After 404 Media contacted Flock for comment, the exposed panel became no longer available. Flock then declined to comment.

Companies that use AI regularly turn to overseas workers to train their algorithms, often because the labor is cheaper. But the nature of Flock’s business—creating a surveillance system that constantly monitors U.S. residents—means that footage might be more sensitive than other AI training jobs.

Flock accidentally exposed training materials and a panel which tracked what its AI annotators were working on. It showed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of U.S. communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.

NEW: With dwindling oversight, cattle are grazing where they’re not supposed to and in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. This can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening wildfire risk.

A lawsuit previously alleged that David Gentile—just pardoned by Trump— was an associate of Russian organized crime figure and oligarch Michael Cherney. A business news outlet found that Cherney’s daughters benefited from some of Gentile’s earliest dealings.

Exclusive: Airbus faces new quality problem on dozens of A320 jets, sources say reut.rs/4iDVO68

Something very strange is happening to the Apple Podcasts app. Over the last few months I’ve found the Podcasts app will randomly open religion/spirituality podcasts. Sometimes app opens by itself and directs people to potentially malicious website. Apple no response www.404media.co/someone-is-t...

May he end up just like Rodrigo “I don’t care about human rights” Duterte. In an ICC jail.

‘It would take 11 seconds to hit the ground’: the roughneck daredevils who built the Empire State Building

In the wake of the longest government shutdown in US history, an ongoing self-inflicted tariff war, and his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, President Trump’s approval rating has cratered to 36 percent. Also tanking? His meme coins.

About that cognitive test bsky.app/profile/mark...

I see the latest Jubilee video is "Piers Morgan vs 20 Woke Liberals", so rather than watch that, watch this video where I explain why I despise Jubilee "debates".

Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are taking NASCAR to federal court Monday over antitrust allegations.

Chinese export controls are forcing European companies to rethink how they operate and piling on extra costs.

The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,000 on Monday. Hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deploy military personnel to help survivors u.afp.com/Shu6

Revelations that convenience store chain Ministop falsified expiration dates on fresh foods have left its in-store prepared items, most notably its signature handmade onigiri rice balls, at a critical juncture.

A Hong Kong student who was reportedly detained by police after handing out flyers calling for an independent probe into a deadly fire that killed 146, was seen leaving a police station on Monday. In full: buff.ly/UZzLXiy

Number of refugees allowed to settle in UK under UN schemes falls 26% in a year

Australia ban offers test on social media harm. Australia's under-16 social media ban will make the nation a real-life laboratory on how best to tackle the technology's impact on young people, experts say u.afp.com/Sh6j

Long-lost Rubens painting sells for $2.7m at auction

Amazing headline. h/t @brianstelter.bsky.social

Reuters followed the fortunes of a group of raw recruits who enlisted as part of Ukraine’s drive to refresh its depleted ranks. None of the 11 are still fighting reut.rs/4own9bJ

80 years ago, the US executed Nazis for killing prisoners of war and survivors of attacks. Who will hold accountable the Nazi sympathizers who are doing the same today?

How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide

Taiwan airline seeks role in 'whole of society' defence with surveillance flights to counter China reut.rs/4p9D68D

As President Donald Trump reduces deployments in Europe, European powers face a likely future of having to defend Ukraine, and possibly the rest of their eastern frontier, with limited U.S. backing.

“It’s a mockery of due process. It’s a mockery of our constitutional rights.”

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

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Bank Indonesia will bring rupiah to trade at 16,500 per dollar next year, governor says reut.rs/3KrTy53

Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators. n.pr/48brg8f

It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers

At what point should we stop reporting #Trump's claims that there is a "real chance" of a peace plan for #Ukraine working (except in passing)? How many times have we been here? How many times has this come to nothing? Where's the indication that #Putin might stop the invasion?

'Hindi mababayaran ang ICC,' lawyer says after Duterte loses appeal

Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this

📌⚖️🇺🇸👇🏾 Denaturalization has a horrible history in the United States. It has been used against women who married to foreign men for sexist reasons and it’s been used against people of color for racist reasons.

Walz on calling for Trump to release MRI results: "Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, ate, played Yahtzee. This guy is apparently in a room ranting. It's not normal behavior. It's not healthy. Has anyone in history ever had an MRI & had no idea what it was for?"

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle voiced serious concerns over the weekend over reports on a follow-up strike that killed survivors on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean, as the Senate and House armed services panels pledged to conduct “vigorous oversight": https://cnn.it/441xbKu

GlitterLab, a company in southern Poland, specializes in creating unique Christmas decorations. Known as the "magicians of glass," they craft custom ornaments for clients like Swarovski and Harrods.

A+ headline work from the AP apnews.com/article/dona...

Imagine being so far gone into Trumpism/Republicanism that you would say this to someone who was shot in the head in an act of political violence.

A racist TV show made with the assistance of Sora has attracted millions of viewers. Tyler Austin Harper argues that it could be “the harbinger of a new entertainment landscape where extremist AI shows will jockey for our attention with more anodyne ones”:

ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn

Seems bad

Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft AGM, against management reut.rs/48c6OUA

Japanese "One Piece" singer Maki Otsuki was forced to halt her performance on stage in Shanghai, her management said, one of the latest events hit by a diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing. In full: buff.ly/hBVbsA3

Claims that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr took kickbacks from infrastructure projects cause outrage in the Philippines.

Japan ‘One Piece’ singer stopped mid-performance as Japan-China relations sour

Solidarity demonstrations with Palestinians come as the death toll from Israel's war on Gaza crosses 70,000.