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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

https://www.slashgear.com/2197980/how-airbags-deploy-so-quickly-in-a-crash-physics-explained/

Front airbags have been required in new passenger vehicles since the 1999 model year. While side airbags aren't specifically mandated, auto manufacturers install them to meet other federal safety requirements regarding side protection. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) claims that airbags saved over 70,000 lives in the U.S. since their implementation, so they work. But how do they work?

Airbags, which have recently become targets of theft, are part of the vehicle's passive safety system designed to help keep passengers safe during an accident. On average, an accident happens in roughly 200 milliseconds — less than 1/5 of a second. So, the system needs to detect, react, and deploy faster than that to be effective — usually just 10 to 30 milliseconds, which is quicker than you can blink. The deployment of an airbag has been described as "engineered violence" because it essentially contains and directs a literal explosion.

First of all, the term "airbag" isn't accurate since they don't actually use "air" per se. Today's systems use guanidinium nitrate with a copper nitrate oxidizer to produce nitrogen gas. When guanidinium nitrate is ignited, it breaks down into nitrogen gas, water, and carbon. The copper nitrate oxidizer is included to help reduce the temperature of the expelled gas. Older airbag systems once used ammonium nitrate, a chemical that didn't play nicely with humidity and moisture, and ended up causing several injuries and even some deaths. Guanidinium nitrate isn't affected by moisture.

Airbags are designed to deploy at various speeds depending on the scenario. If a car hits something narrow (think tree or pole), bags can deploy at just 8 mph. Impacts involving larger objects (such as other cars) can cause bags to unfurl at 18 mph. But the technology and methods used in the front passenger compartment are different than those used in other parts of the car.

Front airbags use small electronic accelerometers that can detect when a car suddenly decelerates, which is technically what occurs when it's involved in a crash. Using a technology called MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), the onboard impact sensors determine — in the proverbial blink of an eye — changes in the vehicle's speed, how fast the car was going, what hit it, and whether the occupants were wearing seat belts. Passengers wearing seatbelts are considered safer, so airbags won't deploy unless the speed exceeds 16 mph. However, those not wearing them are at greater risk, so the system typically triggers bag deployment at speeds between 10 and 12 mph.

owl writes:

https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327

A wave of voter anger over massive data center projects is beginning to reshape U.S. politics, with local officials and senior lawmakers losing elections after backing controversial developments tied to the artificial intelligence boom.

In Utah on Wednesday, State Senate President J. Stuart Adams—one of the most powerful Republicans in the state—lost his primary election after supporting a major data center development near the Great Salt Lake, in one of the clearest signs yet of the growing political risks tied to the industry.

At the local level, the fallout was just as direct. "Do I think that the data center vote cost me the election? Yes I do," former Box Elder County Commissioner Lee Perry said after conceding his primary race, after voting to advance the same project.

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An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/

A while ago I wrote about storing two bytes inside my mouse's DPI register. It wasn't useful. It wasn't practical. But it did something unfortunate to my brain. Once you've successfully hidden data somewhere it doesn't belong, you start looking at everything as potential storage.
A monitor is storage.

A keyboard is storage.

A BIOS splash screen is (maybe) storage.

A favicon is storage.

And yes, here we are.

Every website has a favicon. It's that little icon in your browser tab. Usually you upload it once and then never think about it again. But. A favicon is just an image. An image is just pixels. And pixels are just bytes.

So of course I wondered if I could store something inside one.

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

ASML denies it has ever shipped an EUV scanner to China:

The company is refuting a recent report claiming the U.S. government believes that one of ASML's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography systems may have somehow reached China despite export restrictions, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with negotiations between the U.S. officials and ASML executives. ASML denies any wrongdoing and claims that it knows the location of every EUV tool it has ever built.

"In recent years, ASML has refuted several unfounded rumors regarding non-compliance with export controls concerning China which were inaccurate and damaging to our reputation," a spokesperson for ASML told Tom's Hardware.

