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The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

So the Canada - China trade deal just announced is interesting, particularly regarding Electric Vehicles. It was primarily about restoring our agricultural trade with China by allowing their EVs to access our market. But it will likely, despite the limited amount that will hit our shores, jumpstart the EV market in Canada. Cars that are feature rich and cost less, like the one reviewed in the YT video linked below, will push current manufacturers in Canada to up their game.
Doug Ford abandoned his Captain Canada persona and selfishly attacked the deal because of potential impact on Ontario's auto industry. Part of his statement demanded that the Federal government cancel their Electric Vehicle mandates because it was too costly for manufacturers to build them. I think Toyota and Honda, long time Canadian partners, may be concerned about the deal, but U.S. manufacturers are abandoning EVs and Canada. Hey Doug, I thought we were Open for Business?
#CanPoli #GlobalTrade
https://youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI

Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/white-house-utah-ai-transparency-bill

White House pressures Utah lawmaker to kill AI transparency bill
It's a sign that the Trump administration is now starting to intervene with the states in its efforts to squash AI regulation.

Beware of blank lines and white spaces — Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned - until attackers took notice.
🧑‍💻 https://arstechnica.com/securi…

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.

All this means is Amazon / Ring won’t again make the mistake of telling us, with or without puppies, that it’s continuing to grow its panopticon in service of the surveillance state.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/a…

After “creepy” Super Bowl ad sparks outrage, Ring abandons Flock deal
“This is definitely not about dogs,” senator says, urging a pause on Ring face scans.

"The code points represent every letter of the US alphabet when fed to computers, but their output is completely invisible to humans. People reviewing code or using static analysis tools see only whitespace or blank lines. To a #JavaScript interpreter, the code points translate into executable code."
Sigh.

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.

Why Ukraine refuses to abandon Pokrovsk, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/why-ukraine-refuses-to-abandon.html

Frederick McKinley "Casey" Jones was a man we should all know about. He was a self-taught genius--though his parents abandoned him at 12. He ran away from his orphanage at 17.
He had 60 patents to his name, though he probably should have had more. The refrigeration units he invented for trains and trucks, ALONE, should have guaranteed him lasting fame!

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…