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A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ethnic groups and genders.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/police-facial-recognition-…

Police facial recognition biased against certain groups
A Home Office study by on the facial recognition system used by UK police forces has found that it is significantly less reliable with certain ...

Police in Edmonton, Canada partner with Axon to test body cameras with AI facial recognition, and say the results will be verified by human officers (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/ai-facial-recognition-axon-edmonton-21f319ce806a0…

AI-equipped police body cameras in Canada's Edmonton spark ethical concerns
Police in Edmonton, Canada, have started a pilot project using AI-equipped body cameras to detect faces on a "high risk" watch list. The move by Axon Enterprise, Inc. has raised ethical concerns, especially since the company previously paused facial recognition due to privacy issues. The pilot aims to enhance officer and public safety by identifying individuals flagged for a history of serious offenses. However, critics worry about societal risks and the lack of public debate. Axon CEO Rick Smi…

2025 rund 10 Prozent deutscher Gasimporte über LNG-Terminals
Wegen des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine hat Deutschland den Bau von Flüssigerdgas-Terminals forciert. Ihr Anteil am Gasimport steigt weiter.

Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. 
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…

Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert. As many as 50 officers from the...

Supreme Court in the USA allows Trump to starve his own people...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/07/us/trump-news-shutdown?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.dpdC.rXiZzN74GIrV&smid=nytcore-android-…

Trump Appeals to Supreme Court After Losing Bid to Halt SNAP Funding: Live Updates

It's funny how you spend a bit of time looking at silicon and quickly develop a sixth sense for recognizing processes and nodes.
Besides the obvious tells for specific foundries (like TSMC and Samsung fiducials) I can recognize TSMC 350 nm, Microchip 160K, Atmel's 350nm node, and UMC 180 at a glance.
Probably more, but those are some of the most distinctive looking ones that i've seen a *lot* of chips made on. Especially UMC 180.

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Naveenkumar G Venkataswamy, Yu Liu, Soumyabrata Dey, Stephanie Schuckers, Masudul H Imtiaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06170

Smartphone-based iris recognition through high-quality visible-spectrum iris image capture.V2
Smartphone-based iris recognition in the visible spectrum (VIS) remains difficult due to illumination variability, pigmentation differences, and the absence of standardized capture controls. This work presents a compact end-to-end pipeline that enforces ISO/IEC 29794-6 quality compliance at acquisition and demonstrates that accurate VIS iris recognition is feasible on commodity devices. Using a custom Android application performing real-time framing, sharpness evaluation, and feedback, we intro…

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Radicaal-rechtse leider Nigel Farage in opspraak door racisme- en antisemitismebeschuldigingen
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/radicaal-rechtse-leider-nigel-farage-in…

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Städtetag: Politik muss Risiken brennender Akkus im Müll rasch angehen