Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting ...

India’s ASTR facial recognition system has disconnected more than 50 million fraudulent mobile connections as of July 2026, ...

Organizations, and possibly ATMs, are at risk of compromise, thanks to holes in a Microsoft BitLocker security wrapper.

Anthropic’s updated privacy policy requires some Claude users to submit government IDs and selfies for identity verification. Anthropic has updated its privacy policy to allow the company to require ...

A figurine in front of the logo of the AI assistant "Claude" built by the US artificial intelligence safety and research company Anthropic during a photo session in Paris on February 13, 2026. Joel ...

Fitness wearable company Whoop announced Wednesday a partnership with health platform HealthEx that allows users to connect their medical records directly within the Whoop app, combining medical ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The Wausau Plan Commission met Tuesday to discuss adding data center regulations to the city’s zoning code—aimed at better positioning the city if a project is proposed in the ...

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones. Code ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County is the first county in New York State to have a law against private businesses collecting, storing and selling biometrics. County ...

Amazon.com's cloud-computing branch, Amazon Web Services Inc., clinched a recent win in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that, experts say, may signal a broader movement in the courts ...

GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed it was hacked and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The code hosting and sharing giant said ...

In brief: Despite dating back to 1993 and the GSM era, SMS codes remain fully active across authentication and identity verification workflows. Microsoft is among the bigger tech players pushing to ...