Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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.

A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it
A single GitHub issue could have hijacked Anthropic’s own Claude Code action and poisoned every project that uses it

The attack starts with a GitHub issue. Not a sophisticated one. Just an issue opened by a bot account with a carefully worded body that looks like an error message. When Claude Code’s GitHub Action picks it up for triage, it follows the instructions hi…

Chinese spies are using LinkedIn to lure Westerners into sharing sensitive information

The advisory warns that Chinese spies are using public job search platforms to recruit people with access to non-public information.

EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe
EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those protections in place, Politico reported. The decisi…

Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did
Hackers asked Meta’s AI chatbot to hand over Instagram accounts, and it did

No phishing link. No malware. No SIM swap. Hackers took over high-profile Instagram accounts over the weekend by doing something disarmingly simple: they asked Meta’s AI customer support chatbot to change the email address on someone else’s account. Th…