Security patches surge as AI agents and robots launch

Hey there. Big day for security patches — Microsoft just fixed nine hundred seventy four vulnerabilities in its September update, a record for Patch Tuesday, including two zero days that were already being exploited. Adobe pushed out more than a hundred seventy fixes too, and one of those was a Commerce zero day letting attackers run code without any login. Both landed today. On the AI side, Meta rolled out Muse, a personal agent that can reach into your email, calendar, payments and health apps to get things done on its own. OpenAI updated ChatGPT's image generator with sketching tools, templates and a way to share prompts. Hardware wise, MediaTek will show its first two nanometer phone chip next week. Intel is raising processor prices about ten percent in October. A startup called Tau Robotics just started sending humanoid robots to clean homes in San Francisco for thirty bucks an hour. And researchers in Tokyo built a robot that expands and contracts its whole body to seem more alive. That's the roundup.