Once again, Mike Loukides has plumbed the depths of tech news and surfaced some gems. Here’s a bit of what you’ll find when you click through to this month’s Radar Trends.
Sometime this November, Apple will increase its bug bounties and expand the attack-surface categories that can earn rewards for ethical hackers. Worth $2 million: identifying potential zero-day exploits that allow zero-click remote code execution on iOS. Time to get cracking. Also, an AI “manual” for household appliances that runs locally and delivers troubleshooting advice at the push of a button. And in the category of unambiguous AI benefits, there’s the AI-designed therapeutic virus whose experimental first victim was E. coli.