Interesting article on people with nonstandard faces and how facial recognition systems fail for them. > Some of those living with facial differences tell WIRED they have undergone > multiple surgeries and experienced stigma for their entire lives, which is now > being echoed by the technology they are forced to interact with. They say they > haven’t been able to access public services due to facial verification > services failing, while others have struggled to access financial services. > Social media filters and face-unlocking systems on phones often won’t work, > they say...

Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback.

This is going to be interesting. It’s a video of someone trying on a variety of printed full-face masks. They won’t fool anyone for long, but will survive casual scrutiny. And they’re cheap and easy to swap.

Researchers at Google have developed a watermark for LLM-generated text. The basics are pretty obvious: the LLM chooses between tokens partly based on a cryptographic key, and someone with knowledge of the key can detect those choices. What makes this hard is (1) how much text is required for the watermark to work, and (2) how robust the watermark is to post-generation editing. Google’s version looks pretty good: it’s detectable in text as small as 200 tokens.