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No matter how you feel about the iPhone Duo and its exorbitant $1,999 price, its existence proves that Apple has finally figured out how to make a foldable. And on a broader level, it also shows that Apple isn’t too proud to follow in the footsteps of Samsung and other Android phone makers. If that’s the case, I’m hoping Apple also isn’t afraid to copy Samsung’s smaller Z Flip phones, which flip down horizontally, and larger devices like Lenovo’s X1 Fold and ASUS’s ZenBook Fold 17. An “iPhone Flip” could potentially satisfy people demanding a new iPhone Mini, and a future…
Ravie LakshmananSep 11, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Cyber Operations Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financially motivated criminals, commercial spyware vendors, state propaganda institutions, and politically motivated individuals. “The cybersecurity skills of AI models means that AI has collapsed the labor and tooling gap that used to separate well-resourced, state-sponsored operations from individual operators,” Anthropic said. “The use of AI…
How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand, you seem to agree that the companies are being reckless; on the other hand, you’ve made clear that you think the “AI will cause the end of civilization” debate is senseless.My whole career, I’ve been trying to say the same thing from different angles. We wrote our stochastic parrot paper in 2021 for this reason. OpenAI had claimed GPT-2 was too powerful to release. It was so hyped up. And we were saying, you’re asking…
Google’s September 2026 Android security update addresses 180 vulnerabilities across the operating system, including critical flaws that could allow attackers to execute code remotely without user interaction. The update is divided between two security patch levels. The Sept. 1 release fixes 95 vulnerabilities across Android Runtime, Framework, System, Setup Wizard and several Project Mainline components. The Sept. 5 level adds another 85 fixes covering the Linux kernel, Android TV and components from chip and hardware vendors. Google said the most serious issue is a critical flaw in the System component that could enable remote code execution without requiring additional privileges…
At its Surprise & Shine event on Sept. 9, Apple revealed its newest devices, including its latest smartwatches. Here’s how the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 compare. The new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 are premium wearables running the company’s WatchOS 27 software, which have plenty of features that interact with paired iPhones and a growing number that work even when apart (handy when out on a run). The Series 12 is the standard model, while the Ultra 4 is the higher-end version with more durability and features. This year, the Apple…
Networking technology startup Ayar Labs Inc. said today it has extended its recent late-stage funding round to $650 million after raising an additional $150 million from an unnamed investor. The company originally disclosed it had raised $500 million in its Series E round back in March, which was led by Neuberger Berman. Nvidia Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and MediaTek Inc. also participated in that round, which brought its total amount raised to $870 million. With today’s Series E extension, Ayar Labs has now raised just over a billion dollars in outside funding. The enormous amount of money being funneled its…
Data orchestration keeps complex pipelines from turning into chaos. But what does it take to keep trusted data moving across every tool and team? Data rarely moves through a business in one clean line. Customer records begin in the CRM. Product events arrive through streaming platforms. Finance data sits in billing tools. Support activity lives in another system. Each source has its own structure, schedule, and owner. Information must then undergo the right processes- cleaning and structuring. Dashboards consume it. Operational tools and AI systems may need the same data in different forms. Each component can work correctly while the…
More than 40 cars are listed on the platform currently Car shoppers in Singapore now have a fresh option to browse new and used vehicles, following the launch of Grab’s online car marketplace on Sep 9. At the time of writing, there were more than 40 cars listed on the website, including used ones belonging to dealerships such as SG Car Choice and CarTimes Automobile. Some also belong to Grab’s rental arm, GrabRentals. Used cars are priced between S$11,800 for a Mazda 3 Sedan with eight months left on its certificate of entitlement and S$204,997 for a Toyota Alphard Hybrid…
Name an AI use case, and there’s probably a tool for it.
Sysdig disclosed ENCFORGE later in July: the same operator, identified through a matching extortion contact address, returned to the previously compromised Langflow instance and staged a compiled Go ransomware binary purpose-built for AI infrastructure.Where the original campaign relied on improvised Python scripts and a database’s own encryption function, ENCFORGE targets roughly 180 file extensions across the AI/ML stack, including model checkpoints, vector databases, training data, and embedding indices.The operator escalated through an exposed Docker socket to reach root-level host access, then iterated through successive delivery scripts over roughly five minutes to work around failures before the payload landed.The recovery problem…