Tag: mobile apps

  • Hacker News: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

    Source URL: https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/ Source: Hacker News Title: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the alarming exploitation of popular mobile apps by rogue advertisers who harvest sensitive location data without user or developer consent. It highlights how this data…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Johann Rehberger

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/17/johann-rehberger/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Johann Rehberger Feedly Summary: Happy to share that Anthropic fixed a data leakage issue in the iOS app of Claude that I responsibly disclosed. ๐Ÿ™Œ ๐Ÿ‘‰ Image URL rendering as avenue to leak data in LLM apps often exists in mobile apps as well — typically…

  • Slashdot: Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Education Projects Like ‘AI Teaching Assistant’

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/07/1736233/amazon-offers-100m-in-cloud-computing-credits-for-education-projects-like-ai-teaching-assistant?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Education Projects Like ‘AI Teaching Assistant’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: AWS’s initiative to provide $100 million in cloud-computing credits is aimed at educational organizations to enhance technology-based learning experiences, particularly in AI. This effort is a notable step…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing the Model Context Protocol

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/model-context-protocol/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing the Model Context Protocol Feedly Summary: Introducing the Model Context Protocol Interesting new initiative from Anthropic. The Model Context Protocol aims to provide a standard interface for LLMs to interact with other applications, allowing applications to expose tools, resources (contant that you might want to dump…

  • Cloud Blog: Unity Ads uses Memorystore to power up to 10 million operations per second

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/unity-ads-powers-up-to-10m-operations-per-second-with-memorystore/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unity Ads uses Memorystore to power up to 10 million operations per second Feedly Summary: Editorโ€™s note: Unity Ads, a mobile advertising platform, previously relying on its own self-managed Redis infrastructure, was searching for a solution that scales better for various use cases and reduces maintenance overhead. Unity…

  • Krebs on Security: The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/the-global-surveillance-free-for-all-in-mobile-ad-data/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data Feedly Summary: Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someoneโ€™s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation…

  • The Register: Millions of Android and iOS users at risk from hardcoded creds in popular apps

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/android_ios_security/ Source: The Register Title: Millions of Android and iOS users at risk from hardcoded creds in popular apps Feedly Summary: Azure Blob Storage, AWS, and Twilio keys all up for grabs An analysis of widely used mobile apps offered on Google Play and the Apple App Store has found hardcoded and unencrypted…