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M&M’s candy vending machines recognized the faces of university students — they will be dismantled

News WTF 02-25-2024 comment
Canada’s University of Waterloo is dismantling smart M&M’s vending machines from its campus. Students discovered that the machines were secretly performing facial recognition without students’ consent.

Sony now allows sign into your PlayStation account without a password and testing PSVR 2 support for PC

News Devices 02-22-2024 comment
Sony, following Google, Apple, Microsoft, and many others, has taken a step towards a password-free future — PlayStation owners have been given the opportunity to log in to their PSN accounts using Passkeys , which should eventually completely replace classic passwords and less secure two-factor authentication (2FA) technology.

Fingerprints can be played back by the sounds of finger movement on the touch screen — research

News Science and space 02-20-2024 comment
A research team from the United States and China has uncovered a new danger associated with biometric authentication. Their work is called «PrintListener: Detecting Fingerprint Authentication Vulnerability via Finger Friction Sound». The attack uses the sound characteristics of the user’s finger movement to extract the features of the…

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