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Protecting kids online is the stated goal. What the mechanism apparently requires is a surveillance app-like system that assesses every smartphone user’s age, not just a child’s.

A Florida teenager is facing several charges after deputies say she used an AI-altered photo to frame her ex-boyfriend in a school shooting threat.

Representative AI image Florida scientists have used machine learning to identify when python-removal surveys are most likely to capture Burmese pythons with the greatest potential to influence population growth. Researchers from the University of Florida combined demographic information about individual snakes with environmental and survey conditions to develop a Weighted Removal Index, which assigns greater…

After officials in Florida’s St. Lucie County opted to end use of Flock cameras and began removing them, they discovered several devices that were not connected to any local agencies. The Washington Post reported that the county leaders thought they had 52 cameras, but found 14 additional ones that were unaccounted for and unpermitted.

A Pensacola-based fishing charter pulled a large military-style drone from Gulf of Mexico waters over the weekend, surprising both crew and onlookers.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed suit against Netflix on September 9, 2026, in St. Johns County Circuit Court, alleging the company secretly tracking users , collecting behavioral data from subscribers, including data linked to children’s profiles, and used it to power an advertising business it launched in November 2022. The complaint spans 66 pages…

The ShinyHunters hacking group has published hundreds of thousands of files from a Florida state database of vehicles and driver information. The hackers said they published the stolen data on its leak site “because the victim did not pay a ransom or cooperate and comply” with the hackers’ demands.