Developers Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders independently got Meta's Muse AI agent to zip up and share its root filesystem, including Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders said replicating the result was 'extremely easy' and that Muse showed 'almost no prompt injection resistance.' Meta says exporting this virtual machine data is expected behavior and not a security breach, since each user's Muse runs in its own persistent Linux VM.
Social media users, including a Redditor, allege that Meta's new consumer AI agent Muse is built directly on the OpenClaw platform, pointing to identical core file names like SOUL.md and near-identical personality-guiding text. Meta's Nat Friedman, head of product for Superintelligence Labs, says Muse was built 'from scratch' but was 'heavily inspired' by OpenClaw, and that his team deliberately reused file names and phrasing they believed OpenClaw's creator had gotten right.
Amazon has discounted the Shark PowerDetect Robot Vacuum & Mop Combo to $279.99 from its $1,299.99 list price, a 78% reduction and an all-time low. The device combines vacuuming and mopping with a self-emptying, self-cleaning base that can go up to 60 days without manual maintenance, plus LiDAR navigation and room mapping. The discount requires an Amazon Prime membership, which is available via a free 30-day trial.
SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel says Chinese firm Puzhi Electronic Technology is crowdfunding a system built around AMD's Zynq UltraScale+ XCZU47DR RFSoC, a U.S. export-controlled chip, being quoted at roughly $1,000 versus a $36,000 U.S. list price. AMD told Tom's Hardware it did not directly sell or ship the chips into China and that it investigates suspected diversion cases, without confirming whether an investigation into this specific case has begun.
A hobbyist describes using a modest, low-cost telescope setup—including a 130-millimeter Newtonian scope, a motorized equatorial mount running the open-source OnStep controller, and a GPS-timed flasher for calibration—to observe asteroid occultations, when an asteroid passes in front of a distant star and briefly blocks its light. By timing these fleeting shadow events, amateur observers can help map an asteroid's shape and size, work that is difficult for large observatories to do alone.
Meta introduced Muse, an AI assistant featured at Meta Connect with a plush, cartoonish mascot named J. The Verge's Victoria Song tested the agent for health advice and found herself sharing more personal information than she intended, largely because the mascot's cute appearance lowered her guard.
Google is updating Chrome so that tabs sent between devices now retain the exact scroll position and any partially filled forms, letting users resume reading or complete forms seamlessly across desktop and mobile. Gemini in Chrome is also expanding its ability to analyze, summarize, and quiz users on podcasts and non-YouTube videos, in addition to documents and webpages it already supports.
GMKtec has released the Evo-X3, a redesigned mini PC built around AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, now shipping with 128GB of LPDDR5X-8000 memory as standard. The unit adopts an almost entirely metal CNC-machined chassis in place of its predecessor's plastic-and-aluminum build. Tom's Hardware tested a 128GB/2TB configuration priced at $3,799.99, roughly double what the earlier Evo-X2 cost six months prior.
Amazon announced it will invest $100 million to build a new robotics manufacturing facility in Indiana, expanding its capacity to produce robots used for sorting and moving packages inside its warehouses. The company is already one of the world's largest makers of such warehouse robots.
Security researchers at Salt Labs privately disclosed to Dark Reading a prompt-injection vulnerability in the AI agent platform Manus that let them execute remote code inside another user's Manus environment. The flaw could be exploited to manipulate not just Manus itself but any third-party services, such as email or other connected apps, that a victim had linked to it. Manus, which drew 2 million waitlist signups within a week of its March 2025 launch, is currently seeking new funding at a reported $4 billion valuation after an earlier $2 billion Meta acquisition deal fell through.
Adobe announced it is expanding its AI chatbot integrations by adding Acrobat PDF tools to its existing Claude and Claude Code plugin, and by bringing its creative tool suite to Google Gemini. The Acrobat tools let Claude users organize, redact, convert and edit PDFs, including an interactive editor and a Document Review skill that adds suggestions directly into files.
Google confirmed via the official Gmail account on X that it changed the default color of Gmail's star and 'Important' label markers from yellow to blue on the web, citing accessibility and contrast standards. The redesign uses an identical saturated blue for both markers, which previously used different shades to distinguish user-starred messages from algorithmically flagged important ones.
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