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 ...

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 ...

Wired Found Code For An Unreleased Facial Recognition Feature In Meta's AI App

Meta was previously reported to be exploring facial recognition for its smart glasses.

Meta’s Facial Recognition Plans for Smart Glasses Are Worse Than We Thought

Code discreetly added to Meta’s AI app over multiple updates this year shows that the feature, internally called “NameTag,” ...

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

Meta has been quietly laying the groundwork for smart glasses that could identify people as wearers of the shades walk by, ...
9to5Google

Meta Ray-Ban glasses may soon identify faces using AI

A new report indicates the Meta Ray-Ban companion app is capable of face recognition and is designed to identify ...

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 ...
Biometric Update

Notre Dame researchers release open-source iris recognition tools built for NIST testing

The work addresses a gap in biometric testing, as NIST’s IREX has focused primarily on closed-source commercial iris ...
CNET on MSN

Code reveals Meta smart glasses can use 'faceprint' tracking, raising privacy alarms

Code Reveals Meta Smart Glasses Can Use 'Faceprint' Tracking, Raising Privacy Alarms ...
Business Day

AI-driven zero-day exploits: A strategic imperative for Africa’s cybersecurity future

The recent disclosure by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group that hackers are now using artificial intelligence to develop ...
eWeek

Gemma 4 12B Turns Laptops Into Tiny Supercomputers

Google DeepMind just rolled out Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model that can parse text, images, audio, and video ...
Tech Times

Open Source Robotics AI Reaches Inflection Point: LeRobot Hub Surpasses 58,000 Datasets in One Year

Open source robotics AI platform LeRobot surpassed 58,000 community datasets in 2026 — 50x growth in under a year — making it the largest dataset category on Hugging Face and signaling a ...