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Intrinsic, the AI‑robotics group acquired by Google, announced Intrinsic Core at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto. The open‑source package bundles a ROS‑compatible control framework, pose‑estimation, motion‑planning, grasp‑planning, simulation services and camera‑calibration tools, all released under an Apache 2.0 licence on GitHub. Intrinsic says the components are derived from software used in its own manufacturing deployments and are hardware‑agnostic, allowing developers to swap arms, sensors or grippers without rewriting drivers. The suite also includes NVIDIA FoundationPose for six‑degree‑of‑freedom object tracking [...]

Meta has spent the past two weeks promoting the security of its new Muse personal AI agent, highlighting a dedicated Secure VM, a Sentinel monitoring system and bug‑bounty rewards of up to $300,000. CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly claimed the agent was “built from the ground up for privacy and security.” However, macOS security researcher Patrick Wardle, a contributor to Security Bite, discovered a zero‑day vulnerability in the Muse macOS app within the last 24 hours. Wardle’s finding, [...]

Harish Jonnalagadda, senior editor for Android Central’s mobile coverage, began tinkering with Windows XP as a child, a hobby that sparked a lifelong passion for hardware modification. After earning a computer‑science degree, he moved into PC‑hardware journalism at VR‑Zone, reviewing motherboards, graphics cards and memory modules. A switch from iPhone to Nexus 4 introduced him to Android’s ecosystem, prompting his 2014 move to Android Central where he now oversees reporting on Chinese smartphones, audio, networking gear and storage [...]

Security teams have evaluated whether an identity holds excessive privileges, but AI agents introduce a tougher problem: mapping the routes an autonomous system can forge from its access. OpenAI’s May 2026 model solved a 1946 Erdős conjecture by exhaustively exploring paths, illustrating the persistence AI agents bring to cyber‑attacks. Token Security’s Agentic Pulse study found 51 % of external actions by agentic chatbots use hard‑coded credentials and 65 % of those agents remain idle. In July 2026 a Hugging Face evaluation [...]

Quantum XChange and Carahsoft Technology have formed a partnership to distribute Quantum XChange’s Phio TX cryptographic‑management platform to U.S. federal, state and local agencies through Carahsoft’s reseller network and government contracts such as TIPS, OMNIA Partners and The Quilt. Phio TX provides a unified policy layer that supports post‑quantum cryptography, quantum key distribution and traditional encryption, and carries FIPS 140‑3 and FIPS 203 validation. The solution enables agencies to swap cryptographic algorithms without downtime or code changes, overlay existing network infrastructure, [...]

Enterprises seeking AI-driven returns must balance data quality with new compliance mandates that treat data, infrastructure, supply chain and software as regulated assets. Sovereign AI offers organizations and nation‑states full authority over AI construction, deployment, operation and governance, confining data, models and workloads within defined legal or geographic borders. HPE’s Sovereign AI Factory provides customized, validated hardware and services that keep sensitive information on‑premise or in‑country, while Nvidia supplies the underlying GPU acceleration and software stack. In [...]

Xbox announced a reorganization of its first‑party studios, moving Rare and World's Edge under Activision Blizzard and assigning stewardship of the Halo franchise to the Call of Duty publisher. Halo, previously managed by 343 Industries (now Halo Studios) since Microsoft’s 2007 split from Bungie, will be developed by a formed team within Activision, while Halo Studios will shift to a support role and see staff reductions. Activision president Rob Kostich pledged to “make the greatest Halo game [...]

The Philippines has launched a new electric Love Bus route linking Robinsons Galleria to Eastwood, expanding the program beyond its original Metro Manila corridor. The service, free to riders from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., is operated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority together with Global Electric Transport Philippines, which supplies its COMET electric minibuses. The fleet’s 54‑kWh lithium‑iron‑phosphate batteries promise a 100‑km range and can charge from 20 % to 90 % in about 45 minutes. The rollout follows earlier [...]