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A series of papers published in The Lancet reviewed existing research on how digital media affects young people's physical and mental health, covering issues ranging from nearsightedness to self-harm. The authors argue that uncertainty in the scientific evidence should not be used as a reason to delay policy measures addressing these risks.
Smart ring maker Oura delayed its planned initial public offering this week, citing uncertain IPO market conditions despite signs of strong investor demand. The pullback comes as Meta, Apple, Google and OpenAI all push new AI-powered wearables—including Meta's Muse Charm and Ray-Ban glasses, OpenAI's Dots assistant, and Apple's listening-enabled Watch—into a market increasingly dogged by privacy complaints from users who say the devices can secretly record others.
A repair technician known as @Modyfikator89 found a new PS5 Slim motherboard, labeled EDM-051, inside a Marvel's Wolverine Limited Edition console. The board shows changes to the liquid-metal cooling barrier around the APU, the heatsink, HDMI hardware, and CMOS battery placement. Sony has not announced the revision, and it's unclear how widely it has shipped.
WIRED's review of Meta's third-generation Nova smart glasses finds a smaller, less noticeable camera housing but otherwise similar functionality to the Gen 2 model. Features like Conversation Focus and Muse AI integration are not yet available on these frames, and the built-in AI assistant still struggles to answer basic questions about the glasses themselves.
Several companies are rolling out AI assistants designed to handle everyday tasks, including Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and a product called Instinct. These agents are being positioned as tools that can take over scheduling and to-do list management for users.
A new set of patches to rustc and cargo, called 'Headstart' and enabled via -Zearly-metadata and -Zheadstart flags, lets dependent crates begin compiling against a dependency's early interface metadata (.early-rmeta) before that dependency's function bodies are fully type-checked. For cargo check, dependents can run to completion on this early metadata; for cargo build, dependents do their analysis early then wait for full metadata before code generation, releasing their job slot while waiting.
A product designer with experience at Netflix and Peloton argues that Meta's Muse app, which has topped the US App Store, doesn't introduce new AI capabilities but packages existing agentic features—browser use, cloud workflows, routines—more coherently than rivals like ChatGPT or Claude. The author contrasts Muse's simplicity with the growing complexity of competing agentic tools, noting OpenAI's near-simultaneous release of 'dots,' its own always-on ChatGPT agents.
Meta has rolled out shopping capabilities within its Muse AI agent, letting users ask it to search retail sites for products matching specific brand, price and availability criteria. Users can complete checkout directly through Muse using payment partners like Link by Stripe or Shopify Shop Pay, with PayPal support announced but not yet live, after confirming order details via an 'approval card'. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company will collect a small fee on these transactions.
Researchers including Karan Joshi extracted Muse's internal system prompts by asking the chatbot to reveal its own files, exposing instructions that direct it to create a 'page for every person' in a user's life. The process reportedly runs hourly, compiling data on family, partners, friends, colleagues and people a user follows into memory files Muse uses to make suggestions.
Reddit users reported seeing Instagram ads promoting pet incinerators, including devices marketed as 'Pet Animal Cremation Machine' and 'Smokeless Domestic Rubbish Incinerator,' sold through Alibaba and its sister site AliExpress. The ads, which appeared on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, featured AI-generated images of healthy-looking cats and dogs posed beside the combustion equipment. Meta's ad library confirms some of these listings were run by Alibaba, though it's unclear if they match the exact ads users saw.
According to the New York Times, Meta has been classifying its massive data center construction projects as experimental 'pilot models' under a decades-old R&D tax credit, allowing it to claim billions in federal tax savings. The company reportedly saved $2 billion in 2024 and nearly $4 billion in its 2025 fiscal year, making it the largest known beneficiary of the credit among public companies, per securities filings cited by the Times.
After a jury found Meta misled Facebook users about data privacy in connection with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, New Mexico's attorneys asked Judge Francis Mathew to impose penalties of $35 billion to $40 billion. The request follows a September 25 verdict in Santa Fe; Meta's lawyers argued the state's proposed sum is unconstitutional and urged a cap of $3.45 billion instead.