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A bug in some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses allowed the Meta AI assistant to activate, capture audio and generate transcripts without the wearer saying “Hey Meta”—even when the setting that permits wake-word-free activation was switched off. Meta says the problem has been resolved. What the company has not supplied is an explanation of what went … Read more
Meta has published Muse Spark Open, an open-weights model with 816 billion parameters that the company says can be served from a pair of linked M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple’s MLX framework. The release landed on October 15 on Meta Superintelligence Labs’ blog, and Apple followed with a technical report detailing its own distributed-inference … Read more
Microsoft has secured a court order in Florida to seize and redirect domains belonging to YAM Store, an underground marketplace that sold compromised Microsoft 365 and Google environments along with the phishing kits built on top of them. The Digital Crimes Unit announced the action on October 14, describing infrastructure tied to more than 1 … Read more
Phishing emails have acquired a second reader. Security researchers have documented a campaign in which each message carries two payloads: a conventional social-engineering lure meant for the person who opens it, and a set of concealed instructions aimed at the AI assistant that summarizes, prioritizes and triages the inbox before any human sees it. A … Read more
Researchers at the University of Minnesota, co-led by transplant surgeon Erik Finger, have vitrified human-sized pig kidneys at -150°C and rewarmed them without fracture. One kidney spent 366 days frozen and later recovered blood flow and urine production on a perfusion machine, though less urine than most vitrified kidneys in the study. The work is … Read more
Scientists in Valencia have engineered a cotton textile that destroys bacteria, fungi and at least one virus when exposed to ordinary white light — no ultraviolet lamps, no specialised fixtures. In a pilot study, treated swatches placed in patient rooms reduced microbial load by 75% compared with untreated cotton. The research was published in August … Read more
Engineers at EPFL, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have sent two microscopic vehicles into the air without a motor, a battery, a wire or a single electronic component on board. The craft weigh 150 and 184 micrograms and consist of nothing more than hollow polymer shells, printed in one piece, that lift off when … Read more
A CHI 2025 experiment from the MIT Media Lab is drawing fresh attention for an uncomfortable finding: people who view AI-edited images or AI-generated videos are markedly more likely to misremember what they originally saw—and more confident that their false recollections are correct. The study, co-authored by memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus of the University of … Read more
You shut the lid on Friday at 80 percent, open it Monday and find 30 percent — or a chassis warm enough to feel through a backpack. On plenty of recent Windows laptops that is not a dying cell. Closing the lid no longer suspends the machine the way it used to: it drops into … Read more
Pasting a rental contract, electricity bill or lab report into a chatbot is tempting: it decodes the jargon in seconds. The catch is everything that travels with the document. Spain’s Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) captured the risk in its January 2026 decalogue: “Be careful what you entrust to it.” Strip identifiers first: … Read more