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Australia is weighing what could be a world-first ban on smart glasses inside government agencies, citing what officials are calling legitimate privacy and security concerns. The move follows the country's recent push to restrict social media for under-sixteens, and comes amid growing unease over devices like Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, which critics say can record people without any visible indication.
Shifting from wearables to something far stranger, a Balatro fan claims to have trained Google's fruit fly brain simulation to play the card game using reinforcement learning. The model is winning roughly one in five attempts right now, which is a modest start, but the fact that a mapped insect nervous system is being put to work in a video game barely two weeks after its public release says something about where hobbyist AI experimentation is heading.
And on a historical note, NASA is marking fifty years since the unveiling of Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter. Originally slated to be named Constitution, a letter-writing campaign by Star Trek fans persuaded President Gerald Ford to choose the name Enterprise instead, cementing a small but enduring moment where popular culture quietly shaped space history.
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