Public records from animal testing from Neuralink’s animal research. The documents include

veterinary records, first made public last year, that contain gruesome portrayals of suffering

reportedly endured by as many as a dozen of Neuralink’s primate subjects, all of whom needed

to be euthanized. These records could serve as the basis for any potential SEC probe into

Musk’s comments about Neuralink, which has faced multiple federal investigations as the

company moves toward its goal of releasing the first commercially available brain-computer

interface for humans.

Public records from animal testing from Neuralink’s animal research. The documents include

veterinary records, first made public last year, that contain gruesome portrayals of suffering

reportedly endured by as many as a dozen of Neuralink’s primate subjects, all of whom needed

to be euthanized. These records could serve as the basis for any potential SEC probe into

Musk’s comments about Neuralink, which has faced multiple federal investigations as the

company moves toward its goal of releasing the first commercially available brain-computer

interface for humans.

Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police

patrol decisions directed by crime prediction software called PredPol. In 2020, I discovered

access to PredPol prediction data through a page on the Los Angeles Police Department’s

public-facing website that contained a list of PredPol reporting areas with links. Those links led

to an unsecured cloud storage space on Amazon Web Services belonging to PredPol that

contained tens of thousands of documents, including PDFs, geospatial data, and HTML files for

dozens of departments, not just the LAPD. The data was left open and available, without asking

for a password to access it.

It’s a total of 7.8 million predictions for 70 different clients of PredPol. These took the form of

single page maps indicating addresses, each marking the center of a 500-by-500-foot box that

the software recommended officers patrol during specific shifts to deter crime. Each report’s

HTML code was formatted with the prediction’s date, time, and location.