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Arm's CEO is making headlines this week, warning that a chip shortage is actively slowing down AI-driven cancer research. He described scenarios where modelling how a DNA marker responds to cancer simply cannot be done with today's available compute — a stark reminder that the gap between what AI promises in medicine and what hardware can actually deliver remains very real, and very consequential.
Shifting to the security beat, researchers have published details on an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Telerik UI, exploiting a padding oracle attack to achieve full shell access. Telerik has a history of high-severity vulnerabilities, and this one follows a familiar pattern — organizations running older or unpatched versions of the framework are potentially exposed without needing to hand over a single credential.
And on a lighter note, General Motors continues its slow divorce from Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, pushing its own in-house infotainment system across most of its lineup. The interesting wrinkle is that one model is being granted an exemption, which suggests GM knows the transition carries real consumer risk and is hedging at least a little while it builds out its own ecosystem.
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