The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
While the Home Office says face scanning is designed to be an “additional” tool for border officers and won’t “replace or overrule human judgment,” it…
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‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any…
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
What ties the roster together more than any title or office is a shared preoccupation with artificial intelligence, longevity, and the near future. Asked on…
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Meta is testing face-recognition software built by a company that sells surveillance tools to police departments and the United States military, as it explores bringing…
The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
After WIRED reported last week that Meta’s smart glasses app contained code that would enable the company to activate face-recognition features on the devices, the…
Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
More than 5 million fans are expected to attend the 2026 FIFA World Cup taking place this summer across 16 venues in the United States,…
Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes of Famous Women
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is apparently still being used to produce and host nonconsensual explicit images and videos of women, months after Musk’s artificial intelligence…
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
For the past year, Spotify has been quietly purging tens of thousands of podcasts that advertised illegal online pharmacies. A report released Thursday by Senator…
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
Encrypted Spaces is, in some sense, the next generation of the Signal protocol, but for more complex and fully featured tools that go beyond messaging…
Mapping Every Flock License Plate Reader Near US World Cup Stadiums
Starting on June 11, soccer fans will be filling stadiums across North America to watch the FIFA World Cup. Those driving to matches in the…
Trump Risks Key Surveillance Authority Over ‘Unqualified’ Spy-Chief Pick
Cornyn said materials from Section 702 generate roughly 60 percent of the President’s Daily Brief, a figure Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley has also cited.…
CISA Tells US Agencies to Fix Security Bugs in as Little as 3 Days Thanks to AI Threats
With new generations of AI models fueling both rapid software vulnerability discovery and the potential for faster exploitation by malicious hackers, the United States Cybersecurity…