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FBI Unable to Access Journalist's iPhone Due to Apple's Lockdown Mode
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter's iPhone after seizing the device from her home, according to a recent court filing. The phone was protected by Apple's Lockdown Mode, a security feature that restricts certain functionalities. The incident occurred during a January 14 search at the Virginia home of reporter Hannah Natanson, according to Ars Technica.
While the FBI was unable to access the iPhone, agents were able to access Natanson's work laptop by instructing her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro's fingerprint reader, Ars Technica reported. The search warrant was executed as part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of illegally leaking classified information.
In other news, a U.S. district judge stated this week that Donald Trump has not intervened to block a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Elon Musk over his 2022 Twitter takeover, according to Ars Technica. The SEC lawsuit, filed in the final days of Joe Biden's administration, seeks $150 million in disgorgement, plus interest, as well as civil penalties and an injunction blocking Musk from future wrongdoing. The complaint alleges that Musk quietly acquired a 9 percent stake in Twitter without filing necessary timely disclosures to alert other investors of a potential change in company control, allowing him to acquire over 70 million shares at an artificially low price.
Meanwhile, users of the popular text editor Notepad++ may have been victims of a cyberattack. Developers reported Monday that the infrastructure delivering updates for Notepad++ was compromised for six months by suspected China-state hackers. The attackers used their control to deliver backdoored versions of the app to select targets, according to Wired. "I deeply apologize to all users affected by this hijacking," wrote the author of a post published to the official notepad-plus-plus.org site. The post stated that the attack began last June with an infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The attackers then selectively redirected certain targeted users to malicious update servers.
In the realm of mathematics, a new AI math startup has reportedly cracked four previously unsolved problems. Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron encountered a roadblock while working on a theorem involving algebraic geometry, according to Wired. Their argument depended on a strange formula from number theory, but they were unable to solve or justify it. Chen recently spent hours prompting ChatGPT in the hopes of getting the AI to come up with a solution to the still unsolved problem, but it wasnt working.
Finally, VentureBeat reports that the initial excitement around Generative and Agentic AI has shifted to a more pragmatic reality. CIOs and technical leaders are questioning why their pilot programs aren't delivering the promised results. According to Raju Malhotra of Certinia, the issue isn't the AI's intelligence, but rather its lack of context. "AI doesnt struggle because it lacks intelligence. It struggles because it lacks context," Malhotra stated. He argues that context is often trapped in a "Franken-stack" of disconnected point solutions, brittle APIs, and latency-ridden integrations.
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