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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Apple ended iOS 26.5.1 signing after releasing 26.5.2 with critical AI-powered hacking fixes—force upgrades now. EU advanced Chat Control legislation requiring private message scanning; Tenda routers have authentication backdoors; ECB warns frontier AI poses systemic financial risks.

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Today's stories

Sources: DeepSeek is in the early stages of developing its own AI chip designed for inference, in a bid to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei hardware (Reuters)
European banking watchdogs ECB and ESRB warn that frontier AI models pose "systemic risks to the financial system", giving lenders four months to prepare (Financial Times)
Our choice of AI assistant really matters, says Tony Fadell – and raises big questions
Apple stops signing iOS 26.5.1 after critical security fix release
Tangos, which uses AI to conduct financial crime investigations at scale, raised a $20M seed led by Red Dot (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: The worst breaches of 2026 so far
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
Meta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from its Superintelligence Labs, in Meta AI; it will also power new tools in Instagram and WhatsApp (Meta Newsroom)
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
A look at Chinese lidar maker Hesai, blacklisted by the US DOD in 2024, as it expands in the US; Hesai says it has ~33% of the global automotive lidar market (CNBC)

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