People are finding an unexpected use for artificial intelligence: making their smart televisions less smart. Instead of adding more AI features, some television owners are using coding assistants to remove unwanted advertisements, disable unnecessary software, simplify home screens, and make sluggish interfaces more responsive. The trend, described in a TechCrunch report published on October 19, […]
Flock Safety, the AI surveillance startup behind about 120,000 licence plate cameras, plans to cut roughly 270 jobs, 18% of its staff, after a voluntary buyout. We explain what Reuters reported, how the buyout worked, why record contract cancellations and political pressure reached the payroll, where Flock is still hiring, and what buyers of surveillance tech should check.
Meta says Muse was built from the ground up for privacy, and OpenAI wants Dots to set a new standard for privacy in frontier AI. We test those AI agent privacy promises against each company’s own documentation, Instinct’s revised terms, a month of Muse incidents and the UK ICO’s new scrutiny of AI agents, and set out what businesses should check before connecting an agent to their data.
Apple has warned developers that AI agents make macOS Full Disk Access far riskier and promised new controls that require very explicit user action. We explain what the permission unlocks, why agents change the risk, the Meta Muse dispute that preceded the notice, and the steps Mac users and IT teams should take now.
Airbnb’s fall 2026 update adds Connect and a Travel Map, so connections can see each other’s past and upcoming trips, the homes they stayed in and the experiences they booked. We trace how Airbnb built its social layer since 2024, explain why it wants one, list exactly what connections can see and give a practical privacy and safety guide, including what UK data protection law expects.
OpenAI’s shareable ChatGPT profiles are rolling out to every plan. They show message counts, Work and Codex token usage, streaks, your top plugins and up to 12 Sites. Personal profiles start private, but Business profiles are shared with coworkers by default. We set out what a profile reveals, the Enterprise contradiction, and what to check before sharing.
At Connect 2026 on 23 September, Meta introduced Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first AI glasses without a camera. They weigh 43 g, last up to 12 hours on a charge (48 hours with the case), come in Clubmaster and Burbank styles with 23 colour and lens combinations, support prescriptions, and start at $349 with shipping from 13 October. This article explains why Meta built camera-free glasses after the “pervert glasses” backlash, what they can and cannot do, how they compare with the $449 Gen 3 and older camera models, whether six microphones still raise privacy concerns, the unclear hearing-aid feature, and what businesses should change in their smart glasses policies.
How AI Sees the City: Urban Visual Intelligence,” a new Routledge book from the MIT Senseable City Lab and Peking University, argues that visual AI can turn the images cities already produce into detailed data on traffic, emissions, greenery and public space. MIT research in New York used 331 traffic cameras to show congestion pricing cut traffic by about 10% but emissions by 16% to 22%. The authors also warn of surveillance and bias. This article explains the method, the findings, the risks and the questions to ask before deploying visual AI in public spaces.
Mark Zuckerberg opened Meta’s Connect conference in Menlo Park on 23 September 2026 with a keynote built around AI-era products, weeks after the launch of the Muse agentic app and a month after an $18 billion settlement with US state attorneys general over children’s online privacy. Meta and EssilorLuxottica sold more than 7 million smart glasses in 2025 against about 2 million in the two previous years combined, with reported ambitions of 20 million a year. This article separates the product lines, the numbers and the privacy objections that actually hold.
Google is reported to be building Apple Messages access into the Gemini desktop app, twenty-seven days after OpenAI shipped the same capability for ChatGPT on macOS. We read the report, Google’s own Gemini for Mac documentation, the ChatGPT plugin coverage and the privacy reaction to it, and set out the four macOS permissions such a feature depends on, the consent problem it creates for everyone on the other end of a thread, and the configuration profile that blocks it before it ships.
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