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BIOMETRICS

Face biometrics use cases outnumbered only by important considerations

Louisiana bill would bring biometric age checks to bars

EU pushes AI Act deadlines for high-risk systems, including biometrics

New York proposes biometric checks for sports betting apps

UK project uses supercomputers, synthetic data to improve emotion recognition

Agentic AI pushes financial sector toward continuous identity

UK lawmakers prepare for contentious national digital ID, police biometrics bills

Are Plastics Poisoning Us?

Mark Hertsgaard

A Netflix documentary exposes plastic’s health harms but misses its climate connection.

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Mentally Active Leisure Protects Against Dementia

A 19-year study reveals that mentally active sitting—such as reading or working—can reduce dementia risk, while passive sitting like watching TV increases it. Researchers suggest “swapping” passive habits for active ones to protect long-term brain health.

Stroke Survivors’ Brains Rejuvenate to Compensate for Injury

Can a stroke make part of your brain younger? New research using deep learning reveals that undamaged brain regions reorganize and show “youthful” structural patterns to compensate for severe stroke damage.

New report highlights AI rabbis spreading antisemitism on Instagram

An AI-generated Instagram account appearing to be a Hasidic rabbi is pushing antisemitic conspiracy theories to its more than 1.4 million followers, and it’s not the only one, a study published this week about antisemitic content on the social media platform has found. An account called “Rabbi Goldman” “uses fake, AI-created authority figures to spread… Read More

EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules

European lawmakers have voted to delay key parts of the EU AI Act, the bloc’s flagship law for regulating artificial intelligence, while also backing proposals to ban nudify apps. The measures, approved by a large majority in the European Parliament, would push back compliance deadlines for developers of high-risk AI systems – those deemed to […]

Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles

Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI. The update, which was added to Wikipedia’s guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate “several of Wikipedia’s core content policies” as the reason for the ban. The change applies to the English version of Wikipedia and will […]