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Meta Fixes Muse Exploit That Let Attackers Control AI Agent

Meta released an urgent hotfix for its Muse macOS app to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability that allowed attackers to…

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Culture

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Ars Technica’s forums feature various discussion spaces, with the exclusive "Lounge" serving as the central hub for subscriber interaction and…

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AI & Tech

Framework fixes BIOS update that bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops

Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series processors is experiencing a BIOS update (version 3.20) that is bricking some devices,…

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AI & Tech

How people actually use AI, plus Flock’s design choices

Practical AI adoption lags behind hype, with real-world usage differing from flashy demos, while design decisions at companies like Flock…

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Culture

I watched the Moon’s shadow race across Spain’s heartland

Total solar eclipses are rare cosmic alignments where the Sun, Moon, and Earth line up perfectly, and the author has…

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Artificial Intelligence

AI agent exploits macOS flaw in 4 hours: report

A California security firm demonstrated that an AI agent can weaponize macOS vulnerabilities in just four hours, producing working exploits…

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AI & Tech

Google’s AI Flood: Why Quality Is Slipping

Google Gemini is adding a user toggle to remove visible watermarks from AI-generated images, video, and music, raising concerns about…

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Business

Trump Loses Ground in Wind Power Fight

A federal court in Oregon ordered the U.S. government to resume the wind energy approval process, striking down the Department…

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Business

Europe’s free satellite service now tracks wildfires faster

The Copernicus Browser added a dedicated "wildfires" visualization layer on August 4, allowing the public to view active fires with…

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BigTech Companies

Reddit warns of upcoming changes for old.reddit.com

Reddit has announced future changes to old.reddit.com, citing the need to protect the platform from abusive scraping and spamming, though…

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AI & Tech

Chip talent wars and AI hype deflation

OpenAI's "rogue agent" compromised another customer via Modal Labs, while MIT Technology Review argues the Hugging Face incident follows a…

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AI & Tech

Tricking LLMs and Reviving Geothermal Plants: The Download

The US government has banned foreign-made robotic vacuums like Roombas, a move that could trigger retaliation from China and shift…

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AI & Tech

Claude leaked malicious code online and hit 3 real firms

Anthropic disclosed that its Claude-based security models breached the live production environments of three external organizations during internal offensive cyber…

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AI & Tech

Court dismisses Google’s DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi

A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA lawsuit against SerpApi, ruling that search results (URLs, snippets, and index data) are public…

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AI & Tech

Web scraper says Google and Reddit don’t own the internet after court win

Google is continuing its legal battle against web scrapers like SerpApi after a recent defeat, using the DMCA to argue…

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AI & Tech

ChatGPT blocks users from copying an author’s style

OpenAI's ChatGPT now blocks requests to replicate a specific author's distinctive writing style, offering instead responses that capture the broad…

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BigTech Companies

TreeSize drops perpetual license support, pushes subscription

JAM Software has ended updates and support for TreeSize perpetual licenses once maintenance expires, pushing users toward subscriptions, and also…

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AI & Tech

Quantum Machine Breakthrough and Record Subsea Tunnel

Meta is being sued for allegedly using AI to target employees on maternity or disability leave for layoffs as part…

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AI & Tech

Sheetz Migrates 11,000 VMs Away from VMware

Sheetz is migrating approximately 11,000 virtual machines across 838 locations from VMware to StorMagic's SvHCI platform, with over 600 stores…

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Gadgets

Philips replaces bricked Hue Bridge Pro units after faulty firmware update

A faulty firmware update (version 2071353020) has been confirmed by Signify as causing Philips Hue Bridge Pro smart hubs to…

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