WWDC 2024: Yes, we live in interesting times
Apple has a lot to prove at WWDC 2024. Not only must it fend off the negative attention it has been picking up from regulators, but it must also galvanize loyal developers and disabuse the industry…
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‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
The Citizen Lab researchers say that Discover-Tech operates an advertising platform, Controlium, that can allow its users to “de-anonymize, fingerprint, and automatically infect devices” once an ad appears. Overall, the researchers estimate that millions of…
Apple Vision Pro Review: First Headset Lacks Polish and Purpose
About 17 years ago, Steve Jobs took the stage at a San Francisco convention center and said he was introducing three products: an iPod, a phone and an internet browser. “These are not three separate…
Google positions Gemini 4 Argon for long-horizon agentic work
Argon is available through the Gemini API in AI Studio and on Google’s Gemini platform, and to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Antigravity agentic development environment, the post added. In a separate developer blog…
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices,…
Workday launches Sana-based UI, autopilot agents, as it deepens its focus on AI
When Workday acquired Sana just about a year ago, it said that the combination of Sana’s AI with Workday’s platform would create a new “front door” to work. Today at its Workday Rising conference, it…
Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer
US law enforcement agents obtained authorization to use a controversial surveillance device capable of intercepting cell phone signals to find and arrest a 21-year-old college student who helped produce journalist Don Lemon’s coverage of an…
New Electric Bandages Speed Wound Healing by 30%
Photo of a water-powered, electronics-free dressing (WPED) for electrical stimulation of wounds. Credit: Rajaram Kaveti New water-activated electric bandages offer a fast, affordable solution for improving chronic wound healing at home. Chronic wounds are open…
Crucial Connection Completed: Laying the Foundation for the Quantum Internet
Dr. Sarah Thomas working in the quantum optics lab. Credit: Thomas Angus / Imperial College London Researchers have produced, stored, and retrieved quantum information for the first time, a critical step in quantum networking. The…
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Welcome to Kernel Panic!, a weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up…