260514-N-CF730-1054 NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO (May 14, 2026) Capt. Brian Bungay, commanding officer, Naval Base San Diego (NBSD), right, congratulates Sailors for their performance for the 2026 Pacific Fleet Rifle and Pistol Championships Rifle Team Match winning second and third place during an award ceremony at Admiral Robinson Recreational Center, May 14, 2026. Established in 1922, NBSD is the largest West coast naval installation and principal homeport of the Pacific Fleet, supporting more than 60 combatant and auxiliary surface ships and more than 250 shore commands. (U.S. Navy photo by Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Ulrika Mendiola)
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May 19, 2026 · via dvidshub.net
A Disneyland visitor has filed a $5 million class action lawsuit alleging the Anaheim theme park does not properly disclose the use of facial recognition technology that violates the privacy rights of visitors. Summer Christine Duffield of Riverside County alleges Disneyland and Disney California Adventure violated privacy, competition and consumer protection laws by collecting the biometric data of visitors in the suit filed on May 15 in U.S. District Court in New York. ALSO SEE: Soarin’ Across America: Scene-by-scene look at new Disneyland ride Duffield visited Disneyland and DCA on May 10 with her minor children, according to the lawsuit. “Disney does not adequately disclose the use of their biometric collection, so consumers — which almost always include children — have no idea that Disney is collecting this highly sensitive data,” according to the complaint. “Guests should be able to expressly opt in to this type of sensitive facial recognition technology with written consent — the onus of privacy rights should not be on the victim.” Disneyland and DCA rolled out facial recognition software combined with biometric technology in April at the front entrances of both parks. “We respect and protect our guests’ personal information and dispute the plaintiff’s claims, which we believe are without merit,” according to Disneyland Resort spokesperson Jessica Jakary. ALSO SEE: Disneyland files confidential building permits for Toy Story parking lot Disneyland and DCA offer front entrance lanes that do not use facial recognition software marked by overhead signs with a silhouetted person in a rounded square with a diagonal strikethrough. Signs notifying visitors of the option were posted inside the security screening areas at the Disneyland resort parking structures and lots during the rollout of the high-tech security measure. Disneyland takes photos of daily visitors and annual passholders at park entrances and uses biometric technology
May 19, 2026 · via ocregister.com
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Samuelsen, commanding general of the 108th Training Command, presents the Meritorious Service Medal to Sgt. 1st Class Brenda A. Jackson assigned to 108th Training Command, in recognition of being named the U.S. Army Reserve Drill Sergeant of the Year during a ceremony at Fort Riley, Kansas May 15, 2026. Jackson was recognized for exceptional leadership, dedication and performance while serving as a U.S. Army Reserve drill sergeant. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Malik Waddy-Fiffee)
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Retailer Bunnings has implemented facial recognition technology (FRT) across all of its North Island stores in a move it says will help reduce retail crime and keep its staff and customers safe. The latest phase of the nationwide rollout came into effect today, expanding the technology to a further 32 North Island stores following an earlier trial at two of its Hamiton locations in mid-April. Bunnings said the technology was intended to provide a proactive warning to staff when a serious repeat offender entered the store. Melissa Haines, Bunnings General Manager New Zealand, said the technology would protect team members and customers, as well as reduce the number of threatening incidents by repeat offenders. “Our Hamilton rollout has given us a positive foundation, and during this initial phase we’ve focused on responsible implementation, including through team training, our internal processes and community engagement, and this gives us confidence to use FRT across our North Island stores”, she said. Haines said that staff, not the technology itself, would make the final call when it came to identifying potential offenders. “Threatening incidents in our New Zealand stores have more than doubled over the last four years, and we’re using a range of measures to keep our team and customers safe. “FRT is an additional tool that helps us address this rising problem by identifying serious repeat offenders and allowing us to act early to prevent incidents.” Bunnings said it would continue engaging with customers and Māori communities throughout the rollout, to explain how the technology worked and why it was being used. It was also working with a Māori sovereignty expert and had incorporated tikanga Māori principles as a part of the approach. The company previously said the rollout was designed after it reviewed the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's (OPC) findings
May 18, 2026 · via 1news.co.nz
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Product catalogs are living things — new packaging, regional variants, seasonal SKUs are always cycling through — and every change impacts the model's accuracy. Neurolabs runs image recognition across 20,000+ SKUs in 28 markets, generating millions of shelf crops every month. Most are routine; only a handful contain the signal that makes the next model better — a new pack variant, a misclassified flavour, a confused competitor. We've moved that selection loop onto Databricks. Inference results land in Delta, every crop is scored for training value, and Unity Catalog governs which crops feed the next model and surfaces catalog-health metrics back to the CPG brands that own the SKUs. The result: a product catalog that heals itself, and a computer vision model that gets sharper with every shelf photo.
