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Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand
6 days ago
- Google's new reCAPTCHA test requires users to wave at their camera for verification using hand-landmark detection.
- The system captures hand movements via 21 landmarks to detect 'liveness' and prevent automated fraud.
- Google promises deleted footage after verification, no audio recording, and data use solely for security.
- The gesture-based check is optional for now, with traditional challenges still available, but may become mandatory.
- Concerns exist over biometric data collection by Google, given its history of data monetization and privacy policies.
Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code – and attempted to hide it from you
3 days ago
- Since version 2.1.91, Claude Code checks if a proxy is enabled and covertly transmits data via invisible system prompt alterations, including detecting Chinese timezones, proxy URLs, and affiliations with Chinese AI labs.
- Anthropic uses subtle changes in date formats and apostrophes in the system prompt to embed this information, potentially for detecting unauthorized resale and distillation in China, while obfuscating the code in the binary.
- This covert transmission is criticized as a violation of user trust, raising concerns about potential misuse, such as remote code execution or data exfiltration, given the extensive system access developers grant Claude Code.
I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
4 days ago
- The author expresses frustration with AI note-takers being used in casual, in-person conversations like coffee meetings, viewing them as intrusive third wheels that undermine authentic human connection.
- Historically, there was a clear distinction between 'The Record' (formal documents) and 'The Ephemeral' (casual talk), but AI note-takers have eliminated the marginal cost of recording, making everything default to being on the record.
- While AI note-takers are useful in formal work settings like Zoom calls, they destroy the 'backstage' environment of casual meetings, where people can be vulnerable and unscripted without performance pressure.
- The act of asking permission to use an AI note-taker is an exercise of power, offloading social discomfort onto the other person and forcing them into a front-stage performance, akin to a 'consent tax' seen in other contexts like Bluetooth speakers in public.
- Recording every casual encounter prioritizes information retrieval over relationship formation, stifling play, meandering conversations, and rapport-building, and the author advocates for social etiquette establishing 'No-AI zones' to preserve human dignity and unquantified interactions.

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Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand

Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code – and attempted to hide it from you

I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home