The U.S. government has not publicly produced evidence that a complete EUV scanner is operating in China. Yet, several senior administration officials told Bloomberg that they possess information indicating that ASML exported equipment associated with EUV systems, including specialized systems used to 'transport EUV machines.' Those officials declined to disclose any evidence, citing sensitivity concerns.

"ASML has never shipped an EUV machine to China, nor have we shipped to China any component, module or equipment specially designed to be used in an EUV machine," the spokesperson told us.

An ASML EUV scanner is made of 100,000 components and weighs 180 tons. It is transported only by air on multiple planes, and it would be impossible to intercept such a shipment without causing an international scandal. Meanwhile, given the complexity of the machine, it is impossible to build one using spare or scrap parts or reverse engineer it using its components, as we reported back in December.

Bloomberg claims that ASML has circulated an internal presentation titled 'No indication of any ASML EUV System in China,' which reportedly states there are 314 EUV systems currently operating worldwide and another 26 that have been retired. According to the document, none are located in China. The presentation further notes that EUV scanners continuously communicate with ASML, so the company can detect interruptions, abnormal activity, or connectivity issues. In addition, customers cannot simply dismantle, transport, and reinstall an EUV scanner without direct assistance from ASML due to specialized logistics and handling requirements.

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/22/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/5259782

Cloudflare on Monday said that it has joined with the three leading commercial browser makers to create a privacy-preserving protocol that websites can use to separate desirable web traffic from undesirable network requests.

Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs), a way for websites to generate a digital token that asserts a given browsing session is being run by a human or bot with legitimate intent, as opposed to network requests from people or software deemed abusive or improper.

PACTs will let websites "with strong knowledge of 'personhood'" issue anonymous tokens that browser users and designated bots can present at other websites, so that fewer identity checks are necessary. 

Think of PACTs as a shareable, privacy-preserving CAPTCHA test result, where the desirability of the web traffic is being tested rather than whether the visitor is a human or bot – an increasingly difficult distinction.

While the technical details are still being hammered out and harmonized between related proposals, it isn't immediately clear what constitutes "strong knowledge of 'personhood'" in this context, particularly since "personhood" appears to extend to software that has been authorized to act on behalf of a legitimate person for an authorized purpose. 

It may be that the test criteria puts certain browsers, behaviors, or network signals at greater risk of being denied the dispensation of a PACT, though past technical discussion by developers from Google and Mozilla suggests that excluding certain hardware, platforms, or user-agents is not a goal.

Dane Knecht, CTO of Cloudflare, argues that the way people interact with the web is changing and increasingly may involve autonomous agents.

"As AI-powered traffic becomes widespread, existing tools to support its use are too generic and coarse," said Knecht in a statement. "Now this collaboration lets us eliminate the friction caused by security protocols for every visitor – whether they are human or agent – without sacrificing privacy."

The claim "without sacrificing privacy" is a bit of an overstatement. PACT tokens, it appears, will not contain personal details. But they won't do anything to repair all the other ways browsers can facilitate digital fingerprinting and tracking. And if implemented poorly, they may introduce novel risks. Fundamentally, they divide the internet traffic into welcome and unwelcome traffic – something already widely done through firewalls and other technical measures but not easily reconciled with the notionally open web.

"Mozilla is committed to defending openness and user privacy on the web," said Bobby Holley, CTO for Firefox at Mozilla, in a statement. "An avalanche of automated traffic is pushing sites to adopt blunt defenses – paywalls, identity checks, CAPTCHAs, and invasive tracking – simply to tell whether a request comes from a human."

While Cloudflare touts the privacy benefits of PACTs, it's clear from the company's announcement that the technology is designed to "empower businesses to identify genuine visitors, ensuring they can focus their resources on the traffic that matters to them." Essentially, this is an anti-fraud initiative.

Many website operators have complained about the burden of handling unwanted network traffic from disrespectful crawlers. PACTs may be the answer to their prayers. At the same time, they may also become an access barrier that demands negotiation with site publishers to have one's site visits or software deemed worthy of "personhood."

