Developer Unlocks Newly Enshittified Echelon Exercise Bikes But Can’t Legally Release His Software

An app developer has jailbroken Echelon exercise bikes to restore functionality that the company put behind a paywall last month, but copyright laws prevent him from being allowed to legally release it.  Last month, Peloton competitor Echelon pushed a firmware update to its exercise equipment that forces its machines to connect to the company’s servers…

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ChatGPT Answered ‘High Risk’ Questions About Suicide, New Study Finds

Popular chatbots offered direct responses to questions about self-harm methods while hesitating to answer questions seeking therapeutic help directly, according to a new study that looked at how ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini handled suicide-related questions. Of “particular concern” was that ChatGPT provided direct answered to high-risk questions 78 percent of the time, and both ChatGPT…

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Flock Wants to Partner With Consumer Dashcam Company That Takes ‘Trillions of Images’ a Month

Flock, the surveillance company with automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras in thousands of communities around the U.S., is looking to integrate with a company that makes AI-powered dashcams placed inside peoples’ personal cars, multiple sources told 404 Media. The move could significantly increase the amount of data available to Flock, and in turn its…

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Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies on Monday, warning them that they will “answer for it” if they knowingly harm children and urging the companies to see their products “through the eyes of a parent, not a predator.”  The letter, addressed to Anthropic, Apple, Chai AI, OpenAI,…

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