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 ...

Meta has been quietly embedding facial recognition code in its smart glasses companion app since January 2026. The system, called NameTag, uses three AI models to identify people and is already on ...

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 ...

A flaw in Hugging Face Transformers could allow malicious AI models to execute code, exposing credentials and highlighting AI supply chain risks.

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 ...

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

Your Meta AI app was secretly carrying facial recognition code designed to identify strangers through smart glasses. WIRED’s investigation found that Meta had embedded substantial portions of an ...

Meta is facing renewed scrutiny after a report revealed that the company quietly embedded face-recognition technology into software linked to its smart glasses ecosystem, potentially laying the ...

The wrongful arrest is just one of over a dozen in recent years linked to facial recognition technology.