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An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://github.com/Rompass/openc6-bios

OpenC6 BIOS is a fully open-source, high-performance modular platform (BIOS) for the ESP32-C6 (RISC-V) microcontroller. It completely changes the traditional embedded development paradigm by decoupling hardware initialization from application logic—bringing a PC/Server-like architecture to a $2 microcontroller.

Instead of monolithic firmwares, OpenC6 acts as a host platform. It initializes the hardware, provides out-of-band management via an independent LP-Core coprocessor, and exposes a standardized System Call Interface (ABI). This allows you to hot-swap, download, and execute tiny, lightning-fast bare-metal Payloads directly into RAM or Execute-In-Place (XIP) Flash.

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jelizondo writes:

I found a very interesting article published by The Guardian about the physical characteristics of the new FIFA ball and how it is surprising goalkeepers:

Poor old Luca Zidane. The Algeria goalkeeper has had a turbulent time. In two matches he has conceded five goals, and a pair of them – first from Lionel Messi, then, more embarrassing, from Jordan's Nizar al-Rashdan – have gone through his fingers.

But Zidane is not alone. Senegal's Édouard Mendy and Iraq's Ahmed Basil have got their hands to shots, but been unable to stop them. Is something going on?

Certainly Joe Hart seems to think so. He has frequently been pointing out on BBC that goalkeepers are having trouble reading the speed of the World Cup ball, the Adidas Trionda. "The ball is coming into the keepers a lot faster than it feels when it comes off the foot," he said. "Zidane is more than capable of saving that ball [from Messi]. When goalkeepers get up to speed with these World Cup balls we're going to see these shots saved."

Hart issued his assessment before Zidane had played his second match, when the 28-year-old's inability to stop al-Rashdan's outside-of-the-boot effort suggest the problem may continue for a while yet. But there is help at hand and it comes in the form of an 18-page paper produced by South Korean and Japanese academics.

It has the title Orientation-Dependent Drag Crisis and Flight Response of the Fifa World Cup Match Ball Trionda and its contents do not deviate from the outline. Researchers took the ball and fired it through a wind tunnel to measure the effect of aerodynamic forces upon it. They did so from six angles and found a consistent outcome.

Regardless of where the ball was struck, if the ball reached a certain velocity it would fly faster. This, the researchers from Seoul Women's University and the University of Tsukuba found, was down to an effect called "drag crisis". This occurs when an object flying through the air reaches the point where the air flow around it shifts from a smooth state (known as a laminal flow) to a turbulent one. When the flow is turbulent, it disrupts the drag behind a moving object, allowing it to move faster.

Researchers noted that the "upstream seam and groove arrangements" in the Trionda's design made drag crisis possible at lower speeds.

If a ball does not slow down as expected, because of the drag crisis effect, you can understand how goalkeepers may be caught unawares. The researchers found further complicating factors. They observed that while there was a drag-crisis effect regardless of where the ball was hit, the level of the crisis would shift depending on whether the ball was struck on a seam or on a panel (hitting on the seam seemed to create the lower drag). Drag crisis was also variable according to altitude, with the higher the game, the less likely the occurrence.

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/06/22/the-memory-crisis-is-getting-so-bad-that-even-retro-ram-prices-are-going-to-the-moon/5259627

The global memory crisis has developed a new twist as buyers turn to "legacy" products such as DDR2 and DDR3 to meet demand, according to market watcher TrendForce.

The Taiwanese firm says DRAM buyers are turning to older products to secure larger supply allocations, driving up prices for components including DDR2 and DDR3.

As Reg readers will be well aware by now, the AI craze has led to memory chipmakers prioritizing production of more profitable HBM and server DRAM silicon to power AI infrastructure, leaving a shortage of the mainstream memory types needed for PCs, smartphones, and other devices.

As a result, prices have risen for DDR4 and DDR5 modules – if you can even find them – resulting in hikes in the cost of kit such as PCs, which are up by double figures, according to some estimates.

