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A hard drive reliability check on 341,263 drives, from 4TB to past 20TB
Large cloud storage operators track their hard drives every day, recording which units keep running and which ones drop off the racks. Backblaze does this at scale, and its Q1 …
An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute
Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text …
Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW
Google has started rolling out FIDO2-compliant physical security key support as a second factor for authentication in Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) to all …
A hardware security AI assistant that checks chips for hidden backdoors
Chip designers license blocks of circuitry from outside vendors and drop them into larger products. A single processor can carry components from a range of suppliers, each …
Flipper Zero firmware development gets a fresh set of community rules
Owners of the Flipper Zero, the pocket-sized wireless testing tool, spent recent weeks worried that its official firmware had gone quiet. Pavel Zhovner, CEO of Flipper …
Residential proxy SDKs are hiding in LG and Samsung smart TV apps
Smart TVs in living rooms run small apps that show fish tanks, clocks, solitaire games, and slideshows of puppies. A share of those apps can also send other people’s …
Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car
In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand …
A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight
Deep learning systems on phones, cars, and other edge devices increasingly run on custom silicon. Specialized chips such as FPGAs and ASICs give these systems the speed and …
Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem
Defense contractors build AI systems that task drones automatically and propose kill-chains to support soldiers. Several of these contractors have partnered with frontier AI …
AI sovereignty makes data centers strategic targets for cyber operations
Data centers built for frontier AI draw hundreds of megawatts of electricity and large volumes of cooling water from fixed locations with known addresses. Each one …
X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework
Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot …
The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills
Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 …
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