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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit card information, locations, and other sensitive data from the Chrome and Safari browsers as they visit sites such as iCloud Calendar, Google Maps, and Proton Mail. The vulnerabilities, affecting the CPUs … Read more
January has been notable for the number of important announcements in AI. For me, two stand out: the US government’s support for the Stargate Project, a giant data center costing $500 billion, with investments coming from Oracle, Softbank, and OpenAI; and DeepSeek’s release of its R1 reasoning model, trained at an estimated cost of roughly … Read more
On Monday, the US government announced a new round of regulations on global AI chip exports, dividing the world into roughly three tiers of access. The rules create quotas for about 120 countries and allow unrestricted access for 18 close US allies while maintaining existing bans on China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. AI-accelerating GPU … Read more
Apple is continuing to promote the Beats Pill speaker, today sharing a new Valentine’s Day-themed short ad that uses the cute anthropomorphized “Pill People” characters to highlight battery life. The spot features the red Beats Pill holding up a be mine sign and playing music in a Say Anything-esque scene. The white Beats Pill walks … Read more
The nominees for the 2025 Game Developers Choice Awards are here. This year, Astro Bot and Black Myth: Wukong lead the field, while indies like Animal Well made a big splash. The Game Developers Choice Awards take place every year at GDC, directly following the Independent Games Festival awards show. While the latter is focused on … Read more
Summary Clean Up in Photos on Mac uses Apple Intelligence to easily remove unwanted distractions and or people from your images. The feature is available on M1 Macs with macOS Sequoia 15.1+, and compatible iPhone and iPad models. To get started, open Photos and find an image then use Edit > Clean Up and click … Read more
Engineers are great at solving problems that arise when creating new products. But deciding what new products to build is often just as big a challenge. That decision-making process is a task software engineer Johnny Ray Austin has found himself increasingly drawn to as his career has progressed. Austin is the senior director of product … Read more
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Getty Images Australia’s science minister, Ed Husic, has become the first member of a Western government to raise privacy concerns about DeepSeek, the Chinese chatbot causing turmoil on the markets and in the tech industry. Chinese tech, from Huawei to TikTok, has repeatedly been the subject of allegations the firms are … Read more
Donald Trump called for tariffs on foreign computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals from places like Taiwan in the near future. In the speech at the House GOP Issues Conference in Miami, Trump said that manufacturers also don’t need an incentive to build their chip factories in the U.S. He suggested he would remove Joe Biden’s … Read more
Jason Hiner/ZDNET Apple is officially rolling out iOS 18.3 to eligible iPhone models after a briefing testing period. The patch is a modest one. It doesn’t introduce new features or make sweeping changes, but it does make adjustments that will impact how users interact with the system. Apple Intelligence is now enabled by default, the … Read more