Continued shortages of everyday DRAM components and rapidly rising contract prices have prompted some hardware makers to downgrade memory specifications to control system costs, TrendForce claims. In some cases, DDR4 designs are being replaced with DDR3 solutions, while certain DDR3-based products are being redesigned to use DDR2. 

We find it hard to believe that PC makers would ship systems with memory types so old or that modern processors would support them, so it is likely this applies to other kinds of device.

Now the market intelligence operation estimates that DDR2 contract prices will rise by approximately 55 to 60 percent for the second quarter of 2026, followed by a further 35 to 40 percent increase in the third quarter.

This is happening because customers are desperate to secure more reliable supplies, adopting lower capacity configurations or turning to older memory generations. Consequently, the supply shortages are now rippling through the memory market and starting to affect even legacy DRAM products.

Key suppliers of DDR2 components include Winbond and Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology (ESMT), based in TrendForce's home turf of Taiwan. However, Winbond is gradually winding down DDR2 production and reallocating capacity toward more high-margin products such as DDR3, DDR4, and LPDDR4, it says.

But ESMT plans to maximize DDR2 production within its existing allocation at wafer maker PSMC. The firm is understood to be concentrating resources on this segment to enhance profitability and help offset the supply gap created by Winbond's withdrawal from the DDR2 market.

Some of the big memory makers are planning to increase capacity, but only slowly. Korean giant SK hynix aims to double silicon wafer output capacity over the next five years, while US biz Micron expects "meaningful new capacity" at its new Virginia fabrication plant in 2027 and 2028.

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AnonTechie writes:

So to summarize:

Larry Sanger resuggested "WikiProject Intellectual Diversity", a group with the goal to make "Wikipedia more intellectually diverse" and "ensure fair and open decision-making and governance, broaden the range of permissible sources, reinforce genuine neutrality, rein in over-aggressive blocking while holding the powerful to higher standards of accountability", etc, with the implied undertone of preventing Wikipedia from drifting too far to the political left.

This is unpopular because people oppose this on various grounds (mostly that it might be vote brigading and tiling decisions in their favor just by showing up in an organised way around wikipedia). Also the same project was apparently suggested before and rejected in early stages

But then he made a tweet that basically just says "I suggested this, some people like it, some hate it". That's super against the rules, because it attracts people to the proposal who otherwise wouldn't have seen it. Probably in an attempt to sway discussion, because his tweets are obviously seen primarily by people who like his ideas

Which then lead to the vote to ban him from editing Wikipedia. With a total ban getting more votes than a more limited ban, like banning him from participating in articles namespaced for internal matters.

There are lots of comments about this news ... Some of them are quite entertaining !!

[Source]: YCombinator

[Ref.]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_Sanger

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owl writes:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/destroy-the-village/

The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet.

It's a weird coalition of anti-Big Tech campaigners (who are rightly angry at the platforms' callous disregard for user welfare) and Heritage Foundation-backed culture warriors (who think that if their kids aren't exposed to LGBTQ content they won't come out as queer). While there's plenty these groups disagree about, they share one consensus: there should be a "minimum age" for certain kinds of internet use.

The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia.

"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kids...from them!

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

The Hidden Cost of Cyber Risk report found that businesses are most impacted by everyday cyber disruption, rather than large-scale one-off breaches:

The Eir Business Hidden Cost of Cyber Risk report, which is supported by Microsoft, has found that on average cyberattacks are costing Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) up to €3.4bn annually. 

However, the greatest impact is not from large-scale, one-off breaches, but frequent day-to-day cybersecurity-related disruptions that are driving losses for many Irish companies. 

Reportedly, SMEs lose more than 7.2m working days every year due to cyber incidents, with affected businesses experiencing multiple incidents annually. For individual firms, this equates to nearly three working weeks lost annually. 

Susan Brady, the managing director at Eir Business, said: “This report shows that cyber risk is not just about rare, large-scale attacks. 

"For most SMEs, it is the cumulative impact of everyday incidents, from phishing emails and ransomware attempts to service disruptions, that drives significant loss of time and productivity. These risks affect not just individual businesses, but supply chains, customers and the wider business ecosystem.”

