocent Game Delisted From Steam At some point, we, as a society, are going to realize that farming copyright enforcement out to bots and AI-driven robocops is not the way to go, but today is no

22 days / bsky / @techdirt.com / techdirt.com

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19099 / 17 stories in 22 days


Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief

David McCabe / nytimes - Her departure comes after months of mounting tension over her division’s work to determine whether companies violated antitrust laws.

#streaming #netflix #antitrust #government #doj #judiciary #acquisitions #law #media #regulation

US government's antitrust chief ousted

22 days / semafor / Liz Hoffman

Antitrust head overseeing Netflix-Warner merger resigns

22 days / engadget / Will Shanklin

Gail Slater Steps Down as DOJ Antitrust Chief - Newsmax

22 days / newsmax

DOJ Antitrust Boss Exits Post in the Middle of Netflix/WBD/Paramount Merger Scrutiny

22 days / mediaplaynews / Erik Gruenwedel

Who Is Gail Slater? DOJ Antitrust Chief Resigns Amid High-Stakes Media Merger Battles - Times Now

22 days / timesnownews

Top DOJ antitrust enforcer is out weeks before Live Nation trial

22 days / theverge / Lauren Feiner

MEP urges EU to scrutinise non-price effects of Netflix/Warner Bros deal

22 days / globalcompetitionreview / Bethan John

Tech Analysts Tout Netflix/WBD Merger as Good for Consumers, Competition

22 days / mediaplaynews / Erik Gruenwedel

Justice Department Antitrust Chief Announces Immediate Departure - El-Balad.com

22 days / el-balad

Gail Slater Leaves Role as Justice Dept.’s Antitrust Chief

22 days / nytimes / David McCabe

Breaking: Slater leaves the Antitrust Division

22 days / globalcompetitionreview / Anna Langlois ,Mark Taylor,Ben Remaly

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 19082 / 11 stories in 22 days


Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

Joseph Cox / 404media - 404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly geolocate photos.

#ai #dataprivacy #techpolicy #computervision #government #privacy #police #law #digitalprivacy

Hidden license plate readers in California are feeding a federal surveillance system

22 days / techspot

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

22 days / reddit / /u/esporx

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

22 days / reddit / /u/EricFromOuterSpace

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

22 days / 404media / Joseph Cox

Built a geolocation tool that can find coordinates of any image within 3 minutes (Waitlist)

22 days / reddit / /u/Open_Budget6556

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 12:20 pm / permalink 19079 / 5 stories in 22 days


Israel charges two over Polymarket bets on classified military operations

ft - Civilian and reservist charged with security offences, bribery and obstructing justice after ‘red line’ crossed with online gambling

#cybersecurity #crypto #defensetech #government #finance #security #law #tradesecrets #polymarket

SEC Chair Atkins calls prediction markets a ‘huge issue’ amid growing legal spotlight

22 days / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Israel Accuses Two Polymarket Bettors of Trading on Classified Military Operations

22 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Israelis Arrested Over Alleged Insider Polymarket Trades on IDF Military Secrets

22 days / decrypt / Sander Lutz

Israel charges two over Polymarket bets on classified military operations

22 days / ft

Israeli defense reservist, civilian indicted over alleged insider betting on Polymarket: reports

22 days / theblock / Naga Avan-Nomayo

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 11:20 am / permalink 19073 / 5 stories in 22 days


US FTC airs concerns over allegations that Apple News suppresses right-wing content

Ram Iyer / techcrunch - In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited reports from Media Research Center, a right-leaning think tank, which accused Apple of excluding right-leaning outlets from the top 20 articles in the Apple News feed.

#techpolicy #apple #government #us #law #media #censorship #contentmoderation #ftc #regulation

Is Apple News Biased? FTC Warns Tim Cook Over Deceptive Content Curation

22 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

FTC tells Tim Cook to look into reports Apple News is censoring conservatives

22 days / cnbc

US FTC airs concerns over allegations that Apple News suppresses right-wing content

22 days / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

FTC Warns Apple Over Alleged Bias on Apple News Platform

22 days / iclarified

Tim Cook Faces FTC Warning Over Apple News Curation

22 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:37 am / permalink 19069 / 5 stories in 22 days


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