Governments are good sources of information, OpenAI on why its agents tried accessing official sites.

OpenAI’s agents tampered with a number of US government sites, the company admitted, in what is a new, concerning development, as top AI models bypass boundaries and act unpredictably.

According to the New York Times, the technology juggernaut confirmed incidents relating to the US Department of Commerce and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and said that it is still probing a potential breach at the Department of Education.

Sources told the publication that the agents were attempting to gather data from these sites. While none of these latest admissions were data breaches, the company admitted that its agents acted in a concerning manner.

The agents also shared public data from the SEC in online forums. Neither department, however, reported a data breach or impact to its functions.

“Most of the activity we’ve reviewed so far involved routine research tasks, such as accessing public web content to answer questions,” an OpenAI spokesperson told the publication.

“Some involved government websites because our models often turn to them as authoritative sources of public information.”

This latest admission comes just after Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese told the press last week that OpenAI’s agents hacked one of their government websites in a similar incident, after the bots were sent to conduct research into public medicine spending.

“Our models attempted to look up answers and available statistics”, a spokesperson explained last week. “In the course of that, [they] took actions we did not intend.” Or as Albanese put it, the models deliberately bypassed boundaries and “didn’t accept ‘no’ for an answer”.

OpenAI said that its agents didn’t get their hands on patient records during the Medicare breach, although the Australian government said it is launching a forensic investigation and a taskforce to review the matter on its own.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, the head at Anthropic, have both been called to attend an Australian Senate inquiry on AI in relation to the incident.

Last week, the two addressed the United Nations Security Council, where they touted the benefits of AI while warning of its potential abuses. The two have, in recent weeks, made comments pushing for stronger AI safety and slower development.

Concerns around AI effectively going “rogue” have taken centre stage in recent months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face and a third-party infrastructure provider.

The company shared last week that ongoing investigations into the incident revealed that its agents shared training and evaluation data while using third-party services. This, it said, was “not an appropriate use of this data” and that these cases “occurred before [they] implemented the safeguards”.

Independent research has already shown that advanced AI agents, can take risky and deceptive actions without specific prompting. Axios reported over the weekend that leading AI companies are investigating “tens of thousands of incidents” where their models acted out of order.

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Action Retro just sat down with Pico Micro Mac v3, and the little board did the rare thing cheap retro kits keep promising. Power went in, a smiling Macintosh face appeared, and a real System desktop came up ready for a USB mouse. His video calls it a tiny 90s Macintosh. Software-wise it is closer to the 128K and Plus years. The charm is that the desktop is genuine, clickable, and running on a microcontroller you can cover with two fingers.

Matt Evans was the mastermind behind the emulator that makes this feat possible, and his pico-mac project, a Raspberry Pi Pico integrated with a 68000 Macintosh 128K, is a true marvel. It works by generating a one-bit VGA image using only a few resistors and the chip’s programmable I/O, which is then cranked up to 250 MHz, allowing you to play games like Missile Command without trouble. Ron from Ron’s Computer Videos then took this mess of wires and converted it into a board that you can really buy; Joe’s Computer Museum is selling the current v3 iteration for $20 to $25, either alone or with a Pico attached.

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The older boards that came before this one required you to solder a separate microSD adapter onto a stack of pins, but the Version 3 has made life a lot easier by building the card slot right into the PCB and adding two rows of female headers, so you can simply press a Pico with pins already attached and it will work flawlessly. Simply press the boot button, slide a UF2 firmware file onto the Pico like a USB stick, and then drop Ron’s disk image onto a card, and you’re ready to go: VGA to any monitor that will accept it, keyboard and mouse via a micro USB OTG port. However, Action Retro discovered the hard way that some current keyboards with built-in hubs may be temperamental, so they switched to a simpler USB keyboard, which still worked.

