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Robot Dogs Are on Going on Patrol at the 2026 World Cup in Mexico

18 février 2026 / / 0 Comments

 

“The Mexican city of Guadalupe, which will host portions of the 2026 World Cup, recently showed off four new robot dogs that will help provide security during matches at BBVA Stadium.
The robot dogs are just one part of Guadalupe’s security strategy for the 2026 World Cup. The city also plans to use advanced surveillance drones and anti-drone technology to protect large events. The authorities have not disclosed the model, manufacturer, or many technical details of the K9-X units.”

Source : Robot Dogs Are on Going on Patrol at the 2026 World Cup in Mexico | WIRED

The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them

18 février 2026 / / 0 Comments

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“Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn’t trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, he tells The Verge, because it sounded fun.But when his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI’s servers, it wasn’t just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Roughly 7,000 of them, all around the world, began treating Azdoufal like their boss.He could remotely control them, and look and listen through their live camera feeds, he tells me, saying he tested that out with a friend. He could watch them map out each room of a house, generating a complete 2D floor plan. He could use any robot’s IP address to find its rough location.”

Source : The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor, this man remotely accessed thousands of them | The Verge

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

14 février 2026 /

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“Meta, Facebook’s parent company, plans to add the feature to its smart glasses, which it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakley, as soon as this year, according to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions. The feature, internally called “Name Tag,” would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant.Meta’s plans could change. The Silicon Valley company has been conferring since early last year about how to release a feature that carries “safety and privacy risks,” according to an internal document viewed by The New York Times. The document, from May, described plans to first release Name Tag to attendees of a conference for the blind, which the company did not do last year, before making it available to the general public.Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.”

Source : Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses – The New York Times

Tests publicitaires dans ChatGPT

10 février 2026 /

Chat interface showing potluck planning tips followed by a clearly labeled sponsored listing from Heirloom Groceries featuring a La Mesa Roja Enchilada Kit with price and cook time, plus a note stating that ads do not influence ChatGPT’s answers and chats remain private.

“Pendant la phase de test, aucune publicité ne sera affichée sur les comptes pour lesquels l’utilisateur indique avoir moins de 18 ans, ni lorsque nous estimons qu’un utilisateur est mineur. Par ailleurs, les publicités ne seront pas diffusées à proximité de sujets sensibles ou réglementés, tels que la santé, la santé mentale ou la politique. Nous élargirons notre champ d’action de manière responsable à mesure que les mesures de protection évolueront et que nous tirerons des enseignements de ce test.”

Source : Tests publicitaires dans ChatGPT | OpenAI

Project Vault and the U.S. Strategic Critical Mineral Reserve

9 février 2026 /

“On Monday, February 2, EXIM, in coordination with the White House, announced the launch of Project Vault, an unprecedented and uniquely American decentralized approach to strengthen U.S. critical minerals supply chains. Backed by a $10 billion EXIM loan and nearly $2 billion in private-sector investment, Project Vault establishes the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve, an independently governed public-private partnership that will store essential raw materials in secure facilities across the United States.”

Source : Week in Review: Project Vault and the U.S. Strategic Critical Mineral Reserve | EXIM.GOV

Claude’s new constitution

21 janvier 2026 /

“We’re publishing a new constitution for our AI model, Claude. It’s a detailed description of Anthropic’s vision for Claude’s values and behavior; a holistic document that explains the context in which Claude operates and the kind of entity we would like Claude to be. The constitution is a crucial part of our model training process, and its content directly shapes Claude’s behavior. Training models is a difficult task, and Claude’s outputs might not always adhere to the constitution’s ideals. But we think that the way the new constitution is written—with a thorough explanation of our intentions and the reasons behind them—makes it more likely to cultivate good values during training. In this post, we describe what we’ve included in the new constitution and some of the considerations that informed our approach. We’re releasing Claude’s constitution in full under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Deed, meaning it can be freely used by anyone for any purpose without asking for permission.”

Source : Claude’s new constitution \ Anthropic

Nearly one-third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims

20 janvier 2026 /

 

Social Media + Zoom + TikTok

“The team then looked through information from OpenAlex—an open-access catalog of scientific papers—and industry announcements to check for ties between authors and social media companies during the period when the journals required disclosure. They found about half of all papers had some such tie, suggesting authors in 30% of all studies were not declaring potential conflicts of interest. For the subset of papers that revealed the identity of the editors and peer reviewers, the authors also examined whether they, too, had any conflicts of interest. Adding those who did to the analysis pushed up the proportion of papers that had some industry tie to 66%. Extrapolating to cases where the reviewers were anonymous, the researchers estimated that only one in five papers were likely to have remained fully independent of industry throughout the publication process.”

Source : Nearly one-third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims | Science | AAAS

xai-org/x-algorithm: Algorithm powering the For You feed on X

20 janvier 2026 /

“The For You feed algorithm retrieves, ranks, and filters posts from two sources: In-Network (Thunder): Posts from accounts you follow Out-of-Network (Phoenix Retrieval): Posts discovered from a global corpusBoth sources are combined and ranked together using Phoenix, a Grok-based transformer model that predicts engagement probabilities for each post. The final score is a weighted combination of these predicted engagements.We have eliminated every single hand-engineered feature and most heuristics from the system. The Grok-based transformer does all the heavy lifting by understanding your engagement history (what you liked, replied to, shared, etc.) and using that to determine what content is relevant to you.”

Source : xai-org/x-algorithm: Algorithm powering the For You feed on X

Derrière le Digital Omnibus, les traces des lobbies des Big Tech

16 janvier 2026 /

Derrière le Digital Omnibus, les traces des lobbies des Big Tech

“De fait, Corporate Europe Observatory et LobbyControl soulignent la proximité croissante entre défenseurs des intérêts des Big Tech et partis européens d’extrême droite. Si chaque entreprise et association d’entreprises a sa propre stratégie, les deux entités soulignent notamment le renforcement des relations entre Meta et le groupe des Conservateurs et réformistes européens. Lors du précédent mandat, la société de Mark Zuckerberg n’avait rencontré qu’une seule fois un député d’extrême droite. Sous la législature qui a débuté en juillet 2024, 38 réunions ont déjà été organisées.Dans une moindre mesure, des représentants de Google opèrent le même rapprochement : depuis la publication de la proposition de la Commission, le directeur des Affaires publiques de Google France a par exemple participé à au moins une rencontre sur le sujet de l’IA avec des membres du Rassemblement National.”

Source : Derrière le Digital Omnibus, les traces des lobbies des Big Tech – Next

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