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🛡️ Security & Privacy

• Scott Helme rebuts the “passkeys are a trap” claim: synced passkeys send no attestation, and falling back to TOTP leaves you phishable. More
• Android auto-verifies and links your phone number to every signed-in Google account by default; disable “Verify phone numbers automatically” and remove linked numbers manually. More
• Ledger confirms hardware implants in devices sold via reseller CryptoBilis drained crypto wallets; owners should move funds to a new seed. More

🛸 Tech

• Apple Home Collection adds LG and Schneider smart cameras, lock and thermostats, end-to-end encrypted; the HomeView smart display with Siri AI arrives November 13. More · More
• Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to build a Linux kernel patch series reading page cache without folio references, easing multithreaded small-read contention. More
• A roughly $7 ESP32-S3 board acts as a USB mouse and keyboard, letting a vision AI operate an unjailbroken iPhone via AirPlay mirroring. More
• Anthropic built Scion, an in-house version control system, migrating its monorepo from git in five months as merges rose to over 30,000 daily. More

🤖 AI

• DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: MIT-licensed 552B MoE (16B active), 1M context, scores 45 on Artificial Analysis, costs $0.30/$1.20 per million tokens. More
• Meta releases Muse Spark Open: 816B open-weight agentic coding model (42B active, 1M context) with day-one vLLM, SGLang, MLX and llama.cpp support. More
• Z.ai’s GLM-Legal, a 320B legal agent built on GLM-5.3-Flash, scores 19.2% on Harvey’s LAB benchmark, with access gated by application. More
• Google DeepMind’s Gemini 4 Argon debuts with 1M-token output, leads many agentic and knowledge-work benchmarks, and reaches AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. More

🛠️ Tools

• Pele: zero-dependency open-source library rendering Mermaid diagrams to CSS-themed SVG, claimed 6× smaller and up to 500× faster than Mermaid.js. More
• OpenCode 2.0 adds a shared background service, new API and SDK, MCP code mode, background subagents and stable plugins; 1.x plugins break. More
• SolidCraft is an open-source parametric 3D CAD app in pure Rust for desktop and web, with an MCP server so AI agents can model. More

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