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Meta Pauses Muse Chat Sharing After Researchers Say Shared Chats Could Be Found Through DNS Records

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  • Meta paused conversation sharing in its Muse AI agent on Oct 20, 2026, after security firm Claroc said one passive-DNS search turned up more than 6,800 Muse share addresses, some holding loan applications and private business documents.
  • A SenseNova-led preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, reports that OpenAI's GPT-6-Astra scored 81.9% on the RoboDojo robot benchmark with up to 10 times the usual step budget, but 27.6% at the standard budget, below the paper's listed prior best of 29.6% (31.4% for the best prior agentic method).
  • Sphinx, a free MIT-licensed Git hook whose Show HN post drew 252 points and 89 comments, quizzes developers on their AI agent's code before a push goes through, though its authors call it 'practice, not a security gate.'

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