[...] The report stated that the companies with more cyber preparedness tend to experience fewer incidents, lower overall losses and significantly less disruption. Moreover, the organisations with higher levels of preparedness can reduce annual downtime from more than 30 days to around five days, while structured data management significantly lowers the likelihood of experiencing an attack.

[...] “This research highlights the real and growing impact that cyber risk is having on businesses across the country, not just in financial terms, but in disrupted operations and lost productivity. However, with the right support, guidance and focus on practical measures, businesses can strengthen their resilience and reduce their exposure.”

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"Fnord666" writes:

Automakers Could Stop Selling Cars In California Rather Than Comply With Tracking Laws:

1st Gear: Automakers would rather lose California sales than give drivers more control over their location data

Back in 2024, California made a new law about drivers' location data. Specifically, the law states that people with a restraining order shouldn't have to share data with folks they have those restraining orders against, including removing the latter from car data sharing. Automakers, despite having nearly two years to comply with this, have yet to actually do so. Now, they might just abandon California. From Reuters :

A group representing major automakers warned on Tuesday that car companies may be forced to halt sales of both ​new and used vehicles in California on July 1 unless the state ‌delays vehicle technology rules that aim to prevent perpetrators of domestic violence from tracking survivors.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai and most other automakers, said unless ​a legislative proposal is signed into law by July 1 "there is substantial ​risk that auto sales in California will be suspended."

The group said ⁠automakers are implementing the domestic violence victim protections required under the 2024 law "but ​compliance with some elements of the law is impossible this year."

California is the single ​largest U.S. auto market, accounting for about 10% of sales.

The 2024 California law requires automakers to set up a clear process for drivers to submit a copy of a restraining order or ​other documentation and request termination of another driver's remote access within two business days. ​It also mandated that carmakers enable drivers to easily turn off location access from inside the ‌vehicle.

This sounds like the automakers playing hardball, trying to get California to back down on the law. Hopefully the state doesn't, and the automakers have to face the potential of actually losing all that profit.

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

From academic toss-aside to cloud substrate:

Today Postgres is one of the most widely used database systems, but its launch and subsequent development were inauspicious to say the least.

If it weren't for a league of exceptionally devoted open source contributors, it probably would be another forgotten also-ran just like Ingres, the database system on which it was based ("Postgres" was shorthand for "Post-Ingres").

The creator of both systems, Michael Stonebraker, is perhaps the preeminent database pioneer in the field. Earlier this month, he spoke at PGDay, a conference in Boston hosted by the U.S. PostgreSQL Association, where he detailed the complicated history of the open source database system, which actually existed long before the term "open source" was even uttered.  

In a sense, "Postgres is the epitome of open source software, because it doesn't belong to anybody. It was picked up by this team of programmers without any specific affiliation," Stonebraker said.   

Stonebraker essentially abandoned Postgres in the mid-1990s. But instead of fading into obscurity, the codebase was salvaged by a fiercely-dedicated volunteer community that bolted on standard SQL while preserving Stonebraker's revolutionary extensible architecture. 

Three decades later, this stubbornly-independent database has become the bedrock of modern cloud infrastructure.

When it comes to relational database systems, British computer scientist and then-IBM employee Ted Codd got the ball rolling in 1970. A database is where you store your data so it can be queried in a predictable way. A database system is the software that manages the database (don't confuse the two). 

That year, Codd decreed that all data should be stored in tables and accessed using a high-level query language. IBM implemented Codd's idea in System R, and created SQL as the query language. The results were eventually rolled into IBM's DB2. 

Stonebraker, then an assistant professor at UC Berkeley, also implemented Codd's ideas. Stonebraker and his team of grad students created not only a working prototype, but a full-scale implementation – he later cofounded a startup, Relational Technology, to sell Ingres commercially. Ingres did not use SQL, but instead employed another query language, QUEL (Query Language), although the fundamentals were similar.  

