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 ...
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 ...
Wired

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back. The most recent version of Meta ...
TechRepublic

Malicious Hugging Face Models Could Trigger Remote Code Execution

A flaw in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI models to execute code, exposing credentials and highlighting AI supply chain risks. Organizations using vulnerable versions of the Hugging ...
Engadget

Wired found code for an unreleased facial recognition feature in Meta's AI app

Code for a facial recognition feature that can run on Meta smart glasses is buried in the company's Meta AI app, according to a new report from Wired. While not currently enabled, accessible to ...
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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Critical Hugging Face Transformers flaw ran attacker code on a routine model load

Pluto Security Inc. today disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Hugging Face Inc.’s Transformers library that allowed attacker-controlled artificial intelligence models to run ...
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, ...
Los Angeles Times

Disney accused of misusing facial recognition technology

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred A visitor has filed a $5-million lawsuit ...
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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Fake OpenAI repository on Hugging Face pushes infostealer malware

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform’s trending list impersonated OpenAI’s “Privacy Filter” project to deliver information-stealing ...
The New York Times

Rich People Didn’t Look Like This Before

Ms. Odell is the author of the Back Row newsletter and “Anna: The Biography.” If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it’s clear. People didn’t look like this before because people ...