Civilians Are Using A.I. to Unmask ICE Agents. Is it Working?

Websites like ICEList are attempting to hold federal agents accountable—but it’s unclear whether they make the system safer ...
Wall Street Journal

ICE Is Using Facial-Recognition Technology to Quickly Arrest People

Crime is down. Migrant workers and customers are staying home. As part of our video series on Trump’s second term, The Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Hackman takes us inside the aftermath. Photo ...
Dexerto

Government employees caught using masks of colleagues to trick facial recognition & skip work

Government staff in China have been exposed for gaming facial recognition systems by wearing paper masks printed with their coworkers’ faces to clock in without actually showing up. The incident took ...
Frontiers

Development and characterization of a scalable calcium imaging assay using human iPSC-derived neurons

Neuroscience drug discovery is challenged by the brain’s structural and cell-type complexity, which is difficult to model in cellular systems compatible with high-throughput screening methods. Calcium ...
hollywoodunlocked

Chinese Government Employees Caught Using Face Masks With Coworkers’ Faces to Trick Facial Recognition Systems

Several government employees in China are under investigation after being caught using face masks printed with their coworkers’ faces to bypass facial recognition attendance systems. According to ...
The New York Times

Flying Abroad? Get Ready for a Biometric ‘Corridor.’

New facial-recognition tools being tested at Orlando International Airport could soon be keeping track of travelers at departure gates across the country. By Christine Chung Reporting from Orlando, ...
New York Post

YouTube’s deepfake detection tool could allow Google to use creators’ faces to train AI bots: report

Experts are sounding the alarm over YouTube’s deepfake detection tool — a new safety feature that could allow Google to train its own AI bots with creators’ faces, according to a report. The tool ...
Futurism

Malware Is Now Using AI to Rewrite Its Own Code to Avoid Detection

Researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have discovered that hackers are creating malware that can harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to rewrite itself on the fly. An ...
Chicago Sun-Times

ICE has powerful facial recognition app Illinois cops are barred from using — with little apparent oversight

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marktechpost

Building a Speech Enhancement and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Pipeline in Python Using SpeechBrain

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...
People

With the Python Challenge Over, Florida Turns to Robotic Rabbits to Stop Invasive Snakes

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park South Florida Water Management District via AP; AP Photo/Lynne Sladky ...