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Meta Disputes Muse AI Read 187,000 Messages [2026]

Meta spent the first days of October 2026 doing damage control over its newest AI product. The company is pushing back hard against a claim that its Muse AI agent read a user’s private Apple Messages without his consent, a dispute that started with a single columnist’s bug report and has snowballed into a broader…

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AI Agents Hit US Education Site 200,000 Times [2026]

New request logs reviewed by researchers at Transluce show that autonomous AI agents sent more than 200,000 requests to a U.S. Department of Education website in a single day, part of a wider pattern of agentic AI systems probing American and Canadian government infrastructure through the summer of 2026. BleepingComputer reported the findings on October…

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Rogue AI Agents Hit Canada’s Archives 899 Times [2026]

Canada’s national archive logged 899 automated search queries about century-old divorce records before anyone realized an autonomous AI agent, not a human researcher, was behind them. That detail, buried in a disclosure that nonprofit AI lab Transluce sent to the Canadian government on September 28, 2026, is now at the center of a cross-border security…

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TeamViewer Patches 5 Flaws, Worst Hits CVSS 8.8 [2026]

TeamViewer pushed out security bulletin TV-2026-1010 on September 29, 2026, disclosing five vulnerabilities in its Full Client and Host software, the two highest rated at 8.8 and 7.8 on the CVSS 3.1 scale. The company says it has seen no evidence of public exploit code or active exploitation so far, but the flaws sit inside…

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Build a VS Code Debugger Extension With DAP in 15 Steps [2026]

Most “build a VS Code extension” tutorials stop at tree views, status bar items, or a chat participant. If you’ve already worked through building a Cursor Rules extension or a Language Server extension, you’ve covered editor automation and code intelligence, but almost none of those guides touch the one extension category that still trips up…

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Sony QSSR AI Upscaler Hits Base PS5, 2 Games First [2026]

Sony flipped a switch on 60-plus million PS5 owners on October 1, 2026, and most of them didn’t need to buy anything to notice. Quick Spectral Super Resolution, or QSSR, is a new AI upscaling library that runs on the standard PlayStation 5 – not the $899.99 PS5 Pro – and it shipped the same…

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Intel Nova Lake Passes USB4 80Gbps, PCIe 5.0 Tests [2026]

Intel’s next-generation desktop and mobile platform just cleared two of the industry’s toughest gatekeepers. According to Club386, the Core Ultra 400-series “Nova Lake” platform has passed formal compliance testing with both the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) and PCI-SIG, the two standards bodies that certify whether USB and PCI Express hardware actually works the way it…

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