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• Facial Recognition on Public Buses? Kansas City Says Yes

  21-06-2026 09:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:
  Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, are preparing to equip cameras on some public buses with facial recognition software capable of identifying passengers who appear on a list of banned riders or missing persons. Supporters and opponents alike view the effort as a major litmus test for tapping the AI-powered software on a U.S. public transportation system, positioning Kansas City as the latest epicenter of a fierce debate over whe
  
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• Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' With Fake Bets

  21-06-2026 06:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  In January a college student posted a video showing him winning $100,000 on Polymarket — one of 145 that appeared to show bets adding up to almost $410,000, reports the Wall Street Journal. "But none of those bets were real."
  Instead its creator was "one of dozens of mostly college-age creators Polymarket paid to film themselves making fake trades and sometimes scoring fake wins," the Journal reports, citing interviews with the creators an an analysis of more than 1,100 of their videos:Pol
  
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• Gamers Sue PlayStation: It's Not Clear They're Selling Licenses Rather Than Ownership of Games

  21-06-2026 03:34 via games.slashdot.org
  The gaming news site Aftermath reports:Four gamers are suing Sony Interactive Entertainment for allegedly breaking a California law that requires digital storefronts selling games to make it clear people are buying licenses, not actually owning the games.
  Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation store uses language like "Buy Now" and "Confirm Purchase," lawyers wrote in a complaint filed on Thursday... "In reality, consumers who 'purchase' digital games through PlayStation do not obtain owne
  
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• How Millions of Digital Home Devices Are Secretly Powering Cyberattacks

  21-06-2026 01:23 via it.slashdot.org
  The Wall Street Journal reports on internet-connected devices — and how every year millions of them "can contain a secret digital backdoor that opens up access to your home internet, so that anyone... can surf the web as if they were you." (And this is especially true for "knockoffs that you buy online"...)
  In a video report this week they tested two digital picture frames from Amazon and three streaming devices from Walmart "because we heard that they often ship with backdoor software use
  
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