May 18, 2026 · via databricks.com
Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech The complaint says park visitors don’t get sufficient notice they’re being scanned. Disney is being sued over use of facial recognition technology at its amusement parks. The class action lawsuit alleges that the entertainment brand does not adequately inform guests that it scans people's faces at the entrances to Disneyland and California Adventure. The complaint is seeking at least $5 million on behalf of park visitors. "Guests should be able to expressly opt in to this type of sensitive facial recognition technology with written consent — the onus of privacy rights should not be on the victim," writes Blake Yagman, a lawyer for the proposed class of visitors, in the complaint. "Given how sensitive facial recognition data is, explicit written consent should be required to protect the privacy guests at Disney Theme Parks." Disney introduced facial recognition systems at the two parks in April. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney's policy is to dispose of the data it acquires from those platforms within 30 days. However, the suit argues that may not be accurate "given the biometric information is compared to when guests first bought tickets or annual passes and associated their pictures with those tickets or passes."
May 18, 2026 · via engadget.com
Chicago, IL (CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS) – Backers of a bill aimed at limiting law enforcement’s use of biometric surveillance say they’re not looking to move the measure this legislative session. House Bill 5521, the proposed Biometric Surveillance Act, would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using or accessing facial recognition tools. But it failed to meet a March 27 committee deadline and was sent back to the House Rules committee the same day a man suspected of killing a Loyola University freshman was arrested with the help of facial recognition, according to authorities. Advocates for the bill say they are wary of debates happening in the wake of major news events, which can emphasize the technology’s role in investigations over its risks, including misidentification of individuals and expanded surveillance. Stakeholders say surveillance programs always represent a tradeoff between perceived public safety benefits and privacy concerns. “Used well, it’s a lead that can be used in conjunction with other evidence to break open a case,” said Matthew Kugler, a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law who studies how public perceptions of biometric tools shape regulation. “Used badly, it is overly trusting of an artificial intelligence system and just outsourcing one’s thinking to it entirely.” Biometric data in Illinois Biometric data broadly refers to information based on unique physical characteristics that can be used to identify individuals, such as facial features, fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints. HB 5521 primarily targets facial recognition tools, allowing fingerprinting and forensic evidence collection at crime scenes to continue. Illinois has long had one of the nation’s strongest biometric privacy laws, according to the ACLU of Illinois. Passed unanimously in 2008, the Biometric Information Privacy Act restricts how private companies can collect and use biometric data. But the law does not apply to government entities, leaving
May 18, 2026 · via capitolcitynow.com
Disney has been sued for deploying facial recognition technology at park entrances to verify tickets. A class action accuses the entertainment giant of violating privacy, competition and consumer protection laws by implementing the technology at Disneyland, where photographs of guests’ faces are taken and compared with images when they first used the ticket or annual pass. The company “does not adequately disclose the use of their biometric collection, so consumers – which almost always include children – have no idea that Disney is collecting this highly sensitive data,” reads the complaint, filed in California federal court on Friday. The lawsuit challenges a trend spreading across major sports and entertainment venues of using facial recognition to prevent fraud, heighten safety and facilitate purchases. Sports stadiums lean on it to streamline entry; theme parks utilize it to manage crowd flow; and security for some musicians rely on it to identify stalkers. But mass adoption of the technology has sparked some concern over the specter of a privatized surveillance state and the commercialization of sensitive personal information. Madison Square Garden uses it to ban entry for the “enemies” of its owner, James Dolan. There have also been instances of companies turning over biometric data to law enforcement. Disney implemented in April facial recognition at the entrance of Disneyland and sister park California Adventure. Most visitors opt into having their faces scanned, unaware of the technology. Company officials have said that it helps make entering and reentering the park easier and prevents fraud. The lawsuit alleges that Disney doesn’t properly disclose to guests that it collects the data. There are signs of a slash through a silhouette at four entrances that allow visitors to avoid the technology, but the lawsuit says that it doesn’t constitute meaningful notice. “Guests should be able to expressly opt
May 18, 2026 · via hollywoodreporter.com
