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Otherlab has put the Lightfoot, a solar scooter that tops out at 20 mph, on sale for $4,495, with a $100 reservation. Founder Saul Griffith built it deliberately spare, betting that short-trip riders want fewer features.
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Bose's second-generation QuietComfort Headphones run 24 hours with noise cancelling, 11 fewer than Nothing and Sonos rivals, Wired's review found. For travellers who take calls on the road, that gap and poor call audio now offset a lighter, quieter headset.
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Apple says it will require 'very explicit user action' before a Mac app gets Full Disk Access, after Meta's Muse was told to map relationships hourly. The new control comes at the moment a user grants access, so backup tools and AI agents that rely on the permission should plan for a harder setup step.
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Customs and Border Protection accessed more than 80,000 Flock cameras in a 2025 pilot, one police department's without its knowledge. The cities and campuses that pay for the cameras are left answerable for searches they may never see.
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Researcher Karan Joshi asked Meta's Muse for its system prompts in plain chat and got them, including an hourly job profiling everyone a user knows. Anyone shipping an agent should write its prompt expecting it to be read, especially the lines about people other than the account holder.
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Searchlight Institute counts more than 100 rural data centers in development that could claim a federal opportunity-zone tax break starting January 1. Its analyst says capital investment is the only condition, so any jobs a county wants have to be written into its own deal.
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Crocs-owned HEYDUDE tagged UF's Theta Chi chapter in a September 25 promo while two former members face sexual cyberharassment charges. The case had already set off a campus outcry, so for brands the partner check has to come before the shoot is booked.
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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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A researcher found 450GB of uploaded photos with no authentication in front of them at US lookup service ClarityCheck. A face, unlike a password, cannot be reset.
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Criminals in Portugal, France and Germany are posting fake replacement cards whose QR 'activation' codes lead to fake bank sites. Banks that warn only about texts and email now need a rule customers can apply to a letter that copies a renewal notice.
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Meta limits its Muse AI agent to users 18 and over while selling it through Jolly, a dress-up mascot, and a planned Tamagotchi-style device. Fairplay says the character appeals to preschoolers, and Meta answers with extra age checks it has not described.
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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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Wired's FOIA request turned up CFTC voting records for private investigations into pardon, Iran and Google contracts. Two of the three were signed within weeks of a broadcast report on the same trades.
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Hackers pulled a camera off a roadway, recovered the encryption key stored inside it, and handed the files to 404 Media and WIRED. The joint analysis found a person detector inside an automatic license plate reader.
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DDoSecrets published filesystem images taken from a working Flock ALPR camera. The Android build inside them carries a hard-coded API key and a security patch level seven years older than the build itself.
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Sensor Tower counted more than 900,000 downloads of Meta's Muse in its first week. Wired's reviewer found an agent that browses competently while its ideas tab keeps pitching a live link to the bank.
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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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Private Processing, the siloed cloud scheme Meta built for WhatsApp last year, is coming to Ray-Ban Meta glasses so the assistant can work on data Meta says it cannot read. Meta's engineering director told WIRED he does not have a timeline.
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A rage-bait creator filmed a transfeminine designer at a Delhi protest through Wayfarer-styled Meta glasses. The only warning the product offers is an LED, and tutorials already teach wearers how to cover it.
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Rabbit has stopped making the R1 and moved its agent into a cloud service that touches desktop files through a local node. Jesse Lyu says the handheld sold more than 100,000 units before production ended.
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