Hitachi and Tobu Bring Retrofit Face Recognition Gates to Tokyo’s Ikebukuro Station
Hitachi and Tobu Railway have developed a walk-through facial recognition ticket gate system that retrofits Japan’s main existing rail gates rather than…
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ITU Opens Standards Work on Identity and Trust for Humans and AI Agents
The International Telecommunication Union has created a group to develop frameworks for establishing who an AI agent is and whether its behaviour can be…
BigBear.ai’s Pangiam Threat Detection Wins Dutch Approval for Airport Screening
BigBear.ai says its Pangiam Threat Detection platform has received Dutch national approval for aviation security screening, clearing the AI system to analyse…
Tokyo Ward Deploys Outdoor Facial Recognition Cameras to Find Missing People
A Tokyo ward has installed outdoor security cameras with AI facial recognition to help find missing children and elderly people with dementia, in what…
OpenAI to Require Hardware Passkeys for Access to Its Most Capable Cyber Models
OpenAI will require members of its Trusted Access for Cyber program to secure their accounts with hardware-backed passkeys, tying access to the company’s most…
US and CARICOM Sign First Multilateral Biometric Data-Sharing Arrangement
The United States and the Caribbean Community’s security agency have signed a biometric data-sharing arrangement that the Department of Homeland Security…
South Africa Tenders for 600 Handheld Biometric Devices for Immigration Checks
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs is seeking a service provider to build a mobile biometric system that would let officials verify a person’s…
Spain’s Gataca Raises New Funding to Scale Wallet-Based Identity Verification
Spanish digital identity company Gataca has closed a new funding round to scale its wallet-based identity verification business, with existing investors,…
AI Update: Who Registered That AI Agent?
This AI Update previews Control Plane’s look at Agent Name Service, the Linux Foundation-backed standard for registering and verifying enterprise AI agents.
Researchers Use Written Descriptions of Forgery Cues to Sharpen Face Attack Detection
A new paper argues that face attack detection systems get measurably better when their training pairs each image of a fake face with a detailed written…