IBM Patents a Digital Wallet That Shares Encrypted Stand-Ins for Your Biometrics
Instead of transmitting your actual fingerprint or face scan when proving who you are, IBM's new patent describes a system that sends…
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Microsoft Patents a System That Detects Fake Caller Numbers Before Your Phone Rings
Scammers fake phone numbers all the time, and your phone has no way of knowing. Microsoft is patenting a system that checks…
Google Patents a Way to Measure App Traffic Without Seeing Who You Are
Google wants to count how often apps talk to its network without ever learning which specific user or device is behind the…
Samsung Patents an AI System That Watches Storage Commands for Ransomware
Most ransomware defenses wait until files are already encrypted before sounding the alarm. Samsung's new patent tries to catch the attack while…
IBM Patent: AI Assistant Actions Are Automatically Screened for Security Threats
AI agents are increasingly trusted to take actions on your behalf, such as browsing the web, writing files, or calling APIs. IBM's…
IBM Patents a Color-Flickering Method to Make Slide Content Unrecordable
IBM has patented a way to make slides look perfectly normal to anyone in the room while turning any screen recording of…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Run AI Models Without Leaking Their Secrets
Every time a chip runs an AI model, it gives off tiny physical signals, power fluctuations, timing patterns, electromagnetic pulses, that a…
Samsung Patent Covers Automatic Secure OS Switching When Trusted App Execution Fails
When the secure vault your phone uses to run a sensitive app fails, Samsung's new patent says the device should try another…
Red Hat Patents a Security Checkpoint System for Software Container Builds
Every time a developer adds a new code layer to a software container, they create a potential security gap. Red Hat's patent…
IBM Wins Patent for Least Privilege Security in AI Workflow Orchestration
When an AI agent runs a multi-step business workflow, it often gets handed a master key to everything. IBM's new patent proposes…
IBM Patents a System That Skips Repeat Security Scans When Code Already Has a Clean Bill of Health
Every time a developer pushes code, security tools scan it from scratch, even if nothing changed. IBM's new patent describes a way…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Blocks Devices From Being Overwhelmed by Junk Traffic
Wireless networks can be knocked offline by a flood of fake messages, and Qualcomm's new patent describes a filter that detects the…
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