A new workplace survey finds that more than one-third of employees admit to deliberately holding back specialized knowledge from AI agents they are asked to help train, fearing the technology will eventually replace them. The trend follows moves like Meta's decision this spring to monitor employees' mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes on work computers in order to feed real behavioral data into its AI training pipeline.
Multiple Reddit users report that Google Messages is inserting old texts from unrelated conversations into new ones, sometimes attaching them to photos or group chats and in some cases actually delivering them to unintended recipients. The bug spans both Pixel and Samsung devices, occurring regardless of whether RCS is enabled, and follows other recent Messages glitches like broken RCS delivery and duplicated threads. Google has acknowledged at least one report and passed it to its engineering team, but no fix has been announced.
The FDA has tracked over 12,800 illnesses linked to foodborne outbreaks in 2026, dwarfing the 895 cases recorded in all of 2025. Recent outbreaks include salmonella tied to jalapeños, eggs, and dog food, plus a combined E. coli and salmonella outbreak from alfalfa sprouts, following what experts call an unprecedented cyclospora outbreak from tainted lettuce that ranks as the largest since the 1990s.
A developer has released BlindLock, a local password vault that stores encrypted credentials embedded within an image file rather than in a central database. The vault relies on hardware binding and 256-bit authenticated encryption, and incorporates NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithms ML-KEM-1024 and ML-DSA-87 for key exchange and signatures.
Anthropic released a framework restructuring the software development lifecycle around AI coding agents, arguing that since agents made writing code fast, the bottleneck has shifted to planning, review, and verification. The playbook defines six stages—planning, design, build, deploy, and self-checking—each producing a document like intent.md, spec.md, or plan.md that feeds the next stage, with hooks preventing agents from gaming tests and CI evals treating agent configuration itself as software.
Incident responders at Sygnia say the China-linked group Fire Ant has expanded from compromising VMware hypervisors to hijacking Cisco routers, TACACS authentication servers, and Linux management hosts. Investigators found a hidden GRE tunnel on a Cisco IOS XR router that didn't match its configuration history, leading to discovery of custom malware that hides its activity from administrators and runs only during set hours. The attackers used their router access to capture network traffic and exfiltrate it to external FTP servers, then pivoted through a hidden tunnel into a Linux server to probe further into connected high-value networks, including ones tied to critical infrastructure.
An international research team published a paper in AI & Society introducing the concept of 'robotoid humanness,' arguing that frequent interaction with AI chatbots in customer service settings could push people toward more machine-like patterns of speech and behavior. The researchers describe this as a two-way process where bots increasingly mimic human traits while humans adapt to communicate in ways that are more legible to machines. The framework outlines three stages of this shift but has not yet been tested empirically.
A 22-year veteran of the productivity tools market argues that his 2019 bet on the no-code revolution only partly paid off, and now proposes a new thesis for the AI era. He contends that while AI lets anyone vibe-code small personal apps, building collaborative team software from scratch in tools like Claude Code or Codex still leaves developers stuck handling hosting, authentication, permissions and databases themselves.
Microsoft is rolling out a new button in Windows 11's full-screen backup prompt that lets users permanently dismiss repeated nudges to enable OneDrive backup through Windows Backup. Windows Latest spotted the option on two PCs running stable Windows 11 25H2 builds, even on machines without the OneDrive sync client installed. Microsoft says clicking it won't delete existing OneDrive files or change sync settings—it simply stops the recurring prompt.
A year after buying the Galaxy S25 Edge outright, a reviewer traded it in for a Galaxy Z Fold 8, citing persistent battery and screen shortcomings that undercut its ultra-thin, lightweight design. Despite flagship specs like the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip and a 200MP camera packed into a 5.8mm body, Samsung has shown no sign of releasing a follow-up model.
Glassdoor research found that insurance claims adjusters criticize AI in their reviews 98 percent of the time, making them the most AI-averse profession tracked on the platform. Adjusters describe being handed misclassified claims and AI-generated errors, or hallucinations, that they must fix, often after passing bad information to policyholders or attorneys. One former adjuster, Ahmad Jackson, said the technology added extra work and led him to leave his company for another insurer.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul publicly responded to Cody Wilson, a leading advocate for 3D-printed firearms, saying she intends to act ahead of his efforts to spread untraceable, unregulated guns. She defended the state's strict gun laws, including background checks and registration requirements, as key to New York's low gun homicide rate.
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