Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise
…Queries will be handled on-device where possible and in its secure Private Cloud Compute system when not. Apple says your data won’t be stored, will only be used to execute…
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Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…Now, a security researcher is highlighting fresh concerns about latent malware being able to “ride along” and steal Recall data. Microsoft has dismissed the concerns saying there is no vulnerability. Nevertheless, since…
Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt
…The unwillingness or inability of AI labs to contain their products has sparked concern over how such breaches could go unnoticed, the safety of frontier AI systems, and worries over the general…
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
…As early as 2016, Musk had his own concerns about OpenAI as a nonprofit. In an email to a colleague at Neuralink, he wrote, “Deepmind is moving very fast. I am concerned…
We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
…the importance of open-weight AI systems and the need to take AI security more seriously. These concerns were underscored further by the release of Kimi K3, a highly capable open-weight…
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
…But bad actors could’ve easily spied on all these locations — and a million more — because many of Meari Technology’s Wi-Fi baby monitors and security cameras were absurdly insecure. If…
Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE
…He is a current, not former PhD candidate, and the EFF letter concerns his personal, not university, Gmail account.
Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
…colleague on how to copy confidential Apple files and “avoid trouble” with the company’s security team ahead of her joining OpenAI. Liu allegedly told her they should communicate over Line Messenger…
AI warfare is already here
…In 2024, the Biden administration published a memorandum on AI and national security, setting up rules for how AI can be used in certain national security scenarios — and for now, even…
Ring camera alerts are about to get a lot smarter
…Siminoff says Ring plans to use Video Descriptions to power more proactive home security features, including combining multiple motion alerts into one alert and, more ambitiously, to develop custom anomaly alerts. …