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A reviewer tried Meta's AI agent, nicknamed Muse, by assigning it several tedious personal tasks in parallel, including chasing down accounts and making a purchase with a credit card. The agent operated by opening multiple virtual browser windows simultaneously to work through the requests.
Modern chess engines can defeat the world's best grandmasters, but researchers note they still cannot converge on one definitive, infallible way to play the game. Rather than making chess feel 'solved' or stale, these AI systems are reportedly revealing new strategic ideas and approaches to the game.
At its Made by YouTube event, the company announced users will soon build custom homepage feeds via conversational AI prompts, first rolling out to US users on web, mobile and TV. YouTube also expanded its shows feature to Shorts for episodic sequencing, added a searchable GIF library for mobile comments globally this fall, and introduced voice-to-text commenting on supported TVs.
Vigilance Security researchers say attackers are seeding tens of thousands of web pages, PDFs, reviews and fake support portals with fraudulent phone numbers, emails and login links, aiming to get AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google AI Overview to surface them as trustworthy answers. The campaign, named Dark Sourcery, has reportedly affected at least 374 companies, including Fortune 100 firms, airlines, banks, travel companies and software providers.
Apple's iOS 27.2 beta expands FaceTime's Dual Capture feature, which shows a caller's front and rear camera views simultaneously, to Group FaceTime calls. Previously introduced in iOS 27, Dual Capture was limited to one-on-one calls; it requires an iPhone 17 or later, with other participants needing iOS 27, iPadOS 27, or macOS 27 to view the dual streams.
Eight Sleep released its Pod 6 smart mattress cooling/heating device with a 50% smaller footprint and a new solo size for single sleepers, priced from $1,999 for solo and $2,699 for standard sizes. The company says the new pod adjusts temperature 20% faster and has 9x more sensors than the prior generation, letting it distinguish between two sleepers or ignore a pet or child on the bed. The device launches today in more than 37 countries and is compatible with existing accessories.
Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong found Meta building an option to set its newer Muse agent, internally codenamed 'Impacc,' as the default assistant on smart glasses instead of Meta AI. A leaked setup screen says Muse is in beta and lists upcoming features not yet live, including Live AI, turn-by-turn navigation, Shazam song identification, Strava, and Health Connect integration. Wong separately found Meta developing 'Meta Pay for Muse,' a wallet interface supporting Meta Pay, Stripe Link, and Shop Pay.
A hacking group calling itself ShinyHunters defaced the FBI's jobs recruitment website and claims to possess home addresses of FBI agents. The group has demanded that the bureau retract a warning it issued in May about ShinyHunters, giving the FBI a one-week deadline.
A developer building the habit-tracker app Main Character reported reaching 1,000 consecutive days of daily math practice on Math Academy, progressing from Math Foundations through Mathematics for Machine Learning. They disclosed that relying on notes and answer-checking during difficult lessons masked underlying weaknesses, prompting them to reset their course progress and restart.
A technical blog post examines TypeSafe's new Jev system, a 'System One Model' that converts unstructured input into typed decisions with attached probability scores instead of generating text. The author argues Jev is genuinely useful because it works without requiring training data, unlike a fine-tuned BERT model, but disputes TypeSafe's claim that its RLCD training method produces probabilities that are truly calibrated across any dataset.
Motorola has announced a multi-year deal with Danish audio maker Bang & Olufsen to co-engineer sound hardware for its flagship smartphones. B&O's acoustic engineers will work alongside Motorola's design teams to define, test and tune audio components across upcoming devices, with the first model expected to launch soon in the US and other markets.
Security firm Patchstack says threat actors began exploiting a critical WordPress path traversal flaw, CVE-2026-87902, to write files that execute shell commands, after initial reconnaissance traffic surged tenfold. The bug, discovered by researcher Robert Ressl and rated 9.2/10 in severity, allows unauthenticated attackers to trick get_page_template() into loading arbitrary local PHP files under certain theme and server configurations. WordPress patched the issue in version 7.1.2 and backported fixes to branches as old as 4.7.