{"slug": "flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount", "title": "Flock shock rocks cop cam vendor as protests mount", "summary": "The Register reports that protests are mounting against police body camera vendor Axon, with the company facing backlash over its AI-powered products. The article highlights concerns from civil liberties groups and the public about the use of facial recognition and other surveillance technologies in law enforcement.", "body_md": "### TOP STORIES\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads\n\nFaster than Blackwell, but still no replacement for AMD or Nvidia ... yet\n\n-\nAI and ML\n\n#### Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose\n\nEight-way ballot on AI code puts the distro's fractious democracy through its paces\n\n-\nON-PREM\n\n#### EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters\n\nState and local regulators would decide whether the public gets a say on minor-source permits\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### OpenAI's upcoming Jalapeño chip looks like it'll be an inference beast\n\n128 chips, 1.7 exaFLOPS, and 27 TB of HBM give Altman and crew a leg up over Blackwell, and maybe even Rubin\n\n-\nSYSTEMS\n\n#### What Nvidia's first Groq 3 LPU benchmarks tell us about its $20B gamble\n\nGemma 4 31B performance tests offer a best-case scenario for next-gen dataflow accelerators\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot\n\nThe lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?\n\n-\n#### FOSS smashed one Microsoft monopoly. After 20 years of failure, it's time to smash another\n\nWord up\n\n-\n#### GNOME can look like Windows – and Flashback can do it without extensions\n\nNew 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way\n\n-\n#### A moment of silence, please, for the final release of Debian on x86-32\n\nNew Debian versions hit FOSSland in the form of 13.6 and 12.15\n\n-\n#### Baddies caught exploiting extensions bugs with perfect 10 scores on vulnerable Joomla websites\n\nFlaws in iCagenda, Balbooa Forms extensions can impact open source CMS that powers a million sites worldwide\n\n-\n#### Frame: A new X11 server – implemented directly in assembly\n\nJoins yserver, Phoenix, and of course XLibre – and outlier Arcan", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount/5292691", "published_at": "2026-08-26 20:19:54+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 21:20:38.212242+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Axon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/flock-shock-rocks-cop-cam-vendor-as-protests-mount.jsonld"}}