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Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other…
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A long, costly road ahead for customers abandoning Broadcom’s VMware
Broadcom’s ownership of VMware has discouraged many of its customers, as companies are displeased with how the trillion-dollar firm has…
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Backdoor infecting VPNs used “magic packets” for stealth and security
When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard…
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Data breach hitting PowerSchool looks very, very bad
Parents, students, teachers, and administrators throughout North America are smarting from what could be the biggest data breach of 2025:…
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Researchers say new attack could take down the European power grid
Late last month, researchers revealed a finding that’s likely to shock some people and confirm the low expectations of others:…
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The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year of Internet of Things-driven DDoSes.…
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Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download
On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released its new R1 model family under an open MIT license, with its largest…
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Home Microsoft 365 plans use Copilot AI features as pretext for a price hike
Microsoft has two announcements for subscribers to its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family plans today. First, you’re getting the Copilot-powered…
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Microsoft patches Windows to eliminate Secure Boot bypass threat
For the past seven months—and likely longer—an industry-wide standard that protects Windows devices from firmware infections could be bypassed using…
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US splits world into three tiers for AI chip access
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into…
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