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Truffle Security scanned 224 million GitHub repositories and 58 billion files, finding 543,699 unique valid credentials repeated across more than 1.1 million files and forks. The median exposure time was 784 days, with 10% of credentials older than 6.3 years and the oldest dating to 2009. The figure is more than double the 221,303 working credentials the firm previously found scanning Hugging Face.
OpenAI showed off a new AI agent platform called Dots at DevDay, featuring customizable colored blobs with eyes, while declining to confirm plans for dedicated hardware beyond a filing suggesting a 2027 device with Jony Ive. Meta is moving faster, planning to launch a pendant called Muse Charm before this year's holidays, built around its Muse AI agent character, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg compared to a keychain.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company, valued at $852 billion, will not pursue an IPO until it can make confident safety decisions about its AI systems. He made the comments at the company's developer day, addressing scrutiny over hacking incidents involving its AI agents and a newly filed lawsuit from a legal advocacy group demanding stronger safety practices.
Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest single gift ever made to a U.S. university. About $2 billion will fund a new 35-acre campus in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood for roughly 3,500 students, focused on areas like health, national security and energy, with construction starting next year. The remaining funds will split between renaming Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh computer science program after Griffin and other unspecified campus projects.
CNET's People's Picks survey found readers rated Mint Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator, as their most satisfying carrier with an average score of 4.68 out of 5, outranking the three major network carriers. CNET senior editor Jeff Carlson attributed part of Mint's high marks to its marketing, including actor Ryan Reynolds' past involvement, alongside its affordable pricing plans starting at $15 a month.
Android Authority released its latest 'Wallpaper Wednesday' collection, featuring six reader-submitted images and three from its own team. The wallpapers are free, watermark-free, and available in both landscape and portrait formats as JPG or PNG files via a shared Drive link.
Buffalo Wild Wings partnered with Mars-owned Pringles to launch three chip flavors—Parmesan Garlic, Medium Buffalo and Asian Zing—ahead of football season, marking its second snack collaboration after a 2025 Slim Jim deal. Popeyes, meanwhile, rolled out bake-at-home biscuits in May, now sold at Walmart, H-E-B and select Target stores, building on its earlier grocery sauce line. This comes even as Bank of America Institute reports restaurant spending rose 3.3% year over year in July amid cooling menu inflation and rising wages.
ESBO Ltd, a digital PR agency, says monthly monitoring of AI assistants' answers about client brands since early 2025 has revealed five recurring error types: outdated facts, confusion with similarly named companies, misclassifying a company's industry, amplifying old complaints, and other gaps. The agency points to a BBC review finding that over half of chatbot answers about news contained significant issues, including one that kept a former UK prime minister listed as in office long after he left.
A journalist testing Meta's new Muse AI agent found it suggested an article topic drawn directly from a private Messages conversation he'd had with a podcast cohost. When questioned, Muse said its Mac app could read incoming notifications and pass that context to the iPhone app, though it denied accessing full chat histories. Meta has described Muse as built to be safe, secure and private.
Control Resonant, the sequel to 2019's Control, has a slow-paced opening with limited weapons and abilities, and its late-game bosses and mold-infested areas can become punishing damage sponges. Rather than adding a traditional easy mode, Remedy built an Assist Mode with three presets (easy, high-risk, low-risk) plus adjustable sliders for damage output, falter thresholds, projectile speed and enemy aggression. Control had received a similar assist mode after its initial launch.
CNET conducted lab testing to evaluate whether consumer air purifiers can effectively filter wildfire smoke particles from indoor air, prompted by writer Corin Cesaric-Epple's own experience during the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke event in New York City. The piece cites National Interagency Fire Center data and NASA findings that 2023 was Canada's driest period since 1980, framing wildfire smoke as a recurring, worsening problem, particularly for Texas and the West Coast.
Leaker Ice Universe claims Samsung's Galaxy S27 Ultra will weigh 218 grams, about 4 grams more than the Galaxy S26 Ultra, while keeping the same 7.9mm thickness. The extra weight follows earlier reports that the phone will carry a larger 5,700mAh battery, up from 5,000mAh in the current model.