In short: A US jury has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman and Microsoft. The Tesla chief executive alleged that Open AI and its boss had strayed from the company's core mission. OpenAI was founded by Mr Altman, Mr Musk and several others in 2015. A US jury has ruled against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, finding the artificial intelligence company not liable to the world's richest person for having allegedly strayed from its original mission to benefit humanity. In a unanimous verdict, the jury in Oakland, California federal court said Mr Musk had brought his case too late. The trial began on April 28. It has widely been seen as a critical moment for the future of OpenAI and artificial intelligence generally, both in how it should be used and who should benefit from it, including financially. In his 2024 lawsuit, Mr Musk accused OpenAI, chief executive Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman of manipulating him into giving $US38 million ($53 million), then going behind his back by attaching a for-profit business to its original nonprofit and accepting tens of billions of dollars from Microsoft and other investors. Mr Musk called the OpenAI defendants' conduct "stealing a charity". OpenAI was founded by Mr Altman, Mr Musk and several others in 2015. Mr Musk left its board in 2018, and OpenAI set up a for-profit business the next year. People use AI for myriad purposes including education, facial recognition, financial advice, journalism, legal research, medical diagnoses and the creation of deceptive deepfakes. Many people express distrust of the technology and worry it could displace people from their jobs. The verdict followed 11 days of testimony and arguments where Mr Musk's and Mr Altman's credibility came under repeated attack. Each side accused the other
May 18, 2026 · via abc.net.au
Interview “The bottleneck that all teams have to navigate” The Helmholtz Foundation Model Initiative (HFMI), launched two years ago, supports AI projects focused on processing enormous amounts of data. In this interview, AI expert Dagmar Kainmueller offers an interim assessment—including her own HFMI project, AqQua. Ms. Kainmueller, two years ago, funding began for the first projects under the Helmholtz Foundation Model Initiative (HFMI). What is your interim assessment? In my view, the HFMI is a huge success. In a relatively short time, we have built a highly motivated interdisciplinary community with an extremely steep learning curve. The expertise gained in this way is incredibly valuable and will remain so, even after the project period ends. And it has gained significant international visibility. In what way? One example is the Helmholtz-ELLIS Workshop, which we organized in Berlin in the spring of 2025. ELLIS stands for “European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems” and is, so to speak, the flagship among European AI research networks. The event was highly productive and brought together representatives from a wide range of scientific disciplines, leading AI researchers, and high-profile speakers from global players such as Meta and Microsoft Research. In addition, the European Commission has cited the HFMI as a case study and now uses it as a reference for its own activities in the field of “Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science.” In June, we will jointly hold a workshop in Brussels with newly funded EU pilot projects. There is great interest in our experiences and insights. What is the status of the HFMI research projects? The four projects funded from the outset have largely compiled their datasets, trained initial models on them, and are currently working on testing and refining them. A particularly advanced example is the “Human Radiome Project” (THRP), which is developing
May 18, 2026 · via helmholtz.de
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Stalled surveillance bill highlights tension between privacy and public safety Backers no longer pushing bill that would have prohibited police from using facial recognition software this session Article Summary - A bill that would stop law enforcement from using biometric surveillance failed to gain enough support for a committee vote in March and its backers aren’t going to revive it by the end of May. - Stakeholders say the bill represents a tradeoff between privacy and public safety. - But the bill only had four sponsors in the House and will have to wait at least another year for further discussion. This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. CHICAGO — Backers of a bill aimed at limiting law enforcement’s use of biometric surveillance say they’re not looking to move the measure this legislative session. House Bill 5521, the proposed Biometric Surveillance Act, would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using or accessing facial recognition tools. But it failed to meet a March 27 committee deadline and was sent back to the House Rules committee the same day a man suspected of killing a Loyola University freshman was arrested with the help of facial recognition, according to authorities. Advocates for the bill say they are wary of debates happening in the wake of major news events, which can emphasize the technology’s role in investigations over its risks, including misidentification of individuals and expanded surveillance. Stakeholders say surveillance programs always represent a tradeoff between perceived public safety benefits and privacy concerns. “Used well, it’s a lead that can be used in conjunction with other evidence to break open a case,” said Matthew Kugler, a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law who studies how public perceptions of biometric tools shape regulation. “Used badly, it is
May 18, 2026 · via wifr.com
Mantel Group finds agentic AI is now leading customer conversations Fresh off another AWS partner award, Mantel Group is seeing a shift toward business-case AI implementations. AI is now moving away from proof-of-concept projects toward business-case implementations on agentic platforms with proper guardrails and controls. “I think over the last year it's been a genuine shift to productionising workloads,” said Andre Morgan, AWS partner lead, Mantel Group. The “factory mindset” is guiding adoption and seeing AI being used to replace business processes and accelerate software delivery life cycles (SDLC) with clear customer outcomes “It's actually achieving some results and benefits now rather than what were some of the discussions about proof of concepts a couple of years ago,” said Morgan, speaking at last week’s AWS Partner Summit in Sydney. Mantel was named AWS Consulting Partner of the Year for Australia and New Zealand in the 2026 Regional AWS Partner Awards, marking the fourth time the business has received partner recognition. Mantel’s customers include the health fund nib and Humm group as well as growing cloud adoption across regulated industries such as financial services. Its focus has been on upskilling engineers to use agentic tools for more onerous parts of the development process. At present, these applications span design, documentation, coding, and automated testing. for nib, Mantel built an AI-powered image processing pipeline that automatically extracts and pre-populates key fields from member receipt photos submitted through its mobile app, removing manual data entry. It has achieved 90 percent accuracy on key fields, made half of all claims fully touchless and delivered close to $1 million in manual handling cost savings over 12 months. “It's a good example of how we can use the technology and the customer’s business knowledge to achieve some pretty significant outcomes. It’s very high accuracy along with
