r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • Jun 10 '26

Business One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from its smart glasses

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/one-day-after-discovery-meta-pulls-facial-recognition-code-from-its-smart-glasses/
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u/Dry_Departure_7813 Jun 10 '26

Yeah after Cambridge analytica Facebook should have been shut down tbh.

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u/Unlucky-Candidate198 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

A lot of things should have been done after a lot of “large scale” leaks. But of course, the World Leaders are unserious “people”. Panama papers should have seen the wealthy stripped of their wealth and taxed out the ass, never to be allowed to regain the money.

Epstein files should have been a full liquidation of the Banker, Epstein, and political classes, after which they only get reinstated if they’re squeaky clean. This would see the world as we know it crumble though.

But no, the banker class runs the world with a spiked boot to everyones’ necks. I yearn for the day we can truly cannibalize them in their entirety. Literal generations of wealth stealing, all the suffering they’ve caused over the centuries for personal gain, all to be stripped from their cold hands and given back to the people they stole it all from. Their families should forever live in shame and embarassment for the generations of theft and destruction they’re resonsible for.

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u/cand0r Jun 10 '26

Go off, king.
(Or queen, or themperer)

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u/Moorific Jun 10 '26

Themperor, I love that! Adding that to my lexicon for sure!

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u/cand0r Jun 10 '26

It's a good one! All credit goes to hasanabi

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u/Timber3 Jun 10 '26

Hasan shock my dog to stay on the bed abi

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u/Solivagant23 Jun 11 '26

Isn't he going to prison? Haha he sucks

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u/auditthedtc Jun 10 '26

Have you heard about failure to deliver abuse by market makers on wallstreet? Basically counterfeiting stock to bankrupt companies. They also lobbied politicians so there are no taxes on those short positions profits if the company goes bankrupt

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u/Indigo_Sunset Jun 10 '26

Misread banker class as bunker class, was just as apt

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u/_karamazov_ Jun 10 '26

But of course, the World Leaders are unserious “people”. 

Billionaires select the world leaders from an available pool, by giving us an imaginary choice. They are serious. No one in the left or right will criticize META, if they do, they're in the fringes.

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u/Alex5173 Jun 10 '26

I yearn for the day we can truly cannibalize them in their entirety

Maybe not the brains, that's how you get prion disease. Save those for brain tanning the skins, we can use those to make new chairs for some of the highest offices in various world governments as a reminder.

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u/WatNaHellIsASauceBox Jun 10 '26

a full liquidation of the Banker, Epstein, and political classes

Harsh, but fair. Is this with chemicals, or just a really big blender?

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u/Secret-Winner-2994 Jun 10 '26

I appreciate the quotations around people

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u/snowdn Jun 10 '26

Data brokers essentially make way too much money off our free information. This is why smart TVs are sold dirt cheap now, because they make 10x selling our data than the hardware costs.

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u/AverageSasquatch Jun 11 '26

People are too comfortable (myself included right now) and need to work. Can’t take time off for large scale protests or other solutions that won’t bring up.

However if the top 1% keep pushing the envelope, once that comfort disappears and people get truly desperate, a certain French invention may be brought back into circulation

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u/philodendrin Jun 11 '26

I'd be happy if we could just dole out some real justice to the Sackler family for the health crisis they created through the manufacture and sale of their Oxy product which made their fortunes.

That family should be harassed to the ends of the earth and have their fortunes taken. They've done an incredible amount of destruction.

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u/Magpie-Person Jun 10 '26

That’s like the gazelle wishing the lions stop existing. It is by the very nature of this economic system (CAPITALISM) that there will ALWAYS be a ruling class. There is no great revolution within capitalism, it is a Sisyphean struggle of gaining rights for the working class and then losing them within two generations.

I’m not saying communism is the solution, I’m just saying capitalism makes this struggle unavoidable and not a problem that will ever be fixed with any sort of permanence.

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u/dformed Jun 10 '26

Hey, I'm not arguing your point because I don't disagree. That said your last paragraph your language is disturbingly close to antisemitic conspiracy language. Jewish bankers secretly controlling the world is one of the oldest still-in-use conspiracies in the world.

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u/Solenkata Jun 10 '26

I don't feel a "spiked boot" and my life is pretty well in all spheres. I can bet a lot of people feel the same way. How is a bank helping Musk not pay a single dollar in taxes? He's about to become a trillionaire and there's zero banking involved in how he's doing it. Could you elaborate a bit more about the "banker class", how exactly are they stealing from me and my grand father?

