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iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise

Enlarge / Private Wi-Fi address setting on an iPhone. (credit: Apple) Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads when they joined a network.…

“Do not open robots,” warns Oregon State amid college food delivery bomb prank

Enlarge / A 2020 file photo of a Starship Technologies food delivery robot. Food is stored inside the robot's housing during transportation and opened upon delivery. (credit: Leon Neal/Getty Images) On Tuesday, officials…

Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more

Enlarge (credit: Kim et al.) Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets by exploiting a side channel vulnerability in the A-…

Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools

Enlarge / A section of Apple's repair manual for the M2 MacBook Air from 2022. Apple already offers customers some repair manuals and parts through its Self-Service Repair program. (credit: Apple) Right-to-repair advocates…

Pro-Russia hackers target inboxes with 0-day in webmail app used by millions

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A relentless team of pro-Russia hackers has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in widely used webmail software in attacks targeting governmental entities and a think tank, all in Europe,…

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Friday, a team of researchers at the University of Chicago released a research paper outlining "Nightshade," a data poisoning technique aimed at disrupting the training process for AI…

US surprises Nvidia by speeding up new AI chip export ban

Enlarge / A press photo of the Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU. (credit: Nvidia) On Tuesday, chip designer Nvidia announced in an SEC filing that new US export restrictions on its high-end AI…

Stanford researchers challenge OpenAI, others on AI transparency in new report

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Wednesday, Stanford University researchers issued a report on major AI models and found them greatly lacking in transparency, reports Reuters. The report, called "The Foundation…

Eureka: With GPT-4 overseeing training, robots can learn much faster

Enlarge / In this still captured from a video provided by Nvidia, a simulated robot hand learns pen tricks, trained by Eureka, using simultaneous trials. (credit: Nvidia) On Friday, researchers from Nvidia, UPenn,…

1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account

Enlarge (credit: 1Password) 1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected suspicious activity on a company account provided by Okta, the identity and authentication…