Tag: Editor’s Pick
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Google Agent Substrate Joins CNCF to Cut the Cost of Idle AI Agents
AI agents spend most of their time doing nothing. Google says an agent in a typical interactive session waits 90% to 95% of the time for a model, an external API or a human reviewer. Its open-source runtime, Agent Substrate, is built to stop teams from paying for that idle time while keeping agent-written code…
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Claude Dispatch Flaw Lets a Browser Extension Run Code Through Claude Desktop
A browser extension with access to claude.ai can push Claude Desktop into installing software and running code. The target can be the same computer or a different one signed in to the same account. Gal Weizman, a researcher at Forever Security, described the Claude Dispatch flaw in a Forever Security write-up on the ThisBash attack…
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Sony Wi-Fi Fall Detection System Watches Over Seniors Without Cameras or Wearables
Sony’s new fall detection system needs no camera, no wristband and no pendant. It watches for falls by reading changes in ordinary Wi-Fi signals. The company says it captures no images at all, which makes it suited to bedrooms and bathrooms. Sony (China) showed the system as a global debut at the 9th China International…
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Apple Humanoid Robot Research: HALO Learns Home Tasks From 1,000 Fake Houses
Apple researchers trained a humanoid robot only in 1,000 computer-generated homes. In six real buildings it had never seen or mapped, the robot finished single tasks 91% of the time across 360 trials. The system is called HALO. It is described in the paper “Perceptive Humanoid Motion from Simulation” on arXiv, submitted on November 4,…
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Anthropic Tests Show Claude Agent Memory Works Best With Fewer, Checked Notes
Claude Opus 4.7 scored 0.383 on a database benchmark without memory. With a memory store, the same model scored 0.700. Anthropic published that result on November 6 in a research post titled The components of agent memory. The post tests how Claude agents keep knowledge between sessions. Its most useful findings are practical. Small, curated…
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OpenAI GPT-6 Cyber Goes Only to Vetted Daybreak Red Teams: Who Gets It and What It Found
OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Cyber model found 81 previously unknown high-severity bugs in Firefox, the company says. Most security teams cannot use it yet. OpenAI is giving it first to a select group of approved Daybreak Red customers, through its API and Codex. The company announced the model on November 5. It is a version of…
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Apple Will Check iCloud Public Links in iOS 27.3: How to Keep Shared Files Private
Starting with iOS 27.3, any photo or file you share from iCloud with the “Anyone with the Link” option will be checked by Apple for harmful content. That applies even if you have turned on Advanced Data Protection, Apple’s strongest iCloud encryption setting. Apple disclosed the change in a support document about Anyone with the…
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash Cuts AI Video Prices and Replaces 1.1 on December 3
Google’s new video model costs about $0.07 per second of 720p output, and it will take over all requests sent to its predecessor on December 3, 2026. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash also stretches a single clip to 15 seconds, up from 10 seconds in Omni 1.1. Google DeepMind product manager Anish Nangia announced the model…
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OpenAI AI Pipeline Built 948 Linux Root Exploits: What Linux Users Should Do Now
OpenAI says one automated run produced 948 working root exploits for the Linux kernel and a candidate patch for each flaw behind them. The run took place in mid-October 2026. It cost $1,213,430 in API credits, or about $1,279 per exploit. The company described the work on November 4 in a research post titled “A…
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Calif Beats iPhone Lockdown Mode With an AirDrop PDF, and the Hack Survives iOS 27.2
A malicious PDF sent over AirDrop was enough to jailbreak an iPhone 18 Pro with Apple’s Lockdown Mode switched on. Security firm Calif showed the attack in a video this week. The jailbreak also stayed on the phone after it updated to iOS 27.2, according to MacRumors’ report on the Calif demo. Lockdown Mode is…
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