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Ninja Labs has released the MagSafe Flex Pouch, a $58 magnetic accessory that attaches to compatible phones like a wallet but uses stretchy silicone to hold far more than cards. The company suggests it can carry car fobs, earbuds, snacks, makeup, loose change or cash, and it comes in a clear version plus black, pink, blue, lavender and a sparkly rainbow finish.
Ryanair, Europe's largest airline, has rolled out proprietary predictive AI models built by its internal unit Ryanair Labs to anticipate disruptions like weather delays, airport curfews and crew-hour limits before they cause cancellations. CEO Eddie Wilson said the tools are meant to help staff manage operations across the airline's 96 bases and roughly 3,800 daily flights, not replace human operators.
The piece traces a matching-pennies experiment back to engineer David Hagelbarger's 1950s Bell Labs machine SEER, which tracked only a handful of facts about recent rounds to guess a human opponent's next move better than chance. Claude Shannon built a similar device shortly after, crediting Hagelbarger's design and describing it as a simplified model of the same idea. The modern 'Aaronson Oracle' is a descendant of these relay-based machines, now implemented as software.
A Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center survey of over 5,400 Americans found 53 percent of men claimed familiarity with two fictional AI figures, Susan Milner and Craig Dalton, compared with 40 percent of women. The same survey found men use AI more often and answer factual questions about it correctly slightly more often, but largely because women are more likely to say they don't know an answer rather than guess wrong.
A vulnerability in the XRP Ledger's payment engine, present for roughly eleven years, could have let an attacker mint about 18 trillion XRP in one transaction by exploiting an integer overflow in balance tracking, according to researcher Cayden Liao and security firm Veria Labs. The XRP Ledger Foundation disclosed the bug on October 9, three days after it was reported through the bug bounty program, and the fix had already shipped on September 25 in xrpld 3.4.1. Developers said they found no evidence the flaw was ever exploited on a live network.
Meta unveiled two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which the company says deliver frontier-level capabilities. The models will be accessible via an API and through Muse Code, a coding tool, and the top version will power features across Meta's platforms including its Muse personal assistant. Meta says the largest model outperforms Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, though it did not disclose training or architecture details.
Meta has released two new AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, available immediately to Muse Code subscribers and accessible via the Meta Model API. The company says internal benchmark testing shows the models are competitive with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, though it did not compare them to Google's newest model. Meta plans to eventually use Wonder to power its Muse AI agent, starting with subscribers, though no timeline was given.
Varonis Threat Labs discovered AvisLoader, a new Windows malware loader found on an exposed staging server alongside a ClickFix phishing lure and its control panel. The malware is delivered via a fake DocuSign verification page hosted on Cloudflare Workers that tricks victims into pasting and running a malicious command, which then fetches code from a Cloudflare Quick Tunnel address.
Lumen's Black Lotus Labs reports that a campaign called Canto Incognito has infected more than 3,400 servers since April 2026 using malware dubbed PoeLLM, which deploys XMRig and Iron cryptominers linked to Kryptex mining infrastructure. The malware hides its command-and-control addresses inside words of a two-stanza poem posted on GitHub, edited 11 times to redirect infected machines to new servers, and primarily targets exposed AI/LLM tools like LiteLLM, Ollama, Gotenberg, Gitea, and possibly Ivanti Sentry.
Google has released Playground through Google Labs, letting users type plain-language prompts to generate playable in-browser games, with options to refine designs or upload reference images, videos, or models. The tool builds on Google's practice of testing experimental AI products via Labs before wider release, and follows a similar game-generation feature Meta introduced in September called Horizon Create.
A commentary piece argues that AI 'neolabs'—new research-focused startups founded by senior researchers—are currently forced to pursue both a scientific breakthrough and a venture-scale business simultaneously, which it says compounds already low odds. The author proposes a model borrowed from pharmaceutical R&D that would let frontier labs, neolabs, and investors separate and price these risks differently.
Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative concluded Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, awarding $1,262,000 across three days as researchers demonstrated 98 zero-day vulnerabilities in devices including the Samsung Galaxy S26, Google Pixel 10, OpenAI Codex and Oracle's Autonomous AI Database. Ikotas Labs won the contest overall with $361,000 and 42.5 Master of Pwn points, including a $300,000 payout for a chained exploit against the Pixel 10, ahead of runners-up Xint and Team ZyGoat.