Getty Images reader comments 23 with Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as little as 45 minutes. Dubbed BrutePrint by its creators, the attack requires an adversary to have physical control of […]

Enlarge / Detail of the ethernet ports on an Asus DSL-AC88U router, taken on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Olly Curtis/MacFormat Magazine/Future via Getty Images) reader comments 47 with On Wednesday, Asus router users around the world took to the Internet to report that their devices suddenly froze up for no apparent reason and then, […]

Enlarge / An AI-generated cartoon depiction of a chatbot being crossed out. Benj Edwards / Stable Diffusion reader comments 21 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 […]

Enlarge / Cybercriminals or anonymous hackers use malware on mobile phones to hack personal and business passwords online. Getty Images reader comments 33 with Overall, Android devices have earned a decidedly mixed reputation for security. While the OS itself and Google’s Pixels have stood up over the years against software exploits, the never-ending flow of […]

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 55 with A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on malicious links. Frequently abbreviated as TLD, a top-level domain is the […]

Enlarge / It’s hard to recover from a shortage, especially when buyers take on stockpiling habits, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton said in a recent interview. But the British company is on track to return some stock to individual buyers. Raspberry Pi reader comments 22 with Having to make the pandemic-pressure choice to either disappoint […]

Enlarge / Screenshots of the ChatGPT iPhone app provided by OpenAI. reader comments 32 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 […]

Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 34 with Verizon is replacing its confusing mess of six “unlimited” wireless plans with a slightly less confusing menu of options. Starting tomorrow when the new plans roll out, customers selecting a new plan will have two primary choices. Only the more expensive option will include access to the […]

Enlarge / An AI-generated image of “real space invaders” threatening the earth. Midjourney reader comments 113 with A majority of Americans believe that the rise of artificial intelligence technology could put humanity’s future in jeopardy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published on Wednesday. The poll found that over two-thirds of respondents are anxious about the […]

reader comments 16 with Researchers on Tuesday unveiled a major discovery—malicious firmware that can wrangle a wide range of residential and small office routers into a network that stealthily relays traffic to command and control servers maintained by Chinese state-sponsored hackers. A firmware implant, revealed in a write-up from Check Point Research, contains a full-featured […]