May 18, 2026 · via crn.com.au
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The US intelligence community's efforts to document Russia's abuses in Ukraine are being stymied by the lack of interest shown by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
May 18, 2026 · via intelligenceonline.com
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Most buyers come to computer vision software expecting a search problem: find the right tool, plug it in, and watch it identify objects. The real challenge is more interesting than that. Computer vision is not a single capability. It is a family of techniques, from image classification and object detection to optical character recognition, pose estimation, and real-time anomaly detection, and different vendors have built their products around very different subsets of that family. Buying the wrong platform is not just a waste of budget. It is a six-month detour while your team rebuilds the pipeline you should have scoped from the start. Understanding What the Technology Actually Does Computer vision software teaches machines to interpret visual data: images, video streams, documents, or sensor feeds. The software applies trained models to that data and produces structured outputs, a classification label, a bounding box around an object, a count, an alert, or a confidence score. That sounds straightforward. Where it gets complicated is that "visual data" can mean a photograph, a live manufacturing camera feed, a satellite image, a PDF scan, a face captured through a webcam, or a sports broadcast frame. Each of those contexts demands different model architectures, different training datasets, and different latency requirements. A platform optimized for document processing will not perform well on real-time video. A platform built for retail shelf analysis will not translate cleanly to medical imaging. The most important question to ask before evaluating any vendor is not "can it do computer vision?" Almost all of them can. The question is: "Has this platform been designed for my specific input type, output requirement, and deployment environment?" The Main Use Cases and Why They Diverge Document and Image Analysis This is the most established segment. Software in this area extracts text and structured data
May 18, 2026 · via serchen.com
Owners of a guesthouse in north Norfolk have been left "delighted" after it was named as one of the best in the country.
The White House, near Burnham Market, was listed as one of the best vineyard stays in the UK by writers at The Times, who described it as "lovely".
It is owned by Alison and Mark Thompson, who renovated the property into a 12-bedroom venue for bed and breakfast visitors.
The article drew attention to the guesthouse's homegrown wine, which is served at its restaurant, The Acre.
Also mentioned are the wines from Cobble Hill Vineyard, just miles away from the White House.
"We are delighted to have been selected, in conjunction with Cobble Hill Wines, as one of the top vineyard stays in the UK," Mrs Thompson said.
"North Norfolk is such an exciting new wine destination to visit, with the amazing Cobble Hill and several other great local wineries in the area.
"The local wines are very popular in Acre at the White House, our restaurant and guests often head home with a case of north Norfolk wine in their cars."
May 17, 2026 · via northnorfolknews.co.uk
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GO NEW MEXICO ESSENTIAL OVERLAND APP: Seeking plant identification Free iNaturalist-powered Seek app uses image recognition to help motorists and hikers name cacti, wildflowers and more A treelike cactus breaks the monotony of the desert, its branches like a candelabra reaching for the sky. At 65 mph along Interstate 40, just past Mojave National Monument in California and hundreds of miles north of Joshua Tree National Park, the scenery is a bit of a “Horse with No Name” blur. Our adventure crew wondered what this mystery plant could be. After snapping a picture and uploading it to the Seek app, we had our answer: “You observed a new species! Western Joshua Tree.” “Seek uses the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you,” according to the app’s description on the App store. Users can earn badges for spotting different types of plants, birds, fungi and more. Seek is to flora and fauna what Merlin is to birds. Seek shows you lists of commonly recorded insects, plants and amphibians from millions of wildlife observations vetted by human botanists and experts, according to the app description. “Our image recognition technology is based on observations submitted to iNaturalist.org Share your favorite adventure apps and New Mexico adventure channel, rigs and panorama photos with us at go@abqjournal.com. GO NEW MEXICO ADVENTURES - Not a wasteland: Chihuahuan Desert Nature Park showcases southern New Mexico desert - National parks documentary to screen at the KiMo - Fishing Line for May 14, 2026 - Water works: For summer boating New Mexicans can go to The Butte and beyond - ESSENTIAL GEAR: Shoulder-season trip tests camping gear limits A New Mexico overlander shares how a shoulder-season sprint to Sequoia and Joshua Tree led to broken equipment, improvised repairs and lessons for safer
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