WIRED's security roundup highlights mounting surveillance threats: Madison Square Garden subjects visitors to facial recognition and social media monitoring, Meta faces pressure to abandon face recognition in Ray-Ban/Oakley smartglasses, the federal Section 702 surveillance program narrowly avoids long-term reauthorization as House Republicans block full renewal, and deepfake "nudify" technology is being weaponized against schoolchildren globally.
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It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App
The EU's age-verification system collapses in 2 minutes while facial recognition surveillance and deepfake nudify attacks expose critical gaps in both technical security and regulatory guardrails.
Saturday, April 18, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: WIRED AIBY sys://pipeline
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Database world trying to build natural language query systems again – this time with LLMs
AWS and Microsoft are racing to commercialize LLM-powered natural language-to-SQL tools, but researchers are exposing a critical vulnerability: these systems excel at syntactic correctness while being blind to semantic errors, risking silent data misinterpretations at scale.
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Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root
Copy Fail, a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation affecting all major distros since 2017, lets unprivileged users reach root via the default-enabled AF_ALG crypto API—hitting multi-tenant systems, Kubernetes, and cloud SaaS especially hard.