AI facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology, watchdogs warn - The Guardian

Genevieve Morrison is the editor in chief of The Heights, the independent student newspaper at Boston College. Student journalists at Cornell were the first to report that a former student had filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was raped at a frat party in 2024. Since they did that, professional outlets have taken the story further. The New York Times exclusively obtained documents from the university’s investigation of the incident. CBS broke the news of the Snapchat messages sent on the night of the alleged rape. Traditional outlets do a great job exposing wrongdoing at colleges when they have a reason to look. But someone has to sound the alarm before anyone else knows there’s a fire. A student newspaper is often the sole news organization with reporters on the ground, paying attention, and invested in what happens on a campus. We do important work. But we need the buy-in of other students, readers, and — most of all — administrators to do our jobs well. Private colleges are unusually difficult to report on from the outside. Private schools generally aren’t subject to public records law. As a college journalist myself, I know what that means in practice.

Published: September 18, 2026 at 8:44p.m. EDTMore than 100 AI experts are urging companies and governments to strengthen oversight of the technology. John Vennavally-Rao has more. TORONTO – More than 100 leading artificial intelligence experts, including Toronto’s Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called “Godfather of AI,” have signed a public letter calling for more independent oversight of the world’s most advanced AI companies. Several of those companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, have already pledged to let third-party evaluators work inside them. The AI Evaluator Forum, a coalition of groups that test AI systems for safety, organized the letter and wants such experts in every frontier AI company. The letter says they would review AI systems and any incidents of real-world harm, along with how the companies train, deploy and oversee their models, as well as how they run their safeguards. OpenAI Claude AI watchdogs oversight More than 100 AI experts signed a public letter calling for independent evaluators inside frontier AI companies. David Duvenaud, a former alignment evaluations team lead at Anthropic and an associate professor at the University of Toronto, signed the letter.

, /CNW/ -- HiBy has officially launched the RS2 II, a compact portable Hi-Fi player featuring the company's third-generation DARWIN III audio architecture, the same architecture used in the flagship RS8 II. Designed for audiophiles seeking flagship-level sound in a smaller and more portable form, the RS2 II combines HiBy's proprietary R2R technology, a fully balanced analog stage, HiByOS, and flexible connectivity. At the heart of the RS2 II is the DARWIN III architecture, powered by a newly developed FPGA digital engine featuring more than 35K logic units and 40 high-speed, high-performance DSP units. This processing platform provides the computing power required for HiBy's adjustable pure FIR filters, multiple DARWIN filters, harmonic control, NOS/OS switching, and native DSD processing.

Microsoft has released . NET 11 Release Candidate 2 with a go-live license for production use, as stated in the announcement. The build is supported in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders and in Visual Studio Code with the C# Dev Kit. As reported, it brings changes across the libraries, runtime, SDK, NuGet, F#, ASP. NET Core, . NET MAUI, and Windows Forms, with no new C# language features. In the libraries, CborReader can now read a payload delivered in chunks, using isFinalBlock and SlideData, in Lax conformance mode only. Two experimental cryptography types arrive: CompositeMLKem combines post-quantum and classical key encapsulation, and Hpke provides Hybrid Public Key Encryption with classical DHKEM suites only.