Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication, the feature is internally called “Name Tag,” and would let wearers identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant. Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants the feature to differentiate the devices and to make the AI assistant in the glasses more useful.

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The problem is that for the entire fourth quarter of 2025, she raised just $822,000 in small contributions. That would mean that, after raising more than a half million in one day from regular people, she raised just $287,000 more over the next two and a half months. As a candidate, some drop off after launch day is expected, but to drop that far and that fast raises major concerns about how much momentum there is behind her bid, especially considering that the Democratic Party in Washington has turned on its small-dollar fundraising program for Mills. The party has carpet-bombed inboxes on her behalf, but people seem not to be responding.

The dump of millions of documents has fueled a new wave of speculation, A.I.-generated hoaxes and foreign disinformation.

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Ukrainians demonstrate the highest level of “positive attitude” towards Great Britain, Canada, France and Germany. Negative attitudes are highest towards Russia.

TLDR (I’m very long-winded): this YT video took measurements of three different audio cables, including a 200€ one, and found differences where there should be none. My physics knowledge (and general consensus among the scientific community) says the measurements of the different cables should be identical or near-identical — or I am, at least, under that impression. My own measurements, because the channel does provide the files, confirm that the expensive 200€ cable does measure differently from the others. But surely something else must be causing this? Please help me find out what that is, Lemmy!

The consultation format was widely criticized for its prioritization of business interests, its lack of attention to human rights and labour concerns related to AI, and its disregard for deliberative public dialogue: the short, 30-day time window and specialized knowledge required to meaningfully answer many of the survey questions posed barriers to public participation.

The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is expected on Thursday to repeal a scientific finding that requires the federal government to fight global warming. The move is the latest push by the Trump administration to wipe out climate regulations in the United States.

Feb. 12, 2026 [from weekly newsletter about Cuba from the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective. Their videos can be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]

I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 per vial.

Pressure is mounting on tech companies to shield users from unlawful government requests that advocates say are making it harder to reliably share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) online.

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404 Media previously reported kids said they were using photos of Trump and G-Man from Half Life to bypass the age verification software in the popular VR game Gorilla Tag. That game uses the service k–ID, which is the same as what Discord is using.

Everyone looking to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today has a lot to learn from the explosive mass movement that culminated in the “Day Without an Immigrant” on May 1, 2006. The spark was H.R. 4437, the Sensenbrenner bill, which passed the House of Representatives on December 16, 2005. Former representative Jim Sensenbrenner’s bill would have made it a felony for immigrants not to have papers, while also criminalizing acts of support and solidarity.

And the fallout in academia over the Epstein files continues. As The New York Times reported earlier this week, some of the recently released files show how Epstein pulled strings behind the scenes in 2012 to get his then-girlfriend admitted to Columbia University’s dental school after she’d been rejected. (The revelation raises fresh questions for me about the creepy dentist’s chair Epstein had on his private island.)

Staley is openly asserting here what many on the Left have long feared: that workers in rich societies are too bought off to overthrow capitalism. But among many other revelations in Epstein’s emails is the glaring fact that the ruling elite are not as uniquely bright as they’d like us to think. For all their wealth and power, these are no Übermenschen — they’re just average men with lurid sexual impulses and atrocious spelling. Their money and influence do not testify to their exquisitely developed personalities or intellects, only to the arbitrary injustice of the system that elevates them.

“We have a master plan … There is no Plan B,” remarked Jared Kushner last month, during a Board of Peace (BoP) presentation about Gaza reconstruction at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos. What has become apparent is that no coherent Plan A exists either.

Stuff like this makes me think maybe my country (the UK) would be better off back in the EU. Europe together can create great technology like rockets. The UK alone can’t.

US spy agency’s outreach, depicting a disillusioned mid-level officer, risks unsettling fragile calm before April’s Trump-XI summit

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TNG s1e1 “Encounter at Farpoint”

I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…

Treating the besieged and battered enclave as a ‘humanitarian crisis’ serves only to shield zionists from accountability

With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar healthcare company.

Air Transat is cancelling its last two flights into Florida as of this spring, suspending all of its business into the United States.

From my brief stint in the logistics industry, I’d say it’s entirely possible to automate back-office operations by the claimed rate of 2-3x. I find it hard to understand why the possibility of such improvement would cause a selloff.

All of the hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window.

Ha! You may think that this shows how old I am ORRRRRRRR maybe I’m a very very young 19-year-old who is interested in classical music.

“In United States law, the term Glomar response, also known as Glomarization or Glomar denial, means to respond evasively to a question with the phrase “neither confirm nor deny” (NCND).”

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom org, is accused of bowing to pressure from Zionists after dropping its Impunity Index

The super-rich tax evader ‘doth protest too much’. After all, it isn’t hard to disprove Nigel Farage’s statement when you scratch the surface