Salt Labs got the Manus AI agent to run attacker JavaScript server-side with a JSFuck-encoded prompt hidden in an email the agent had flagged. Detection fired and the code still ran, so agents connected to outside services need limits on what their code can reach.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
Banking scams targeting mobile users rose 35% in 12 months, according to research cited by Tech Radar. Because victims send the money themselves, banks are looking for signs of manipulation before a payment is authorised.
Reality
- Evidence28
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence32
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.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives75
- Confidence50
At its Made on YouTube event the company showed Custom Feeds that a viewer has to write a prompt to fill, and gave Ask YouTube the ability to answer a product question and sell the product, with affiliate credit for the creator still unsettled.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence55
Astra, Sol and Luna live one tab away from the prompt bar most people type into, and a Plus account sees five entries in the Work model picker. Whoever wrote your ChatGPT rollout doc now has to name a tab.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives48
- Confidence58
Oliver Schusser said the Beats 360 came out of watching how people live with headphones all day, and the specification follows that brief at 295.4 grams, with cushions you can machine wash and IPX4 water resistance.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives62
- Confidence57
Tom Marieb told TechRadar that the iPhone Duo's matte nano-texture panel is more forgiving of hinge changes over time. The published excerpts of that interview do not include a fold-cycle rating.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives78
- Confidence66
Writing in Forbes, OpenVPN chief executive Francis Dinha names Turbo VPN and VyprVPN among providers found on a 2019 build and puts the exposure in what vendors did with the code after they took it.
Reality
- Evidence27
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives85
- Confidence45
Snap's sixth-generation glasses arrive in Fall 2026 with a 51-degree display the company compares to a 24-inch monitor, and they weigh about 2.6 times what a pair of Meta Ray-Bans weighs. The demo software was Spotify and Google Docs.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption24
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives66
- Confidence40
TechRadar puts the generation's biggest gain in the camera, where four selectable apertures and Pro controls pay off for anyone who takes charge of a shot, while the new chip felt level with last year's.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption18
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence50
The president wrote that the only guardrails AI needs is a smart president, and said his administration has stopped Dario Amodei from doing bad things. TechRadar reports an earlier bid to brand Anthropic a supply chain risk failed.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Apple does not always publish full spec sheets, so the battery capacities for this year's iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max became public on European energy labels, and the two models did not gain the same amount.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
Jakub Pachocki's post on OpenAI's website asks every AI company to slow down and governments to coordinate on what comes next. The post is undated, and nothing a customer has already signed changes.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives62
- Confidence45
The delivery annex gives every programme a budget, an owning body and a financial year between 2026/27 and 2029/30, and its biggest line is £2.3bn for the military satellite communications work the projects authority rated red in July.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives68
- Confidence55
Nvidia's recommended defence against Rowhammer was a toggle. A University of Toronto team hammered straight through it, publishes exploit code on 15 November, and says only new hardware can close the hole.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives58
- Confidence54
The lab says operations continued and no misuse is confirmed. No actor has claimed the theft, so the company's own inventory is the only description of what left the building, and the employee half of it is the reusable kind.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption50
- Hype gap−10
- Incentives65
- Confidence50
In a demo TechRadar watched, a carried pair of Play speakers joined a Beam Ultra over an ultrasonic handshake with nobody touching the app, which moves the truth about your setup out of software and onto the furniture.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption14
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives68
- Confidence45
X's Thursday disclosure of a 200,000-account farm drew 3.2 million views and published no reach figures, so Darren Linvill went to a suspended-account archive and counted what the flagged posts actually reached.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+66
- Incentives82
- Confidence57
The column that hands Tim Cook the crown for a supply-chain era offers no usage numbers for the AI one, which leaves teams shipping on Apple's platforms to work out how much of their roadmap needs Apple to go first.
Reality
- Evidence24
- Adoption19
- Hype gap+44
- Incentives56
- Confidence37
The Explorer Edition brings its own cellular link and uploads the transcript while the meeting is still running, which lands the recording question in employer policy before procurement ever sees the hardware.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption10
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives74
- Confidence36