public safety

West Midlands Police’s decision to block Microsoft Copilot after an AI-generated error helped justify a contentious ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans laid bare a painful intersection of operational policing, community trust, and unchecked generative‑AI use—and it should matter to every IT leader and...

The chief constable of West Midlands Police, Craig Guildford, has retired after an independent review and parliamentary scrutiny found that his force’s recommendation to bar away supporters from Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Europa League visit rested in part on a fabricated item generated by Microsoft’s...

A high‑stakes policing decision in England has been exposed as partly founded on an AI fabrication: West Midlands Police included a reference to a non‑existent West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv fixture in an intelligence dossier that helped justify banning Maccabi supporters from a Europa League...

The West Midlands Police decision to advise Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending a Europa League fixture at Villa Park has landed as a defining embarrassment for modern policing: a public-safety judgement built on weak, poorly documented...

Maharashtra has begun a statewide rollout of an AI-powered investigative platform — MahaCrimeOS AI — developed under the state’s MARVEL initiative with Microsoft and local partners, moving from a Nagpur pilot to plans for deployment across roughly 1,100 police stations and positioning the state...

Nagpur’s police have begun piloting an AI-driven crowd management platform called AI Nirikshak during the Maharashtra Winter Assembly Session 2025 — a deployment that combines computer vision, real-time video analytics, heat‑mapping, drone feeds and integration with police databases under a...

SiRcom’s SMART Alert (SiSA) central control software contains a remote, high‑impact authentication bypass that — if left unmitigated — could let unauthenticated actors trigger or manipulate outdoor sirens and other emergency alerting actions from the network, with direct safety and public‑trust...

The Northern Territory government has moved to restore and sharpen rules for pet crocodile ownership, releasing a draft "Dangerous Animal Guideline — Crocodiles as Pets" that would re-establish licensed crocodile keeping with new identification, enclosure, fee and emergency-response requirements...

Three unrelated but consequential developments — a fresh round of layoffs at job site Indeed, a sweeping Supreme Court order to clear stray dogs from public and institutional premises, and a leadership exit at quick‑commerce player Zepto’s meat vertical — have landed this week with implications...

Bonner County commissioners and department heads delivered a dense set of operational updates that ranged from last-minute election logistics to urgent public-safety concerns over suspected fentanyl deaths, a budget‑squeezing Road & Bridge equipment loss, and a deliberate push toward enterprise...

The Supreme Court will deliver its order in the high‑profile stray dogs case on November 7 after hearing chief secretaries from the states and Union Territories and pressing for urgent compliance with the Animal Birth Control rules amid mounting public‑safety and animal‑welfare concerns...

The University of South Carolina Upstate’s Upstate Crime Analysis Center (UCAC) has launched an expanded, Microsoft‑backed program to bring evidence‑based crime analysis, training and free digital resources directly into community hands — a short, practical intervention that promises...

A quiet technological funeral is underway: two everyday keystones of the last two decades — Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system and the 3G mobile network in Aotearoa New Zealand — are being retired, and with them go a raft of practical dependencies, safety questions, and a surprising wave of...

Grand Traverse County is poised to approve a sweeping set of technology investments that will accelerate cloud migration across multiple departments, add 100 Microsoft Copilot AI seats, and launch a formal planning process for a new consolidated justice center — moves that collectively mark a...

Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free support for Windows 10, warning that tens — possibly hundreds — of millions of still-working PCs will be left exposed when mainstream updates and security patches stop on October 14, 2025. The advocacy group’s letter to Microsoft’s CEO...

Consumer watchdog Consumer Reports has formally urged Microsoft to extend free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing that the current one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) option and paywall risk leaving hundreds...

Consumer advocates have formally demanded that Microsoft reverse course and continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced end‑of‑support date, warning that the planned cutoff on October 14, 2025 will leave hundreds of millions of still‑working PCs exposed...

Redaction automation is quietly becoming one of the most consequential — and immediately practical — AI use cases in government, and Simpson Associates’ RedactXpert is now a textbook example of how targeted AI can deliver measurable operational gains while fitting inside existing Microsoft cloud...

A calm morning was abruptly shattered along one of Orange County’s most iconic corridors as law enforcement responded to an active shooter at a Huntington Beach condominium near Pacific Coast Highway and Coral Cay. The incident, which unfolded just after sunrise, not only forced the temporary...

As emergency services across the globe face a surge in operational demands and heightened expectations for rapid, reliable response, the race to modernize IT service management (ITSM) infrastructure is on. Against the backdrop of relentless workload fluctuations, budgetary constraints, and...