Zuckoff app detects nearby Meta smart glasses, Elon Musk claims AI concerns a ‘psyop’

A Polish software developer has built an iPhone app that can detect nearby Meta smart glasses and estimate how far away they are, amid growing privacy concerns that the devices can be used to record people without their knowledge. Paweł Szydłowski, 30, developed the app, called Zuckoff, after seeing videos of people using smart glasses to film and identify unsuspecting strangers, he told Business Insider.  The app scans Bluetooth signals from nearby devices and checks them for identifiers linked to known models of smart glasses. TVP World 

Anthropic says it has blocked efforts to use its artificial intelligence models to carry out cyber attacks and research which could have led to the creation of biological weapons. The US company has published a lengthy report into AI misuse, including instances of malicious code and dangerous prompts it has discovered in its models. Between December 2025 and August 2026, Anthropic’s researchers identified misuse by “politically motivated individuals, state-sponsored groups seeking to spread propaganda, and spyware companies. Sky News 

A day after a former researcher at Anthropic made an apocalyptic declaration about artificial intelligence, more researchers and staff members at the AI startup publicly agreed with him and posted their own dire warnings. In response, Elon Musk and other conservative figures on X, formerly Twitter, called the chorus of concerns a “setup” and a “psyop”. The Anthropic insiders fear the technology they are building could become so advanced and dangerous as to cause human extinction within the decade, and they assert many of their colleagues feel the same but haven’t said so publicly. The Guardian 

The UK government has rejected the idea of creating a so-called “kill switch” to stop a dangerous attack from rogue AI. The proposal to create a legal mechanism for the UK to switch off an AI model in an emergency has been brought to Parliament by lords and MPs in recent weeks as fears grow about the threat the tech poses. But the Cabinet Office – the part of government which leads on AI safety – said the UK “cannot simply turn AI off”. “Blocking access to models in the UK would not prevent them being developed or misused elsewhere”, a spokesperson told BBC News. 

Digesting all the details from Apple’s iPhone Duo foldable phone reveal has been quite revealing. As usual with such a newsworthy new device, there are lots of little details you only find out over time. The displays have different pixel densities, for example. Check out our full iPhone Duo hands on, too. However, one feature leapt out at me and it’s the Touch ID used in the power button on the side. That’s because it feels like a bit of a retrograde step not to have the newer Face ID tech. Now, we know that Face ID requires quite a lot of tech in the notch/Dynamic Island and presumably there was a space concern around it. However, other manufacturers do have face unlock in their foldable devices. Stuff

Two years have passed since UK fixed broadband and phone providers began using Ofcom’s new One Touch Switch (OTS) process, which was designed to make it easier and quicker to change ISP. The latest data supplied to ISPreview shows that 3,481,323 consumers have now switched provider using this process (up from 1.62m in the first year). The OTS system, which went live on 12th September 2024 via a central messaging platform (Hub) is run by the industry-funded The One Touch Switching Company . ISPreview