A relatively primitive version of Ingres was even released gratis for academic research. But by the early 1980s, Stonebraker had "pushed the code off a cliff" and started building something new. 

Thus, Postgres was born. 

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:

Taiwan's drone spending plans for defense could also boost business overseas:

Taiwan's existence as a self-governing democracy may depend heavily on having enough military drones to discourage any attempted invasion by China's military. As the Taiwanese government aims to boost domestic production of military drones and Taiwanese citizens sign up for drone flight training, Taiwanese companies are forming international partnerships to sell more drones to the US military and other overseas buyers.

Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense proposed a special budget that would spend $6.6 billion over six years on buying drones made in Taiwan, according to the Central News Agency that represents the national news service of Taiwan. Presented on June 18, the budget proposal would allow the government to buy more than 208,000 coastal attack drones, along with more than 1,400 coastal reconnaissance drones and 1,320 uncrewed surface vessels, between 2026 and 2031.

That would be a significant boost to the Taiwanese military arsenal that currently includes just 5,000 US-made attack drones and domestically produced drones, according to Resilience Media. During military exercises in early June, Taiwanese soldiers fired Altius-600 loitering munition drones—made by a subsidiary of the US military technology company Anduril Industries—from towed flatbed launchers to strike offshore targets, according to USNI News. In another exercise earlier this year, Taiwanese Marines used Taiwan-made drones to similarly strike targets at sea.

Beyond bolstering Taiwan's national defense, Taiwanese government spending on domestically produced drones could provide a critical boost to Taiwanese drone manufacturers. Some Taiwanese companies, notably Thunder Tiger, have pitched their drone technology and components to the US military and European buyers as alternatives to drones made in China, while also establishing international technology and manufacturing partnerships to pave the way for more exports.

Taiwan has already exported $115 million of fully assembled drones between January and March 2026, exceeding the $93 million in total drone exports for the entire year of 2025, according to Taiwan Premier Cho Jung-tai in an announcement on April 30. The premier is an appointed principal advisor to Taiwan's president and leads the executive branch of the Taiwanese government.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Apple has released a security update to patch a Beats Studio Buds flaw that let nearby hackers listen to conversations through the microphone

Apple has fixed a flaw in its Beats Studio Buds wireless headphones that allowed hackers to use the built-in microphone to listen to your private conversations without your knowledge.

According to Apple's official advisory, the issue is tracked as CVE-2025-20701, and was identified by researchers Dennis Heinze and Frieder Steinmetz from ERNW GmbH security firm.

Heinze and Steinmetz discovered that the bug exists in the open-source code of a system called the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK. For your information, this system helps run the earbuds, and the issue happens when the headphones are turned on but aren't connected to a phone or computer.

What happens in this scenario is that the earbuds look for a new connection. That's when any hacker in proximity can strike. All they have to do is link to the device, and this doesn't even need the user's permission. The software cannot check or verify who is connecting, so the hacker can easily eavesdrop on your conversations.

However, this trick requires some prerequisites, such as the hacker must be within a standard Bluetooth range of about 10 metres. During the testing phase, researchers chained this bug with two other flaws.

The first issue, CVE-2025-20700, allows an unauthenticated attacker to connect to the earbuds using Bluetooth Low Energy, whereas the second issue, CVE-2025-20702, helps them evade security and access internal management settings.

Combining them allowed researchers to use the Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile feature and look at call histories or contact lists, and dial numbers. However, real attacks are very hard to carry out, research reveals, because they require expert skills and physical closeness to the person.

Apple fixed the bug on 16 June by releasing Beats Firmware Update 1B211. You don't need to click anything to install this fix as the earbuds update by themselves when they are in their charging case, plugged into power, and placed near an iPhone, iPad, or Mac with Bluetooth turned on. Android users need to get the patch through the official Beats app.

You can also confirm if your earbuds are updated. Just open the Bluetooth settings and check the version number. Consider the patch as active if the version is 1B211. However, it is still a good idea to turn off Bluetooth when not in use to keep your devices safe.

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