Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving System for Teaching Smart Speakers Your Sounds
Your smart speaker already listens for its wake word — but what if it could learn to recognize the specific sounds that…
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WhatsApp Patents Silent OTP Forwarding That Kills the Copy-Paste Step
Every time you copy a one-time password from your messages and paste it into an app, you're doing a job that a…
Microsoft Patents a Built-In Windows Toggle for AI Data Collection Control
Microsoft is patenting a system-level privacy toggle baked directly into Windows that lets you see — and stop — AI data collection…
Google Patents On-Device AI That Strips Personal Data Before Cloud Upload
Google is patenting a system where your device — not Google's servers — is responsible for scrubbing your personal information out of…
Microsoft Patents an AI Security Agent That Investigates Cyber Threats on Its Own
Microsoft has patented a security agent that doesn't wait for a human analyst to decide what to investigate next — it asks…
Amazon Patents an LLM-Powered System That Reads Emails to Catch Cyberattacks
Amazon is patenting a security system that doesn't just look at network logs — it reads emails and conversation transcripts to figure…
Microsoft Patents a System That Blocks Dangerous Cloud Config Changes Before They Ship
Every major cloud breach has a root cause, and a surprising number of them start with a misconfigured deployment — a firewall…
Microsoft Patents Plain-English AI Search Across Security Log Files
Writing SQL-style queries to hunt through security logs is a skill most analysts have — but it slows everyone down. Microsoft's new…
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