New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Fourteen days after Meta invited millions of Mac users to hand an AI assistant reach over their email, calendar, payment accounts, and health data, a security researcher showed how malware already running on a user's computer could silently intercept every word they dictated to it.

36 UTC confirming the fix: "Hooray, hot-fixed!" He praised the speed of the response. David Singleton, an engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs, confirmed the company had pushed what he described as a "hotfix" shortly after midnight.

The vulnerability lives in a single undocumented configuration setting inside the Muse macOS application called endo_voyager_dictation_endpoint. That setting controls where the app routes audio when a use...