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submitted by sabreW4K3 to technology
21 points | 3 comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr3wjz3edd10o

submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
83 points | 15 comments
https://www.thedrive.com/news/garbage-trucks-now-have-ai-cameras-to-score-your-house-and-clock-code-violations

submitted by Powderhorn to technology
84 points | 9 comments
https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-flock-camera-data-shows-how-system-works/

Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people. The hackers say they are also publishing details on how they managed to obtain the software, in the hopes that other people may copy them.

The breach provides an unprecedented look inside a system that Flock has described as protected by on-device encryption. The hackers were able to copy the camera’s storage and recover an encryption key stored on the device, which unlocked videos of thousands of vehicle detections. The hackers shared the material with 404 Media and the transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets, which shared the data with WIRED. 404 Media and WIRED then analyzed those files as part of a joint investigation.

While much of the automatic license plate reader’s most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag.

submitted by remington to technology
188 points | 27 comments
https://www.techspot.com/news/113860-solar-panel-costs-have-plummeted-6-watt-2000.html

submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
24 points | 4 comments
https://www.wired.com/story/burnerverse-maddie-kowalski/

Full title: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work | Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back

submitted by themachinestops to technology
16 points | 3 comments
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/whats-fly-brain-simulations-viral-144806619.html

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75561665

In September 2026, the release of a complete map of an adult male fruit fly’s neural connections gave the internet a new scientific dataset to experiment with (and meme).

Within days, social media users were connecting simulations of the fly’s neural network to everything from Beat Saber and Minecraft to cryptocurrency trading and parallel parking, turning the fruit fly brain into the centerpiece of a growing series of memes and absurd experimental projects.

The trend quickly became known for viral videos showing the simulated fly brain performing increasingly unexpected tasks, such as playing video games, trading Bitcoin and driving.

So, how did a scientific breakthrough become a source of viral internet experiments? Let’s find out. Here’s what’s going on with all the “Fruit Fly Brain Simulation” memes.

Where Did ‘Fly Brain Simulations’ Come From?

The meme originated back on September 3rd, 2026, following the release of MaleCNS v1.0, a complete wiring diagram of an adult male fruit fly’s central nervous system created by HHMI Janelia’s FlyEM team, the Cambridge Connectomics Group and Google Research.

The dataset maps roughly 165,000–166,000 neurons and millions of synaptic connections, traced from electron-microscope images of a real fly.

It was released as an openly available dataset that could be downloaded and simulated, following earlier efforts such as FlyWire’s mapping of the female fruit fly brain.

Later that day, the official News from Google X / Twitter account (@NewsFromGoogle) then posted about the scientific breakthrough, informing people of the marvel of science.

Within days of the release, developers began running leaky-integrate-and-fire simulations of the connectome and connecting the fly’s sensory and motor neurons to external inputs and outputs.

On September 7th, 2026, YouTuber Ro0oney uploaded a video titled “I Put A Fly’s Conscious Brain into Minecraft,” showing how they simulated the fruit fly in the survival game Minecraft.

The video received over hundreds of thousands of views and tens of thousands of likes in just a few days, becoming one of the earliest major viral posts about the fly brain and humorous simulations using it — subsequently kicking off a slew of other jokes.

How Are The ‘Fruit Fly Brain Simulations’ Used In Memes?

As more developers, researchers and social media users experimented with the virtual fruit fly brain, the dataset quickly became a source of memes centered around putting the simulated fly into increasingly unusual situations.

Various clips shared online showed the simulated fruit fly playing games, trading cryptocurrency and controlling a vehicle, with each new experiment adding another use for the publicly available neural network.

One especially viral example shows the simulated fly brain being used to play the virtual-reality rhythm game Beat Saber.

Another viral post shows the fly brain being given $100 to trade Bitcoin, with dopamine neurons stimulated when the fly makes a profit.

Another example shows the simulated fly-brain system driving and attempting to complete the “ultimate test” of parallel parking.

The trend also includes experiments placing the simulated fly brain inside virtual environments and allowing it to explore entirely on its own.

What Are Some Related Memes?

The Fly Brain Simulations trend is part of a broader pattern in which legitimate scientific research can quickly escape its original academic context and become meme fodder online.

Once unusual or unexpected findings from a study reach social media, users can turn the research itself into the basis for jokes, screenshots and viral discussions, often focusing on the strangest details of the findings.

One example is the “Doki Doki Literature Club! Birthing Fanfiction” story, also known as the “Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User,” a viral incident that emerged in early July 2026 after researchers published a study examining how people use AI for creative writing.

Doki Doki Literature Club! Birthing Fanfiction / Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User

The conversation around the viral “Extreme Outlier ChatGPT User” centered on an anonymous ChatGPT user identified in the paper as an “extreme outlier” who had generated thousands of fanfiction prompts about characters from Doki Doki Literature Club!, involving pregnancy, childbirth and related scenarios.

Screenshots and summaries of the findings quickly spread across social media over the summer, particularly Twitter / X, where users joked about the individual’s extraordinary dedication to the niche subject matter.

The findings came from the research paper “AI Fiction in the Wild,” published on June 24th, 2026, by researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Boulder, which analyzed more than 500,000 anonymized English-language ChatGPT conversations from the WildChat dataset.

Download the fly: male-cns.janelia.org/download/

submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
124 points | 6 comments
https://fortune.com/2026/09/15/bernie-sanders-ai-four-day-workweek-bill/

submitted by remington to technology
65 points | 2 comments
https://www.masslive.com/boston/2026/09/boston-drops-flock-after-outside-agencies-gained-access-to-vehicle-data.html

submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
49 points | 2 comments
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/us-coal-biggest-contributor-by-far-to-rise-in-global-emissions/

submitted by alyaza to technology
55 points | 2 comments
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital

We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore.

There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a handful of billionaire extremists use the cover of “VC” to advance an outrageous agenda where they’re accountable to no one.

I’m gonna explain this from a standpoint that almost never gets articulated: I’ve personally raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital funding as CEO of startups, and been directly involved as a board member or advisor in raising hundreds of millions more. I’ve sat in board rooms, across the table from the people I’m talking about here, or been at the industry events that they frequent. So this isn’t sour grapes because these VCs wouldn’t cut me a check, or some chip on my shoulder about these investors due to a business deal. This is what I know about these bad actors because I’m part of the community of creators and inventors who build the things that they used to invest in — back when they still cared about innovation.

Many of the trends in society and politics that people are most angry about, from data centers being forced down everyone’s throats, to all of our favorite apps and services being enshittified, to politicians being paid to ignore the will of the people, are all being supercharged by these cancer capitalists. They have warped the structure of venture capital into a form of oligarchy that answers to no market, no regulators, and no voters. So it’s worth understanding exactly how they did it.

submitted by sabreW4K3 to technology
27 points | 16 comments
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/14/ukgov-begins-killing-off-passwords-for-23-million-users/5296088

submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
62 points | 13 comments
https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/south-korea-gives-400-stalking-victims-app-to-track-their-stalkers-in-real-time-3409077/

submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
34 points | 5 comments
https://www.extremetech.com/internet/microsoft-patches-a-record-974-security-flaws-in-biggest-update-ever