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Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone to great lengths to hype the security of its new AI assistant, Muse, claiming it is “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” A zero-day vulnerability that gives locally run apps and terminal commands complete control of the agent raises serious doubts. Further raising questions, Amazon on Sunday began blocking Muse from its site.Meta introduced Muse a few weeks ago. The assistant “books appointments, fills out forms, and handles customer service,” “proactively takes tasks off your plate,” and can “make purchases, generate images, create documents, and connect with your favorite…
They’re part of the app’s Guides feature and are available for select landmarks in five US cities. Screenshot by Steve Dent (Apple) Apple now links to Hidden Histories podcast episodes within Maps for select landmarks in five US cities. As Apple Insider has noticed, certain landmarks in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago and Washington, DC now show a panel in Maps that links straight to podcasts about their histories when you view their information in the app. When you tap the panel in Maps, it’ll take you to an interface where you’ll see the…
The domain name registrar company Identity Digital Inc. thinks it knows how to make artificial intelligence agents more accountable, and to do that it’s creating an entirely new company called Known Systems AI Inc. Known is a spinout of Identity Digital’s nascent AI agent identity initiative, which launched earlier this year under the name of Innovation Labs. Shortly afterward, Innovation Labs released an open, neural framework for accountable AI identities called DNSid, which is described as a kind of “birth certificate for AI agents.” DNSid is built on Domain Name System, public key infrastructure and an immutable blockchain ledger and…
The year’s not nearly over, but 2026 has already delivered a glut of exciting Android phones. Still, we can’t help but think about what might come next. Every phone-maker has distinct ideas about what features they’d like to add and improve with every generation. Some of these things, like design, they can do alone, but others require close collaboration with their partners. Two such partners are Google and Qualcomm — the former on the software side and the latter on the hardware side. Every summer at Google I/O, we learn about a slew of new software features that will enhance…
AI is everywhere. But are buyers seeing better outcomes, or just more hyped activity? Let’s talk about the AI perception gap between hype and real business value. AI is everywhere. On every roadmap. In every investor presentation. Inside every product update. And also buried in marketing campaigns that want to sound future-ready. And yet, the more the market talks about AI, the more cautious buyers seem to become. Strange, right? That is the contradiction. The hype keeps rising. The confidence does not. The public conversation is about replacement. Autonomous agents. Fewer employees. Smaller teams doing more with less. The business…
Swati KhandelwalSep 22, 2026Network Security / Vulnerability Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point’s Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server’s web service to run scripts on it without logging in. Check Point released a fix on September 22 for the server that controls firewall policies for the Check Point gateways it manages. Separately, Check Point said attackers have been trying since September 12 to exploit a VPN flaw it fixed on September 9. The attempts, against a flaw tracked as CVE-2026-85102, have…
Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. Data sourced from the Ministry of Manpower. While Singapore’s latest labour market figures point to a slowdown in hiring, with retrenchments rising last quarter and re-entry into employment becoming tougher, there are still plenty of job openings available. There are close to 70,000 vacancies in Singapore, including almost 40,000 PMET positions—jobs for professionals, managers, executives and technicians. These roles also tend to pay significantly more. Last year, the median monthly income for resident PMETs was S$7,600, compared with S$5,755 across all resident workers and less than half…
In May, Apple agreed to pay out $250 million as part of a class action lawsuit over claims the company overhyped its Apple Intelligence tools, specifically the long-delayed Siri AI overhaul.Although the revamped Siri AI voice assistant is now available for owners of newer iPhones via iOS 27, you may still be eligible to claim cash back for past purchases. This settlement covers customers in the US who made their purchases from June 10, 2024 to March 29, 2025, and bought certain iPhone 15 or iPhone 16 models from Apple. If you qualify, you might receive up to $95 for…
Patricia and James Poitras ’63, longtime MIT supporters, have launched a fellowship program for graduate students and postdocs studying major mental illness, expanding their MIT philanthropy to directly support early-career scientists. The commitment establishes 50 two-year fellowships through the Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Five fellowships will be awarded every year for the next decade, creating a long-term talent pipeline focused specifically on psychiatric disorders.The $10 million gift is the latest in a series of philanthropic investments from the Poitras family to strengthen MIT’s capacity to address the growing burden of severe depression and anxiety,…
by Todd Bishop on Sep 22, 2026 at 10:39 amSeptember 22, 2026 at 10:39 am Amazon and Meta are at odds over AI agents that shop on customers’ behalf. (GeekWire Illustration / GPT 5.6 Sol) Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse AI agent from its store Sunday night, and leaders across the tech industry have spent the past two days debating the bigger questions raised by the move. Among them: whether the big platforms will agree on rules for agents crossing into each other’s territory, how money will change hands when they do, and how many people will actually want AI agents…