Apple says the iPhone 17 and iPhone Air have Memory Integrity Enforcement, “industry-first, always-on memory safety protection”, like Microsoft and Google offer
Memory Integrity Enforcement is always-on safety protection designed to make life harder for spyware developers.
A software developer explains how AI agents help automate tedious coding tasks, and addresses concerns like hallucinations, job losses, mediocre code, and more
Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That's bad strategy. But I get where they're coming from.
Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities
Private Cloud Compute is a cloud intelligence system that Apple designed for private artificial intelligence processing …
A Google DeepMind research scientist details some LLM use cases and argues LLMs are not overhyped and should be judged on what they can do, not what they can't
I don't think that “AI” models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. — Yes, it's true that any new technology will attract the grifters. And it is definitely ...
A look at the effects of ChatGPT, which has caused an explosion of interest in OpenAI's capabilities and led to questions about AI's impending impact on society
It happened to be Wednesday night when my daughter, in the midst of preparing for “The Trial of Napoleon” for her European history class …
Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files
Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger … Source: MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry .
Researchers detail fundamental cryptography flaws in MEGA's end-to-end encryption scheme that could let the cloud storage service decipher stored files
Fundamental flaws uncovered in Mega's encryption scheme show service can read your data. — In the decade since larger … Source: MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry .
Oracle patches a critical bug in Java 15 and above, which lets attackers forge TLS certificates and signatures, two-factor authentication messages, and more
A failure to sanity check signatures for division-by-zero flaws makes forgeries easy. — Organizations using newer versions …
Signal's CEO says he analyzed a Cellebrite device, used to extract data from phones, that fell off a truck, and it is full of easily exploitable security flaws
One of the biggest encrypted chat apps in the world just showed how a device used to decrypt messages can be hacked and tampered with. Source: Signal Blog .
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing
Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful. — 11 hr ago
Code deployment toolmaker Chef says it will not renew an ICE contract, after an ex-employee deleted his open-source code in protest leading to customer downtime
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Apple accuses Google's Project Zero of stoking fear by creating a “false impression of mass exploitation”, says the sophisticated attack was narrowly focused
And They're Wrong PYMNTS.com : Apple, Google At Odds On iPhone Security Flaws Tied To Attacks Michael Tsai : Apple Responds to Project Zero Abner Li / 9to5Google : Google stands by...
[Thread] Apple's response to Project Zero downplays exploits against an oppressed minority, discounts the risk of other targets, and ends in unseemly marketese
Apple's response to the worst known iOS attack in history should be graded somewhere between “disappointing” and “disgusting”. First off, disputing Google's correct use of “indiscr...