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Meta's smart glasses are edging closer to a feature that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago. Researchers discovered that facial recognition code has already been quietly embedded in the Meta AI app — meaning the infrastructure to identify strangers in real time may be closer to launch than the company has publicly acknowledged. The privacy implications are hard to overstate.
On the subject of privacy, Zcash is grappling with a serious credibility crisis after a bug allowed undetectable counterfeiting within its supposedly anonymous network. Experts are now pointing to an uncomfortable irony — the same privacy protections that shield legitimate users can also shield bad actors exploiting system flaws, sometimes for a very long time before anyone notices.
And in the world of Bitcoin, Michael Saylor's firm Strategy has sold Bitcoin for the first time since two thousand twenty two, even as the price dipped below sixty thousand dollars. Strategy shares fell to a four-month low, rattling investors who had come to view the company as an almost unconditional bull on the asset. It signals that even the truest believers have limits.
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