The NYPD will police Labor Day parties with surveillance drones

A Skydio 2 drone. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeIf there’s a drone flying over your backyard party this Labor Day / J’Ouvert / West Indian Day Parade weekend in New York City, it might be the police — because the NYPD have apparently granted themselves the power to surveil the city that way. “If a caller states there is a large crowd, a large party in the backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our a**ets to go up, go check on the party,” said a**istant NYPD commissioner Kaz Daughtry, at a live press conference earlier today.Lest you think we’re taking that out of context, here’s the full quote I just transcribed:We’re going to be utilizing technology, we’re going to be utilizing drones for this J’ouvert weekend. The drones are going to be responding to non-priority calls and…

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The NYPD will police Labor Day parties with surveillance drones

I stopped using motherboard audio after one cheap USB DAC solved every problem I had

Your SSD has built-in maintenance tools that Windows keeps hidden from you

I stopped using Claude for coding, but now I can’t live without it for everything else

You don’t need a 4K monitor to make DLSS 4.5 worth it

ChatGPT finally got the memory transparency feature it needed — it still isn’t enough to beat Claude

Microsoft has spent six months turning Windows Terminal into a rival to Warp, and it’s working

I self-host my PC game library with Moonlight instead of paying for a second PC or GeForce Now

PlayStation exclusives aren’t coming to PC anymore

This Altoids tin ESP32 computer comes with a keyboard, and yes, it runs DOOM

Claude is still the best agentic coding tool, but Anthropic’s tightening grip is the best argument yet for going local

These 5 simple habits make my PC feel much faster

Volvo teases a new affordable EV to replace discontinued EX30

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