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Meta announced its line of smart glasses will implement a new feature to disable the camera when the tampering of the recording light is detected. Previously, users had been disguising the light with various methods including simply covering the light up to drilling through the LED. The Meta statement closes with “No other kind of camera has done this and we’re proud to lead the industry forward.” Meta informed 9to5Google the mandatory update is rolling out now.
Source: The Verge and 9to5Google
The Financial Times’ sources report Meta is testing a smart glasses prototype with “super sensing”, using camera and audio recordings to capture constantly in order to act as a user searchable memory for all activities and conversations in a day. Sources also claim “executives are planning not to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are being used”. Meta declined to comment.
Source: The Financial Times
Meta also announced Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Image. Muse Image, an agentic image creator, is available now in Meta AI apps, Instagram Stories in the United States, WhatsApp in select countries, and will launch on Facebook in the near future. Muse Image includes ‘Content Seal’ which adds an invisible watermark to generated images, able to survive watermark evasion attempts including cropping and screenshotting.
Wired reports the Muse Images Instagram integration opted-in all public Instagram accounts as permitted to be modified to any users of the tool, allowing anyone to generate AI images of another person’s likeness. Instagram users can opt-out either by making their account private or checking settings to disable the ‘allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta’ toggle for Posts and Reels. Meta’s help page notes “You will not be notified about content created using AI features at Meta”.
Source: Wired
Google’s new feature in the Google Search Console called “platform properties” will share details on how web traffic reaches content creators and website owners. The blog post shares “easily track which search terms lead people to your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube content on Search, and see exactly how your audience is interacting with your posts”. The feature is rolling out slowly “over the coming weeks”.
Source: The Verge
On Wednesday Cloudflare announced a pilot research project with OpenAI, testing if Cloudflare’s network data enables improved accuracy and efficiency for AI searches. Previously Cloudflare announced it will block crawlers grabbing content for AI training from any site with ads, unless a site’s owner explicitly permits it, beginning September 15th.
Source: The Next Web
Waymo, currently operating in over 10 cities, is adding more to the count with a rollout in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, and Denver over the coming weeks. Initial rides are only for Alphabet employees, opening to the general public later on.
Source: CNBC
On Wednesday Spotify announced users are now able pin up to 20 items in a library, up from 4. The feature is available to paid and free users as of today. Apple previously enabled pinning up to 6 items beginning with iOS 26.
Source: 9to5Mac
DuckDuckGo announced its browser now blocks most video ads, specifically mentioning the ad blocking power over YouTube is based on community filter lists from uBlockOrigin. The ad blocking functions only within the browser and not while watching videos through a platform’s app. The feature is enabled by default on iPhone, Mac, and Windows, and currently must be manually turned on for Android. This is a separate feature from DuckDuckGo’s Duck Player, which plays YouTube videos in-browser blocking tracking cookies and personalized ads. Both features can be run at the same time.
Source: Bleeping Computer