Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Or use AI to restyle your Stories and Memories if you want to further detach them from reality. Meta has been going all in on AI, whether people want it or not, and now it's bringing more features in that vein to Facebook. The network's latest move is to let people use Meta AI to animate their profile photos. Because what better way to express your individuality than to use a pre-canned AI-generated animation on your own face? Meta AI is also coming for your Facebook Stories and Memories.

Meta is bringing facial recognition tech back to its apps more than three years after it shut down Facebook's "face recognition" system amid a broader backlash against the technology. Now, the social network will begin to deploy facial recognition tools on Facebook and Instagram to fight scams and help users who have lost access to their accounts, the company said in an update. The first test will use facial recognition to detect scam ads that use the faces of celebrities and other public figures. "If our systems suspect that an ad may be a scam that contains the image of a public figure at risk for celeb-bait, we will try to use facial recognition technology to compare faces in the ad against the public figure's Facebook and Instagram profile pictures," Meta explained in a blog post. "If we confirm a match and that the ad is a scam, we'll block it."

"Pig butchering" is an unsavory term for a very specific kind of phishing attack, wherein the scammer targets a wealthy individual with the lure of romance and then takes them for all they're worth. It's hardly a new idea -- they used to call this kind of thing "fleecing" -- but new software tools are making it a lot easier and more effective. A ring of scammers in Hong Kong managed to use live "deepfake" video to steal millions from their victims. Police in Hong Kong arrested 27 people who operated out of an office and conspired to rip off wealthy people by pretending to be attractive romance prospects and getting them to invest big bucks in phony cryptocurrency schemes. The methodology is familiar: Set yourself up as an attractive stranger with an alluring profile photo, slowly build up a rapport with the victim through text messages, and casually hint at the prospect of vast profits with a new crypto platform.

With over 150 million worldwide users, Airbnb is the one of the most popular sites when it comes to holiday rentals. And if you're struggling to book out your room, a new study suggests you may want to reassess your profile photo. Researchers from the University of York tested various profile photos to see which garnered the most bookings. Their findings suggest that profile pictures showing the host smiling and wearing sunglasses are the most successful – while female hosts also get more bookings. Researchers from the University of York tested various profile photos to see which garnered the most bookings.

Dating app Tinder has launched a new tool called Explore that lets users search for potential matches based on their interests. In Explore, users can discover dates who share a love for'every mood and activity', such as gaming, music, food and – for those who want to form a'power couple' – entrepreneurship. Explore, found as a separate tab within the Tinder app, expands on previous filters that had helped users find a date – age, location and sexuality. By giving users the option to navigate through profiles arranged by interest, Tinder is giving users more control over who they meet, according to the company. Explore is now rolling out for users in the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand, and will be available globally by mid-October.

A pro-China propaganda campaign that's been bashing the US on social media created fake followers with the help of AI-generated images. Since June, the campaign has been posting English-language videos critical of the Trump administration on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, according to research company Graphika, which has been tracking the group's activities. Graphika dubs the campaign "Spamouflage Dragon." And like other propaganda activities, the pro-China group uses fake accounts to share and post comments on its content to help it gain wider circulation. However, Graphika noticed something odd with the profile photos belonging to these fake accounts: In some cases, the headshots appear to be the work of an AI program designed to create artificial human faces. At first glance, the profile photos look legitimate.

Do we give importance to the privacy of our profile photos publicly available around social media? Have we ever bothered about privacy when we share innumerable photos of friends and family members on Facebook or Instagram? But why should we pay importance to the privacy protection of photos in the first place? We should because our publicly available photos could be utilized for unauthorized facial recognition and that can invade our private lives. There is little doubt that facial recognition is a serious threat to privacy.

The developers of the dating app Tinder recently announced that new safety features would be added to its app throughout 2020. These updates include a means to connect users with emergency services when they feel unsafe and more safety information provided through the app. Given that many users, especially women, experience harassment, sexism and threatening behaviour on Tinder, these appear to be positive steps to addressing such issues. Tinder also mentioned app updates will incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to validate profile photos. "The [AI] feature allows members to self-authenticate through a series of real-time posed selfies, which are compared to existing profile photos using human-assisted AI technology."

Tinder is to'swipe left' on catfishing as the popular dating app starts using artificial intelligence to check that profile photos uploaded by users are genuine. The photo verification feature will allow members to get their images authenticated by posing for a series of real-time selfies. Human-assisted artificial intelligence technology will then compare these submission to existing profile photos to confirm that they do match up. Once a person's photos have been verified, their profile will be granted a blue checkmark icon so that other users can trust their appearance is genuine. The verification feature is one of a number of dating safety features being added to Tinder, which will also gain a dedicated in-app safety centre and panic button.

You may want to use some extra caution. A new notice released Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission highlights a surge in'romance scams,' or scenarios where scammers trick love-lusting internet users into sending them money, only to later disappear. The scams cost victims an astonishing $143 million in 2018, up from $33 million the previous year and making it the most costly type of consumer fraud reported to the FTC. A new notice from the Federal Trade Commission highlights a surge in'romance scams,' or scenarios where scammers trick love-lusting internet users into sending them money Romance scams, where criminals create phony profiles to trick love-lusting victims into sending them money, are on the rise. To avoid falling prey, here's what you can do: These romance scams typically involve a user creating a phony profile and approaching someone via a dating app or website.