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Crypto-tracing firm Chainalysis this week published an analysis of crypto flows to peptide sellers
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Meta has been quietly stashing dormant face recognition code on more than 50 million phones, WIRED reported this week, tucked inside the companion app that pairs with its Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses.
Key facts
- As acting director, Pulte would be responsible for the entire US intelligence community, coordinating 18 different agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency and NSA
- Among the victims, as reported by 404 Media, are Obama, the chief master sergeant of the US Space Force, and makeup chain Sephora
- Packaged with Google Dialer and shipping to phones running Android 12 or later, it pings the caller’s device for a silent cryptographic handshake
- US president Donald Trump has picked Bill Pulte to temporarily act as director of national intelligence
Summary
Meanwhile, xAI is asking a federal judge to force four people suing the company over Grok-generated deepfake nudes to drop their pseudonyms and litigate under their real names—including one plaintiff who alleges the chatbot was used to fabricate sexual images of her as a child. Google rolled out a new Android feature this week aimed at the wave of AI-powered impersonation scams that help fraudsters spoof a familiar number and clone a person’s voice. WIRED also reported this week that the Manhattan Institute—the same right-wing think tank that engineered the 1990s broken-windows policing and the Trump administration’s anti-DEI push—is now shopping model legislation to turn minor protest-related offenses into felonies under a novel theory it calls “civil terrorism.