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 ...

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.The Latest Tech ...

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 ...

Studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show that many commercial facial recognition algorithms have significantly higher error rates for ...

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 ...

Republican Steve Hilton will advance to the November election in California’s gubernatorial race. Hilton, a former Fox News host who has President Donald Trump’s endorsement, will face former Health ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s extravagant $400-million White House ballroom and proposed triumphal arch were always going to attract the most attention. That is somewhat the point. But this week in ...