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A children's education firm left an old account protected by the password "Password One," and hackers walked right through the door. The breach exposed sensitive data belonging to minors, raising urgent questions about how organizations handle legacy systems and whether basic credential hygiene is being treated as the afterthought it clearly was here.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Meta's creative tool Muse has a serious problem. Security researchers discovered a design flaw in the platform's share link feature that made it trivially easy to access other users' private conversations with the AI assistant. Meta has suspended the feature while it investigates, but the incident is a reminder that moving fast with AI products can leave real people exposed.
And on a more hopeful note for AI capabilities research, a new analysis of spatial reasoning in language and vision models reveals a striking gap. Grid puzzles that most people solve almost perfectly continue to trip up even leading AI systems, suggesting that genuine spatial understanding remains a harder problem than benchmark scores often imply.
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