U.S. service members and guests lay wreaths in honor of the missing during a ceremony for the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Sept. 18, 2026.
This day was first established in 1979 through a proclamation from President Jimmy Carter, in observance to honor and recognize the sacrifices of those Americans who have been prisoners of war and to remind the nation of those who are still missing in action.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl.
Megan Ozaki)
Sep 19, 2026 · via dvidshub.net
Jennifer Walsh, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency principal deputy director, speaks at the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony hosted by the DPAA at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 18, 2026.
The American Battle Monuments Commission is a partner organization of DPAA, charged with obligation of maintaining America’s war monuments and cemeteries both at home and around the globe, and eternal commemorations of those Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in the global struggle for freedom and democracy.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl Stephen Holland)
Sep 19, 2026 · via dvidshub.net
Recent advances in processing power, artificial intelligence, edge computing and sensor technology have fundamentally changed what organizations can expect from biometric access control systems.
As a result, security leaders are actively evaluating facial biometrics not only for high-security applications but also for a much broader range of everyday access control use cases.
Security Without Slowing People Down Traditional access control systems rely on credentials such as cards, fobs or mobile devices.
Many of these deployments are motivated as much by convenience and operational efficiency as by security requirements.
It can also complement existing cards, mobile credentials and PIN-based systems, allowing organizations to modernize without replacing proven access control workflows.
Sep 19, 2026 · via campussecuritytoday.com
Members of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Joint Service Color Guard posts colors during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony hosted by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency at National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Sept. 18, 2026.
The event is held every year on the third Friday of September, honoring POW and MIA service members.
DPAA’s mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation.
(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl.
Megan Ozaki)
Sep 19, 2026 · via dvidshub.net
Key takeaways: Angela Lipps is suing Fargo, North Dakota, and a detective for $10 million over a false facial recognition arrest.
The lawsuit alleges false arrest, due process violations, malicious prosecution, and poor facial recognition oversight.
They just got a warrant, Angela Lipps said about her false arrest.
Both are being sued for false arrest and imprisonment, attorneys' fees and costs, and a jury trial.
“Time and time again, police have failed to conduct reliable investigations and ignored obvious reasons to question a facial recognition lead,” it said.
Sep 19, 2026 · via cybernews.com
Facial recognition is out of control," Lenoir wrote, referring to sex workers who include pictures of their faces in public advertisements.
The tweet went viral and provoked a conversation among sex workers about digital safety.
An American sex worker told me a story of her border interrogation that suggested she was flagged by a computer program.
When I asked, a spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) didn't deny that the agency was using facial recognition to identify sex workers.
The woman also described the conversations that sex workers have as they struggle to figure out the limits of digital safety.
Sep 19, 2026 · via reason.com
One California user, referred to as PL18 in the lawsuit, alleges his glasses were unknowingly recording after he placed the smart glasses on the bathroom counter.
Backlash against Meta’s smart glasses continues to grow, with some people calling the eyewear “pervert glasses.”
The lawsuit cites a lengthy article about Meta’s AI glasses by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten.
The lawsuit alleges people wearing the smart glasses were unwittingly transmitting data to Meta whenever they used Meta AI by saying “Hey Meta,” or sometimes accidentally when adjusting the glasses.
Steven Beltran, a California resident who frequently used Meta’s smart glasses, alleges that the gadget would “falsely activate twice a day.”
Sep 19, 2026 · via bostonherald.com
Bank records later showed Lipps was in Tennessee when the North Dakota crimes took place, according to the lawsuit.
According to the complaint, a West Fargo investigator used facial-recognition software on a photograph from a fake identification document connected to a suspect.
He said Fargo detectives wrongly assumed that surveillance photographs from the Fargo bank thefts had also been run through facial-recognition software.
A computer match is still only a lead Facial-recognition software can compare an image against a database and return possible matches.
Lipps' lawsuit argues police failed at that second step.
Sep 18, 2026 · via creators.yahoo.com
Building a face verification system for a hackathon is a weekend of fun; building one for a mission-critical enterprise environment is a lesson in humility.
In face verification, a 200 OK that results in a false accept (letting the wrong person in) is a disaster.
Layer 3: Decoupled Services (Detection vs. Verification) Detection and verification were separated into distinct microservices.
Face verification system architecture (Source: created by the author.)
The Intake Process Access to face verification is now restricted under limited access policies.
Sep 18, 2026 · via infoq.com
A chunk of asteroid or comet whizzing through space slammed into the moon and left a 728-foot-wide pit, the largest known fresh crater in the solar system.
Astronomers have named this new crater McGetchin, in honor of lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, whose mathematical model in 1973 predicted how debris scatters after a major space collision.
Meanwhile, McGetchin Crater, which sinks about 141 feet deep, is already beginning to age.
As NASA maps out its future Artemis missions to the moon, some scientists might advocate for a future visit to McGetchin.
A lunar impact of McGetchin's scale is expected only about once every 132 years.
Sep 18, 2026 · via mashable.com
SINGAPORE – Motorcyclists and pillion riders travelling through Tuas Checkpoint can now clear immigration faster using facial recognition technology.
First-time foreign visitors and travellers re-entering Singapore with a different passport from their previous trip must undergo manual immigration clearance.
Under the new system, motorcyclists and pillion riders have to scan their passport or QR code generated via the MyICA mobile app at the checkpoint.
Motorcyclists and pillion riders wearing full-face helmets must remove their helmets to ensure that their facial features are fully visible.
