'Autofocus' specs promise sharp vision, near or far

Start-up firms and researchers are working on lenses that can change their focus.

Pro basketball player and 4 youths arrested in connection to ransomware crimes

Suspects were allegedly involved in a string of ransomware breaches.

EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword

This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Noam Shemtov. We are in a constant dialogue with Internet search engines, ranging from the mundane to the confessional. We ask search engines everything: What movies are playing (and which are worth seeing)? Where’s the nearest

EFF • 9h

No Face, No Case: California’s S.B. 627 Demands Cops Show Their Faces

Across the country, people are collecting and sharing footage of masked law enforcement officers from both federal and local agencies deputized to do so-called immigration enforcement: arresting civilians, in some cases violently and/or warrantlessly . That footage is part of

EFF • 10h

Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X

xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.

Ars Technica • 13h

Axon’s Draft One is Designed to Defy Transparency

Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has

EFF • 13h

EFF's Guide to Getting Records About Axon's Draft One AI-Generated Police Reports

The moment Axon Enterprise announced a new product, Draft One, that would allow law enforcement officers to use artificial intelligence to automatically generate incident report narratives based on body-worn camera audio, everyone in the police accountability community

EFF • 13h

Four arrested in connection with M&S and Co-op cyber-attacks

Three men and one woman - aged between 17 and 20 - have been arrested in London and the Midlands.

BBC: Tech • 18h

Politics and USAID cuts put a telehealth program on life support

Despite poor internet and power cuts, Bangladesh’s telehealth service connected rural residents to city doctors until this year.

Rest of World • 19h

It's EFF's 35th Anniversary (And We're Just Getting Started)

Today we celebrate 35 years of EFF bearing the torch for digital rights against the darkness of the world, and I couldn’t be prouder. EFF was founded at a time when governments were hostile toward technology and clueless about how it would shape your life. While threats from

EFF • 22h

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