Apple Patents a System That Checks If Your Gift Card Was Tampered With Before You Activate It
Gift card scams cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars every year, often because someone drained the card before you even bought…
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Microsoft Patents AI System for Flagging Apps With Unexpected Network Traffic
Microsoft is patenting an AI system that watches how an application moves data across a network and automatically raises an alarm when…
Meta Patent Targets Deepfake Audio Fraud With Voice Watermarking Technology
Deepfake audio is getting harder to spot by ear, so Meta is filing patents to fight it at a level you never…
Samsung Patents a Circuit That Catches Hackers Trying to Crash Chips on Purpose
Hackers don't always attack software. Sometimes they zap a chip with a voltage spike or laser pulse to force it into a…
Red Hat Patents a Way to Feed Data Into a Virtual Machine Without the Host Seeing Inside
When you run a virtual machine in the cloud, the company hosting it can technically peek at its memory. Red Hat is…
Adobe Patents Technology That Answers Data Searches Without Exposing Real User Information
Adobe is patenting a way to let databases answer statistical questions about users without those databases ever actually storing the real answers.…
AMD Patents an AI Malware Detector That Runs Outside Your Main Processor
What if your PC's security scanner couldn't be fooled by malware because it lives on a completely separate chip that malware can…
Patent: A Controlled System Decides Which Ads Reach Your Screen
Google is patenting a system that decides which ad lands on your screen through a chain of isolated processing steps, each one…
Qualcomm Patents a Two-Step Biometric Lock That Checks You're Alive First
Before your fingerprint or face even counts as a login, Qualcomm's new patent wants your phone to confirm it's dealing with a…
IBM Patents a System That Catches Cloned License Plates Using Location Data
If two cars are caught on camera with the same license plate 500 miles apart within an hour, one of them is…
IBM Patents a System for Confirming the Code Running a Chip's Security Features
When a server runs an encryption operation, how does it know the chip doing the work hasn't been updated with buggy or…
IBM Patents a Way to Stop Encrypting the Same Data Twice in Cloud Storage
When your data travels between servers in a cloud storage system, it often gets encrypted twice, once for safety and once more…
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