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Former Disney star Bella Thorne says cruel accusations after nude photo blackmail attempt ‘really broke me’
Bella Thorne, the former Disney Channel star, has said that public accusations of victim-blaming affected her more deeply than the original blackmail attempt itself. In 2019 she pre-empted an alleged hacker who was threatening to leak her private nude photographs by publishing the images herself, a move that made headlines at the time and was…
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Prompt injection isn’t the bug, AI agent frameworks are
Check Point researchers have found 11 vulnerabilities, some critical, across major AI agent frameworks including LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Microsoft Agent Framework and Google ADK, revealing that the security failure lies not in prompt injection itself but in how these frameworks handle it. The researchers argue that a bug in one agent framework amounts to…
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Search for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane reignites with ambitious new expedition
Researchers from Purdue University are preparing to resume the search for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft, nearly 90 years after the pioneering aviator vanished over the Pacific Ocean. The renewed expedition, delayed by earlier setbacks, will focus on investigating a satellite-imaged anomaly that some believe could be the wreckage of her Lockheed Electra plane. The team…
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Meta unveils Muse Code AI agent to rival Codex and Claude Code
Meta has launched Muse Code, a beta terminal-based AI coding agent designed to help developers complete complex engineering work across large software repositories. The release matters because it places Meta more directly in competition with OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, as the company seeks a stronger position in enterprise AI tools. Muse Code uses…
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Path of Exile devs are planning ‘an extreme shakeup’ in the next major update to address concerns over its stale endgame and lack of exciting loot drops
Grinding Gear Games has warned Path of Exile players to expect “an extreme shakeup” in the game’s next major update, as it looks to tackle long-running criticism of a stale endgame and disappointing loot. The developer’s comments, made in response to community feedback, signal a significant departure from the game’s recent design direction and suggest…
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AI ambitions fuel growing tech debt
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Tech firms rack up debt, risks to fund AI ambitions Major technology companies are taking on massive amounts of debt to fund their lofty AI ambitions, casting a shadow over investors’ once-endless well of enthusiasm for AI-related stocks and sending jitters through the market. © Adobe Stock Tech…
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Why haven’t we seen images of SpaceX Moon crash yet?
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s spent upper stage was expected to strike the Moon’s surface on Wednesday 5 August at roughly 5,400mph (8,700km/h), potentially creating a new crater. Such an impact would be of scientific interest, as it could offer researchers insight into the Moon’s subsurface composition and geology, similar to how past rocket-stage impacts…
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Beloved anime-inspired life sim Fields of Mistria adds marriage, kids, and cloud shadows in long-awaited 1.0 update after 2 years in early access
Fields of Mistria, the anime-inspired farming and life simulation game, has left early access after two years with the release of its full 1.0 update. The update adds long-requested features including marriage and the ability to have children, alongside visual improvements such as dynamic cloud shadows, marking the game’s transition from an early-access title to…
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Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
The US Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has secured a settlement with OpenAI and its former subsidiary Statsig, placing three years of federal oversight on the AI lab’s hiring practices for green-card sponsorship roles. The DOJ alleged the companies discouraged US citizens from applying for jobs that were instead earmarked for immigrant employees the…