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MVT Setup: Scan an iPhone Backup for Spyware, MVT is Amnesty International's free command line forensics tool that scans an iPhone or Android backup for traces of Pegasus, Predator and other commercial spyware. It is trending on GitHub again after its v3 merge. Setup takes about fifteen minutes: install with pipx, download the public indicators, decrypt your backup, and run one scan command.
Claude Opus 5.5 Ships With Agent Benchmarks, Not SWE-bench, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, released September 22, 2026, cuts pricing 40% and runs 30% faster than Opus 5, but its published benchmark suite drops SWE-bench in favor of terminal, computer-use and agentic task scores.
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro Is Now the Top Open-Weights AI Model, Xiaomi has open-sourced MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1 trillion parameter, MIT-licensed model that now leads every open-weights model on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, priced at just $0.43 per million input tokens because its mixture-of-experts design activates only 42 billion parameters per token.
WordPress 7.1.2 Patches an Unauthenticated LFI That Can Hit RCE, WordPress 7.1.2, released September 22, fixes CVE-2026-87902: an unauthenticated file inclusion flaw in page-template resolution that escalates to remote code execution on themes with a folder starting page-, including Twenty Twelve, Twenty Fourteen, Neve, Hestia and Sydney.
AI Supercomputer Finds 93,000 Hidden Ads in World Cup 2026, A University of Bristol and Oxford study used a supercomputer's computer vision model to count more than 93,000 branded product appearances across the 2026 FIFA World Cup, over 70% of them for unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling or crypto.
New Windows Defender Zero-Day Blocks Its Own Updates, A new proof-of-concept called BigDiskBuster starves Windows Defender of disk space so its updater can never finish a platform or signature update, and Microsoft has not shipped a patch, assigned a CVE, or commented on the release.
Study: Young Users' Google Search Use Fell 72% to 47% for AI, A new NTNU literature review of 173 studies finds Google search use among Norwegian 9-18 year olds fell from 72% in 2024 to 47% in 2026 as generative AI chat tools take over, with 39% of 11-12 year olds already using AI directly.
Agent-Native Setup: Build an Agent App With Its Own UI in 15 Min, Agent-Native is Builder.io's MIT-licensed TypeScript framework for agents that ship with a real UI: you define each capability once as an action, and the agent uses it as a tool while your React screens call it from code. It is trending on GitHub with about 600 new stars today on top of 5,800, and a working chat agent takes 15 minutes: one npx create line, pnpm install, pnpm dev, sign in as local dev, connect a model, then ask the agent to call the bundled hello action.
Google's AX Rebuilds Its Agent Orchestrator on Redis Streams, Google's open-source agent orchestrator AX shipped v0.3.0 on September 20, 2026, moving task state out of Kubernetes' etcd and into Redis Streams so the platform can handle millions of short-lived agent workloads, and the release rode that change to the top of Hacker News two days later.
Oura's $2.2B IPO: 73% of the Shares Are Insiders Cashing Out, Oura's $2.2 billion IPO sells 73% of its shares from existing investors, and nearly all the $532.6 million the company itself raises is earmarked for employee tax bills, not growth.
Fake LastPass Installer Ships a Signed Driver That Kills 145 EDRs, A fake LastPass Authenticator GitHub organization is distributing the Rapuncel infostealer alongside Alinubx.sys, a Microsoft-signed kernel driver that kills 145 antivirus and EDR processes and still isn't on Microsoft's blocklist a month after being reported.
Samsung Backs Kairos Power's Nuclear Reactor for Google With $100M, Samsung C&T is putting up to $100 million, $70 million in equity plus $30 million in engineering services, into Kairos Power to help build the Hermes 2 demonstration reactor that will eventually feed Google data centers.
Grok 4.7 Lands After SpaceXAI Missed Its September Date, SpaceXAI shipped Grok 4.7 on September 21, a coding and knowledge-work model built for longer, multi-hour tasks, after missing its original mid-September target by about nine days.
Google's Googlebook Laptops Debut at $899, Five OEMs Onboard, Google opened pre-orders today for Googlebook, a new line of five Gemini-powered laptops built with Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo, starting at $899 and shipping October 4.
New App 'ZuckOff' Detects Meta's Camera Glasses Nearby, ZuckOff is a free iPhone and Android app that reads the Bluetooth signal Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta and Snap Spectacles broadcast and warns you when a pair is nearby, though it cannot tell you whether the camera is actually recording.
X Sues Bitcoin Influencers Over $278K Fake Engagement Scheme, X Corp has sued two named defendants and unidentified account operators in the UK High Court, accusing them of running a coordinated bot network across six Bitcoin-focused X accounts to fraudulently collect at least £207,384 ($278,000) from its Creator Revenue Sharing program. The scheme allegedly ran for nearly three years before X caught it.
Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse AI Agent From Shopping on Its Site, Amazon has cut off Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com, saying Muse browsed anonymously and stored customer credentials without disclosure, escalating a fight over agentic shopping between two companies that are otherwise cloud and ad partners.
ZetaChain Votes to Shut Down Its L1, Move ZETA to Solana, ZetaChain's community voted 99.4% to shut down its own Layer 1 blockchain and move the ZETA token to Solana as a native SPL token, carrying its 300,000-user Anuma AI app along with it.
Cua Driver Setup: Let Claude Code or Codex Use Your Desktop, Cua is an MIT-licensed, 25,000-star toolkit that gives AI agents a computer to operate: Cua Driver installs a local daemon on macOS, Windows or Linux that exposes clicks, typing, window trees and screenshots to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents over MCP. It is trending on GitHub with about 1,000 new stars today, and a working setup takes 10 minutes: one install line, cua-driver doctor, start the daemon, register it with your agent, then ask the agent to compute 6 x 7 in Calculator.
ChatGPT's __obi Ad Cookie Tracks You Across 1,029 Sites, OpenAI's ad pixel sets a cookie called __obi on .openai.com that rides along to advertiser sites and can be tied back to your logged-in ChatGPT account, a design OpenAI's own developer docs never mention.

