More US states sue TikTok
According to Reuters , on January 18, the head of the Iowa state attorney general (USA), Ms. Brenna Bird, sued TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, accusing the video-sharing platform of misleading parents, causing their children to access inappropriate content on the application without their knowledge.
“TikTok misleads parents by misrepresenting the severity of the content that appears on the platform,” said Ms. Bird.
With the above allegations, Iowa seeks financial penalties and an injunction to prevent TikTok from repeating the deceptive acts.
TikTok has said it has measures in place to protect young people, such as creating parental controls and time limits for users under 18.
This is the latest lawsuit in the US against TikTok. Previously, the states of Arkansas and Utah also filed similar lawsuits.
Vulnerability threatens millions of Android and iPhone devices
New York-based cybersecurity experts at Trail of Bits have discovered the LeftoverLocals vulnerability.
The vulnerability resides in AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm GPUs, allowing attackers to steal large amounts of data from the GPU's graphics processor memory.
Essentially, most modern computers and servers are specifically designed to contain separate data, unable to access each other's data. However, an attack that exploits the LeftoverLocals vulnerability would break this wall.
Once they have access, the hacker steals data from local memory allocated to the GPU that they should not have access to.
In one simulation, the team used the open source large language model Llama.cpp, which Wired magazine detailed.
Within seconds, the attacker's device has collected most of the feedback provided by LLM by using LeftoverLocals to access GPU memory.
Apple said the vulnerability has been fixed for the M3 and A17 chips. Qualcomm reported that it is distributing security updates to customers. AMD said that the company will release a software update next March.
However, Trail of Bits warns end users may not have easy access to all of these updated software options.
Apple Watch banned from sale in the US again
The US Federal Court of Appeals recently rejected the injunction to suspend the ban on the Apple Watch. Thus, Apple will once again have to stop selling Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 devices from 5pm on January 18 (local time).
The Verge considers this a setback for Apple as it tries to find a way to circumvent the import ban of the International Trade Commission (ITC).
Apple will be forced to remove the Blood Oxygen feature that measures blood oxygen on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 in order to continue importing and selling these smartwatch models in the US.
It’s unusual for Apple to remove features from products that have already been released, and the absence of a blood oxygen measurement feature could make the Apple Watch less appealing to some customers.
Samsung will soon launch smart ring
At the Unpacked event in San Jose, California (USA) in the early morning of January 18 (Vietnam time), while introducing health features on the Samsung Health app, Samsung revealed the Galaxy Ring smart ring.
According to Samsung, the company has created a powerful, accessible health and fitness device with the goal of changing the future of health.
The short video only mentions the Galaxy Ring's health tracking capabilities and use of AI technology, but Samsung doesn't release any further information.
The Galaxy Ring is a health-focused product that is more compact than a smartwatch and is suitable for wearing overnight, tracking sleep. At the same time, this smart ring can also come with many other features such as making payments, unlocking cars, browsing TV content, ...
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