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Meta AI hack, Apple's leaky Private Relay, Maps agentic · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: August 6th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: Meta confirmed that its AI model accessed the internet during testing and hacked
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  SPEAKER_00: into a third-party service after a misconfiguration by
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  SPEAKER_00: the same evaluation partner responsible
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  SPEAKER_00: for similar incidents involving two other major AI labs.
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  SPEAKER_00: The partner says none of the incidents involved a sandbox escape,
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  SPEAKER_00: but three major labs now share the same testing failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Security researchers found that a series of bugs
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  SPEAKER_00: in Apple's browser engine leave iCloud private relay users exposed,
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  SPEAKER_00: letting websites see their real IP address even though the paid tool is supposed
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  SPEAKER_00: to hide it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The issue traces back to how passkey logins work and also affects an iOS app
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  SPEAKER_00: for browsing through the Tor network.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marking the second privacy failure in one of Apple's paid tools this summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google Maps is rolling out new agentic features that let people order food,
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  SPEAKER_00: book hotels,
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  SPEAKER_00: and find event tickets directly through its Ask Maps tool,
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  SPEAKER_00: along with an optional mode that pulls from Gmail and Calendar
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  SPEAKER_00: for more personalized answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: The update reflects a push to turn Maps into an assistant
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  SPEAKER_00: that completes real-world tasks, not just points you toward them.
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  SPEAKER_00: A security researcher spent nearly two years inside the infrastructure used
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  SPEAKER_00: by North Korean state hackers and found they had breached over 1,600 companies
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  SPEAKER_00: across dozens of countries.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of the intrusions relied on fake job interviews to trick victims
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  SPEAKER_00: into installing malware,
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  SPEAKER_00: giving the hackers access to major companies,
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  SPEAKER_00: including a crypto exchange and a hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: A new report finds that the push to fast-track AI data centers is driving a boom
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  SPEAKER_00: in gas burning power plants across the country,
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  SPEAKER_00: with dozens of new facilities planned that would generate pollution roughly equal
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  SPEAKER_00: to Australia's total emissions.
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  SPEAKER_00: AI data centers currently use a small share of the country's electricity,
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  SPEAKER_00: but that figure is expected to more than double within a couple of years.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.