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🛡️ Security & Privacy

• Modern connected cars quietly log driving behavior and location, feeding data brokers and insurers with little owner visibility or control. More
• Signal is reportedly building a paid "Signal Login" option using zero-knowledge proofs to let users register without a phone number. More
• CISA added a GitLab Community/Enterprise Edition path traversal flaw (CVE-2026-85706) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after active attacks. More
• Apple Watch's new Live Rewind and Siri Recap audio features normalize always-listening tech, raising fresh consent and privacy questions. More
• A new app called Zuckoff scans Bluetooth signals to warn users when Meta or Snap smart glasses are nearby, possibly recording. More
• The New Yorker profiles Flock Safety, whose 130,000-camera surveillance network trades privacy for a promised crime-free future. More
• Gamers Nexus testing found LG smart TVs scan home networks and capture microphone audio even while appearing powered off. More
• A new "ShieldCrash" proof-of-concept bypasses a patched Microsoft Defender flaw, granting SYSTEM-level arbitrary file read access. More

🛸 Tech

• systemd 262-rc2 adds an "AI canary" instruction designed to catch unreviewed, AI-written code slipped into pull requests. More
• Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas predicts the regulatory impact of every possible single-letter DNA variant across the human genome. More

🤖 AI

• Vals AI runs independent, domain-specific benchmarks (legal, finance, coding, cybersecurity) tracking how frontier models actually perform on real tasks. More
• DeepSeek launched V4.1-Flash, a smaller multimodal MoE model built for faster inference, higher throughput, and lower API pricing. More
• Mathematicians question OpenAI's transparency after an AI-assisted fluid-equations blowup proof surfaced amid a dispute over training data use. More1 More2
• Cognition's new SWE-2 coding model matches larger frontier rivals on agentic coding benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. More
• OpenAI launched a managed Agents API, letting developers build durable, sandboxed, tool-using cloud agents without running their own infrastructure. More
• Desert Ant Labs launched 18 free, tiny on-device AI models for audio, vision, and text tasks across mobile apps. More
• Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that books travel, pays bills, and negotiates on your behalf from a secure VM. More
• Google DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 generates hourly, high-resolution global weather forecasts by drawing directly on raw satellite imagery. More

🛠️ Tools

JetKVM Mini shrinks its remote-KVM hardware to matchbox size, starting at $33, with wired or wireless, open-source firmware options. More

🐦 Misc

Eurobird Portal maps near-real-time bird migration and sighting data across Europe, aggregated from dozens of national birdwatching databases. More

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