These spyware apps record your conversations, location and everything you type, all while camouflaged as a calculator or calendar.
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Rivian, an Electric Vehicle Start-Up, Reveals Large Losses in its I.P.O. Filing
The company, which is backed by Amazon and Ford, is seeking to sell shares in one of the biggest initial public offerings of the year.
California DMV gives Cruise and Waymo OK to charge for rides
Enlarge / A Cruise robotaxi test vehicle in San Francisco. (credit: Cruise) The autonomous vehicle developers Cruise and Waymo both got a little closer to running true driverless robotaxi services in and around San Francisco. In May, both Waymo and Cruise applied to the California Department of Motor Vehicles for deployment permits (as opposed to...
“Wayforward Machine” provides a glimpse into the future of the web
Enlarge (credit: Sandro Katalina) What could the future of the Internet look like? With the digital world of the 21st century becoming a pit of unwanted ads, tracking, paywalls, unsafe content, and legal threats, “Wayforward Machine” has a dystopian picture in mind. Behind the clickbaity name, Wayforward Machine is an attempt by the Internet Archive...
Neiman Marcus data breach impacts 4.6 million customers
Enlarge (credit: Jordan Nix) American luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) has just disclosed a major data breach impacting approximately 4.6 million customers. The breach occurred sometime in May 2020 after “an unauthorized party” obtained the personal information of some Neiman Marcus customers from their online accounts. Neiman Marcus is working with law enforcement agencies...
Facebook to Face Senate Grilling Over Instagram’s Effects on Teens
The company faces accusations that it hid research showing the mental and emotional harm that Instagram, its photo-sharing app, has on teenagers.
Apple forgot to sanitize the Phone Number field for lost AirTags
Enlarge / Apple’s AirTags—as seen clipped to a backpack, above—allow users to attempt to find their own device via location rebroadcast from other Apple users. If all else fails, the user can enable a “Lost mode” intended to display their phone number when a finder scans the missing AirTag. (credit: James D. Morgan / Getty...
Intel launches its next-generation neuromorphic processor—so, what’s that again?
Mike Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab, explains the company’s efforts in this area. And with the launch of a new neuromorphic chip this week, he talked Ars through the updates. Despite their name, neural networks are only distantly related to the sorts of things you’d find in a brain. While their organization and...
PoC exploit released for Azure AD brute-force bug—here’s what to do
Enlarge (credit: Michael Dziedzic) A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials brute-forcing flaw discovered by Secureworks and first reported by Ars. The exploit enables anyone to perform both username enumeration and password brute-forcing on vulnerable Azure servers. Although Microsoft had initially called the Autologon mechanism a “design”...
Facebook Downplays Internal Research Released on Eve of Hearing
The social network published its findings about Instagram’s effect on young users, as senators prepared to question an executive on Thursday.






