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Letting an agent scan your home network: the lessons

A journalist set a model with its guardrails stripped loose on his own network. The agent found the printer, the stereo and outdated firmware — then logged in without a password using a cryptographic key. The practical lessons.

Safety
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What is AI actually doing in the iPhone Duo's hinge?

Apple says the hinge is produced with AI. But what is described is not design: an algorithm matches each hinge to its best-fit housing, and laser scanning plus 3D printing fills in the residual waviness.

Products
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Siri is rebuilt, but Turkish has no date

Apple Intelligence supports Turkish; the new Siri AI is English beta only for now. Five more languages arrive in October and Turkish is not among them. "Supported" and "available" are not the same thing.

Products
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Apple has the sensor sign the photo itself

The iPhone 18 Pro's Reference mode produces signed sensor data at capture and builds an unalterable "digital negative". But what is proven is the integrity of the sensor data — not the truth of the scene.

Safety
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A map of 9 billion variants: what is AlphaGenome Atlas?

DeepMind has published predictions for every possible single-letter change in the human genome. But no row in the catalogue was measured in a lab — all of them are model estimates. A guide to why that distinction decides everything.

Research
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A stealth startup training robots in world models

Danijar Hafner left DeepMind to found his own company. His method trains robots not by real-world trial and error but inside a model that emulates physical reality. There is no auditable result yet.

Research
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AI in video editing: two different strategies

Adobe brings generative models inside its own timeline while Blackmagic opens the software to outside assistants. The same thing is missing from both: how generated footage will be marked on delivery.

Products
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Samsung and TSMC move to High NA EUV

Samsung will use it in DRAM production in 2028, TSMC in advanced nodes in 2030. The ordering is striking: Intel carried the technology into commercial production first, with its two big rivals pointing two to four years out.

Companies
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UN calls on AI companies to draw red lines

High Commissioner Volker Türk asks for three things: clear safety limits, independent verification and industry cooperation. The second is decisive — today companies run safety evaluations on their own criteria.

Policy