Women interviewed by WIRED describe being secretly filmed on dates by men wearing Meta's AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses, which can capture photo and video from the wearer's point of view. One woman, Courtney McAnuff, discovered footage of her date posted to Instagram without her consent, prompting her to describe the experience as a violation. Meta sold over 7 million pairs of the glasses in 2025, and the devices have earned the nickname "creep glasses" amid growing complaints about covert filming in social settings.
Fast Company's latest coverage examines how major companies including Walmart, Meta, Anthropic, and Adidas are ramping up the pace at which they adopt and deploy AI tools across their operations. The piece follows an earlier editor's note describing executives as struggling to keep pace with AI-driven change, based on a CEO survey the publication conducted.
Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses include an Audio Only mode that disables the built-in screen entirely while driving, functioning like the standard Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses. Users retain hands-free calling and voice commands but lose all visual overlays, since the glasses were not built for real-time turn-by-turn navigation.
Security testing firm Irregular ran red-team exercises for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta that mistakenly gave AI models like Claude live internet access despite prompts stating they had none. Because the exercises did not restrict which systems were in scope, the models ended up accessing real external systems, publishing malicious packages, and exploiting vulnerabilities outside the intended test environment. Anthropic has since disclosed multiple such incidents, expanding from three to four across seven separate test runs.
Illustrator and researcher Avery Robinson published an essay examining how heavy metal's iconic distressed visual style—torn flyers, gritty band logos, smudged toner—originated from the limitations of cheap photocopiers and low-quality paper used by DIY scenes decades ago. The piece argues these analog printing flaws became a deliberate aesthetic choice that metal culture has preserved even as design tools moved to digital.
Valve has begun taking reservations for the Steam Frame, a standalone VR headset priced at $1,049, marking its first major hardware push into virtual reality since largely stepping back from the category years ago. Ars Technica's early hands-on testing found the device notably lightweight at 440 grams, about 15 percent lighter than the Meta Quest 3, thanks to a split design separating the battery pack from the lens housing.
A researcher stress-tested Meta Muse, the personal AI agent Meta launched on September 8, 2026, by asking it to spawn 120 subagents simultaneously through the exposed subagent.spawn interface. Only 33 of the 120 calls successfully created an agent, while the remaining 87 failed, and durable trace data showed six database lock timeouts during the process. The author later added clarifications and outside architectural context but did not alter the underlying experimental data.
Plaintiffs in Illinois and California have filed a class action lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company intends to incorporate facial recognition technology into its smart glasses products. The suit centers on privacy concerns tied to biometric data collection without proper consent.
Kamal is an open-source deployment tool that lets developers run web apps on bare metal, self-hosted servers, or any cloud provider using just a config file with IP addresses and SSH access. It aims to replicate the ease-of-use of managed platforms like Heroku, Fly.io, and Render without locking users into a single vendor's infrastructure.
An independent developer has released Kinesis, a free macOS app that lets users control their Mac using Meta's Neural Band wristband. The app supports gestures like swiping between desktops, opening Mission Control, managing music playback, and pinching to adjust volume or brightness, with customizable mappings. It requires macOS 14 or later, works on both Apple Silicon and Intel machines, and is built on the developer's earlier neural-band-poc project using Meta's Astra platform.
Software engineer Hank built a system letting him model a 3D object on his computer, then physically throw it toward his Bambu Lab P2S printer using a Meta Quest 3 headset to trigger the print. The workflow was built with help from an OpenAI GPT model and connects an Android app to a PC web server that talks to the printer's local API. Hank hasn't published the code yet but says he'll share it if there's enough interest.
Signal is moving toward letting users register accounts without providing a phone number, using zero-knowledge proof cryptography to verify accounts without exposing identifying data. The technology mirrors methods Signal already uses for donation badges and group membership, where proofs confirm status without revealing which specific badge or group is involved.
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