And the answer is…

Harvard students used Meta’s smart glasses and AI to get private info from people’s photos. What can you do about it?

By combining AI with smart eyeglasses and commonly used online databases, Harvard juniors AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio developed a fast, simple tool called I-XRAY that could potentially allow law enforcement agents, cyber criminals, or just a guy at the bar to obtain anybody’s vital information in just over a minute by capturing an image of their face.

 …no privacy any more. 

Or…packing a gun is OK but leave your glasses at the door.

O brave new world, that has such people in 't.

Yep, yep, you expected…

Homeowners Hit by Helene Are in for an Insurance Claim Shock

Policies in hurricane-prone areas are now more likely to have higher deductibles for wind damage, reduced payouts for older roofs, limits on interior water damage and exclusions for damage from wind-driven rain, according to insurance agents.

…or…wait. 

Shock, alright. But this has been happening to hurricane insurance for a long time. It's just that hurricanes haven't been happening where this one happened. 

And, by the way…where do you live?

(I've never been much of a prepper myself. I'm more of an I'll-get-througher. But sometimes…)

But there's aready a Mammoth Park

Long-extinct woolly mammoth will be brought back — within just 4 years, entrepreneur claims

Also "the Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct in the early 1980s, would take “just weeks” to revive, and the dodo bird, last seen in the 1600s, would require about one month, according to the bio boss.

Mammoth Park is here (not an actual mammoth in sight), and Jurassic is already taken, so this will not be as easy as it sounds. 

Happy birthday, Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter and hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president’s 100th birthday

“Not everybody gets 100 years on this earth, and when somebody does, and when they use that time to do so much good for so many people, it’s worth celebrating,” Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson and chair of The Carter Center governing board, said in an interview.

To quote Dorothy Parker…

…what fresh hell is this?

A Dockworkers Walkout Would Close Ports From Maine to Texas and Slam the U.S. Economy

Trade groups representing hundreds of retailers and manufacturers from Walmart and Target to Caterpillar and General Motors have appealed to the Biden administration to intervene, warning a shutdown could hobble businesses and trigger renewed inflation during the busy holiday shopping season.

Also, it goes (apparently) without saying, a busy election season.

International Longshoremen’s Association wants a 77% pay increase.

Tech tidbits

The Celebrities Lending Their Voices to Meta’s New AI

[Meta Platforms] announced deals with actors Awkwafina, John Cena, Judi Dench, Kristen Bell and Keegan-Michael Key on Wednesday that will allow it to use their voices in a new AI assistant. Meta is paying stars millions of dollars for use of their likeness, people familiar with the negotiations said.

Big Tech Is Rushing to Find Clean Power to Fuel AI’s Insatiable Appetite

Tech companies are already the biggest purchasers of wind and solar power, but it isn’t enough to meet the round-the-clock needs of data centers. A search on a generative AI platform like ChatGPT uses at least 10 times the energy as a standard one on Google. Emissions from the global build-out of data centers between now and 2030 could equal about 40% of the entire U.S. economy’s annual emissions, Morgan Stanley estimates.

And other stuff from the Wall Street Journal.