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Apple has announced the Lockdown mode to defend against such attacks on iPhones, which were secretly hacked by Israeli company NSO Group’s spyware Pegasus. Lockdown mode will be released with iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura this fall, and is designed to provide optional extreme protection for a very small number of users. Enabling […]

While Microsoft/GitHub commercialized its AI programming assistant Copilot, Amazon started previewing its AI programming assistant CodeWhisperer . Similar to Copilot, CodeWhisperer is trained using open source codebases to provide developers with code completion suggestions based on context. Copilot has caused controversy due to code licensing issues, CodeWhisperer has similar issues, but it does it better

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have created a shape-shifting microrobot that can help people automate the daily tasks of brushing, rinsing and flossing. The research report was published in the journal ACS Nano. The microrobots are constructed of catalytically and magnetically active iron oxide nanoparticles, and the researchers use magnetic fields to control their

The popular Korean drama “Squid Game” has been criticized for its English subtitles. Captioners need to contend with unrealistic expectations, tight deadlines, and competition from machine translation. Often their work is underrated. Doga Uludag, who works for a subtitle translation company, sometimes sends documents at 11 p.m. asking for a translation—“they’ll say they need it

In a study in Columbus, Ohio, researchers found that neighborhoods with more dogs had lower rates of homicide, robberies, and aggravated assaults than neighborhoods with fewer dogs, at least when residents had a high level of trust in each other is the case. Study lead author Nicolo Pinchak, a Ph.D. student in sociology at Ohio

Data centers are the tech industry’s secret water hogs — and they’ll soon face greater scrutiny . The western United States is dry, and it’s getting worse by the day. Lake Mead — the largest reservoir in the U.S. — is on the verge of becoming a stagnant pool, meaning it may no longer flow

The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new type of ‘pentaquark state’ and the first pair of ‘tetraquark states’ including a new type of tetraquark state . The findings, presented at a workshop at CERN, add three new members to the LHC’s growing list of new

BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s largest electric car maker by sales , a sign of China’s growing dominance of the industry. Shenzhen-based BYD sold 641,000 units in the first half of this year, up more than 300 percent year-on-year. Tesla, which sold 564,000 vehicles, attributed the difficulties in the second quarter to China’s coronavirus

Twitter has filed a legal challenge to the Indian government’s order requiring the social media company to block the accounts and personal tweets of some users in the country. In recent weeks, Twitter has blocked tweets from a prominent Indian journalist and founder of a popular fact-checking website in India. Together, the two have more

Maryna Viazovska became the second female mathematician to win a Fields Medal for her work in proving that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing method of the same sphere in 8 dimensions, among others. The first was the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who won the Fields Medal in 2014 but died prematurely of breast

On Sunday’s F1 British Grand Prix at Silverstone, in the first corner of the race, George Russell of Mercedes-Benz and Pierre Gasly of Effatori collided, Russell’s car spun and 200 The mph hit the edge of Zhou Guanyu’s racing car. The car driven by the first F1 racing driver in Chinese history was overturned, the

The impact of the earth’s geological conditions on life is obvious, and organisms adapt to different environments such as deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. However, the full impact of life on geological conditions is easily overlooked. Now a new, comprehensive study of our planet’s minerals bridges that omission. Some findings of the study can prove

If you’re ready to connect on the move, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite broadband might be the answer . The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the internet provider to serve mobile vehicles, boats and aircraft. Tom Sullivan, director of the FCC International Bureau, wrote in the approval document that the new authorization should help SpaceX meet