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Alibaba Security team collaborated with Indiana University to discover a new macOS/iOS security threat: sending malformed X.509 certificates via 'banana emails' can cause system crashes. The research identified 18 new vulnerabilities and 12 known vulnerabilities in six mainstream cryptographic libraries, which can exhaust system resources. The team developed the X.509DoSTool detection tool and proposed mitigation solutions. This work has been nominated for the USENIX Security'25 conference. The study reminds users to be cautious of such availability attacks, and developers should strengthen certificate validation.

Apple released the iOS 26 Beta 4 developer preview, featuring minor adjustments to the Liquid Glass interface, the return of the AI news summary feature, and other updates. This version adds a new welcome startup screen, a warning prompt for Siri news summary settings, and optimizes the camera app. The AI summary feature, previously paused due to a complaint from BBC, has been reactivated but now includes a disclaimer about accuracy. Additionally, dynamic wallpaper and CarPlay wallpaper options have been updated, and some interface adjustments from Beta 3 have been fixed. Apple also simultaneously released updates for iPadOS, macOS...

The iOS app of ChatGPT had 29.6 million downloads in the past 28 days, becoming the most popular app globally. This achievement made ChatGPT's download count exceed the combined total of four social apps - TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X - which had approximately 32.9 million downloads during the same period, creating a difference of 10.6%. Although social apps have been on the market longer, ChatGPT achieved this in a short period of time.

Apple has released the latest update to its artificial intelligence model, which primarily supports the Apple Intelligence feature for systems like iOS and macOS. According to Apple's official data, the newly launched model performs comparably with similar products from Google and Alibaba, but compared to OpenAI's GPT-4o released a year ago, Apple's server-side model performance is notably weaker. In the update, Apple emphasized the capabilities of its 'device-side model'.

It is understood that in this cooperation, Alibaba is responsible for developing the review engine. Meanwhile, Baidu will deeply integrate its AI technology with Apple's Siri and Visual Intelligence. This means that Baidu will take on two major tasks - chatting and searching - playing a key role in Apple's AI functions.

Apple is expected to release the iOS 18.5 update to Chinese users in May, bringing the much-anticipated Apple Intelligence (AI) features to mainland China iPhones. This AI functionality has been available in US and European iPhone versions for almost a month. This update signifies Apple's official entry into the generative AI era in the Chinese market.

In the latest development, Adobe announced the upcoming release of mobile versions of its AI image generation tool, Firefly, aiming for a more intense competition with OpenAI. The news was officially revealed at the MAX Creativity Conference in London. Adobe stated that the Firefly mobile application will be available soon on iOS and Android platforms, though a specific release date is yet to be determined. Alexandru Co, Adobe Firefly's Vice President...