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I fell into it’: ex-criminal hackers urge Manchester pupils to use web skills for good
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

‘I fell into it’: ex-criminal hackers urge Manchester pupils to use web skills for good
Initiative aims to identify proficient gamers and coders who can help companies identify flaws in their cybersecurity

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans
- facial recognition through the glasses' camera.
You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good
because civil society groups are busy with politics
and won't cause problems.

Lukasz Olejnik (@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social)
First they'll give it to blind people, because who's going to attack technology for the blind, or people with hearing problems (like me)? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10, 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

Good Morning #Canada
This past weekend we were in Toronto celebrating our granddaughter's 10th birthday (they grow up so fast...) and while consuming homemade cake we were discussing the recently completed #Olympics. The controversy in the #Curling competition came up and my son-in-law mentioned it was like another Broomgate.
I had forgotten about Broomgate which is understandable because I've watched about 8 minutes of curling in my 6 decades on the planet. Broomgate was a technological leap in the sport of curling that came to the attention of non-curlers, 99.9% of the world's population, during the 2015–16 season. New brush head technologies from a new company caused an uproar as sweepers gained far more control over a sliding chunk of granite. Traditionalists cried foul, or whatever they yell after tossing their stones. It resulted in a World Curling Federation summit to regulate and standardize brushes in the sport.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Broomgate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broomgate