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Grok Lawsuits Ask Who Pays When AI Turns School Photos Into Abuse Images
An investigator showed a Wisconsin teenager a photo from her eighth-grade graduation. She was 14 in the picture. According to Bloomberg’s investigation into Grok and childhood photos, a classmate’s adult brother had used Grok to turn it into child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The images were then posted online. She is now 18 and is…
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Humanoid Robot Qestr Quits Antarctic Ultra After 3 km as Cold Drains Its Battery
A humanoid robot named Qestr lasted about 3 km in the Antarctic Ice Ultra before its battery ran out. The human runners kept going, and some of them covered 100 miles. The gap shows where humanoid robots still fall short: not on balance or terrain, but on power in deep cold. What happened at the…
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Apple AI Glasses Project Named by Chinese Supplier, but Key Details Stay Hidden
A Shanghai-listed Chinese equipment maker says it has worked on two unannounced Apple products: AI glasses and “new smart earphones.” Quick Intelligent Equipment made the remark at its third-quarter 2026 earnings briefing on November 10. Apple has not announced either product. No response from Apple has been reported. The company did not say what it…
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Google DeepMind AI Proves Signal Encryption Code Is Secure, With Clear Limits
Five researchers and a crowd of AI agents needed four weeks to prove key security guarantees in Signal’s encryption code. Google DeepMind says this kind of work used to take expert teams years. The proofs check the compiled machine code itself, not just the protocol design on paper. The tool is called AlphaProof Code. Google…
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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome 2 Predicts DNA Variant Effects Cell by Cell
On the TenK10K immune cell dataset, AlphaGenome 2 picked out 30% of causal variants. The original AlphaGenome found 16%. Google DeepMind announced the new DNA model on November 11. The gain comes from one design change: it now predicts DNA effects one cell type at a time. The model is open now for non-commercial research…
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Hackers Use StyleSmuggler Magento Flaw to Plant PSK Agent RAT on Online Stores
Attackers hit Magento and Adobe Commerce stores in at least three regions with a new remote access trojan between September 9 and 13, 2026. They used StyleSmuggler, a maximum-severity flaw that Adobe had patched only two days before the campaign began. Researchers Daniel Johnston and Gabi Sharadin of Imperva Threat Research described the attacks in…
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How to Check if Microsoft Paint Has the CVE-2026-83844 Fix
Microsoft says only Paint version 11.2609.401.0 fixes CVE-2026-83844, a code execution flaw in the Windows image editor. Microsoft published the advisory on October 13. Yet independent checks found the fixed build in the Microsoft Store only on November 6. If your copy of Paint shows a lower number, it still has the bug. The fix…
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Kora OS Puts AI Agents Inside a Linux Desktop, but You Will Wait Until 2027
Kora OS, a new Linux-based desktop operating system with AI models and agents built into the system itself, will not reach PCs until 2027. Its maker, KORA Systems of Palo Alto, unveiled it on November 10, 2026. The company has not shared a price, a business model or a beta program yet. The project comes…
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16GB RAM and DDR4 Gain Ground on PCs as RAM Prices Rise, CPU-Z Data Shows
Fewer newly checked PCs carry 32GB or 64GB of memory than a year ago. That is the picture in the latest CPU-Z Validator statistics from CPUID, the company behind the popular CPU-Z hardware utility. Systems with 16GB and 8GB gained share over the same period. The shift comes as RAM prices keep climbing on demand…
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PROLED MacBook Pro Teardown Shows Why Its Glowing Logo Is Hard to Fix
Reaching the glowing Apple logo on Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro means going through the OLED screen. Repair company iFixit found that out the hard way. Its team cracked the panel while trying to get to the four LEDs that light the logo, according to its teardown of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR.…
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