• 8 minutes 32 seconds
    How to spot a white label gadget, and why that's important

    Forewarned is forearmed, after all.

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    22 October 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 8 minutes 5 seconds
    Government websites in the EU and Canada were taken offline over a PHP vulnerability, Meta is 'entering a new phase' with Muse, and Anthropic's Claude Duet released

    -Reuters reported that governments in the Netherlands, Denmark, France and Finland took down at least some websites as a preventive measure.

    -CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company is already working on monetizing the agent, and that he expects Muse to eventually generate more revenue per user than Facebook and Instagram.

    -Anthropic is billing Duet as a proactive agent. Each day, it will generate a short briefing with a list of action items from your connected apps.

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    22 October 2026, 12:30 pm
  • 7 minutes 48 seconds
    Amazon Prime comes with an Alexa upgrade you should know about

    Amazon's devices have learned some new tricks.

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    21 October 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 8 minutes 21 seconds
    SpaceX plans to catch Starship's upper stage for the first time, OpenAI's agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems, and Meta suspended Muse chats sharing feature after it left private details exposed

    -The company intends to catch the Ship using the "chopstick" arms of its launch tower, which it had also used in the past to capture the vehicle's Super Heavy booster.

    -OpenAI's agents misbehaved by switching off the systems meant to monitor them for misbehavior, or in AI parlance, misalignment.

    -Researchers at security firm Claroc discovered that the links for users' shared Muse chats can be found and accessed via a passive DNS search because all the URLs for sharing had the same domain name and used the conversation's title in the subdomain.

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    21 October 2026, 1:10 pm
  • 8 minutes 31 seconds
    The reason your Amazon Alexa devices are always listening

    It's not as nefarious as it sounds.

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    20 October 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 8 minutes 51 seconds
    Meta tweaked its new terms of service after backlash against scraping, DHS banned DeepSeek in federal civilian agencies, and we a mystery hidden in Super Mario 64 may have been solved

    -As flagged by Nieman Lab, the new language stated that Meta would have the right to use web scrapers and other automated tools "to access, index, cache, analyze, collect, retrieve, or crawl the domains, web pages, or URLs (and any content available through them)" associated with business accounts on the platform.

    -DHS characterized the risks of DeepSeek use as potentially resulting in the "transfer of sensitive data" of US government employees and vendors to the Chinese government.

    -Super Mario 64 fans have been obsessing over a blurry plaque in the castle courtyard for over 30 years

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    20 October 2026, 11:45 am
  • 6 minutes 53 seconds
    LinkedIn is adding new tools to help people with their side hustles

    The company says more of its users are holding down multiple roles.

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    19 October 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 8 minutes 25 seconds
    Google Gemini 4 agents just beat Minecraft with no human intervention, OpenAI is building a humanoid robot, and MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

    -Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's final "Ender Dragon" foe with no human intervention by working individually while sharing tips, threats and mistakes.

    -When asked if OpenAI will actually build a humanoid robot, CEO Sam Altman said, "we will."

    -The layer in MapQuest will show you where Flock cameras are. It also displays the locations of cameras from the likes of Motorola Solutions, Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo, Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia and Verkada.

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    19 October 2026, 12:00 pm
  • 11 minutes 47 seconds
    Bee unveils two AI note-taking devices

    The Eclipse and Frontier are cheap and colorful, but you'll need a Pro subscription to make the most of them.

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    16 October 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 8 minutes 21 seconds
    The FTC subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic following safety failures, Meta built a huge open-weight AI model for Macs, but you'll need a terabyte of RAM to run it, and CitizenLab detailed new spyware triggered by online advertising

    -The subpoenas are looking for documents regarding security incidents and safeguards, as well as some of the companies' marketing materials and content about their privacy policies.

    -Meta's 800-billion parameter model was optimized for Apple Silicon, but you'll need a staggering 1TB of RAM to run it locally.

    -The attack is unique in that it can infect devices just by showing an ad, with no need for the victim to click on a link or file. The researchers said that AdFection is the first confirmation of zero-click government-backed spyware attacks being delivered through online ads.

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    16 October 2026, 11:30 am
  • 6 minutes 45 seconds
    OpenAI says it found a 'sophisticated recording device' hidden in its offices

    Of course, it asked AI what to do about it.

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    15 October 2026, 8:30 pm
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