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A significant manufacturing shift could be coming to your screens. A new report suggests inkjet-printed OLED panels may cut production costs by up to thirty-five percent compared to current methods. That kind of saving, if it holds in practice, could finally push OLED displays into more affordable laptops and monitors in the years ahead.

Meanwhile, a privacy gap in Android sixteen has drawn attention for what didn't happen as much as what did. A researcher discovered a VPN bypass that leaks your real IP address to the network. Google reviewed the flaw and chose not to patch it. GrapheneOS, the privacy-focused Android fork, disagreed with that call and shipped its own fix within days — a reminder that open ecosystems can move in different directions on what counts as a serious risk.

And in AI security news, Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos system has been doing something genuinely useful: finding high-severity bugs in Firefox that human researchers had missed. Security teams at Mozilla describe it as a meaningful shift in how they approach vulnerability discovery — AI not replacing the researchers, but significantly expanding what they can catch.

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