Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens once an AI is caught trying to subvert human control…
Ravie LakshmananAug 22, 2026Privacy / Regulation The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Friday that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit accusing the company of violating child privacy laws…
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First, it appears that the AirPods do not take images for you to save. Instead, they send still images in the background for Visual Intelligence to process, but nothing gets saved to your Photos app…
The other 100 eliminated jobs were from the Siri and software teams. With the shift from Siri as a voice-activated interface to the new Siri AI, Apple needs to redefine the Siri team with “a…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. “When the…
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One of the ways for ChatGPT to escape the chatbox is with plugins, and a just-released plugin that lets ChatGPT tap into Apple’s Messages app is — unsurprisingly — getting a lot of attention. Available…
Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender’s own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11…