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Roku Raises Prices of Streaming Devices By Up To 60%

Roku has raised prices on several streaming devices, blaming memory and component shortages tied to the AI data-center boom. The Roku Ultra jumped from $100 to $150 and the basic Streaming Stick rose from $30 to $40. The Desk reports: In a phone call with The Desk on Friday, a Roku executive said the company made the tough decision to raise prices on its streaming hardware to address shortages in computer memory and other components caused by the artificial intelligence rush. [...] Still, the executive who spoke with The Desk on Friday said the company believes its hardware is still competitive against other streaming TV hardware because Roku devices are still priced aggressively compared to the Apple TV and other expensive streaming hardware, and the company remains focused on looking at ways to add value to its Roku platform before and after it enters a customer's home. "We are doing our best to have great deals like what we have going on right now," the executive said. "Roku is even upping the price for a bundle that includes a Streaming Stick Plus and a one-month subscription to Fox One," notes Ars Technica in a separate report.

"As recently as July 20, Roku listed the bundle at $60 with a sale price of $25, according to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Now, the bundle carries an $80 MSRP and $45 sale price."

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Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling

Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price." That's welcome news for enterprises beset by rising token costs. Fable 5 prices tokens at $10 / MTok input and $50 / MTok output, while Opus 5 prices tokens at $5 / MTok and $25 / MTok. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol sells for $5 / MTok input and $30 / MTok output. However, the tokens required to complete a task can vary from model to model, so it's also useful to assess how much each model costs to complete the same task. Per Artificial Analysis, the weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task is $2.75 for Fable, $2.03 for Opus 5 (max), $1.04 for GPT-5.6 Sol (max), and $0.95 for Kimi K3. Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61, one point ahead of Fable. "Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance for the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8," Anthropic claims. Opus 5 should offer customers more context to fill because Anthropic has put the model's system prompt on a diet. According to Claude Code engineer Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic removed 80 percent of the Claude Code system prompt for its latest models. As a result, the company's guidance for crafting prompts, skills, and CLAUDE.md files has changed. "Across your system prompt, skills, and CLAUDE.md files, you may need to simplify just like we did," said Shihipar, adding that a command called claude doctor can help automatically optimize some prompts and skills. Users of Opus 5 however may find the model's responses wordier – at their expense. Anthropic cautions, "Claude Opus 5's default user-facing responses run longer than prior Opus models'." Customers who don't want the new verbosity are advised, "To control response length, prompt for it explicitly." Opus 5 scores close to Mythos on finding vulnerabilities in open source code (80 percent OSS-Fuzz benchmark score compared to 79.4 percent), but is significantly weaker in weaponizing those findings – it succeeded in 4/14 exploitation attempts compared to 13/14 for Mythos. The model's system card states, "Claude Opus 5 is substantially stronger than Claude Opus 4.8 across the board, with the largest gains in agentic coding, computer use, and long-horizon knowledge work." It is said to be comparable to, or in some cases ahead of, Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5. The model is likely to be significantly more useful for cybersecurity and biology tasks because it should refuse to cooperate less often. According to Anthropic, "Opus 5’s cyber classifiers are proportionally less restrictive than those on Fable 5. They allow Opus 5 to find vulnerabilities in source code, but block 'binary-based' vulnerability scanning (a method more likely to be associated with malicious actors), penetration testing, and exploit generation." Anthropic is also making life easier for those frustrated by model refusals. It's rolling out an automated fallback function on its API so requests deemed too dangerous to entrust to Opus 5 or Fable 5 can be routed to a less capable model instead of being blocked outright. Opus 5 is said to be Anthropic's "most aligned model to date," meaning it's the least likely to go off its guardrails. A more compelling selling point for businesses is likely to be the lack of a data retention requirement. ®

Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

Click To Pray, a prayer app endorsed by the Pope with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, has leaked people’s names and email addresses for months - or longer - according to an ethical hacker who said she found and reported the security vulnerability six months ago to no avail. This app needs to take a vow of silence when it comes to your personal information. The app, available in seven languages and on iOS, Android, and clicktopray.org, is the official app of the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network. It connects users across the globe to pray for the Holy Father’s intentions, and as of July 2026, it has 719,517 registered accounts. It’s also very leaky, according to security sleuth BobDaHacker, who says she spotted and disclosed the vulnerability to the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network on January 3. “The vulnerability is still live,” the hacker said in a Friday blog. “Nobody has ever responded. I guess my email wasn't in their prayers." The Reg readers likely remember BobDaHacker for her previous research exposing a free-food flaw in McDonald's ordering system and open controls on Chinese robot manufacturer Pudu Robotics. This latest security hole stems from an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) bug in the prayer app. This is a very common and easy-to-exploit type of flaw that occurs when a website or an app blindly accepts user-provided input to view or modify resources without checking to see if the user is actually authorized to retrieve the data. “You ask for your own data, the server gives it to you,” BobDaHacker explains. “You ask for someone else's data, the server gives you that too. Thou shalt not authorize, apparently.” When you sign up for a Click To Pray account, the app assigns you a sequential numeric user ID. As BobDaHacker uncovered, the API endpoint GET https://api[.]clicktopray.org/user/users/{id} will return user data for any account - not just your own account - so long as you supply a valid, five-digit user ID. It doesn’t perform any authorization check or ownership validation. “Just increment the number and get someone else's data,” she wrote. This data includes users’ email addresses, first and last names, country, dates of birth, and whether the account has been deleted, and the API exposes all 719,517 accounts on the prayer site. “With sequential user IDs and no rate limiting, an attacker could enumerate every single account on the platform,” the hacker explained. “One GET request per user. for i in range(1, 719518): scrape(). That's it. That's the exploit.” As BobDaHacker points out, many of these users are likely older individuals, not all that tech savvy, and very trusting of anything Vatican related, making these exposed accounts a “phishing goldmine.” “Imagine getting an email that says ‘The Holy Father requests your urgent attention’ with a Vatican-looking link,” she wrote. “Grandma is clicking that. Every time.” And then it gets even worse. The signup endpoint, POST https://api.clicktopray.org/user/users/sign-up, returns the account's validation_hash directly in the response body, and that value is the same UUID used in the email verification link. This means someone could sign up using any email address and verify the account before the confirmation message reached the inbox. Plus, BobDaHacker’s email client flagged the real verification email with a warning that it had failed the domain’s authentication requirements and might have been spoofed or improperly forwarded. “So not only is the API leaking 700,000 email addresses that could be used for phishing, but the real emails from Click To Pray already look like phishing,” the hacker noted. “An attacker wouldn't even need to try hard. They could send a pixel-perfect phishing email and it would have the same level of email authentication as the real thing: none. God works in mysterious ways.” The Register reached out to the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network and did not receive any response. BobDaHacker says she’s still praying for one, too.®

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VS-regering hield miljarden dollars aan subsidies in van staten die niet op Trump stemden

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VS-regering onthield staten die niet op Trump stemden subsidies

WASHINGTON (ANP) - Amerikaanse overheidsfunctionarissen hebben in gerechtelijke documenten toegegeven dat ze miljarden dollars aan financiering voor energieprojecten in staten hebben stopgezet "uitsluitend" op basis van het feit dat ze niet op Donald Trump hadden gestemd bij de presidentsverkiezingen van 2024. Dat melden Amerikaanse media, waaronder The New York Times.

Zo trok de regering-Trump in oktober federale subsidies ter waarde van ruim 7,5 miljard dollar (zo'n 6,6 miljard euro) uit het tijdperk van Trumps voorganger Joe Biden in voor schone energieprojecten. Daarvoor werd als reden opgegeven dat de regering daarmee verspilling van belastinggeld tegenging. Uit de gerechtelijke documenten blijkt nu dat de subsidies "uitsluitend" op basis van politieke criteria werden stopgezet.

Deze erkenning toont hoe Trump overheidssteun voor onderwijs, energie, gezondheidszorg, huisvesting en infrastructuur in zijn tweede ambtstermijn heeft misbruikt, stelt The New York Times.