Biometric Update

Kenya considers linking national ID database to CCTV facial recognition network

The government plans to integrate system with the Integrated Command, Control and Communication Centre (IC3) as part of an ...
Biometric Update

NJ Supreme Court upholds police FRT disclosure requirement

Police must disclose how facial recognition was used in an investigation, but software source code and other proprietary ...
Tech XploreOpinion

Western Australia police are scanning faces in public—and the law is not ready for the consequences

In a first for Australian law enforcement, police in Western Australia have deployed live facial recognition technology in ...

WA police are scanning faces in public – and the law is not ready for the consequences

Western Australia’s police are now scanning faces in real time. The technology works – roughly. The laws to govern it do not ...

Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips

By registering the LongCat-2.0 repository under the open-source MIT License, Meituan positions the architecture with maximum ...
Tech Times

Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

Open-source agentic coding model Ornith-1.0, released today under the MIT license, uses a self-improving reinforcement ...
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