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A new iPhone-hacking exploit has exposed the uncomfortable truth that when governments build offensive attacks, they eventually come for all of us. Revealed by Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and iVerify, the Coruna exploit can compromise iPhones running iOS 13 through to iOS 17.2.1, though Apple has secured its systems against this threat in iOS 26. What Coruna does Coruna is dangerous and can hijack any iOS device just when a user visits a website. Its existence is a perfect illustration of how weaponized hacking tools do nothing to make us safer, and everything to make people more insecure. Coruna can steal data and cryptocurrency information, [...]
Anthropic is attempting to renegotiate the terms of its AI contract with the US Department of Defense (DoD). CEO Dario Amodei has been in meetings with Emil Michael, the US under-secretary of defense for research and engineering, to iron out contractual disagreements that led the DoD to mark Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, the Financial Times cited sources as saying. The disagreements were specifically about clauses the DoD wanted in the contract that would allow it to use Anthropic’s systems to carry out mass domestic surveillance and build autonomous weapons systems, both of which are ethical red lines that Anthropic [...]
Delays in regulatory action to deal with imbalances in the market for cloud services has prompted the resignation of the chair of an inquiry into the market. Companies deploying cloud services are being hampered by the dominance of Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, a situation exacerbated by the glacial pace in which the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reacting to the recommendations of its own inquiry into the cloud industry. Now the chair of that inquiry, Kip Meek, has quit the role in protest at the lack of action. Earlier this week Meek told AI publication The [...]
Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) subscribers get more frequent software updates than those who have purchased Office without a subscription, which means subscribers have access to the latest features, security patches, and bug fixes. But it can be hard to keep track of the changes in each update and know when they’re available. We’re doing this for you, so you don’t have to. Following are summaries of the updates to Microsoft 365/Office 365 for Windows over the past year, with the latest releases shown first. We’ll add info about new updates as they’re rolled out. Note: This story covers updates [...]
Starting in September, Google’s Chrome browser will receive a new release every two weeks, the company has announced. Since 2021, Chrome has been on a four-week release schedule for new major versions. The rationale for the faster two-week cycle is to enable faster delivery of performance improvements, bug fixes, security updates, and new features to both users and developers, the company said. Although updates will be more frequent, each individual update will contain fewer changes; that, according to Google, should reduce the risk of problems and make it easier to troubleshoot any issues after launch. The new cadence model will [...]
Apple’s big week of Mac, iPhone, and iPad introductions continued Wednesday with the launch of a brand-new $599 Apple laptop. The speculation that I think began with Ming-Chi Kuo last year was correct: the MacBook Neo is a 13-in. Mac laptop powered by an A18 Pro chip. It’s the very first Mac with a mobile processor, a graphic illustration, if needed, of the technological achievement of Apple Silicon. “We’re incredibly excited to introduce MacBook Neo, which delivers the magic of the Mac at a breakthrough price,” said John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering, in announcing the new hardware. “Built from [...]
Five days into US and Israel’s war with Iran, the worst predictions for cyber-retaliation have yet to materialize. But Iran has built one of the world’s most active cyber operations, which means this is likely a temporary reprieve, experts warn. At the weekend, both the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) issued general warnings of the threat posed by Iranian cyber campaigns. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), meanwhile, has yet to update its last warning, from October. “There is almost certainly a heightened risk of indirect cyber threat for [...]
Once upon a time, Microsoft Office ruled the business world. By the late ’90s and early 2000s, Microsoft’s office suite had brushed aside rivals such as WordPerfect Office and Lotus SmartSuite, and there was no competition on the horizon. Then in 2006 Google came along with Google Docs & Spreadsheets, a collaborative online word processing and spreadsheet duo that was combined with other business services to form the Google Apps suite, later rebranded as G Suite and now as Google Workspace. Although Google’s productivity suite didn’t immediately take the business world by storm, over time it has gained both in features and [...]
BRRRRRRRRRREAKING NEWS, y’all: Despite what the internet’s many misleading headlines may lead you to believe, Android security (gasp!) isn’t actually all that scary. You know that by now, right? Any reasonably recent Android device has layers upon layers of built-in protection. You’ve got mountains of Android security settings standing by and waiting to protect you — along with some optional extreme protection power-ups, if you really want to keep your gates guarded. More than anything, though, no naughty Android app can just magically plop itself onto your phone and then access private info. Apps only appear if you explicitly install [...]
Turning to the Mac, Apple on Tuesday updated the world’s most popular laptop, introducing the MacBook Air with an M5 chip. It also unveiled super-powered M5 Pro and M5 Max chips inside the MacBook Pro, a new Studio Display and all-new Studio Display XDR. The latest product introductions follow Monday’s announcement of a new M4-powered iPad Air and the all-new iPhone 17e, and we expect even more news during the rest of the week. The biggest highlight concerns the M5 chip used in these Macs. It promises superb performance and will only make Apple even more ascendant in terms of power and efficiency [...]