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The nature of security threats is changing. AI hasn’t just driven up energy prices and consumer electronics costs, it’s also ushering in a new era of AI-augmented cyberattacks, one where the time between a flaw being discovered and being exploited is shrinking fast. Apple is already signaling that it sees this coming. Why Apple moved first The company has begun accelerating the release of security updates specifically to counter AI-assisted hacking. This week’s patch was pushed out ahead of Apple’s usual schedule, and the company told Reuters it’s adapting to a reality in which artificial intelligence can speed up the development of malicious [...]
It was one of the biggest tech headlines in June: Amid the race leading up to the initial public offerings (IPOs) of artificial intelligence (AI) giants, the United States used its “blocking card” to disable Anthropic’s latest models. Citing national security concerns, the Trump Administration forced the company to prevent non-U.S. citizens (even in the US) from using its most advanced models — the very ones it had just unveiled. Speculation suggests the same thing could happen to OpenAI. The ban on Anthropic was not lifted until June 30. The US administration said that, in the intervening weeks, it had [...]
The US government has reversed export restrictions on Anthropic’s frontier AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, allowing the company to resume global access after nearly three weeks of disruption triggered by concerns over the models’ cybersecurity capabilities. “As of today, June 30, the export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted,” Anthropic said in a blog post. The company said Fable 5 will begin rolling out globally on July 1 across Claude Platform, Claude.ai, Claude Code and Claude Cowork, while access on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry will be restored “as quickly as possible.” [...]
Few apps are as essential to mobile productivity as the humble word processor. I think I’ve probably spent a solid seven years of my life staring at Google Docs on one device or another at this point, and those minutes only keep ticking up with practically every passing day. While we can’t do much about the need to gaze at that word-filled white screen, what we can do is learn how to make every moment spent within Docs count — and in the Docs Android app, specifically, there are some pretty spectacular tucked-away time-savers just waiting to be discovered. Make [...]
The recently reported cyberattack against Tata Electronics is shaping up to be one of the most consequential attacks exposing important trade secrets belonging to Apple and, conceivably, other clients, including a slew of details about the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro. The attack follows May’s assault against key Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn. World Leaks iPhone 18 Pro Hackers from the ransomware group World Leaks managed to penetrate systems belonging to Apple’s most important manufacturing partner in India to exfiltrate hundreds of documents, including drop test videos, schematics, design details — even specifics about Apple’s C2 modem design. Reuters confirmed last week’s Apple Insider scoop that the [...]
With AI agents increasingly expected to remember conversations, preferences, and decisions over extended periods, Microsoft Research has developed Memora, a memory system designed to provide more scalable and reliable long-term recall than existing approaches. AI agents are increasingly expected to retain context across weeks or months rather than individual chat sessions. Memory can become fragmented, leading to duplicate information and slower retrieval as knowledge grows. According to Microsoft, Memora can solve this problem by decoupling what the AI remembers from how it looks up that information, ultimately reducing context token usage by up to 98% while matching or exceeding full-context [...]
There are a variety of security concerns about artificial intelligence (AI), especially when it comes to the behavior of agentic AI. But until recently, the concept of locking down the models to prevent tampering hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. Now, a security technology called “confidential computing” has emerged that could help solve that problem: it protects AI models from hackers by restricting models to authorized users. (It also protects data wherever it is — in storage, when moving between systems, and when it is accessed.) With many top cloud and hardware providers championing confidential computing for AI, Computerworld talked [...]
Ford has rehired approximately 350 experienced engineers after the company’s investment in AI and automated quality control systems failed to meet expectations, according to Bloomberg. In short, the technology did not detect enough problems. “We mistakenly believed that we could create a high-quality product simply by introducing artificial intelligence and inputting our design requirements,” Charles Poon, head of Ford’s hardware development, told Bloomberg. The rehired quality inspectors — known internally as “gray beard” engineers for their experience and years with the company — are now working to identify defects before components reach the factories. Still, Ford is not abandoning AI [...]
Apple’s ongoing problems with RAM shortages and higher prices won’t be solved anytime soon, because rapidly accelerating demand for high-end AI memory is devouring the consumer electronics industry. GoPro has already warned it might go out of business — and the scale of the crunch has prompted analysts to call it an “absolute existential crisis” for smaller tech firms. An endless night The whole issue might get worse. Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes the supply/demand crisis will deepen through 2027. He expects up to 20% of the remaining memory manufacturing capacity currently going to consumer electronics could be diverted to feed data centers in [...]
Italy’s competition watchdog has opened an investigation into Microsoft over concerns it may not have clearly informed consumers about the integration of Copilot and Designer into Microsoft 365 subscriptions, associated price increases, and automatic upgrades to higher-cost plans. The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM), in a statement to the press, said it had opened an investigation into Microsoft S.r.l., the vendor’s Italian subsidiary, and Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd. to assess whether the way the changes to M365 pricing were communicated may have unduly restricted consumers’ freedom of choice. Although the AGCM’s announcement does not explicitly identify the pricing event under investigation, [...]