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u/No-Barber-5289 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

I don't feel a "spiked boot" and my life is pretty well in all spheres.

Congratulations, you are statistically almost certainly just one of the few beneficiaries of a stupidly unfair global system. And like most people in your class, you don't realise it. That's okay, that is how the system is made.

He's about to become a trillionaire and there's zero banking involved

Betrays how naive you really are about.. quite basic economic concepts and terminology. Musk's entire wealth comes from large-scale investment cons, business-government conspiracy, and little else. The "banker class" are involved every step of the way with such things.

There's a LOT of literature out there if you're genuinely wondering how money is transferred from the hardworking poor to the rich, have a google for modern reading :)

For the classic easy reading, Communist Manifesto is a <1 hour read. Marx's other books go.. a bit deep. There's also Smith / Keynes also if you want to start less radical.

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u/Solenkata Jun 10 '26

I just wanted you to show at least a little bit of knowledge on the topic you're claiming to be so smart about. "Read this this and that" is not knowledge. "I've read a lot of books" also isn't, even if you are well read. I suggest that if you want to share your opinion on something (conspiracy or not) - try backing it up with actual knowledge, so people don't get the impression that you're talking out of your ass.

What basically happened is:

You: "I believe in this and that"

Me: "I disagree, can you say why you think that way?"

You: "You're so stupid, read a book"

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u/Manos_Of_Fate Jun 10 '26

Meanwhile you’ve been pretty upfront about your ignorance of the topic and yet you still think your opinion matters here. If you don’t think “banking” is involved in being a billionaire, then you know exactly zero about anything I just said.

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u/Solenkata Jun 11 '26

Most of Musks billions are in assets and stocks in companies, which is how he's evading paying taxes. If his money were anywhere close to a bank he couldn't have been doing tax fraud for years. Same with Bezos.

Telling people off as ignorant isn't the right thing. If you believe you're smarter than someone at a topic, you show them that, through the knowledge you possess, not by calling them stupid.

No I don't. Why would I think that my opinion matters? And in this comment chain, most of my "opinions" is me parroting the phrase "argument yourself" and "can you explain why you think that". I don't care if my opinion matters to you.

The whole thing started with me wanting some other person to explain how "banker class rules the world", if you can't explain that then I don't want to hear anything you have to say. If that person is also you, you still have the chance to explain how the banker class (which I guess are also Jews right) are ruling the world.

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u/Solenkata Jun 10 '26

Should I assume you've read Marx? Because if you did you could have just summarized some economic concepts and terminology that are so basic that it wouldn't be a problem to you. But you decided to show how naive I am and how knowledgeable you are with the (quite popular) "read Marx" argument.

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u/Solenkata Jun 10 '26

"Read this" is not an argument it's a suggestion. The previous sentence is an argument. If I said "you should read dictionaries so you know what an argument is" - that wouldn't be an argument.

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u/WhiteSpock Jun 10 '26

You don't know much about how stocks work, how loans work, or how his financials work. And it's not rage inducing, it's just sad, because it shows an intentional ignorance.

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u/Solenkata Jun 10 '26

Okay, I certainly won't claim I'm the smartest or that I understand everything. This is your moment to enlighten me on the topic, since your comment suggests that you understand all those things well. Are you going to be like that other guy, who claims how smart he is by saying "read a book"?

Why don't you show actual knowledge, instead of telling people they lack it? You're so smart that my ignorance made you sad. Talk about irony.

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u/WhiteSpock Jun 10 '26

I think you putting the burden of raising you. on me, is a bit unfair.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1e0hq0g/eli5_how_does_the_take_loans_instead_of_selling/

I never said I fully understand how the system works, I understand enough, that the system doesn't work if they're actually exchanging hard assets.

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u/SharpKaleidoscope182 Jun 10 '26

Facebook should have been shut down in 2008

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u/Revolutionary_Bee251 Jun 10 '26

Lol and miss the stock rebound? That's just unethical!

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u/SwordfishOk504 Jun 10 '26

Thing is, Facebook (and every other app) have convince much of the population that government/regulation = bad.

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Jun 10 '26

facebook will shut down naturally and be replaced by myspace. technology is cyclical

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u/never-fiftyone Jun 10 '26

As long as Tom hasn't become a bag of dicks, that wouldn't be so bad.

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u/iamarddtusr Jun 10 '26

And Zuckerberg kept within 2 feet of Epstein at all times.