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Neon, a service that pays you for recordings of your phone calls and then sells those to AI companies for training data, seems set to return in the wake of a privacy breach. The app swiftly went viral after its debut, but it has been on ice since last week after a security flaw emerged. […]
“There’s still a lot of uncertainty in the marketplace around VMware,” explains Matt Crognale, senior director, migrations and modernization at cloud modernization firm Effectual, adding that the VMware portfolio has been streamlined and refocused over the past couple of years. “The portfolio has been trimmed down to a core offering focused on the technology versus […]
Oct 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Hardware Security In yet another piece of research, academics from Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University have demonstrated that the security guarantees offered by Intel’s Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) can be bypassed on DDR4 systems to passively decrypt sensitive data. SGX is designed as a hardware feature in Intel […]
Philip Dey Eastman Philippe’s grandson, Philip, inherited a locked box of his grandfather’s artwork, with instructions that it not be opened for 30 years. In 1951 Philip opened the box, and set about to realize his grandfather’s dream of publishing, using the assumed name “P. D. Eastman.” Philip fils was a better story-teller than Philippe […]
Megan Ellis / Android Authority It’s no secret that I have been frustrated with the experience Duolingo offers. A few months back, I considered why it might be time to ditch my Duolingo streak. However, I clung onto my streak as the app’s mascot pestered me and I grappled with letting go of what felt […]
Disney has demanded that Character.AI stop using its copyrighted characters. reports that the entertainment juggernaut sent a cease and desist letter to Character.AI, claiming that it has chatbots based on its franchises, including Pixar films, Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition to claiming copyright infringement, the letter questioned whether these protected characters […]
With GPU-powered AI breakthroughs getting the lion’s share of press (and investment) in 2025, it is tempting to assume that CPUs are yesterday’s news. Recent predictions anticipate that GPU and accelerator installations will increase by 17% year over year through 2030. But, in reality, CPUs are still responsible for the vast majority of today’s most […]
Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three now-patched security vulnerabilities impacting Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could have exposed users to major privacy risks and data theft. “They made Gemini vulnerable to search-injection attacks on its Search Personalization Model; log-to-prompt injection attacks against Gemini Cloud […]
