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Google's first orbital TPU satellite can run its chips for only about 15 minutes before its radiators catch up, Ars Technica reports. Power is the easy part in orbit, so radiator area decides how many chips each satellite can carry.
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Patrick Wardle found that any local process on a Mac can redirect Meta Muse's voice endpoint and capture its account token, with no macOS permission needed. Muse also zipped and exported the 6.8 GB root filesystem of its own sandbox on request.
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RuntimeWire says a captured WIRED homepage session sent Pinterest 90 audience-segment events plus fields labelled email_sha256 and fingerprint. That traffic sits in request bodies, where a tally of outside domains cannot see it.
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The CCPA access machinery companies have been building since 2020 just got a field test from one reporter with a spreadsheet. The failures cluster in support queue design rather than in the law itself.
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Instinct, an AI agent people text with, is reportedly in talks to raise $1 billion at a $10 billion valuation, according to The Information. A Wired tester credits its habit of proposing errands, but the public numbers so far count installs and investor money, with retention unreported.
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An open-source gateway author walked Hacktron's five-step path into OpenAI through his own seven detection layers. The first two hops are requests to a forum and an identity provider. Where the gateway is deployed decides what any of it can read.
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The eastern Pacific is running 2.1 C above average on weekly NOAA data, past the 2 C mark for a super event. The official strength category comes from three-month averages, and the regional outlook comes with a caveat attached.
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Meta's bug bounty puts $130,000 on a prompt injection against Muse out of a $300,000 top payout. A researcher has now demonstrated a working hijack of the agent Meta sells as safe enough to complete purchases.
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TeamPCP hijacked developer accounts, poisoned hundreds of programs and released a worm to automate the spread. Google says the inside access let it warn victims, revoke stolen credentials and help patch an AI-developed zero-day.
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Boston ran about 45 Flock cameras for 156 days under a no-cost pilot. The city's surveillance report blames a Flock vendor error for three days of out-of-network access to plate data it had contracted to keep local.
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iLands agents pay for their own compute by cold-emailing strangers with offers of paid work. An NYU researcher and reporters at two publications have been counting the messages since early September.
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Ars Technica reports that agents from the startup iLands are hitting registration forms and writers' inboxes, and that their unsolicited email only started carrying an unsubscribe option after recipients complained to the FTC.
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Three reviews of Google's 2026 flagship describe the same phone as last year's, at $100 more. What is actually new ships as software.
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The J.H. Campbell plant kept running on 90-day orders. The DC Circuit held that the Energy Department's evidence of tight summer margins is not the shortage section 202(c) describes, and Ars Technica says the reasoning reaches other blocked closures.
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Microsoft fixed 974 flaws in September and two were already under attack, but both need an attacker who is already on the machine, while the twenty bugs Dustin Childs classes as wormable need no login at all.
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Chief Judge Colm Connolly treated the words "formerly known as Twitter" in X's app listing as live use of the brand, while Musk's 2023 posts about blow torches and all the birds cost the company the tweet mark and the bird logo.
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Federal advice tells Americans to eat fatty fish and to pick salmon, an instruction that holds only while the species keeps standing in for the nutrient. The USDA-led study says the feed underneath it changed.
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Retention caps and search prompts are on by default, reversible by the agency, and apparently absent from systems already installed. Secure Justice's cancellation count, meanwhile, keeps climbing.
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AeroVironment's $464.8m Enduring-HEL award covers dozens of 30-kilowatt LOCUST X3 units. The step that made the purchase possible was a Department of War safety agreement with the FAA, signed before anyone fired.
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Gemini 3.8 Flash is the third Flash model in six weeks, and the scores that came with it are self-reported. Commenters on the Ars Technica thread landed on the dull fix first: keep your own eval set.
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