Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi routers with 99.5% accuracy — technique works with standard Wi-Fi routers
… Introduced in Wi-Fi 5 802.11ac , beamforming allows access points to steer transmissions toward specific clients. …
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Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API — claim FROST attack requires no permissions or user interaction to identify which apps and websites you're using
Security researchers at Graz University of Technology in Austria have published a paper describing a side-channel attack that lets a malicious website identify what other sites and apps a visitor has open by measuring SSD access latency through JavaScript inside a standard browser sandbox. …
Counterfeit G.Skill and V-Color DDR5 modules hit Chinese marketplaces, impacting company sales — cheap contraband memory using identical PCBs and heat spreaders almost impossible to spot
… That said, forging high-end memory modules is easy and might be a profitable business, especially if perpetrators have access to second-hand memory chips. …
Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data
A grey-market economy of API proxy services in China is reselling access to Anthropic's Claude models at as little as 10% of the official price, according to an investigation published Monday by Oxford China Policy Lab researcher Zilan Qian. …
Trump signs AI executive order seeking 30-day government access to frontier models before release — voluntary framework will include classified benchmark to determine which models qualify
… The trusted-partner provision of the order is likely to draw extensive criticism because ot places the government in the room when labs decide who gets first access to their strongest models. …
US government warned Anthropic that Fable 5 had been jailbroken, but firm 'refused' to fix before US implemented export controls — Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak 'isn’t serious,' Chinese group had reportedly accessed model
… An Anthropic spokesperson told the outlet that the White House "didn’t raise Chinese access to Mythos in its conversations around the Fable jailbreak," and that Anthropic blocks access to its products from inside China. …
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… Deals MacRumors forum posters seem to have identified Apple's M4 iPad Pro RAM modules on 8GB RAM models as a pair of 6GB modules, creating a total of 12GB RAM onboard. iPads Phone Repair Guru opens and disassembles a 13-inch iPad Pro M4, and we are impressed. iPads If you own a Mac and an iPad, you…
U.S. gov't orders Anthropic to disable its newest AI models worldwide due to security threats — ban on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 bars access by any foreign national, even its own employees
… "We believe this is a misunderstanding," the company wrote, adding that it’s complying with the order while working to restore access. …
Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole' — one app developer saw downloads surge by 1,800% in just the first month after the UK's Online Safety Act took effect
The European Parliamentary Research Service EPRS published a briefing paper this week describing VPN use as "a loophole in the legislation that needs closing," as governments across Europe and the U.S. expand laws requiring platforms to verify users' ages before granting access to adult content. …
Intel's upcoming 'Raptor Lake Next' will reportedly top out at 20 cores and retain Core 200 branding — Lineup may include a special 10-core SKU with 24MB of L3 cache
… It looks like the cache from disabled core clusters will still be accessible in certain Raptor Lake Next SKUs, and this might become a trend going forward . …