Some local police have access to an ICE facial recognition app

A document from the Department of Homeland Security outlines plans to issue local police facial recognition technology used ...
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Meta shipped face recognition code to millions, then deleted it after exposure

WIRED reported that Meta's app for Ray-Ban smart glasses contained dormant facial recognition code, raising transparency and privacy concerns. The investigation described "NameTag," designed to detect ...
The Next Web

Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

Meta stripped NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app one day after WIRED exposed it on 50 million phones. Meta says no decision has been made. Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased ...
Engadget

Meta quietly removes face-recognition code from its smart glasses app

Only a day after a dormant bit of code that seemed to be a facial recognition algorithm was discovered in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update which removed that code, Wired ...
New York Post

Meta quietly added facial recognition to smart glasses, sparking major privacy concerns: report

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech in its smart glasses, sparking concern from privacy watchdogs, according to a report. The tech, which Meta hasn’t activated yet, came in ...
Wired

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...
Android Authority

Meta’s smart glasses face-recognition plans may be further along than you realize

Meta has reportedly embedded unreleased face-recognition code for its smart glasses inside the Meta AI app. The feature, internally called NameTag, does not appear to be enabled yet. Meta says it is ...
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The only way I’m using iPad mini in 2026

A look at how the iPad Mini fits into my daily workflow in 2026 and the only setup I actually use for productivity and convenience #iPadMini #Tech #Productivity Trump stuns Republicans with whirlwind ...
Boston Herald

Massachusetts cities that use ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chiefs of a majority of these police departments wrote a letter in 2024 to Massachusetts U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Dua Lipa Sues Samsung for $15 Million for Using Her Face to Sell TVs

The Grammy winner accuses the electronics company of displaying a copyrighted photo of her on the cardboard boxes of Samsung televisions. By Carly Thomas Senior Editor, Digital Dua Lipa has filed a ...
Business Insider

Local data center opposition claims its latest victim: Oracle's Project Jupiter gas plant

Oracle is ditching a contentious plan to construct a natural gas plant to power one of its newest data centers. Instead, Oracle said last week that it will partner with fuel-cell maker Bloom Energy to ...