Florida man blames wrongful arrest on "error-prone" AI facial recognition

The key evidence police used to puncture his alibi: facial recognition software matched an image of the suspect to Dillon's ...

Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

The ACLU is suing two Florida police departments over the arrest of a Fort Myers man in a child-abduction case, saying ...
The Next Web

Meta pulled facial recognition code from its smart glasses app one day after WIRED found it, then denied the timing was related

Meta removed NameTag facial recognition code from its AI app after WIRED found biometric software on 50 million phones that Meta said "does not exist." ...

Meta denied face scanning tech on AI smartglasses, and then silently wiped the evidence

Dormant face-recognition code reportedly appeared in Meta’s smart glasses app, then disappeared after scrutiny. That has put Meta’s AI eyewear plans back under the privacy spotlight.
IEEE

FaceLiVT: Face Recognition Using Linear Vision Transformer with Structural Reparameterization for Mobile Device

Abstract: This paper introduces FaceLiVT, a lightweight yet powerful face recognition model that integrates a hybrid Convolution Neural Network (CNN)-Transformer architecture with an innovative and ...
Biometric Update

Notre Dame researchers release open-source iris recognition tools built for NIST testing

The work addresses a gap in biometric testing, as NIST’s IREX has focused primarily on closed-source commercial iris ...
Tech Times

AI vs AI Cybersecurity: Sysdig Documents First LLM-Agent Intrusion in the Wild

AI vs AI cybersecurity arrived in documented form on May 10, when an LLM agent drove a four-pivot intrusion to database exfiltration in under an hour with no human direction. CrowdStrike data puts ...

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed attackers stole 3,800 internal repositories via a poisoned VS Code extension. The same threat group, TeamPCP, simultaneously compromised Microsoft's durabletask Python ...
IEEE

A Unified Framework for Age-Invariant Face Recognition Using GANs and Vision Transformers

Abstract: Age-invariant face recognition (AIFR) remains a persistent challenge in computer vision due to significant facial changes over time. While existing methods tackle this problem using either ...