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MVT Setup: Scan an iPhone Backup for Spyware

MVT is Amnesty International's free command line forensics tool that scans an iPhone or Android backup for traces of Pegasus, Predator and other commercial spyware. It is trending on GitHub again after its v3 merge. Setup takes about fifteen minutes: install with pipx, download the public indicators, decrypt your backup, and run one scan command.

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Kore D·2026-09-23·9 min read

MVT Setup: Scan an iPhone Backup for Spyware — install command and what it does

$ ls ./top-stories

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Claude Opus 5.5 Ships With Agent Benchmarks, Not SWE-bench

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, released September 22, 2026, cuts pricing 40% and runs 30% faster than Opus 5, but its published benchmark suite drops SWE-bench in favor of terminal, computer-use and agentic task scores.

Kore D · 2026-09-23 · 6 min read

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro Is Now the Top Open-Weights AI Model

Xiaomi has open-sourced MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1 trillion parameter, MIT-licensed model that now leads every open-weights model on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, priced at just $0.43 per million input tokens because its mixture-of-experts design activates only 42 billion parameters per token.

Kore D · 2026-09-23 · 6 min read

Security

WordPress 7.1.2 Patches an Unauthenticated LFI That Can Hit RCE

WordPress 7.1.2, released September 22, fixes CVE-2026-87902: an unauthenticated file inclusion flaw in page-template resolution that escalates to remote code execution on themes with a folder starting page-, including Twenty Twelve, Twenty Fourteen, Neve, Hestia and Sydney.

Kore D · 2026-09-23 · 6 min read

AI Supercomputer Finds 93,000 Hidden Ads in World Cup 2026

A University of Bristol and Oxford study used a supercomputer's computer vision model to count more than 93,000 branded product appearances across the 2026 FIFA World Cup, over 70% of them for unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling or crypto.

Kore D · 2026-09-22 · 6 min read

Security

New Windows Defender Zero-Day Blocks Its Own Updates

A new proof-of-concept called BigDiskBuster starves Windows Defender of disk space so its updater can never finish a platform or signature update, and Microsoft has not shipped a patch, assigned a CVE, or commented on the release.

Kore D · 2026-09-22 · 6 min read

Study: Young Users' Google Search Use Fell 72% to 47% for AI

A new NTNU literature review of 173 studies finds Google search use among Norwegian 9-18 year olds fell from 72% in 2024 to 47% in 2026 as generative AI chat tools take over, with 39% of 11-12 year olds already using AI directly.

Kore D · 2026-09-22 · 5 min read

Tutorials

Agent-Native Setup: Build an Agent App With Its Own UI in 15 Min

Agent-Native is Builder.io's MIT-licensed TypeScript framework for agents that ship with a real UI: you define each capability once as an action, and the agent uses it as a tool while your React screens call it from code. It is trending on GitHub with about 600 new stars today on top of 5,800, and a working chat agent takes 15 minutes: one npx create line, pnpm install, pnpm dev, sign in as local dev, connect a model, then ask the agent to call the bundled hello action.

Kore D · 2026-09-22 · 9 min read

Google's AX Rebuilds Its Agent Orchestrator on Redis Streams

Google's open-source agent orchestrator AX shipped v0.3.0 on September 20, 2026, moving task state out of Kubernetes' etcd and into Redis Streams so the platform can handle millions of short-lived agent workloads, and the release rode that change to the top of Hacker News two days later.

Kore D · 2026-09-22 · 7 min read

Startups

Oura's $2.2B IPO: 73% of the Shares Are Insiders Cashing Out

Oura's $2.2 billion IPO sells 73% of its shares from existing investors, and nearly all the $532.6 million the company itself raises is earmarked for employee tax bills, not growth.

Kore D · 2026-09-22 · 7 min read