The field of face recognition and reconstruction is rapidly evolving, with a focus on improving the accuracy, robustness, and privacy of these systems. Recent developments have led to the creation of more efficient and effective algorithms for face recognition, including the use of diffusion models and cross-spectral matching. Additionally, there is a growing emphasis on protecting facial privacy, with methods such as adversarial identity manipulation and model inversion attacks being explored. Noteworthy papers include: Diffusion-Driven Universal Model Inversion Attack for Face Recognition, which proposes a training-free diffusion-driven universal model inversion attack for face recognition systems. xEdgeFace: Efficient Cross-Spectral Face Recognition for Edge Devices, which presents a lightweight yet effective heterogeneous face recognition framework. Pixel3DMM: Versatile Screen-Space Priors for Single-Image 3D Face Reconstruction, which proposes a set of highly-generalized vision transformers for 3D face reconstruction from a single RGB image.