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Meta is updating its AI-powered smart glasses to close a loophole that allowed wearers to keep recording after covering the front-facing LED. Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, writes in a post on Threads that “the camera will now stop working if the light is covered during a recording.”The company’s line of smart glasses already disables their built-in cameras if someone covers the LED capture light, which blinks to alert others that you’re recording or taking a picture. However, some wearers found that they can bypass these restrictions by covering the LED light after they started recording. This…
Virtu Financial, M1X Global and Tradeweb completed an onchain repo transaction using a sovereign digital bond as collateral, with the full transaction settling on the Canton Network.The transaction used USDM1, a US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issued onchain by the Republic of the Marshall Islands and backed 1:1 by short-term US Treasurys. The bond pays a coupon while being used as collateral and is structured under New York law as a fully collateralized sovereign obligation.Both companies said it was the first repo to combine natively issued sovereign collateral with fully onchain atomic settlement. Executed between regulated counterparties on Tradeweb, the full repo…
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The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has accused three workers in Ogoja, Cross River State, of attempting to traffic their employer’s two-year-old for sale. Oba Joseph, head of operations for the Cross River Command of NAPTIP, told the News Agency of Nigeria in an interview on Thursday in Calabar. Mr Joseph said the agency received a call on Monday about the incident, which occurred in Ogberia Ochoro community, where three suspects allegedly took a two-year-old child while attempting to move him to another location for sale. According to him, the suspects claimed they had worked…
The federal government has been urged to embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) and increase domestic investment in health research to safeguard Nigeria’s public health system amid declining international donor funding. Alash’le Abimiku, Executive Director of the International Research Centre of Excellence (IRCE) at the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), made the call at a news conference in Abuja. The briefing was held ahead of the fourth IRCE Annual Scientific Symposium scheduled to take place from 31 August to 1 September. The symposium is themed “Shaping the Future of Public Health Research through Sustainable Funding, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Innovation.”…
The Kwara State Police Command has rescued the Onigbesi of Igbesi, Oba Moses Omotayo, and two other kidnapped victims, days after the monarch was reportedly abducted by gunmen in Igbesi community, Isin Local Government Area of the state. The monarch and the two others were reportedly abducted at Igbesi on August 22, 2026. The victims were rescued during a security operation around the Elerin/Ijomu-Oro axis of the state. This was contained in a statement issued on Thursday by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command. Ejire-Adeyemi said the…
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning.The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn’t a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the surveillance devices to taking less destructive actions like physically blocking the cameras for hours. Some of the culprits have been caught, but that clearly hasn’t dissuaded others from taking matters into their own hands.“Nonviolent direct action is a recognized and established tactic, and it’s unsurprising that…
South Korean financial group Mirae Asset plans to build a 150 trillion won ($109 billion) digital asset business around Digital X, the crypto exchange formerly known as Korbit, according to The Korea Times.The report said Digital X will focus on crypto, stablecoins, real-world assets and security token offerings, with plans to tokenize physical assets including gold, silver and electricity.The expansion plans follow Mirae Asset Consulting’s acquisition of a 97.15% stake in Korbit in July for a cumulative 141.4 billion won. The exchange was subsequently rebranded as Digital X, marking the first time an affiliate of a South Korean financial group acquired…
Holly Marie Combs is opening up about her decision to walk away from the acting world. “It was a lot of family. During COVID, we had three teenagers,” Combs, 52, said on the Tuesday, August 25, episode of her “House of Halliwell” podcast, stating that she is “retired” from acting. “Well, it was three teenagers and a preteen in the house, and it was just mayhem and chaos.” Combs, who notably starred as Piper Halliwell on The WB’s Charmed, shares her three sons with ex-husband David Donoho. (Combs has been married to husband Mike Ryan since 2019.) In addition to…
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, on Thursday celebrated the state’s 35th anniversary, describing its journey as one of resilience while urging residents to work towards building a better future for generations to come. Mr Otti made the remarks in a statewide broadcast to mark the anniversary of the state’s creation on 27 August 1991. Abia was created by the former military leader Ibrahim Babangida after years of agitation by political, traditional, religious and intellectual leaders from the area. The governor paid tribute to past leaders, including the late Ogbonnaya Onu, the state’s first democratically elected governor, as well as former…
