Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle files to Outlook's default blocked attachment list starting early November, rolling out to Exchange Online users with general availability expected by mid-November. Once applied, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will block users from sending, receiving, opening or downloading these file types by default. Admins can whitelist the formats via the AllowedFileTypes property if their organization needs them.
Amazon's Prime Day 2026 sale features toy discounts of as much as 44%, according to WIRED's roundup of 18 recommended deals. The list, curated by a WIRED reviewer who tested the items with their own children and a classroom of students, spans board games, Lego sets, and STEM toys, with a highlighted item being a screen-free interactive play stage and speaker for kids.
Security researchers at the Swarmchasers group say a fleet of AI agents, probably built on Tencent's Hy models, spent more than a week pulling navigation data from Alibaba's Amap mapping service via the urlquery.net sandbox tool. The fleet peaked at 1,810 URL scans on October 4, targeting entrance-usage data at locations like zoos, parks and hospitals, running on Tencent Cloud behind a proxy. Some scans were labeled 'claude,' but the underlying code reportedly resembles Chinese models rather than Anthropic's.
An independent developer released a project called RemoveMacAI that lets users disable Apple Intelligence and delete downloaded Siri AI models from their Macs, reclaiming storage that can reach 14GB. Apple currently offers only partial controls through device management to restrict certain AI features, not a full removal option, and using the unofficial tool carries risks since AI is deeply integrated into macOS 27.
Meta has updated its Muse iOS app to include native iPad support, about a month after the app launched and a week after a Mac version arrived. The same update adds new integrations for the iPhone version, including Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Zoom, Asana, Klaviyo, Granola, and Notion, plus a feature letting small business owners set a goal for Muse to autonomously plan marketing and product pages around.
A developer has released PSP Web Recomp, a tool that translates decompiled PSP game executables into C++ and compiles them to WebAssembly, pairing the output with a reimplemented PSP operating system and a WebGL2 graphics layer. Using disc images supplied by the user, it runs God of War: Chains of Olympus and Ghost of Sparta directly in Chrome and Firefox, including on phones with touch controls, at 60 frames per second and higher-than-native resolutions, though in-game movies are currently skipped.
Google says Chrome 155 will support decoding JPEG XL (.jxl) images, a format offering 30-50% better compression than JPEG, lossless compression, HDR support, and lossless JPEG transcoding. The decoder was rebuilt in Rust, via the jxl-rs project, to improve memory safety while matching the performance of existing C++ implementations.
Walmart's in-house onn brand is selling microSD Express cards compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2 at $49.50 for 256GB and $84.77 for 512GB, the lowest prices currently available for this storage type. Both cards offer read speeds up to 800 MB/s and write speeds up to 600 MB/s, and carry a one-year limited warranty.
A peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Financial Crime examined 72 flash loan attacks between February 2020 and July 2024 that drained $1.211 billion from DeFi platforms, part of 254 total attacks costing $6.568 billion across 20.63 billion transactions on seven blockchains. The researchers found that attacks exploiting flaws in protocol logic rose from 28% of flash loan losses in the first two years of the study to 55% in the most recent period, overtaking price oracle manipulation as the dominant technique.
Scientists led by Michal Irani at the Weizmann Institute built an AI 'brain decoder' that analyzes fMRI scans to reconstruct images a person is viewing. The system was trained on high-resolution public brain scan data from eight subjects and uses a diffusion model to generate visual recreations of what the person saw, with the work presented at two recent conferences.
Jaguar revealed the Type 01, a four-door electric production car with no rear window, unveiled in New York. The car claims a 400-mile range and a 0-60 mph time of 3.1 seconds, with US prices starting at $130,500 and UK prices at £130,000; sales begin in early 2027 with deliveries later that year.
Amazon's October Prime Day sale is live, and WIRED's Reviews team has compiled a list of tech deals it says have been tested in staff members' own homes. Among the highlighted discounts is the Apple AirPods Pro 3, now priced at its lowest point since June. WIRED notes the roundup was last updated October 7 with additional products added.
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