Smart Glasses for the Authorities

This collection highlights multiple high-impact security and privacy developments: ICE is developing facial-recognition smart glasses tied to databases (surveillance/privacy risk); two independent teams demonstrated GPU rowhammer attacks against NVIDIA Ampere cards that can flip GDDR bits and allow full host compromise when IOMMU is disabled; Google TAG disclosed a multi-zero-day iOS full-chain exploit called DarkSword used by commercial and suspected state actors; researchers uncovered Fast16, a likely state-developed sabotage malware predating Stuxnet; and Anthropic’s Claude Mythos/ Mythos-­