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Scammers exploit Instagram's copyright system to extort creators for account restoration

Instagram creators report losing significant income after scammers filed fraudulent copyright claims against their accounts, then demanded payment to retract them. One creator with 1.5 million followers paid $50 to a scammer to avoid weeks of lost income while waiting for Meta's official appeal process. Meta says it has restored affected content and added new protections after reviewing the reports.

Falcons AI's NSFW image classifier hits 50.8M downloads on Hugging Face

A Fine-Tuned Vision Transformer model built by Ras Al Khaimah-based Falcons AI to detect NSFW images has been downloaded over 50.8 million times in 28 days on Hugging Face, placing it sixth among more than 1,400 hosted models. That download count dwarfs the 3.7 million recorded by Deepseek over the same period. Falcons AI also runs a broader open-source program and offers AI tools for business and government automation.

Author explores Git worktrees after seeing AI coding agents rely on them

A developer describes discovering git worktrees—a decade-old git feature they'd never used—after noticing tools like Claude Code create a separate worktree for each task so multiple AI agents can work on the same repository in parallel. The piece explains that worktrees let you check out multiple branches into separate working directories simultaneously, all sharing the same underlying repository data, unlike traditional branch switching which requires stashing and checking out.

Intel processes over one million High-NA EUV wafers, exceeding industry's combined total

Intel says it has run more than one million 300-mm wafers through its High-NA EUV scanners since assembling its first tool roughly two and a half years ago. The company is currently using these tools, including EXE:5000 and EXE:5200B systems, to produce Panther Lake chips on its 18A process, while also developing larger 6x12-inch photomasks that would let High-NA tools expose full-size chip fields without needing to stitch two half-fields together.

Meta's Muse AI agent enters closed testing with bank and email access

Meta has moved its agentic AI assistant, Muse, into a limited closed testing phase, according to Testing Catalog, gating access through a waitlist and invite codes. An App Store listing reveals the app can connect to Gmail, Google Calendar, health apps, and even users' bank accounts and cards to track spending and suggest canceling unused subscriptions.

Google Research Tests Traffic-Spreading Algorithm on Maps Users in 10 U.S. Cities

Google's research division ran an experiment rerouting a small subset of Google Maps drivers across 10 U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Chicago, spreading vehicles across more routes instead of funneling them onto the fastest-looking path. The published results, which appeared in Nature Cities, showed average speeds rose about 2% and travel times shortened by 0.7%, with highway-focused rerouting in Los Angeles boosting speeds by as much as 4.6%.

Hobbyist Drives Electrostatic Radar CRT with Tiny TV Mark 2 Board

A retro electronics builder documents connecting a Tiny TV Mark 2 video rasterizer board to a custom three-board CRT driver circuit designed by Eric Schlaepfer, aiming to display television images on a small 3JP7 radar display tube. The tube uses electrostatic deflection plates that require thousands of volts, so the driver boards step up low-voltage signals from Tiny TV into the high voltages needed to steer the electron beam. The setup includes a 60-volt bias board, a deflection and video driver board, and a 1,200-volt power supply, all synchronized with horizontal, vertical and video timing signals.

TradingAgents Open-Source Trading Framework Hits v0.4.0 With Data Integrity Fixes

TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent LLM framework for financial trading, has shipped version 0.4.0. The update fixes look-ahead bias issues across macroeconomic (FRED), social sentiment, and decision-log memory data sources, adds clearer decision signals, restores CLI checkpoint resume functionality, grounds trader price data, and adds support for GPT-5.6 and GLM-5.3 models. This follows recent v0.3.1 and v0.3.0 releases that addressed similar correctness issues and expanded provider and data-vendor support.

Australia unveils draft Digital Duty of Care law with 'My Feed, My Way' algorithm opt-out

The Albanese Government has released draft legislation for a Digital Duty of Care, requiring social media platforms to notify users and let them choose between algorithm-curated feeds or feeds based only on accounts they follow. The rules would also force games, apps and AI chatbots to shield under-18 users from addictive design features and harmful content such as material promoting eating disorders, misogyny, pornography, dangerous stunts or serious bullying, while giving eSafety power to order removal of nudify apps and sites.

Claude Code and Instinct run mobile AI agents inside dedicated microVMs

Coding assistants like Claude Code, Instinct, and Poke are shifting from local machines to cloud-hosted virtual machines so they can be accessed from phones. Inspection of Claude Code's setup shows it runs inside a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust-based init process controlling the session over a vsock connection, while inference calls go out through a locked-down, MITM'd egress gateway to Anthropic's servers.

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