The default personality is a 128K Mac at 512 x 342, Apple’s original canvas from 1984. Other firmware builds extend the picture to 640 × 480 and increase memory to 208K, which is more RAM than the first Macintosh ever arrived with. Finally, you get to see the Finder, MacWrite, and MacPaint in their full grandeur. Previous videos of this project have shown Lode Runner, Bricks, and Missile Command in action. With Ron’s compressed disk image, you can really utilize the system for the evening and have it do something.

One thing is lacking from this small project: sound. At least it is with the stock VGA board. The startup beep and classic square-wave chirps are available as an optional Audio Refit. Other capabilities such as SCSI, AppleTalk, and a printer connector are missing, and if you don’t have a card, the flash drive is read-only, which means your MacPaint doodles will disappear as you turn off the power. Some software still whines for more memory than you have, which is understandable given that you are running 1984 program on a few dollars worth of silicon.

Joe’s shop also sells a 3D printed shell from GutBomb that makes the entire device resemble a tiny beige Mac from the early 1990s, which is why the film has a 90s vibe, despite the fact that the ROM is older. Power comes from a phone bank or any 5V micro USB brick, and a little black and white VGA monitor sits next to it. Sometimes the wire is heavier than the computer. Official kits typically target the original RP2040 Pico. Joe and Ron do not support the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 boards.

If I got a dollar for every time someone asked me if this was the new iPhone Duo, I would have a dollar. And the Xiaomi 18 Fold.

I have spent some time with the Xiaomi 18 Fold, and my first impression is pretty simple: this is one of those phones that makes more sense the longer you use it.

Foldables have come a long way, but many of them still feel like regular phones that happen to open into a small tablet. Yes, there are similar designs from other manufacturers like Huawei and Samsung, and most recently, Apple as well. The Xiaomi 18 Fold takes a slightly different approach. When I opened it, the first thing I noticed was not how big the screen was, but how naturally it was shaped for the things I actually wanted to do on it. The square-curved design seems unsymmetrical at first – but boy, it grows on you fast!

It is wide, surprisingly thin, and, despite being a foldable with a huge battery inside, does not feel like I am carrying a small tablet around in my pocket. And my editor specifically told me to keep this under 600 words. Someone’s going to be mad.

The design is slim, wide, and surprisingly feels super-premium

The Xiaomi 18 Fold has a fairly distinctive design. The version I spent time with had a red finish, and I really liked the contrast between the matte glass back and the slightly darker metal frame.

It has that premium feel I expect from a flagship, but without trying too hard to look futuristic. When folded, it feels solid in the hand, and when I opened it, the 5mm-thick body immediately stood out. Xiaomi has managed to keep the unfolded phone remarkably slim, considering everything packed inside it.

At 219 grams, it is obviously not a lightweight phone. But I never got the feeling that the weight was getting in the way. That becomes even more impressive when you remember that Xiaomi has managed to put a 6,000mAh battery inside this thing.

The red version I handled also has an interesting contrast between the frame and the rear panel. The metal sections are slightly darker, while the matte glass back is a lighter shade of red. It gives the phone some personality without making it look overly flashy.

Despite being a foldable, the phone does not feel excessively chunky. Xiaomi has also given it IP58/IP59 protection against dust and water, including resistance to high-pressure water jets and immersion in up to 1 metre of water for 30 minutes.

The hinge is also something I paid attention to because that is usually where foldables start feeling fragile. The 18 Fold feels reassuringly solid when opening and closing it.

And then there is the crease.

I could feel a slight indentation down the middle of the folding screen when running my finger across it, but visually, it was surprisingly difficult to notice. During my time with the phone, the crease was barely noticeable most of the time.

The 7.58-inch screen is the real attraction.

The biggest reason to buy the Xiaomi 18 Fold is obviously the inner display, and this is where the phone gets particularly interesting. It has a 7.58-inch LTPO AMOLED panel with a 2364 x 1672-pixel resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and a claimed peak brightness of 4,000 nits. It also supports HDR10+, Dolby Vision and HDR Vivid.

