CISA Staffing Cuts, Google Pays SpaceX $920M Monthly, Chrome 149 Patch, Meta Smart Glasses NameTag, & Xbox Loses Millions

News and Updates:

• CISA Staffing Concerns: DHS Secretary Mullin told Congress that CISA's ideal staffing level is 2,800 personnel — up from today's 2,200 but still well below the 3,400 it had before Trump's second term, raising cybersecurity concerns among lawmakers.
• Google Pays SpaceX $920M Monthly: Google agreed to rent 110,000 Nvidia chips worth of data center capacity from SpaceX at $920 million per month through 2029, as bridge capacity for surging Gemini Enterprise demand. Anthropic separately pays SpaceX $1.25 billion monthly for similar compute access.
• Chrome 149 Record Security Patch: Google released Chrome 149 fixing a record 429 security vulnerabilities — including 22 critical flaws — with AI tools credited for helping discover the majority. Users should update immediately.
• Meta Smart Glasses Facial Recognition: Wired discovered hidden code in the Meta AI app for a feature called NameTag that would enable Ray-Ban smart glasses to scan faces and match them against biometric databases. Meta called the reporting dishonest, despite an internal memo suggesting the feature should launch when civil liberties groups are too distracted to push back.
• Women Secretly Filmed in Brussels: A Belgian TV investigation found men using Ray-Ban Meta glasses to secretly record women on the streets, some for dating coach social media content. Tutorials disabling the glasses' recording indicator are widely available online, and a dating coach in Spain was arrested for the same behavior.
• Xbox Game Pass Loses Millions: Microsoft's Xbox CSO confirmed the service lost millions of subscribers following a 50% price hike in Fall 2025, prompting the company to reverse course with price reductions and a renewed focus on exclusive titles.