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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

21 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


Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

Chris Stokel-Walker / fastcompany - Want to use Discord from next month? You’ll have to hand over a photo of your ID or a scan of your face to verify you’re of age. It’s part of a new process introduced by the chat app aimed at ensuring no one underage is using the platform. All new and exi…

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #apps #community #instantmessaging #contentmoderation #digitalid #digitalprivacy

Your Discord Data Is Being Sold to Law Enforcement and AI Companies

22 days / reddit / /u/esporx

Discord Just Killed Anonymity

22 days / ycombinator

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

22 days / reddit / /u/_fastcompany

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

22 days / ycombinator

Stoat wins traction as users look beyond Discord

22 days / techspot

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

22 days / fastcompany / Chris Stokel-Walker

Discord launches global teen safety settings with age verification

25 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19103 / 7 stories in 22 days


Laser weapon that shut down El Paso's skies was LOCUST system

Colin Demarest / axios - The counter-drone weapon that caused a shutdown of El Paso's airspace on Wednesday was AeroVironment's LOCUST, a 20-kilowatt laser system, Axios has confirmed.Why it matters: The Army sees the cutting-edge weapon as a way to combat drones without firing e…

#techpolicy #defensetech #government #aviation #aerospace #DHS #immigration #drone #faa #regulation

Startup in spotlight: How INLEAP’s lasers protect critical infrastructure from drones

22 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

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22 days / bsky / @tambria.bsky.social / tambria.bsky.social

Laser weapon that shut down El Paso's skies was LOCUST system

22 days / axios / Colin Demarest

Oracle suits up for Air Force Cloud One program with $88M contract

22 days / theregister / Dan Robinson

El Paso airspace closure was reportedly triggered by the CBP’s use of an anti-drone laser

22 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19101 / 5 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

21 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

21 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


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


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


Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Counter OpenAI-Backed Super PACs in 2026 Midterms

Maria Garcia / implicator - Anthropic puts $20 million behind a pro-regulation super PAC, setting up a direct clash with OpenAI-backed political groups ahead of the 2026 midterms.

#techpolicy #anthropic #openai #aiethics #genai #government #election #ads #regulation

The move is seen as an effort to push back against OpenAI’s lobbying efforts. https://sherwood.news/power/anthropic-donates-usd20-million-to-pro-ai-regulation-pac/

22 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Anthropic Pledges $20 Million to Political Group Backing AI Safety Rules

22 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Anthropic raises $30bn in funding round valuing AI group at $350bn

22 days / ft

Anthropic donates $20 million to pro-AI regulation PAC

22 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic promises to cover consumer electricity costs from new data center construction

22 days / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Counter OpenAI-Backed Super PACs in 2026 Midterms

22 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Anthropic gives $20 million to group pushing for AI regulations ahead of 2026 elections

22 days / cnbc

Anthropic to donate $20 million to US political group backing AI regulation

22 days / reddit / /u/app1310

Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI

22 days / nytimes / Theodore Schleifer

Anthropic Enters Midterm-Election Showdown Over AI Regulation

22 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 10:37 am / permalink 19068 / 10 stories in 22 days


Russia blocks WhatsApp as messaging app crackdown gathers pace

cnbc - WhatsApp on Thursday said Russia had attempted to "fully block" its service, with 100 million users affected. The Kremlin later confirmed the move.

#techpolicy #meta #internet #apps #russia #censorship #telecommunications #instantmessaging #encryption #digitalprivacy

Russia blocks Meta’s WhatsApp, the country’s most popular messaging app

22 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Social media platform WhatsApp has accused Russian authorities of trying to block the service as part of an effort to exert more control over the country’s internet sphere.

22 days / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

Russia seeks to block WhatsApp amid crackdown

22 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Russia blocks WhatsApp as messaging app crackdown gathers pace

22 days / cnbc

Russian soldiers criticize Telegram slowdown as Moscow blocks WhatsApp

22 days / techspot

WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia

22 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Russia targets WhatsApp as it pushes homegrown messenger app

22 days / politico / Eva Hartog

Russia Moves to Block WhatsApp, Pushes 100M Users to State-Controlled 'Surveillance App'

22 days / decrypt / Vismaya V

WhatsApp Basically Wiped from Russian Internet

22 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Back to Top / Thursday, February 12, 2026, 6:22 am / permalink 19059 / 9 stories in 22 days


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