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London facial recognition trial cost £320k, yielded one false alert
A six-month live facial recognition trial at London railway stations cost over £320,000 and produced a single, incorrect alert.
Surveillance
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Rival firm pitches facial recognition add-on for Flock cameras
A surveillance vendor is telling police it can add facial recognition to Flock license-plate cameras, despite Flock's public refusal to do so.
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UK age checks push porn traffic to less regulated platforms
Adult industry firm Aylo says uneven enforcement of UK online age checks is driving users toward less accountable content platforms.
Control
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San Francisco keeps ALPR surveillance with limited new safeguards
San Francisco has opted to retain automated license plate reader surveillance, adding what critics call weak privacy safeguards.
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EU Kids Act criticised for expanding mandatory age verification
EFF-aligned critics say the EU's draft Kids Act will force age gates and intrusive verification across online services, undermining privacy for all users.
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EFF challenges Trump's paywalled priority access on Truth Social
EFF argues the Trump administration's use of Truth Social's pay-to-be-seen-first feature for official statements violates equal First Amendment access.
Corporate
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Trump gets six AI firms to sign non-binding superintelligence accord
Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and xAI signed a vague, non-binding White House AI accord that imposes no real obligations.
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Report names Accenture, Amazon, Elbit among top border-tech profiteers
Corporate Watch's 2026 Border Divestment List details firms including Accenture, whose $600m+ biometric border contracts have drawn Amnesty criticism.
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Zuckerberg launches Meta enterprise AI business built on user data
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an enterprise AI services arm built on Muse models, drawing on data gathered via Meta's social platforms.
Resistance
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Hundreds detained as French student protests over class sizes turn violent
More than 400 people, mostly minors, were detained after students blockaded schools across France to protest class sizes and staff shortages.
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German students strike against reintroduction of military conscription
A school and university strike across more than 100 German cities drew tens of thousands protesting a possible return to mandatory military service.
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Three charged after blockading US-Mexico border wall construction
Three protesters were jailed in Arizona in the first charges from an ongoing months-long blockade of new double border wall construction.
Countermeasures
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EU holds final vote on chat control message-scanning proposal
The EU held its final vote on the chat control proposal, which would require scanning of private messages, prompting users to consider self-hosted alternatives.
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Tor Browser 15.0.24 released with Firefox security fixes
Tor Project released Tor Browser 15.0.24, including security updates from Firefox and a note on an expiring Windows code-signing certificate.
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Study analyses privacy practices of web and mobile AI chat agents
A published analysis examines privacy practices across web and mobile conversational AI agents, drawing significant discussion on Hacker News.
Makers
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Homebuilt drone adds interferometric synthetic aperture radar imaging
Henrik Forstén upgraded his DIY synthetic aperture radar drone to interferometric imaging using a cheap RTK GPS module.
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Diffusion model and 289M-parameter LLM run on bare-metal microcontrollers
Open source projects demonstrate a diffusion model and a 289M-parameter LLM running directly on microcontrollers with no Linux or GPU.
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Hacker gets Super Mario 64 running on SNES via Super FX chip
A hobbyist project ports a version of Super Mario 64 to the SNES by exploiting the cartridge-based Super FX 3D graphics coprocessor.