7 hours ago
Anthropic’s Claude Accessed Paywalled Georgia Election Data Without Authorization
Key Takeaways Anthropic says Claude, on an internal statistics project, requested a token unprompted and queried a Georgia dashboard whose data the state normally sells. Anthropic and Georgia both say the voter registration system was not reached and no voting records were changed or pulled. Anthropic told Georgia and the…
12 hours ago
iPhone Duo Screen Cracks Raise Questions Over Carrier Replacements
Key Takeaways 9to5Mac counted about ten unique reports by Sunday of inner screens cracking down the hinge’s center line, leaving a horizontal block of pixels glowing white. iFixit’s teardown found the breaks cluster near where the display’s flex cable crosses the hinge support, with no confirmed cause. iFixit gave the…
2 days ago
The Single Full-time Employee Trying to Shield 70% of the Web From AI-Driven Exploits
Key Takeaways Barron told Reuters the foundation has one full-time staff member, 14 mostly part-time contractors and an unpaid volunteer board. PHP receives nearly twice as many proposed code changes as a year ago, while the number of contributors has not doubled. Wired traces the exposure to a security company’s…
2 days ago
Moonshot Cuts Cyber Training Data Amid Fears of Kimi K3.1 Pro’s Hacking Score
Key Takeaways Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K3.1 Pro on October 24 as a 3-trillion-parameter-class open-weight model, with full weights due by November 4. Removing cyber-related training data lowered its exploit score to 81.0%, yet that is still far above Kimi K3’s 33.3% on the same test. Moonshot’s own chart puts…
3 days ago
iPhone Duo Hits Stores at $1999 While Tight Stock Limits Walk-In Sales
Key Takeaways iPhone Duo reached Apple Stores worldwide on October 23 from $1,999, after pre-order delivery estimates slipped to late January within minutes. Walk-in stock is limited in the US, Canada, Australia, Mexico and much of Europe, while China, France, Hong Kong, India and Japan are online-order only. Samsung UK…
