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A trial of live facial recognition cameras across London train stations scanned the faces of five hundred thousand people and produced zero arrests and just one false positive. That number sounds impressive on the surface, but critics are asking a harder question: what exactly justifies surveilling half a million people when the result is essentially nothing?
Shifting to the workplace, new research from Morgan McKinley finds that fifty-five percent of UK employers still haven't adopted AI in their recruitment processes, even as seventy-eight percent of job applicants worldwide are already using AI to craft their applications. That asymmetry is striking — candidates are arriving augmented while many hiring teams are still screening by hand, and one in four workers say AI screening would put them off applying altogether.
And in Japan, Sony is trying something genuinely interesting to keep PS5 Pro consoles out of scalpers' hands. Prospective buyers must enter a lottery and, crucially, prove they've logged sixty hours of playtime on a Japanese PlayStation Network account. It's a creative gatekeeping mechanism that rewards actual gamers — though it also raises real questions about what happens to those without the time or account history to qualify.
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