But the numbers do not tell the whole story. The display has a 2:1 aspect ratio, which means the phone opens into a wide landscape-oriented screen. I found this particularly useful when watching videos. Instead of getting the more portrait-oriented tablet experience seen on some book-style foldables, the Xiaomi 18 Fold naturally gives you a landscape canvas. However, a tip: watching movies would need the good ol pinch and zoom because most of them run on 16:9 aspect ratios. Not the Justice League Zack Snyder Edition, though.

The outer display follows the same philosophy. It is a 5.38-inch LTPO AMOLED panel with a 1168 x 1712 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and up to 4,000 nits peak brightness. It also gets Xiaomi Dragon Crystal Glass 3 and support for HDR10+, Dolby Vision, and HDR Vivid.

The cover screen is wide enough to use comfortably with one hand. The curved section on the right does eat into a little of the usable screen area, but I did not find it particularly problematic during basic use. Typing also feels more natural than I expected because of the wider shape. No thanks to my fat fingers, though.

XRing O3 keeps everything moving

Powering the Xiaomi 18 Fold is Xiaomi’s XRing O3 chipset, built on a 3nm process. The chip has a 10-core CPU clocked at up to 4.35GHz and is paired with an Arm G2-Ultra NX MC16 GPU.

My unit felt fast during everyday use. Apps opened quickly, animations were smooth, and switching between multiple applications did not feel like something the phone had to think about.

The specifications list four storage configurations: 256GB with 12GB RAM, 512GB with 12GB RAM, 512GB with 16GB RAM, and 1TB with 16GB RAM. Storage is UFS 4.1, although there is no microSD card slot.

The phone runs Android 17 with Xiaomi’s HyperOS 4 interface. What I particularly liked was how well the performance matched the screen.

A powerful chip on a foldable is useful, but it becomes much more interesting when you have this much screen real estate to actually take advantage of it. Multitasking feels like something I would genuinely use here rather than something I would try once because the phone allows it.

Xiaomi has not forgotten the cameras

Foldables often make compromises with their cameras, but Xiaomi has gone in the opposite direction with the 18 Fold. No, I am not looking at you, Samsung.

There is a triple-camera setup on the back consisting of a 200-megapixel primary camera with an f/1.7 aperture, a 50-megapixel telephoto camera with 3.5x optical zoom and a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera. The main and telephoto cameras also get optical image stabilisation.

The main camera uses a 1/1.56-inch sensor, while Xiaomi has also included laser autofocus and a colour spectrum sensor. The cameras use Leica lenses and the system supports HDR and panorama modes.

Video recording goes up to 8K at 24fps, while 4K recording is available at 30fps and 60fps with Dolby Vision. The phone can also record 1080p video at up to 960fps. There is also a 16-megapixel selfie camera on the inner display and another 16-megapixel camera on the cover screen. Both have an f/2.2 aperture and 21mm equivalent focal length.

That camera setup makes the 18 Fold feel more like a conventional flagship that happens to fold, rather than a foldable that happens to have cameras.

A 6,000mAh battery in a 5mm-thick foldable

The battery is another area where Xiaomi has gone big. The Xiaomi 18 Fold packs a 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery. It supports 67W wired charging and 50W wireless charging, along with PD3.0 and 50W PPS support. Reverse wired charging is also supported. Again, for comparison, the Samsung S26 Ultra gets a 5000mAh battery. More so, the Fold 8 gets a 4800mAh battery.

Considering how thin the phone is when unfolded, fitting a 6,000mAh battery inside is impressive on paper. During my time with the device, the combination of the large battery and efficient 3nm chipset made the 18 Fold feel like a phone designed for heavy daily use rather than something that needs to be treated carefully to make it through the day. I usually find myself picking the 67W brick about one and a half days of usage.

It also gets stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, while there is no 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and NFC, and Xiaomi has included NavIC alongside GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, BDS, and QZSS for positioning.

My first impression

After spending time with the Xiaomi 18 Fold, what stands out to me is that Xiaomi seems to have understood one of the biggest problems with current foldables: simply making the inner screen bigger does not automatically make it more useful.

