Decentralized Communities Can Fix AI Bias

Opinion by: Jarrad Hope, co-founder of Logos As AI rapidly scales, humans are left at an ideological impasse on managing this new technology. Either choose to allow governments and companies to dominate how AI is trained and used to create policies that control our lives, or call for new governance models built with a foundation … Read more

Apple, Google to Reportedly Fix a Major Security Flaw in Safari and Chrome Browsers

Apple, Google, and Mozilla’s browsers reportedly have a major security vulnerability which has existed for years. The zero-day vulnerability is related to the IP address 0.0.0.0 that is private to the user’s device. The exploit can allow bad actors to send queries through it to breach the system and steal data. As per the report, … Read more

Microsoft Issues Fix for aCropalypse Bug That Could Leak Bank Data, Medical Records from Cropped Screenshots

Microsoft has released an emergency update to Windows that fixes a privacy-threatening bug dubbed ‘aCropalypse’. This bug could potentially allow details that were cropped out of images by the Windows screenshot tool to be recovered by any user. The issue prevented information cropped out from screenshots from being removed from the source image, allowing it … Read more

US Government Launches Cyber Contest on AI to Find and Fix Security Flaws

The White House on Wednesday said it had launched a multimillion-dollar cyber contest to spur use of artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix security flaws in US government infrastructure, in the face of growing use of the technology by hackers for malicious purposes.  “Cybersecurity is a race between offense and defense,” said Anne Neuberger, … Read more

Crowdstrike CEO Apologises for Global Tech Outage After Firm Deploys Fix for Issue

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has deployed a fix for an issue that triggered a major tech outage that affected industries ranging from airlines to banking to healthcare worldwide, the company’s CEO said on Friday. Microsoft said separately it had fixed the underlying cause for the outage of its 365 apps and services including Teams and OneDrive, … Read more

Microsoft Rolls Out Recovery Tool to Help Fix Windows PCs Affected by CrowdStrike Update

Microsoft has released a USB recovery tool to repair PCs and other machines impacted by the infamous CrowdStrike update, the company announced in a blog post. A bootable USB drive can be created using which IT admins can expedite the repair process and get disrupted devices back on track. Notably, CrowdStrike previously revealed that its … Read more

Apple Enlists Veteran Software Executive Kim Vorrath to Help Fix AI and Siri

Apple executive Kim Vorrath, a company veteran known for fixing troubled products and bringing major projects to market, has a new job: whipping artificial intelligence and Siri into shape. Vorrath, a vice president in charge of program management, was moved to Apple’s artificial intelligence and machine learning division this week, according to people with knowledge … Read more

iOS 18.3.1 Update Released With Fix for Critical, Actively Exploited USB Security Flaw

iOS 18.3.1 began rolling out to users on Monday, and the latest update for supported iPhone models arrives with an important patch for a critical security flaw. The vulnerability allowed some attackers to gain access to a user’s iPhone, even while it was locked. Apple has also confirmed that the security flaw may have been … Read more