Hackers use a bug to evade macOS defenses
Lauded for years as the system able to best prevent malware infection, macOS recently fell victim to an operating system vulnerability that hackers used to circumvent all of Apple's system defenses.
Software
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Software
Microsoft boasts 99 percent accuracy in AI bug detection
Software bugs have been a concern for programmers for nearly 75 years since the day programmer Grace Murray Hopper reported the cause of an error in an early Harvard Mark II computer: a moth stuck between relay contacts. ...
Internet
Bug may have exposed photos from 7M Facebook users
Facebook's privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million users who had photos exposed to a much wider audience than intended.
Dec 14, 2018
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Computer Sciences
SapFix cutting cool path toward eliminating debugging-code drudgery
Facebook has come up with something called SapFix and their announcement signifies a welcome measure of support for debugging task drudgery; SapFix can rely on artificial intelligence and come up with some answers that save ...
Security
Microsoft patch awaited for zero-day vulnerability
A Windows zero-day bug has made the news. By zero-day, it means that a vulnerability has been exposed but it is not yet patched.
Security
NTFS bug allows sites to crash Windows 7, 8.1
(Tech Xplore)—By Friday numerous tech sites including Ars Technica, delivered the bug discovery news, this time of strange NTFS bug making web pages crash for those still running Windows 7 or 8.1 on their PCs. NTFS refers ...
Security
Researchers improve the process of finding vulnerabilities by intentionally adding swarms of bugs to source code
Individuals and corporations spend millions of dollars every year on software that sniffs out potentially dangerous bugs in computer programs. And whether the software finds 10 bugs or 100, there is no way determine how many ...
Jul 7, 2016
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple to fix 'bug' behind Palestinian flag emoji suggestions
Apple on Thursday promised it would stop a Palestinian flag emoji from being suggested to some iPhone users when they type "Jerusalem" in messages.
Apr 12, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Students design prototype so that exterminating bed bugs will no longer require a 'human sacrifice'
In the category of household pests, few are as difficult to exterminate as bed bugs. Pesticide treatments depend on someone sleeping in the infested room as living bait to lure the creatures out of their hiding places for ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apple releases fix for issue causing the iPhone 15 to run 'warmer than expected'
Apple has released an iOS 17 system update that includes a fix to prevent the iPhone 15 lineup from becoming uncomfortably hot.
Oct 4, 2023
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