Surprise! Tech that nobody really needs can be used for deeply unpleasant and dangerous things! Who could have predicted it? *Weary face emoji*
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
The technology, which marries Meta’s smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
Awwwww, stoppit! ❤️
(with apologies to apostrophe pedant's for the typo in the first post) theerrorbar.com?e=41
NEW on Wonkhe: How do university spaces affect those who use them? A team of researchers present what they have discovered so far, and why it matters https://buff.ly/3zI11rk
Robert Jenryk is marginally younger than me and that makes me feel weird. I'm old enough to know better than to tell lies in public (or in private). It's egregious, dangerous misinformation he's spreading from a position of authority, but also doesn't he know it'll bite him in the arse one day?
Today's blog: an infographic on supporting your autistic loved ones resiliencymentalhealth.com/2024/10/01/i...
If you have an autistic loved one, or you are autistic and want your loved ones to understand you better, this resource might help. Silvia Plaza, health psychologist with Violet Psychology, has cre…
I am obsessed with this graphic from Kemi Badenoch's pamphlet (via www.theguardian.com/politics/202...)
