Start Up No.2679: Meta loads facial recognition into smart glasses, the AI tell, let us filter slop!, Bluesky dreams of Reddit, and more

Prices of video games products such as the Steam Deck have jumped recently – and analysts say they’re unlikely to fall any time soon. CC-licensed photo by Pierre Lecourt on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a confirmation link, so no spam. A selection of 9 links for you. Speed run. I’m @charlesarthur on Twitter. On Threads: charles_arthur. On Mastodon: https://newsie.social/@charlesarthur. On Bluesky: @charlesarthur.bsky.social. Observations and links welcome. Meta’s smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account • Buchodi “Buchodi” is an independent security researcher: » Stella is the companion app for Meta’s smart glasses. Inspecting version 273.0.0.21 of the Android build (com.facebook.stella), I found the entire computational and storage stack for on-device facial recognition: three face models, a local database schema, a cosine-similarity vector index dimensioned to match…