The 18 Fold’s 2:1 inner display changes that experience. When I opened it, I immediately got a wide screen that felt natural for video playback, multitasking, and general tablet-style use. The 120Hz AMOLED panel, 4,000-nit peak brightness, and Dolby Vision support only add to that experience.

At the same time, it remains reasonably manageable when folded. The 219-gram weight is not particularly light for a conventional phone, but for a device with a 7.58-inch foldable screen and 6,000mAh battery, it does not feel unreasonable.

The cameras are also unusually serious for a foldable, with a 200MP main sensor, 50MP telephoto and 50MP ultrawide. The XRing O3 chip, up to 16GB RAM and UFS 4.1 storage complete what is essentially a flagship specification sheet.

There is, however, one big catch. A sad one.

The Xiaomi 18 Fold is currently a China-exclusive phone, which means buyers outside China may have to admire this one from a distance for now. But purely as a piece of hardware, my first impression is that Xiaomi built a passport foldable for the world but decided to make it available only in its home market, and that is a major regret.

The Xiaomi 18 Fold feels thin without feeling delicate, big without feeling unwieldy, and powerful without making a big show of it. Most importantly, the unusual wide format actually changes how I use the phone.

And after spending some time with it, I think that is exactly what a good foldable should do. It should not just give you a bigger screen. It should give you a reason to use that bigger screen.

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A former U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking and extorting at least 10 U.S. technology and telecommunications companies between April 2023 and December 2024.

21-year-old Cameron John Wagenius (also known online as ‘kiberphant0m’ and ‘cyb3rph4nt0m’ ) was arrested in Texas in December 2024.

He pleaded guilty in February 2025 to hacking AT&T and Verizon after being charged on two counts of unlawfully transferring confidential phone records, and in July 2025 to multiple counts of aggravated identity theft, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and extortion related to computer fraud.

According to court documents, while on active duty with the U.S. Army, Wagenius and his accomplices stole login credentials for the victim’s networks using the SSH Brute hacking tool he helped develop. They also used Telegram to transfer stolen credentials and plan their attacks.

“After data was stolen, Wagenius and his conspirators extorted the victim organizations both privately and in public forums. The extortion attempts included threats to post the stolen data on cybercrime forums such as BreachForums and XSS.is,” the Justice Department said.

“In other instances, conspirators offered to sell stolen data for thousands of dollars via posts on these forums. They successfully sold at least some of this stolen data and also used stolen data to perpetuate other frauds, including SIM-swapping. In total, Wagenius and his co-conspirators attempted to extort at least $1 million from victim data owners.”

In addition to the 70-month prison sentence, Wagenius was ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for hacking into telecom companies’ databases, accessing sensitive customer records, and extorting the companies under threat of releasing stolen data unless they paid ransoms.

Two of his accomplices, Connor Riley Moucka (a.ka. “Waifu” and “Judische”) and John Erin Binns (aka “irdev” and “j_irdev1337”), were accused in November 2024 of breaching and stealing terabytes of data from more than 165 organizations using the services of Snowflake cloud storage company and demanding ransom payments to delete the stolen information and not leak it online.

Moucka was arrested on October 30, 2024, in Canada at the request of the United States and pleaded guilty to his role in the Snowflake hacking campaign in August 2026.

Data breaches linked to Snowflake attacks affected hundreds of millions of people, customers of AT&T, Ticketmaster, Santander, Los Angeles Unified, QuoteWizard/LendingTree, Pure Storage, Advance Auto Parts, and Neiman Marcus.

After these incidents led to massive data breaches, Snowflake announced it would enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) and require customers to choose passwords at least 14 characters long.

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Sonos’ Ace Ultra headphones have arrived, the review of them is up, and I think they’re pretty terrific. They’re an improvement over the original Ace, and debatably, the headphones Sonos should have launched out of the gate.

But who gets things right the first time? Sonos went back to the board, and rather than re-do the headphones, it seems they decided to improve in areas where it was needed most, but also not mess with things that were working the first time around.

