4 Strategies to Battle ‘Techflation’
With phone and computer prices soaring, it helps to know the true cost of owning electronics so you can bring those numbers down. Last week, when Apple announced its biggest change to the iPhone —…
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Apple’s Q4 results show the enterprise tide turning to local AI
“From Mac to iPhone to iPad, we are proud that our products are the best platforms in the industry for AI for both first-party and third-party applications, and we’re excited about the opportunities that creates,”…
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features
At first glance, the self-proclaimed “pet portrait” app Viefur appears to be just another AI slop generator. Using digital coins sold in the app—around $4 will buy 130 coins—pet photos can be turned into an…
My Journey to the Center of America’s Political Spam Text Hell
They’re meant for a family member who I’ll call John, for privacy reasons. John lives in California and has made small donations to Democrats. I live in New York and have made no political donations…
Anti-Oligarchy Activists Plan to Dox Elon Musk and Hundreds of Billionaire-Linked Homes
An underground activist group says it plans to start openly doxing billionaires as part of a phased campaign against what it calls the American oligarchy—beginning this month with a release that maps the homes of…
Windows 11 upgrades stall amid ‘chipflation’ and ‘RAMageddon’
“We are seeing power user devices for local LLM deployment becoming a material part of the mix and changing the unit price average as a result,” Dickens said. At some point, enterprises will have to…
Apple brings touch to the Mac with $2,899 OLED MacBook Pro
The PROLED XDR display is worth an article in its own right — as is so much about this Mac. As well as built-in support for touch, it also supports Adobe RGB, P3, and DICOM…
Spooky New Infostealer Malware Uses AI to ‘Autodox’ Victims
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…
Don’t trust AI to keep your secrets
We talk to chatbots as if those conversations are private. But are they? Most people are confused. A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo and published in August asked 1,944 American adults about chatbot privacy, and more…
The $6.3 Billion Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes
Within North Korea’s sprawling hacking operations—often designed to earn money for the highly sanctioned and repressive regime—TraderTraitor has stood out in recent years for its sophistication and targeting of crypto and decentralized finance companies. Last…