Meta warned by dozens of organizations that facial recognition on its smart glasses would empower predators

Dozens of civil rights organizations have written a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to warn of the dangers in bringing facial recognition technology to the company's smart glasses. More than 7 [...]

Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses

Meta has backed away from highly controversial facial recognition tech in its products and services before, but seemingly not so far that it isn’t willing to have another crack at it. A new report f [...]

New Orleans police secretly used facial recognition on over 200 live camera feeds

New Orleans' police force secretly used constant facial recognition to seek out suspects for two years. An investigation by The Washington Post discovered that the city's police department w [...]

Meta Ray-Ban Display review: Chunky frames with impressive abilities

I've been wearing the $800 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses daily for ten days and I'm still a bit conflicted. On one hand, I'm still not entirely comfortable with how they look. I've [...]

Claude Code 2.1.0 arrives with smoother workflows and smarter agents

Anthropic has released Claude Code v2.1.0, a notable update to its "vibe coding" development environment for autonomously building software, spinning up AI agents, and completing a wide rang [...]

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortif [...]

Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents

Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts [...]

Meta is bringing new facial recognition tools to the UK, EU and South Korea

Meta is expanding its use of facial recognition in Europe, the UK and South Korea to crack down on accounts that impersonate public figures. The new facial recognition-powered safety features are now [...]

Hackers slipped a trojan into the code library behind most of the internet. Your team is probably affected

Attackers stole a long-lived npm access token belonging to the lead maintainer of axios, the most popular HTTP client library in JavaScript, and used it to publish two poisoned versions that install a [...]