So now the Ace Ultra are a much more of an all-rounder, a better conceived and convincing pair of wireless headphones that are competitive against the best the market has to offer. Before the headphones were announced, when rumours were swirling around what it was going to be, I felt that Sonos needed to lean into more of its identity – it needed to embrace what makes Sonos, Sonos.

The one area all reviewers thought the headphones came up short was in the connectivity department; they didn’t realise the potential of the Sonos ecosystem. With the Headphone Linking feature, that potential has now been realised, and it’s a pretty impressive piece of technology that differentiates Sonos from the competition and becomes a unique selling point of the Ace Ultra.

It’s kinda magic

During IFA 26, Sonos set up an area to preview the products ahead of the announcement, and I was invited along to listen to presentations and demos of the Sonos Ace Ultra as well as the Beam Ultra. As you may know, with the introduction of the Sonos27 AI platform, Sonos has laid out its future, and the potential for customisation and personalisation within the system is large.

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But the feature I think we all wanted to see was Headphone Linking, and it might seem a nebulous feature at first. After all, who would care that much about swapping music from a speaker to a headphone?

You could just call up the app on your device and do it yourself, but if there’s one advantage (or two) that AI can bring, it’s automation and efficiency. If I want to do something, I don’t want multiple steps to go through – keeping it simple means less confusion and most likely less frustration. I want ease of use and accessibility, not having to eventually go online and search for a solution to what I’m not doing right.

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With the Headphone Linking, that’s what you get. A simple means of extracting music from one place to another, and it can work very well. I’ve played music on one speaker, cast it to the headphones, walked to another room and then directed the music to a speaker in that room. It’s pretty simple thanks to a press of the Content Key button.

The versatility of the system that I can start playing music on a speaker or a soundbar, and then if I feel like it, cast it to the headphones and vice versa for a session of private listening, and the flexibility it offers is a boon to those who want some time to themselves.

However, you may have noticed that I wrote it “can” work very well, but not always.

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It’s still in Early Access

You opt into Headphone Linking; it’s not a feature that’s provided out of the box. It’s part of Sonos’ Early Access program, which should clue you into the thought that it’s still somewhat in Beta/Alpha stage rather than something for the public to fully enjoy without reservations.

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I’ve found it to be slightly slow in recognising which speakers are close by and where to send the audio, but I did find it became quicker; the system seemed to understand what speakers were where and therefore was faster to recognise and send audio. But of course, it’s not perfect.

On other occasions, it’s been stumped by what it needs to do; the headphones don’t receive audio after multiple tries before suddenly working. Something I mentioned in my review is that if you have two speakers close by, it can send it to the speaker you didn’t intend to. I’ve walked into a room playing music, pressed the Content Key, only to accidentally receive the audio from the Beam Ultra. Whoops.

It’s also a Wi-Fi-enabled system, so don’t go thinking that if you’re wearing the headphones you can take audio from a speaker and merrily leave the house with your tunes playing in your head. I’ve tried walking into the garden and found that the signal extinguishes quickly because I’m on the Wi-Fi, and all of this is happening on the mesh network that Sonos creates.

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There is potential

So while it’s not fully ready for its time in the spotlight, Headphone Linking provides an interesting perspective on what could come next. I’m not sure where it could lead – perhaps with Sonos Voice I can talk into the headphones and start a routine somewhere in the house if it’s all linked into a smart system, but certainly there is potential beneath all this interlinking of devices.

For now, we’ve got the TV/Audio Swap, which works really well, and the TrueCinema feature, which is surprisingly effective – there are times when I wonder whether sound is coming from the soundbar, the effect feels so spacious. The implementation of head tracking is also a nice feature, and these are features that other headphones have tried but haven’t put together as well as Sonos has.

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With the Headphone Linking feature, Sonos has an ace up its sleeve. We’ll see how it plays its hand as the feature and Sonos ecosystem develops, but right now, the future looks very interesting.

