Here is a Kindle hack that perhaps is the simplest while providing unrestricted access to the underlying hardware. The hack takes advantage of a key vulnerability of Kindle devices and will be equally ...

It sure sounds like some of the industry’s smartest leading AI models are gullible suckers. What they did was create a simple algorithm, called Best-of-N (BoN) Jailbreaking, to prod the chatbots with ...

A member of the iPhone Dev team -- the notorious iPhone OS hacking group -- demonstrated a jailbreaking hack to the long-awaited iPad after its release in Apple retail stores across the country ...

The Pebble smartwatch has been creating a lot of hype lately, and while we’re still waiting to try it out in the Cult of Mac offices, other early reviews have been pretty positive. Apple is rumored to ...

Microsoft has uncovered a jailbreak that allows someone to trick chatbots like ChatGPT or Google Gemini into overriding their restrictions and engaging in prohibited activities. Microsoft has dubbed ...

In the four years since Sony’s PlayStation 3 has been with us, it’s never been hacked to play pirated games–until now, that is, if claims by hacker group PSJailbreak prove true. The group, reportedly ...

Apple has been working hard to increase the security of its operating systems and devices, and this has been proven considering that hackers had a hard time creating a jailbreak tool for iOS 15. But ...

Hackers may have just made some big strides towards possibly jailbreaking the PlayStation 5 over the weekend, with the hacking group Fail0verflow claiming to have managed to obtain PS5 root keys ...

An iPhone hacking team has released a new jailbreak tool for almost every iPhone, including the most recent models, by using the same vulnerability that Apple last month said was under active attack ...

Even the most permissive corporate AI models have sensitive topics that their creators would prefer they not discuss (e.g., weapons of mass destruction, illegal activities, or, uh, Chinese political ...

This week on the podcast, PC World editors Steve Fox, Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, and Darren Gladstone explore the world of handset hacks. First up, iPhone jailbreaks are easy enough to do, but ...