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Google releases new privacy controls for activity history, personalization

Google is rolling out new privacy controls for Search services and Google Play, giving you more control over saved history and personalized recommendations.

In an email titled “New privacy settings for Search services,” sent to users and seen by Bleeping Computer, Google said it is “updating our settings to give you even more control over saved history and personalized recommendations across Google Search services and Google Play.”

Google noted that Search services include “Search, Maps, Shopping, Hotels, Flights, Translate, and News,” and users will see the change in their Google Account in the next few days.

Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access

New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026–20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices.

The CVE-2026–20245 vulnerability is a high-severity command injection flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (vManage), Controller (vSmart), and Validator (vBond) that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file.

Cisco said the vulnerability stemmed from insufficient validation of user-supplied input and could be exploited by authenticated attackers with local access to affected devices.

Malicious Edge extension abuses Native Messaging as bridge to malware

A malicious Microsoft Edge extension dubbed ‘Edgecution’ has been used in a ransomware attack to escape the browser sandbox and deploy a Python-based backdoor.

Access to the local system is obtained by leveraging the Chrome Native Messaging protocol that allows browser extensions to interact with native desktop applications, such as a password manager communicating with the extension to fill in web forms.

This allows the browser to launch the native application as a separate process and communicates with it over standard input/output data streams.

Dimension Zero LIVE #1 | Science, Sci-Fi, Physics, Star Trek, Supergirl & More

🚀 WELCOME TO THE PREMIERE OF DIMENSION ZERO LIVE!

Join award-winning screenwriter Danny Alex for the very first live episode of Dimension Zero, where science, science fiction, physics, astronomy, and popular culture collide.

Tonight we’ll introduce the vision behind the channel and explore some of the biggest questions in science fiction and the real science behind them.

Tonight’s topics include:
• Star Trek.
• Battlestar Galactica.
• Supergirl.
• The Odyssey.
• Antimatter.
• Physics vs. Science Fiction.
• Space Exploration.
• Audience Q&A and more!

If you’ve ever wondered whether warp drives, antimatter reactors, faster-than-light travel, artificial intelligence, or the incredible technologies of science fiction could ever become reality, this is the show for you.

Dimension Zero explores The Science of Science Fiction, separating scientific fact from fiction while celebrating the worlds we love.

Michael Levin: “We Grew Little Creatures That Were Never Meant to Exist”

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Michael Levin’s lab takes ordinary frog skin cells and lets them reassemble into beings that have never existed in the history of life — xenobots — and then a version with a core of neurons: neurobots. With no evolutionary history as a \.

First AI Recognizes Itself. Then It Learns Not to Get Caught

Further reading Thumbnail image credit: Figure AI

Text used in video and more:

AI Model Misbehavior in 2026: Scheming, Reward Hacking, and What Comes Next https://hatchworks.com/blog/gen-ai/ai… We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1Bv3… BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World https://arxiv.org/html/2407.20242v5 AI Model Misbehavior in 2026: Scheming, Reward Hacking, and What Comes Next https://arxiv.org/html/2407.20242v5 Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13691 LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions https://arxiv.org/html/2406.08824v1 Inducing Bystander Interventions During Robot Abuse with Social Mechanisms https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/.… You might get offered promo codes if one of these delivery robots runs into you https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/19/24… Training Agents to Self-Report Misbehavior https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22303v1 Natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production RL https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18397v1 Long-horizon Embodied Planning with Implicit Logical Inference and Hallucination Mitigation https://arxiv.org/html/2409.15658v2 Deception Abilities Emerged in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16513 Robot in the mirror: toward an embodied computational model of mirror self-recognition https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04485 Misleading text in the physical world can hijack AI-enabled robots, cybersecurity study shows https://news.ucsc.edu/2026/01/mislead… #science #explained #ai #artificialintelligence #robots #psychology #sentience #consciousness.

Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems https://openreview.net/forum?id=S1Bv3… BadRobot: Jailbreaking Embodied LLM Agents in the Physical World https://arxiv.org/html/2407.20242v5

AI Model Misbehavior in 2026: Scheming, Reward Hacking, and What Comes Next https://arxiv.org/html/2407.20242v5

Jailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.

Quantum Computers Just Solved What AI Couldn’t — Here’s Proof

Artificial intelligence has achieved remarkable breakthroughs in recent years, from generating human-like text and images to solving complex scientific and engineering problems. Yet some challenges remain extraordinarily difficult even for the most advanced AI systems. This has fueled growing interest in quantum computing, a technology that processes information in fundamentally different ways from classical computers. Researchers are now exploring whether quantum algorithms can tackle certain optimization, simulation, and computational problems that push conventional AI systems to their limits. Recent experiments and research papers have generated excitement by demonstrating situations where quantum approaches may offer unique advantages, reigniting debate about how these two revolutionary technologies could work together in the future.

Rather than viewing quantum computing and AI as competitors, many experts believe they could become powerful partners. Quantum processors may eventually help accelerate specific machine learning tasks, improve complex simulations, and solve optimization problems that are critical to industries such as logistics, finance, materials science, and drug discovery. At the same time, scientists caution that practical large-scale quantum computing remains an active area of research, and many headline-grabbing claims require careful scrutiny and independent verification. Even so, the rapid progress in both fields suggests that the future of computing may be shaped not by AI alone, but by a combination of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies working together to tackle problems once thought impossible.

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This video is intended for educational and informational purposes only. Quantum computing and artificial intelligence are rapidly evolving fields, and interpretations of research findings may change as new evidence becomes available. The content presented is based on publicly available studies, expert analysis, and current technological developments.

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Growing a new ‘leaf’ that harnesses sun, water and CO2 to make liquid fuel

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A Yale-led research team has developed the first standalone device that produces the liquid fuel methanol using only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide as the ingredients.

The artificial “leaf,” like its namesake in nature, is a chemistry marvel. It brings the scientific mimicry of photosynthesis — the process of converting sunlight and water into chemical energy — to a new level, converting sunlight to methanol 32 times more efficiently than the previous conversion record for artificial leaf technologies that generate alcohol products.

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