Red Hat Patents a System That Strips Harmful AI Commands Before They Run
AI models can generate code that looks helpful but contains instructions that could break — or quietly hijack — a system. Red…
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Qualcomm Patents a Double-Check System to Stop Hackers From Faking Face and Fingerprint Scans
Your fingerprint scan might be genuine — but is the data that reaches your phone's security chip actually from this moment, or…
Qualcomm Patents a Security Screen That Blocks Manipulated Instructions Sent to AI Systems
When someone tries to trick an AI model by slipping hidden instructions into a query, Qualcomm wants a gatekeeper to catch it…
Intel Patents a Network Card That Can Block Programs from Secretly Copying Your Data
Network monitoring tools are everywhere in modern data centers — but Intel's new patent describes a chip-level switch that can stop those…
AMD Patents a Circuit That Locks GPU Memory Behind Per-Request Encryption Keys
AMD is filing patents on one of the trickiest problems in cloud computing: making sure the data your GPU processes stays encrypted…
ATI Technologies Patents a Hardware System That Keeps Streaming Rights Locked Inside the Chip
Every streaming service has its own content-protection system, and right now keeping those systems from interfering with — or leaking into —…
AMD's New Patent Stops a Single Broken Chip Sensor from Faking a Clean Bill of Health
A single broken sensor quietly giving wrong answers is one of hardware security's oldest problems. Xilinx's new patent tackles it by making…
Sony's New Patent Keeps Your Body Movement Data on Your Device
Your body movements are surprisingly personal data. Sony is patenting a way to transmit a compressed 'fingerprint' of that motion — rather…
IBM's New Patent Replaces CAPTCHAs With a Live Video Test to Spot Bots
Forget ticking boxes of traffic lights — IBM's latest patent describes a live video call where an AI watches you complete physical…
IBM's New Patent Moves Malware Scanning Off the Main Server to a Dedicated Device
IBM wants to take the heavy lifting of malware scanning off your main server and hand it to a dedicated storage device…
Microsoft's New Patent Stops Corporate Security from Forgetting a Repaired Device
Every time a technician swaps a motherboard or replaces a hard drive, the device can look like a completely different machine to…
Microsoft's New Patent Fights Hackers Who Hide Attacks Inside AI Chatbot Instructions
Every time you send a message to an AI chatbot, you're also sending hidden instructions the app set up in advance —…
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