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Analysis: Meta removed code for an unreleased face-recognition system in the Meta AI app for its smart glasses, following a report on the code's existence (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-removes-face-recognition-code-meta-ai-app-smart-gl…

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
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.

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

KI-Startup gewinnt Hollywood-Legende: Martin Scorsese berät Black Forest Labs
Der berühmte Regisseur Martin Scorsese berät ein deutsches KI-Unternehmen, wie Tools für Filmschaffende interessanter gemacht werden können.

KI-Startup gewinnt Hollywood-Legende: Martin Scorsese berät Black Forest Labs
Der berühmte Regisseur Martin Scorsese berät ein deutsches KI-Unternehmen, wie Tools für Filmschaffende interessanter gemacht werden können.

IKEA wirft die MALM Linie raus - und wir verkaufen unser 180x200 grosses MALM Doppelbett mit Aufbewahrung und Kopfteil - für CHF 250 (NP 599, Kopfteil 169)
Muss in Dachsen ZH, Schweiz abgeholt werden.
https://www.tutti.ch/de/vi/zuerich/haushal

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: textures and shading, undistorted visual feedback, fill-in for failing electrodes, etc https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Reuters and Time started blocking all AI bots by default and created whitelists of approved bots, following the default disallow strategy of People and others (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/reuters-and-time-adopt-bot-blocki…

Reuters and Time adopt bot-blocking whitelists to rein in AI crawlers
Reuters and Time adopt a ‘block-all’ AI bot strategy, part of a broader publisher move toward whitelist-only access.

A US judge cancels a Mississippi trial and disqualifies and fines lawyers on both sides after finding their filings were filled with hallucinated case citations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawye

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

The BBC appoints Rhodri Talfan Davies as deputy director general, following his tenure as interim chief of the broadcaster before Matt Brittin was hired (Ellise Shafer/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/bbc-rhodri-talfan-davies-deputy-…

BBC Names Rhodri Talfan Davies Deputy Director General
The BBC has appointed Rhodri Talfan Davies as deputy director general, following his tenure as interim chief before Matt Brittin was hired.

DC-area weather site Capital Weather, formerly the Capital Weather Gang, relaunches as an independent operation, after a partnership with WaPo from 2008 to 2026 (Liam Scott/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/06/09/cap…

The Capital Weather Gang is entering a new season
In the Washington region, the local weather crew has developed a cult following. Now, it will be going by Capital Weather again as an independent organization.

Meta says it's filing a federal court contempt order against NSO for violating a permanent injunction that barred NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and its users (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/m