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The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed
Check, Mate

The UK Will Scan Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
Matt Burgess, Maddy Varner, May Bulman, and Gabriel Geiger
‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
Thanks, Capitalism

‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What

Lily Hay Newman
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Spec Ops

Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout
Signing On

Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
Moving Targets

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

Daniel Boguslaw
The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers
Security Roundup

The FBI Wants ‘Near Real-Time’ Access to US License Plate Readers

Matt Burgess, Dell Cameron, and Andrew Couts
The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech
Parting Ways

The EU Is Going Through a Trump-Fueled Breakup With Big Tech

Matt Burgess and Vittoria Elliott