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Apple announced Friday it is changing macOS Full Disk Access settings to stop third-party developers from misusing the permission to reach data such as message histories.
The move follows a column by Jason Aten, who said Meta's AI agent Muse sent an unsolicited notification referencing a private Apple Messages thread he never authorized Muse to read.
Meta CTO David Singleton said Muse's Messages integration is opt-in and requires both macOS Full Disk Access and an in-app Messages connector to be enabled.
macOS security expert Patrick Wardle questioned that reasoning, noting Full Disk Access lets an app read virtually any non-root file, from browsing history to chats.

DT Editorial Team·Oct 3, 2026·via arstechnica.com

BYD delivered 456,713 passenger vehicles in September 2026, up 5.4% month over month and 16.2% year over year.
BEV sales reached 273,143 units, a 33.2% year-over-year increase from 205,050 in September 2025, and up 6.6% from August.
PHEV sales fell 2.4% year over year to 183,570 units, even as they rose 3.6% month over month.
Year to date, BEV volume is up 1.5% while total passenger vehicle sales are down 4.4% and PHEVs are down 10.2%.

DT Editorial Team·Oct 3, 2026·via cleantechnica.com

MIT built a soft robot roughly the size of a stick of chewing gum powered by a single layer of living muscle cells.
The cells are genetically engineered to contract when light hits them, so a researcher steers the robot by shining a handheld light on one fin or the other.
Each fin measures 15 mm long, 7 mm wide and 0.5 mm thick, and the robot has no onboard electronics.
The team replaced a wrinkling fibrin gel with a stiffer gelatin-based gel stamped with square-bottomed grooves to align the muscle fibers.

DT Editorial Team·Oct 3, 2026·via newatlas.com

Apple has acknowledged a hardware issue affecting iPhone 18 Pro Max connectivity on AT&T, per an Engadget report.
Affected owners report the handset dropping into SOS mode, where emergency calling may work but normal cellular service does not.
Because the fault is hardware-based rather than software-based, standard troubleshooting such as network resets or eSIM reinstalls is unlikely to resolve it.
Apple has outlined which owners qualify for a replacement device instead of a repair or software patch.

DT Editorial Team·Oct 3, 2026·via engadget.com

A UK national prospective multicenter cohort study published online Sept. 16 in Anaesthesia examined perioperative GLP-1 RA use and outcomes, timed to the Association of Anaesthetists annual meeting in Liverpool, Sept. 16–18.
The study, led by Thomas E. Potter, M.B.B.S., of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, covered 47,039 patients at 119 UK sites; 2.9 percent reported receiving GLP-1 RAs.
Incidence of pulmonary aspiration and/or regurgitation was 1.41 percent in the GLP-1 RA cohort versus 0.12 percent in the non-GLP-1 RA cohort, an odds ratio of 11.39.
Among patients taking GLP-1 RAs, these events occurred most often during emergence from anesthesia.

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