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Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters

Getty Images reader comments 51 with Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday. Two weeks ago, Apple reported that threat actors… Read More: Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for… »

Qualcomm strikes new Apple deal on 5G chips

reader comments 53 with Qualcomm has extended a deal to supply 5G modems for Apple’s smartphones, in a sign the iPhone maker is still struggling to perfect the technology in-house. Apple has been trying to make modems—which govern how its devices communicate with cellular mobile networks—for its iPhones since 2018. The plan is an extension… Read More: Qualcomm strikes new Apple deal on 5G chips »

An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass

reader comments 10 with One of your Mac’s built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well as you think. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, longtime Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle presented findings on Saturday about vulnerabilities in Apple’s macOS Background Task Management mechanism, which could be exploited to bypass… Read More: An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass »

Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs

Enlarge / Silicon wafers from a TSMC factory. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. reader comments 41 with It’s been rumored for several months now that Apple will be using a new 3 nm manufacturing process from Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) for its next-generation chips, including M3 series processors for Macs and the A17 Bionic for some… Read More: Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can… »

It’s a hot 0-day summer for Apple, Google, and Microsoft security fixes

reader comments 10 with The summer patch cycle shows no signs of slowing down, with tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft releasing multiple updates to fix flaws being used in real-life attacks. July also saw serious bugs squashed by enterprise software firms SAP, Citrix, and Oracle. Here’s everything you need to know about the major… Read More: It’s a hot 0-day summer for Apple, Google, and Microsoft… »

Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Enlarge / Someone scans their face using Apple’s “most advanced machine learning techniques” with the Apple Vision Pro during a WWDC 2023 keynote demo reel. reader comments 42 with Amid notable new products like the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and the Apple Vision Pro revealed at Monday’s WWDC 2023 keynote event, Apple presenters never once… Read More: Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML… »

First Official Look at Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

During Apple’s 2023 WWDC event, the company gave a very brief tease of Ridley Scott‘s highly anticipated Napoleon. The latest clip came during a highlight reel of Apple’s upcoming slate of content. In the short sequence, we get a brief look of a large ship, before Joaquin Phoenix‘s titular Napoleon appears. Nothing more was shown,… Read More: First Official Look at Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon »

Fearing leaks, Apple restricts its employees from using ChatGPT and AI tools

Enlarge / An AI-generated cartoon depiction of a chatbot being crossed out. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 18 with According to internal sources and company documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, Apple has restricted its employees’ use of ChatGPT and AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot for fear of leaking confidential… Read More: Fearing leaks, Apple restricts its employees from using ChatGPT and… »

AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with new app

Enlarge / Screenshots of the ChatGPT iPhone app provided by OpenAI. reader comments 48 with On Thursday, OpenAI released a free ChatGPT app for iPhone in the US that includes voice input support through its Whisper AI speech recognition model; it can also synchronize chat history with the web version of the AI assistant. The… Read More: AI in your pocket: ChatGPT officially comes to iPhone with… »

Killers of the Flower Moon Runtime Locked for New Scorsese Movie

Following weeks of rumors on how long Martin Scorsese’s new movie would be, the director has finally locked in the Killers of the Flower Moon runtime on the feature. According to a report from Deadline, the final Killers of the Flower Moon runtime of the film will come in at 3 hours and 26 minutes,… Read More: Killers of the Flower Moon Runtime Locked for New Scorsese… »