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A new India-based AI Research Lab is looking at how AI can support workers as the technology continues to change jobs and labor markets. The Institute for Human Flourishing (IHF), founded by Ravi Venkatesan and led by CEO Urvashi Aneja, launched in New York on September 23 during the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly. It will begin by studying how AI can raise incomes, expand workers’ control, and create new opportunities in India, then take its findings to other parts of the Global South. The Rockefeller Foundation, Schmidt Philanthropies, and the Government of India back the initiative.

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• Rainbow Six Tactics game director Martial Potron says Mario + Rabbids helped the team understand “the metrics of tactics”
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Rainbow Six Tactics game director Martial Potron has said the development team borrowed the “DNA” of the studio’s turn-based game series, Mario + Rabbids, for tactical level design inspiration.

“Mario + Rabbids helped us shape some parts,” Potron told TechRadar Gaming in a recent interview about the upcoming Siege spin-off. “The team, especially the level design team that came from Mario + Rabbids, really helped us to understand the metrics of tactics.”

Nintendo 64 owners spent 1996 lining up hang gliders over Little States and hoping the analog stick would forgive a late flare. Nearly thirty years later, Pilotwings 64 Recompiled puts that same flight school on Windows and Linux as a native program you launch like any other PC game.

Static recompilation is the method that enables this project. Two crucial tools, N64Recomp and N64ModernRuntime, handle the heavy lifting, transforming the original machine code from the N64 into a PC executable that runs on your computer, with RT64 handling the graphics. This is all built on Garrett Smith’s remarkable decompilation work, which finally reached a full code match in April 2026, providing all subsequent builders with a very handy guide to what each and every part of the game code is doing. You can see how all the vehicles, menus, save screens, and so on fit together, and then, in mid-September 2026, an independent developer took that work and turned it into a playable game on Windows and Linux, with the first release being 0.1.0, followed by the 0.1.1 hotfix, and Claude has been assisting with patches, tools, documentation, and even the art.

When you launch the game, the first thing you notice is the widescreen mode. The view fills your current monitor, and all of the interface elements are neatly arranged at the screen’s edges. The old black border that used to cut off the image has been removed, and matrix interpolation now kicks in, providing silky smooth animation that matches your display’s refresh rate, even with all of the camera cuts and fast motions. You no longer have to go through those long, long menu stalls that used to take up to 6 seconds, because they now simply snap from one screen to another.

The launcher includes all of the settings you need to customize the graphics, sound, and even mods. You can use either a keyboard or a controller, so don’t worry about the fact that the original N64 pad doesn’t work well on modern desks. Every vehicle and bonus level are included, as are the game results panels and save system. There is some footage that showcases some of the important improvements, such as rocket belt hovers that now respond to minute throttle adjustments, gyrocopter runs that are readable even at high refresh rates, and ring courses that are no longer cut off by the old 4:3 window.

The cartridge data itself is not included since you must first locate a USA dump of Pilotwings 64 with a specific SHA-1 code and refer the launcher to it. The project is MIT licensed, and the runtime is GPL-3.0, so everything works out well. On the other side, running the Linux version requires a Vulkan driver, and macOS is not supported. There are a few things that don’t work as well as they could, such as the quick camera motions, which can get slightly out of sync at low frame rates because the camera is right inside every object’s math. Changing the aspect ratio when viewing the photo album simply blanks out the pages until you close and reopen it, though the 0.1.1 hotfix resolved a problem in which the photos were drawing twice as large as their spaces. Then there’s the interpolation on a true 120 Hz display, which still need some time to perfect, and the Linux packages were, ironically, produced on WSL2.

For anyone who spent their childhood playing on that old cartridge, the draw is immediate. Hang glider approaches, rocket belt landings, and gyrocopter passes look fantastic on a modern widescreen, yet the old game continues to function properly. The builds can be found on GitHub under danielgomesvieira2000/pilotwings-64-recomp. Simply download your own USA dump, select a controller setup that feels right, and take another trip around Little States.
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