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Google is scrambling to patch a serious Android security flaw that lets someone pick up your locked phone and use the Gemini AI assistant to send text messages and WhatsApp messages without ever entering your PIN. The company says a fix is coming as early as this week, but the vulnerability has been circulating since May, raising real questions about where AI assistants should and shouldn't have access on your device.
Shifting gears, True the Vote, the organization behind the widely debunked two thousand mules documentary, is back with a new film called Trap, produced alongside a Detroit pastor. The claims at the center of the project have already been rejected in court, which puts it in an unusual position for a documentary — building a narrative around evidence that judges have already weighed and dismissed.
And on a quieter but genuinely striking note, astronomers have confirmed the existence of an exoplanet that managed to evade detection for a full ten years. The discovery is a reminder of just how much the cosmos can conceal even from instruments we consider sophisticated, and how patient science sometimes has to be before the universe gives up its secrets.
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