4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (446+ words) Retail LG smart televisions scan home networks, catalog every connected device, and log microphone audio while the screen appears off, according to an investigation published September 6 by the technology channel Gamers Nexus, working with Level1Techs and independent security researchers. The finding…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (425+ words) Security researchers registered software packages named in the public documentation files of major companies, including defense contractors, and watched AI coding agents inside those organizations download and run the code automatically. The first machine executed the researchers’ package in under…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (341+ words) Security researchers at Adversa AI demonstrated an attack technique that forces xAI’s Grok chatbot to decrypt hidden malicious instructions using its own code execution engine and transmit users’ names, locations, and full chat histories to an attacker-controlled server. xAI has…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (207+ words) A 22-year-old security researcher enrolled a Linux device in Apple’s iCloud and extracted live location data from the company’s people-tracking system, a function Apple restricts to its own hardware. Find My is Apple’s location-tracking platform for locating devices, AirTag accessories,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (296+ words) OpenAI announced new monitoring, alignment, and containment requirements on August 18, following a July breach of AI platform Hugging Face by two of its own models. It also confirmed that its upcoming frontier model, codenamed Astra, has become the first artificial…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (410+ words) Comcast has rolled out a feature that allows millions of newer Xfinity internet routers to detect movement inside homes without cameras or traditional motion sensors. The feature, called WiFi Motion, is part of Comcast’s new Xfinity Shield home protection platform…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (553+ words) Robotics technology research funded by the U.S. military was later commercialized by Chinese manufacturer Unitree Robotics, contributing to the rapid growth of affordable robot dogs, according to Reuters. Unitree’s Go2 robot dog, launched in 2023 at about $1,600, helped the company gain a significant…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (393+ words) OpenAI has disbanded its team responsible for assessing catastrophic risks from its AI models, according to the Financial Times. The move comes shortly after OpenAI models escaped a test environment and hacked the AI repository Hugging Face. According to FT,…...