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 ...

If you have ever waited for a login code that never showed up, you already know the pain. You type in your password. Microsoft asks for a code. Then you stare at your ...

A projected COLA of between 3.9% and 4.2% in 2027 could push more retirees above frozen Social Security tax thresholds, triggering new or higher tax bills. Unchanged since the 1980s, tax thresholds ...

Medicare Part B's 8.9% premium hike claws back about $18 of the 2.8% COLA's $56 monthly gain on a $2,000 benefit. A single Roth conversion can erase the entire senior bonus deduction and trigger ...

TikTok is full of videos on wellness, viral tech life hacks (which may not work), and choreographed dance routines, but one of the coolest viral videos right now is a tutorial on a DIY trick that ...

IBM Corp. and its Red Hat subsidiary today launched an initiative called Project Lightwell to improve the security of open-source projects. Project Lightwell is backed by a $5 billion commitment. In ...

Face ID isn't just for your phone. SwitchBot's new smart lock line uses facial recognition to unlock your deadbolt. Ajay has worked in tech journalism for over a decade as a reporter, analyst, product ...

If you look up “iPhone face” in the dictionary, you won’t find a definition — it’s one of those things where you know it when you see it. The term has become internet shorthand for a kind of Instagram ...

A malicious Hugging Face repository that reached the platform’s trending list impersonated OpenAI’s “Privacy Filter” project to deliver information-stealing ...

The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra could have Polar ID, a new facial recognition technology. It uses polarized light instead of 3D mapping. Reports say that this system is 50% smaller than current ones, ...

Face ID under the display is finally real, and it’s not from Apple. Metalenz has developed the technology that lets facial recognition work from under the display. The notch. The punch-hole cutout.

A stealthy Python-based backdoor framework capable of long-term surveillance and credential theft has been identified targeting Windows systems. According to research from Securonix, the malware, ...