Samsung Trifold Leak Ahead of Galaxy Unpacked

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Galaxy Unpacked is tomorrow, but Samsung's trifold secret is already out. While foldables unfold, Google deploys AI Gems to Workspace, a critical Sudo bug jolts Linux, stalkerware spills, and Meta’s loss becomes SSI’s gain.

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A G Fold? Samsung’s New Phone Bends the Rules

Samsung’s software couldn’t keep a secret.

Animation files hidden in Samsung's latest One UI 8 beta reveal a wild new device: a triple-screen, dual-hinge phone internally dubbed Multifold 7.

It folds into a G-shape and features three panels—one with a triple-camera island, one with a cover display and selfie cam, and one blank panel that tucks in safely when closed.

The hinges are of different sizes, so the camera module isn't crushed. Samsung has even baked in a warning animation to prevent closing it the wrong way.

Rumor mill pins the launch for tomorrow's Galaxy Unpacked event alongside the Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7, marking this as Samsung's first attempt at a trifold device to counter Huawei's Z-shaped Mate XT. Expect bigger-screen real estate, thicker chassis, and fresh questions about durability, pricing, and app optimization.

Why it matters: If the G Fold lands, Samsung sets a new benchmark for multitasking phones—and a fresh price ceiling. Get ready to see whether a pocket-sized tablet is finally worth the (probable) four-figure splurge.

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Google's AI Gems Expand to Workspace Apps

Because your spreadsheet clearly needs its own sensei.

Google is rolling out custom Gems (mini-Gemini experts) to Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. Sitting in the familiar side panel, Gems can be premade (think Writing Editor or Sales Pitch Ideator) or user-crafted to master a niche workflow.

They tap Workspace's @-links, fetch Drive files, and remember context so you don't have to reprompt every five minutes.

Rollout began July 2 and could take two or more weeks to reach every Rapid and Scheduled domain. Once live, click the sparkle "Ask Gemini" button to summon your stable of Gems, or head to gemini.google.com/gems/create to build your own AI intern.

Early use cases: copywriters auto-generating taglines inside Docs, sales teams arming Gmail drafts with prospect intel, and teachers spinning up study-guide bots in Classroom. Admins get zero new toggles; end users get the productivity bump along with the responsibility to avoid garbage-in, garbage-out data.

Finally, a Gem that can write your TPS reports—no flair required.

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Security Alerts

Critical Sudo Flaw Allows Root Takeover

A high-severity Sudo bug, CVE-2025-32463 (CVSS 9.3 Critical), lets any local user pop full root—even with no Sudo rules—by abusing the --chroot/-R option to load a rogue library from an attacker-controlled path.

The flaw hits Sudo 1.9.14–1.9.17. Patch immediately to 1.9.17p1 or later; the chroot flag is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. (The same researchers also surfaced CVE-2025-32462, a 12-year-old privilege-escalation bug tied to Host_Alias settings.)

Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 41, and other major distros have fixes live.

Pro tip: On Ubuntu/Debian, run sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade; on Fedora, sudo dnf upgrade --security—before an attacker does it for you.

CatWatchful Leak Exposes 62,000 Stalkerware Accounts

The self-proclaimed "invisible and undetectable" CatWatchful learned otherwise after security researcher Eric Daigle exploited an unauthenticated SQL injection and dumped its database.

The breach exposed plaintext emails and passwords for 62,000 users, as well as surveillance data from 26,000 victims' devices.

Operators scrambled to a new host and eventually installed a web app firewall, but the damage was already done. Daigle also found a built-in escape hatch: dialing 543210 on an infected Android phone can remove the app (though it may alert the spy). Google Play Protect now flags CatWatchful on sight.

Parents, partners, spies—consider this your not-so-subtle hint: if the spyware doesn't get you, sloppy OpSec will.

Industry Shakeups

Sutskever Retakes Reins at Safe Superintelligence

In a major AI talent-war shake-up, OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, who also cofounded Safe Superintelligence (SSI), is now SSI's CEO after Meta reportedly poached fellow SSI cofounder Daniel Gross

SSI raised $1 billion in 2024 and was pegged at about $32 billion in an April 2025 valuation. Sutskever says the startup has the compute, the team, and zero intention of being acquired. Cofounder Daniel Levy steps up as president while Sutskever drives SSI's mission to build aligned, smarter-than-human AI.

Gross, whose own VC firm had backed SSI, is reportedly set to lead Meta's AI products division. However,his name was omitted from Mark Zuckerberg's internal memo announcing the new hires for Meta Superintelligence Labs. That leaves SSI to double down on Safe Superintelligence independently before someone else ships it first.

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