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Hertha Metals founder Laureen Meroueh has developed a new furnace design that converts iron ore directly into refined liquid steel in one step, replacing coal with natural gas. The company says this approach can cut carbon emissions by at least half and reduce production costs by 25% compared with conventional steelmaking.
A retrospective catalogs obsolete HTML snippets that were never part of the official specification but emerged from browser wars, vendor extensions, and third-party integrations. Examples include the X-UA-Compatible meta tag used to force Internet Explorer into specific rendering modes, and the chrome=1 directive tied to Google's now-defunct Chrome Frame plugin that let IE 6-9 users render pages using Chrome's engine.
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.
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.
Mathspace, an online maths learning platform used in thousands of schools, revealed that hackers breached its self-hosted Metabase reporting tool and stole personal data on students, parents, guardians and staff. The company said attackers first gained access on August 10, extracted data on August 27, and the breach was confirmed on September 3, affecting 1,079,819 people in Australia and New Zealand. Mathspace stated that passwords, academic records and authentication credentials were not compromised.
Meta has remotely disabled photo and video functions on smart glasses that owners modified to hide or disable the recording indicator light. The company's wearables VP told Semafor that under 0.1% of the roughly 7 million glasses sold in 2025 were altered this way, meaning up to several thousand devices were affected. The move follows a wave of complaints about people using the glasses to secretly film others, particularly women, without consent.
Meta is testing robot arms from suppliers including ABB, Kinova, and Watney Robotics to handle physical data center tasks like swapping network cables and power-cycling server racks. The effort is still in early trial stages, but an anonymous Meta employee said a Kinova robotic arm could eventually take over up to 80 percent of workers' current duties. Meta declined to comment when asked about the testing.
Anthropic released a Claude iPhone app update this week that adds CarPlay support, letting drivers resume recent chats or start new voice conversations from their car's display. This makes Claude the fifth major AI chatbot to support CarPlay, following ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Meta AI, which added the feature just days earlier.
Adult film producer Strike 3 Holdings says a John Doe it unmasked through a residential AT&T subpoena is actually a Meta Reality Labs executive who downloaded nearly 20,000 files. Strike 3 wants to tie this individual case to its separate $446 million lawsuit accusing Meta of using pirated films to train AI models, claiming the downloads were work-related rather than personal. Meta disputes any connection between the home activity and the company.
Instagram users report that the platform's 'AI Content' label is being applied incorrectly to photos edited with minor tools like Canva's background remover or blemish fixers, while genuine AI-generated images often go unflagged. This mirrors a similar labeling breakdown from 2024, when Meta's 'Made by AI' tag misfired on images with only minor generative retouching detected through embedded metadata.
Data center developer Crusoe has secured a new $3 billion funding round valuing the company at $30 billion, according to Bloomberg. Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners co-led the deal, with Mubadala Capital, part of Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, also participating.
OpenAI unveiled GPT-6 Astra, touting gains in cybersecurity, software engineering and agentic workflows, and calling it its most capable model yet. The release is rolling out first to enterprise and security customers before reaching Plus, Pro and Business users. In the same week, Anthropic, Meta and Google each pushed out their own model updates, with Anthropic releasing Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1.