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Meta's Answer to the Camera Problem Is a Pair of Glasses With No Camera

Meta opened pre-orders on Wednesday for Ray-Ban Meta Audio, a $349 pair of smart glasses with six microphones and no camera, shipping 13 October. It arrives two weeks after Hamburg's data protection regulator published a final report finding that the recording light on the camera models is effectively invisible outdoors and does not illuminate at all on Gen 2 when the assistant is looking at your surroundings. The camera-free pair has no light because, under Meta's own definition, the light is for photographs.

By Alison Acosta 27 hours ago

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Google Knew for Seven Weeks. Its Customers Found Out From a Newspaper.

By Alison Acosta September 23, 2026

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Xbox Is Three Quarters of the Way Through Its Reset. Halo Changed Hands on the Way.

By Margaret Holloway September 23, 2026

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Apple's Second Round of Cuts Went After the Content It Has to Keep Making

Apple has laid off a handful of Fitness+ employees, Bloomberg reported, a month after it cut about 200 jobs in its Siri and Vision Pro groups. The numbers are small against a workforce of 166,000. What the two rounds have in common is more telling: in both, Apple cut people who make content, not products.

By Alison Acosta September 22, 2026

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What Happens When the Advertiser's Own Agent Joins the Conversation?

Sponsored Agents, announced Wednesday, are brand-funded units that open a labelled conversation with an advertiser's own agent inside ChatGPT, wired to commerce systems so the purchase never leaves the window. Wayfair is a pilot partner. The advertising business reached a $1bn annualised run rate in under 200 days.

By Alison Acosta September 17, 2026

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A Factory in Liuzhou Now Builds a Humanoid Robot Every Ten Minutes

UBTECH opened a plant in Liuzhou on 12 September that it says will produce more than 10,000 humanoid robots a year, one every ten minutes. Some of the assembly is done by the company's own Walker S units. The interesting number is not the robots. It is the throughput.

By Alison Acosta September 16, 2026

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OpenAI Is Sounding Out a $1.5tn Valuation and Putting Off the Listing

Reports put OpenAI in early talks over a share sale valuing it near $1.5tn, roughly double the $730bn of its last round, while the company signals an IPO is not imminent. Staying private is the point: the number is easier to sustain when nobody trades it daily.

By Cory Chamberlain September 16, 2026

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The Patch Waited Six Weeks on Half the Servers. The Attackers Waited Four Days.

Wiz says attackers exploited three JFrog Artifactory flaws between 15 August and 8 September, chaining two of them to turn an unauthenticated request into an administrator token. All three had patches. Six weeks after one fix shipped, 59 percent of organisations were still vulnerable. Exploitation of the most serious flaw began four days after it was disclosed.

By Alison Acosta September 14, 2026

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The Agent Asks If You Trust the Repository After It Has Already Run It

A Git setting called core.fsmonitor holds a command, and Git runs it whenever the index refreshes — on git status, on git diff. Read it out of a cloned repository's own config and the repository executes code. On some coding agents the payload fires before the workspace-trust prompt is shown.

By Alison Acosta September 12, 2026

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The Clause That Matters Is the One Sending Data Back

Contracts obtained through litigation describe four frontier labs each holding Defense Department agreements worth up to $200m, with bidirectional data exchange including model benchmarks and engineers embedded with the military. Procurement usually buys a product. This buys a relationship in both directions.

By Alison Acosta September 9, 2026

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Eight Hundred Billion a Year Is Not a Boom. It Is a Run Rate.

PwC puts annual data centre capital expenditure at roughly $800bn in 2026, rising toward $1.8 trillion a year by 2050. A boom has a peak somewhere in it. A run rate that roughly doubles over 24 years is a description of infrastructure, and infrastructure is financed, sited and regulated differently.

By Alison Acosta September 8, 2026

Installing a Package Runs Its Code. That Is the Design, Not the Attack.

CrowdStrike has started intercepting npm install and pip install at the endpoint, blocking a package before its embedded scripts can run. That the defence has moved to the last moment before execution is an admission about everything upstream of it.

By Alison Acosta September 5, 2026

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Everybody Audits the Package. Nobody Audits the Shelf It Sits On.

A flaw in JFrog Artifactory rated 9.8 lets an unauthenticated attacker on the network take administrative control under default configuration — minting admin tokens, forging credentials, reading the whole access topology. Disclosed on 28 August, observed being exploited in the wild by 1 September.

By Alison Acosta September 3, 2026

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When You Cannot Audit the Code, You Audit the Vendor

Buyers have stopped asking whether a supplier's software is secure, because they cannot find out. They have started asking who owns the supplier, where it builds, and what it would have to disclose.

By Alison Acosta August 30, 2026

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Firmware Is the Part of the Supply Chain Nobody Audits

Procurement has learned to ask what open-source components a vendor ships. It still rarely asks what is running on the controller beneath the operating system, where the code is older, the provenance is thinner and the update path frequently does not exist.

By Alison Acosta August 29, 2026