Facial images will progressively replace fingerprints as the primary biometric identifier for motorcyclists and pillion riders clearing land checkpoints.
Sep 18, 2026 · via sg.news.yahoo.com
You may encounter new, non-standard identification procedures as US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pilots biometric technology at land ports of entry.
The Shift to Biometric Land Border Testing Travelers crossing from Canada into Maine are reporting a significant departure from standard entry interviews.
There are documented instances of CBP officers greeting travelers by their first names before passports are even presented and reciting specific details about the traveler's activities within Canada—information that was only disclosed to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) upon entry into Canada.
Consistency in Declarations Assume that everything you tell the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) upon entering Canada is visible to the CBP upon your return.
FAQ: CBP Maine Border Crossing 2026 Do I need a special permit for the new biometric checks?
Sep 18, 2026 · via nomadlawyer.org
A Tennessee woman who was falsely charged with bank theft in North Dakota and jailed for six months has sued for $10m in damages, alleging in a federal lawsuit that Fargo police improperly relied on an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system to wrongly accuse her.
Lipps’s complaint recounts how a west Fargo police investigator used AI facial recognition software to identify bank fraud suspects.
It alleges that the source of the facial recognition was a fake ID used by a female suspect who was captured in surveillance video footage.
“They knew that AI facial recognition technology should not be used as the sole basis to extradite and charge a person,” Lipps’s complaint alleges.
Despite knowledge of this risk, FPD refused to supervise its officers’ use of facial recognition technology in a criminal investigation.”
Sep 18, 2026 · via theguardian.com
"They knew that AI facial recognition technology should not be used as the sole basis to extradite and charge a person.
Heck isn't accused in the complaint of personally using the AI facial recognition technology.
Despite knowledge of this risk, FPD refused to supervise its officers' use of facial recognition technology in a criminal investigation," the complaint alleged.
Zibolski said the department doesn't have its own AI facial recognition technology and would typically submit unknown persons to the North Dakota State and Local Intelligence Center.
He said the use of the West Fargo AI facial recognition system would not have been allowed and has since been prohibited.
Sep 17, 2026 · via abcnews.com
A facial recognition system had flagged her in a Fargo, North Dakota bank fraud investigation.
The charges were dismissed on Dec. 24, 2025, after Lipps’s attorney proved she was in Tennessee during the thefts.
The lawsuit claims the facial recognition match was based on a photo from the suspect’s fake ID, not surveillance footage, and that Fargo police had no facial recognition policy, training, or supervision in place at the time.
Lipps’s case is now a $10 million federal lawsuit against the city and detective Lucas Heck.
Would you support facial recognition in local policing, or should departments pump the brakes until the safeguards catch up?
Sep 17, 2026 · via wengradio.com
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Biometrically speaking, our faces don’t give much away.
But advances in AI-enabled biometric surveillance are raising important questions about ID globally – and not just for the protestors.
Policing public space is different.
Much has been said about this aspect of policing protests, but concealment of ID runs both ways.
However, the citizen now has access to biometric surveillance technology, reverse lookup algorithms and tools that only recently were the preserve of state intelligence agents: they are powerful, sinister and fallible.
Sep 17, 2026 · via biometricupdate.com
By using facial recognition software, the investigators identified Lipps as a possible match.
As she could not pay her bills from jail, Lipps had lost her home, her car, and even her dog.
The lawsuit also alleges that, at the time, the Fargo Police Department had no policies, training, or oversight in place to guide officers' use of facial recognition technology.
During questioning, Williams was told he was being arrested based solely on the results of a facial recognition lineup.
Williams was innocent, the city of Detroit later agreed to pay him $300,000, and Detroit stopped making arrests based only on facial recognition software results.
Sep 17, 2026 · via techspot.com
This is precisely why Synapx has simultaneously developed the brain, dexterous hand, and data collection sectors since its inception.
In just seven months, Synapx has launched three core systems: the SYNWorld embodied native world foundation model, the OctoH-Hand high-degree-of-freedom bionic dexterous hand, and the OctoSense next-generation embodied data collection product.
“They help bridge the chain of human operation data collection, model training, and robot execution faster, allowing robots to generate feedback in real-world tasks and continuously boost productivity.”
“It’s essentially hollowing out the dexterous hand’s drive unit and using a human hand for teleoperation or data collection, thereby aligning the data with the dexterous hand,” Fan explains.
The greatest value of Synapx’s “data collection twin” solution is that it avoids the deviations caused by motion retargeting.
Sep 17, 2026 · via autonews.gasgoo.com
A configuration mistake that left over nine million facial recognition images exposed highlights the growing privacy risks businesses face when they collect and store biometric information.
Protecting Your Company's Biometric Data If you don't want your facial recognition images exposed, consider the following proactive measures.
Require authentication before users can access sensitive files and make sure your S3 buckets and similar resources don't allow unintended public access.
Reducing the amount of biometric information you store also reduces what attackers could obtain during a breach.
ClarityCheck's mistake that left millions of facial recognition images exposed shows that you don't need a sophisticated zero-day attack to create a major privacy problem.
Sep 17, 2026 · via woodlandsonline.com
Award recipients pose for a group photo following the 7th Infantry Division (Multi-Domain Command - Pacific) Volunteer Recognition Ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Sept. 16, 2026.
The ceremony recognized Soldiers and civilians for volunteer service to the division and the JBLM community.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt.
Cayce Watson)
Sep 17, 2026 · via dvidshub.net