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Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions
A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two f…
Why Australia chose the world's biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack
Australia, which has strict social media restrictions and has proposed controls on algorithms and smart glasses, announced the breach at the UN.
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy…
Liquid AI puts a personal context layer for AI agents on Snapdragon chips
Liquid AI has tuned Liquid Context to run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips. The software builds a picture of the user on the device itself. The company announced the work at Qualcom…
New York continues to fight prediction markets with a lawsuit against Polymarket
The state now has illegal gambling charges underway against four of these businesses.
ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories
This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. …
Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI promp…
Island raises $400m at a $6.4bn valuation to govern AI agents
Island, the Dallas company behind the Enterprise Browser, has raised $400m in a Series F round. The deal values it at $6.4bn, Island announced on Thursday. Evolution Equity Partne…
Exposed GitLab project email addresses let attackers push code
Private GitLab email addresses that allow developers to push issues or tasks to a project are being deliberately exposed in READMEs, contributing guides, and support pages used to…
Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
It's an experiment to see how the chips hold up in the harsh vacuum of the cosmos.
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis merges with Clarity AI to expand in Europe
Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has combined with Clarity AI, which sells sustainability data and AI analytics. The two firms announced the deal on Thursday. The deal closed on 23 Septe…
Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion …
China installs 59% of new factory robots as EU installations fall 11%
Factories around the world installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, and China accounted for 354,000 of them, or 59%. The figures come from the International Federation…
Turtle Beach Rematch review: The cutest Switch 2 controller of the bunch
Official Nintendo designs and RGB lighting give the Rematch an adorable edge.
GM is giving away free home chargers, and paying drivers to charge off-peak
General Motors and Pacific Gas and Electric will give new EV buyers a home charger worth up to $1,999 and $15 a month if they let the utility decide when the car charges. In Germa…
Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem
A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independentl…
Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
We seem to be entering into an AI agent renaissance. Meta's new consumer-facing AI agent, Muse, topped the App Store charts soon after its release and has 600,000 daily active use…
Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire
Databricks has brought cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero adding yet another acquisition to its 2026 shopping spree.
It took MapQuest until 2026 to add public transit directions
The 30-year-old map service is quickly getting with the times.
The Pixel Watch 5's blood pressure and insulin resistance trends are rolling out this week
The first trend reports for the health data will be available in early October.
Google Photos' new Redact tool will make it easy to hide sensitive information
Google Photos' new AI-powered features include the Redact tool, which can quickly blur parts of an image.
Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS
The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change y…
Now Google Chrome shares tabs to new devices that save where you were
Google is rolling out some new Chrome browser features that are designed to make it easier to research and study complicated topics. The cross-device tab switching feature is gett…