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October 2, 2023

IN THIS ISSUE

📱 Apple working on a fix for iPhone overheating

🔐 NSA opens AI security center

✨ Immerse yourself in James Webb's image of Orion Nebula

UP FIRST

Apple identifies software problem causing iPhones to overheat

Devices are overheating due to a bug in iOS 17 software

The recent launch of the iPhone 15 has been overshadowed by reports from some users of the device overheating, leading to worries about potential safety issues and concerns about the devices' performance. The issue is affecting both iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models.

Now, Apple has announced that it has identified the source of the problem. "We have identified a few conditions which can cause iPhone to run warmer than expected," Apple said in a statement, reported by The Guardian.

The problem is caused by a software issue, so Apple said it is working on a new version of the iOS 17 software to address the overheating.

An apparently separate issue has the devices getting hot during initial setup, as experienced by our reporter. Apple said that the devices "may feel warmer during the first few days after setting up or restoring the device because of increased background activity."

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

NSA opens a security center to investigate AI threats

There will still be 'humans in the loop'

The National Security Agency (NSA) is opening a security center dedicated to artificial intelligence, as part of the NSA Cybersecurity Collaboration Center. The aim is to protect U.S. defense systems using AI, and also to investigate AI threats from foreign powers such as China and Russia, AP reports.

"We maintain an advantage in AI in the United States today. That AI advantage should not be taken for granted," Army General Paul Nakasone, current director of the NSA, said at the National Press Club.

Nakasone went on to say that the NSA had not yet found any evidence of Chinese or Russian state actors attempting to influence the 2024 presidential election, but the agency has detected increased Chinese cyberattacks on U.S. institutions in recent months.

Nakasone also said that AI would continue to be used as an assistant in security operations, but that "decisions will be made by humans."

STARGAZING

Dive deep into James Webb image of the gorgeous Orion Nebula

Zoom into a 21,000 x 14,351 pixel image of the famous nebula

The European Space Agency has shared an enormous image of the famous Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. This huge cloud of dust and gas, located south of the Orion's belt constellation, is a stellar nursery where many new stars are forming.

Webb took images of the nebula using its NIRCam instrument in two different wavelengths in the infrared, with the shorter wavelength image highlighting young stars, and the longer wavelength image highlighting the gas and dust that make up the nebula.

This image is at a massive resolution of 21,000 x 14,351 pixels and shows the nebula in exquisite detail. The area of the nebula covered by the image is around 4 by 2.75 light-years in size and includes thousands of stars of all different sizes ranging from 40 times the mass of our sun to less than 0.1 times the mass of the sun.

You can zoom into the image here in the ESASky application, or you can download the full-size image here.

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