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European regulators are turning up the heat on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, with bans and restrictions beginning to take shape across the continent. At the heart of it is a privacy question that isn't going away — when anyone can record anyone without obvious signals, who bears responsibility, the hardware maker or the wearer.
Shifting to artificial intelligence and security, a measured piece making the rounds argues that large language models pose no real threat to symmetric encryption. The reasoning is straightforward — breaking algorithms like AES requires mathematical breakthroughs that pattern-matching systems simply aren't built for. It's a useful corrective to a lot of noise suggesting AI makes all existing security obsolete.
And over at X, head of product Nikita Bier is heading for the exit after just one year. Bier was brought in as something of a product visionary, credited with reshaping parts of the platform's experience, but the revolving door at X's senior leadership continues to spin, raising questions about long-term strategic direction under its current ownership.
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