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STOW, Mass. — A Stow police officer is facing possible disciplinary action after the department found he repeatedly used police databases to obtain information about a woman he previously dated.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said she ended the relationship with Officer Jason Rogers about five years ago. She said the relationship was abusive and that she changed her identity, phone number and social media habits after leaving.

This summer, she said she discovered Rogers had used the Flock camera system to search for her location while he was working for the Stow Police Department.

Attorneys for congressional candidate Rebecca Cooke have sent a cease-and-desist letter to U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R- Prairie du Chien, over Van Orden's use of deepfake videos.

Cooke, a Democrat, is challenging Van Orden this November in a closely-watched race for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional district.

Van Orden has repeatedly used artificial intelligence to post videos to his X account, showing Cooke saying things she never said.

A Black Ohio man said he is "traumatized" after police released a K-9 on him during a traffic stop during an investigation of a vehicle that was mistakenly believed to have been stolen, body camera footage shows.

The Toledo branch of the NAACP this week called the release of the police dog "unwarranted" and "inhumane."

Brandon Upchurch, 38, of Toledo, told ABC News he was bitten seven times on his forearm and elbow by the K-9 after being pulled over on April 11 and has been unable to work since.

"My elbow was already messed up," he told ABC News correspondent Ike Ejiochi. "I can't do anythi

The message from the police in Southern California was alarming: a deadly viper had been spotted in a tree.

The follow-up was a relief and a little bit funny, but alarming in a different way: The image that was offered as evidence of this rare sighting was fake --- it had been generated by artificial intelligence.

"We have received reports of a snake believed to be a Gaboon Viper, last seen in a tree within a residential neighborhood," the police in Santa Ana, southeast of Los Angeles, [said in their initial alert](https://www.facebook.com/santaanapd/posts/pfbid0RhGBVTsTuH5dirT147ZCXhEmxKSeR

A catastrophic incident caused by an AI coding agent resulted in around 48,000 files being deleted and the repository's Git object database getting destroyed in the process.

The news of the fiasco, which first surfaced on Reddit, quickly spread throughout the internet, to a mix of laughter and facepalming from the developer community.

A software developer posted a new thread on Reddit to share a recent experience. They tasked an AI coding assistant with a series of repairs to a collection of