Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
…Basalt is part of a generation of startups aiming to broaden reliable and secure access to satellite imaging, navigation, and communication services. As they envision it, more of the world will be…
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A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
The new approach is part of a series of measures Meta adopted as part of an AI-based security strategy designed to correct the limitations of traditional methods, which rely heavily on…
Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy
…Many other event venues use face recognition for security purposes. Visitors to stadiums in Cleveland, Atlanta, San Diego, and Miami can opt into face recognition to avoid long security lines and get…
Meta Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on ICE and Won
…But he felt having their backs was important should he and fellow engineers need their support on future campaigns, like about environmental or AI issues. “Solidarity means showing up in the ways…
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
…issued by Rank One Computing—a Denver-based company that derives roughly 80 percent of its revenue from government clients—and is tied to a test version of the Meta AI app…
Trump Administration Won’t Rule Out Further Action Against Anthropic
“I am not prepared to offer any commitments on that issue,” James Harlow, a Justice Department attorney, told US district judge Rita Lin over videoconference on Tuesday. In fact, the government is…
Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps
…nudity), and a way to report issues, with serious safety concerns flagged for urgent review,” says Devi Narasimhan, a Meta spokesperson. Even though this isn’t a secure way to share your…
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
…in-Place Plans.” Alpha has contracted with a private security firm to provide guards at some campuses. Another issue flagged in the AI’s postmortem review—“inspection tracking”—may have been a…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…due to the memory crisis, supply-chain issues caused by the Iran war, and tariffs. Meanwhile, nearly every major smartphone maker has its own AI capabilities that will likely be similar to…
Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
…They're rebranding it as Siri AI. Siri was always an AI product, but now they're for real serious about it. And it's a ground-up rebuild, or so they…