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Amazon's Prime Video has rolled out an AI-powered lip-sync feature for its German-language hit Maxton Hall, adjusting actors' mouth movements in post-production to better match the recorded English dub. The tool is live for the first two seasons worldwide and will extend to the third season premiering in early December, though human dubbing still remains part of the process.
Proofpoint identified an exploit toolkit, dubbed BlueMoon, that chains two Chromium vulnerabilities with a Windows kernel flaw to deploy malware on victims' machines. At least four separate hacking groups, some linked to the Chinese government, have deployed the kit within days of each other, and all three underlying vulnerabilities have only just received patches.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been analyzing Americans' financial transaction records to help agents identify vehicles and individuals worth pulling over. The practice extends the agency's data-driven surveillance tactics beyond travel and license-plate records into personal banking activity.
A Tesla Cybercab rider in Austin, Matthew Skrzypczak, found his in-car screen glitch into a hidden interface featuring camera feeds and a touchscreen joystick for shifting the vehicle forward and reverse. He managed to close the door and honk the horn but couldn't get the car to move using the joystick, possibly due to user error. Tesla has not explained why a passenger was able to access what appears to be a feature meant for employees or emergency responders.
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery is spending 9 million Swiss francs to move 3,000 government workstations off Microsoft 365 tools like Outlook and Teams, adopting the open-source openDesk suite instead. The decision follows a successful pilot program called PoC BOSS, which tested the software with 172 federal employees who found it workable for standard office tasks, though large-scale video conferencing showed some limitations. The rollout is planned to be complete by the end of 2027, with potential to expand further across the federal workforce.
Apple's Lakeside store in Essex reopens Saturday at 9am after a major redesign that adds sustainable building materials and accessibility features like adjustable seating heights and assisted listening systems. The refreshed store, originally opened in 2007, also includes a dedicated Apple Pickup area, an experience room, and a Genius Bar for personalized support.
Google Research and HHMI Janelia released MaleCNS v1.0, a dataset mapping over 166,000 neurons from a male fruit fly's brain and nervous system, built by converting millions of 2D images into 3D neural reconstructions. Developers quickly began using the model outside its intended scientific purpose, wiring its simulated neurons to control games like Doom and Super Mario 64, where sensory input from game frames drives neural activity that translates into player actions.
Maria Zhang, who previously led AI engineering efforts at Instagram, Tinder and Google, is now CEO of Palona AI, a startup applying large-scale AI techniques to restaurant operations. The company targets tasks like catering coordination, phone call handling and staff support rather than the recommendation and ranking systems she built at Meta and Tinder.
Emily Oberg, founder of fashion brand Sporty & Rich, revealed she tested AI-generated imagery to cut costs on e-commerce photo shoots, which typically run upwards of $200,000 twice a year. She said the results looked flat, lifeless and overly perfect, with models appearing 'dead in the eyes,' prompting her to return to using a full human team for future shoots.
A security researcher highlights how Docker's default client-server architecture runs its daemon as root, meaning any user with access to the Docker socket can escalate privileges to full root access without a password. The piece demonstrates this with a simple command that mounts the host filesystem inside a container and bypasses normal permission checks, tying the issue to a recent vulnerability disclosed in an unnamed Linux distribution whose installer enabled an insecure Docker configuration by default.
TSMC has confirmed plans to bring High-NA EUV lithography, using 0.55 numerical aperture optics, into high-volume manufacturing by 2030, likely for its A10 or A11 nodes. The company plans to use standard 6x6-inch photomasks initially, followed by a pilot line for larger 6x12-inch photomasks in 2031, aiming for full production with those masks by 2033.
Paramount reportedly enlisted a nonprofit called Neighbors for Strong Communities to send Californians mass text messages urging them to pressure state Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust suit against the $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros deal. The messages warned that blocking the merger could cost thousands of jobs, citing owner Larry Ellison's reported threat to relocate Paramount to Texas.