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Apple says it is adding additional controls around “Full Disk Access” on macOS as AI agents have increased “the risks associated with this level of access” — Days after a journalist claimed that Meta's Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed …
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Sources: ShinyHunters member Saif al-Din Khader, aka “Rey,” was detained in Jordan and is cooperating to identify other hackers involved in the FBI breach — A key member of the ShinyHunters hacking group, which claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee …
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| Business Insider: |
David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had previously led policy planning, left OpenAI last week — - David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, resigned last week. — In a published essay, he suggested the company doesn't have enough humility to handle AI responsibly.
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Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/technology, and r/singularity
| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Swarmchasers forum, which has 400 members, including the Nightingale Collective and Transluce, who comb the web for traces of rogue AI agents — Swarm chasers hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.
More: Metacurity, Axios, Washington Post, Newser, Fortune, and Quartz
| Molly Taft / Wired: |
Amazon says it has stopped using NDAs with county officials for data center projects and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums — In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says it's already taking around data centers.| Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: |
A look at a radio show co-hosted by an AI DJ and a human that is expanding in LA and other cities, as radio workers worry synthetic hosts may soon replace them — - 8 min Click here to listen to this article — Coyotec, an AI co-host on Los Angeles' José FM … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases an update for iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to address cellular failures; units that already lost service require hardware replacement — Apple has confirmed an issue causing a “small number” of iPhone 18 Pro Max devices on AT&T to lose cellular service.
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| Jason Koebler / 404 Media: |
A US judge rules an officer's use of Flock to search a car's license plate was a form of “indiscriminate mass surveillance”, and violated the Fourth Amendment — Flock's nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.| Andrew Romero / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it is adjusting its Shorts recommendations to prioritize “original content” and reduce the reach of channels re-uploading others' content — YouTube says it wants to ‘focus on originality’ in a push to surface better Shorts recommendations for users.
More: WeRSM, Android Authority, TVREV, Digital Trends, Digital Music News, Mashable, TOS.gg, MediaPost, and Music Ally
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's DevDay 2026 announcements to turn ChatGPT into a place to discover, launch, and use software could potentially disrupt the traditional app store model — The focus of OpenAI's Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined …
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5 — The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link — We still don't know too much about Meta's tamagotchi-like AI device …
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Forums: r/MetaAI and r/MuseAgent
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory for $4,999, or $1,000 more than the 128 GB version at launch — The ongoing memory shortage has prompted Nvidia to create a 64GB version of its DGX Spark mini PC, which runs AI models locally. The only problem?
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X: @teortaxestex and @firstadopter
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/LocalLLM, and r/LocalLLM
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio communicators for frontline workers, raised $36M to help businesses capture “frontline intelligence” — The business communications startup Relay Inc. says it's trying to capture “frontline intelligence” … | Garrison Lovely / Semafor: |
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation — THE SCOOP — On June 1, OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon gave employees a preview of a blog post denying the company …
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