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Meta has filed a patent application for an AI that listens to your voice throughout the day, works out how it thinks you are feeling from the way you sound, and keeps a timestamped log of every read. Each read gets pinned to the moment it happened: the time, your location, what you were doing, even how you were using your phone. Some versions in the filing would listen all day; others would check in only at set times. None of these ships in a product today, and Meta has not announced one; a filing like this stakes a claim on an idea long before anyone commits to building it. The application,  US 2026/0182881 , was filed by Meta Platforms in December 2025 and published on July 2. It names a single inventor, Lachlan Dunn , and traces back to a provisional filing from December 2024. The patent-analysis site  Patentlyze  flagged the filing first. Its title pairs two ideas, emotional state analysis and real-time fitness coaching. The claims show the first is the ...

Russian authorities used Cellebrite's UFED forensic tools to break into the iPhone of detained opposition activist Andrey Pivovarov in June 2021, three months after Cellebrite said it would stop selling its tools and services to Russia and Belarus. The finding, published  June 25 by the Citizen Lab , rests on two things that rarely line up: traces on the phone itself and an official Russian government report that names the tool. Investigators searched the extracted data for political contacts, opposition figures, and the names of activist organizations. This was not remote spyware. It was a forensic tool run on a seized device in custody, used to build a case in a political prosecution. Pivovarov ran Open Russia , an opposition group the Kremlin had branded "undesirable," a label that turned continued involvement into a criminal offense. He was  pulled off a flight  at St. Petersburg airport on May 31, 2021, and his iPhone 12 and MacBook were confiscated. He neve...