The only downside is that it doesn’t fit well into a lot of chunkier phone cases, including my iPhone 15’s Casetify case. The Phone Fan comes with a little USB-C extender, which allows it to work with my case, but it’s a loose fit and constantly falls out if... Read more

Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature is designed to obscure your web traffic so sites like advertisers, unscrupulous governments or malicious attackers can’t trace that traffic back to you. But it turns out the mechanism isn’t actually as private as Apple says. As reported by 404 Media, security researchers at software... Read more

In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries. About two weeks ago,... Read more

Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-two punch that puts the company in direct competition with Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, and the growing field... Read more

Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are miniature computers that are embedded into the motherboards of virtually every enterprise... Read more

The U.S. Department of the Interior has reversed its approval of a proposed Scotts Valley casino in Vallejo, concluding after a 16-month review that the site does not qualify for gaming. The department announced Friday that the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians had not shown the historical connection... Read more

If you’re an Android user itching for that iMessage experience, Sunbird Messaging is back and available right now. The company announced its return on Wednesday, three years after it was shut down in 2023 due to privacy concerns. Sunbird’s big selling point is that its messaging app lets you... Read more

“I have no idea how they got my contact information,” says the engineer. Unlike other interviews for government jobs, the engineer says, there was no recruiter present—only Coristine was on the interview call. “Normally initial screenings are done over the phone, rather than video, to reduce bias in the... Read more

The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 against two working open-source software... Read more

Novig is taking its sports prediction market across the United States after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the New York company as a Designated Contract Market. The designation puts Novig under a federal regulatory structure rather than the state-by-state licensing system used by traditional sportsbooks. It also gives... Read more