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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.

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.

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.

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.

In which I build Unicode character tables and fail to serialize large automata, “Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go“:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/14/Unicode-Properties
(And in which I find myself sliding into the

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

Is Latin America Ready to Abandon Cuba? (Simon Romero/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/world/americas/cuba-support-latin-america-conservative.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p10#a260314p10

« J’ai décidé de faire mes adieux Š Gmail » : ces initiatives pour se passer des Big Tech américaines
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/03/14/j-ai-decide-de-faire-mes…

« J’ai décidé de faire mes adieux à Gmail » : ces initiatives pour se passer des Big Tech américaines
Accompagnés par des associations, des particuliers et des collectifs abandonnent les Gafam au profit d’autres solutions, libres, sobres, locales et non marchandes.

If you’re vide-coding MVPs (or pre-MVPs?) that you have no intention of taking further and instead releasing them as proofs of concept and moving on to your next soon-to-be-abandoned MVP, understand that you’re a patsy. A shill.
You’re suggesting the LLM is up to the task when you’re really admitting it failed and you’re too lazy to take it further.
Less critical folks won’t understand that and shitty managers pre-disposed to justifying their sunk costs will reference it as a win…