A new free and open source Mac app called FaceGate lets you lock individual apps using Face Unlock,Touch ID, or a password, all processed locally on your device.

A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code binary discovered on June 30, 2026, that the tool had been silently encoding hidden signals into its AI system prompts for at least three months ...

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By focusing on six characteristics, the study claims you could reach "near-perfect accuracy" at detecting AI deepfakes.

Training people to pay attention to the right visual cues nearly doubled how accurately they could spot AI-generated faces ...

About 10 years ago, an app developer named Hoan Ton-That scraped your social media photos. You didn't know it at the time, but he added your photos to a database, and used it to build a facial ...

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The Meta face recognition system for its smart glasses was built on software licensed from Rank One Computing, a Pentagon and police contractor, according to a WIRED investigation. Reporters Dell ...

Meta pulled face recognition from Ray-Ban smart glasses in June 2026. NameTag, which spotted strangers with public Instagram or Facebook accounts, is now gone.

WIRED reported that Meta's app for Ray-Ban smart glasses contained dormant facial recognition code, raising transparency and privacy concerns. The investigation described "NameTag," designed to detect ...

Meta secretly embedded facial recognition code – internally called NameTag – into the Meta AI app used to pair its Ray-Ban smart glasses, shipping it to over 50 million phones without telling anyone.

Meta stripped NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app one day after WIRED exposed it on 50 million phones. Meta says no decision has been made. Meta removed nearly all traces of an unreleased ...