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Meta's Muse Dictation Bug Lets Malware Reach Your iPhone

Meta's Muse exposed a local setting that lets malware redirect your Mac's cloud dictation to an attacker's server—reaching your iPhone, email, WhatsApp, and more. 🎙️ Researcher Patrick Wardle found the undocumented endo_voyager_dictation_endpoint in five days; no trojan or privilege escalation needed.

Prolink Router: Ten Ways to Get Root, Zero Authentication Required

Ten ways to get root on a single router—and none needs a password. 🔐 Researcher Daniel Lim found 10 command-injection flaws across 10 CGI scripts in Prolink's PRC2402M. The login page itself passed input straight to shell. One "password check" compared your input to an

Grok 4.7 model interface showing a 500,000-token context window and CursorBench 4.0 benchmark score of 46.3%.

Grok 4.7 undercuts frontier rivals at half the token cost

Grok 4.7 delivers 46.3% on CursorBench 4.0—a 6-point jump—at $2/$6 per million tokens. That's ~87% of frontier-class performance at roughly half the cost. An average task runs $6.01 vs GPT-5.6 Sol's $8.23, a 27%

Abstraction of a computational graph and MoE router network visualizing the path from millions of training tokens to a low per-task cost, indicating efficiency economics.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro Tops Open-Weight Index at $0.13

$0.13 per task 📉 Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the Artificial Analysis open-weight ranking at 46—20 points over its predecessor and cheaper than most proprietary systems per unit of work. The gains come from transparent RL training: ~750k trajectories, a new "agentic grader,"

Canadian Parliament building exterior in Ottawa with a trading chart overlay symbolizing economic pressure

Carney's Liberal Majority Faces Burning US Trade War This Fall

Canada's Liberals hold 173 seats—a majority built on by-elections and floor-crossers, not a mandate. 📉 The fall agenda is a defensive crouch: fuel excise relief for Canadians, tariffs on steel and autos from Washington, and a labor bill that could sideline strikes via Article 107. Quebec

German chart displaying state election results with the CDU at 4.84% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Die Linke at 26% in Berlin.

Germany's Coalition Faces Existential Strain After State Election Wipeouts

Germany's CDU just hit 4.84% in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern — its worst result in FRG history and a first exit from that state parliament since 1990. 📉 That's less than the 5% survivability line, and far below the 13.3% it won in 2021. Meanwhile the AfD doubled

Boston Dynamics Atlas humanoid robot moving automotive parts at the Savannah, Georgia test facility.

Boston Dynamics' 25,000-robot goal collides with a narrow Savannah testbed

$325M buyout, ₩1.7T in losses, and a target of 25,000 humanoids—yet no plant has an Atlas on a line. 🤖 Hyundai's Savannah "Robot Behavior Factory" trains parts-sequencing in a controlled room, with scaling deferred to 2027. That's a 4-year roadmap,