Tech News Weekly 429: DarkSword Puts Hundreds of Millions at Risk

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy of The Verge joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! IKEA's smart home products are not quite there yet. NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5 at GTC 2026 and faced backlash from within the gaming community. A powerful iPhone-hacking technique has been discovered to take over devices running iOS 18. And some updates on the probes into Tesla's and hands-free driving systems.

• Jennifer shares her experience using IKEA's newest smart home products utilizing the Matter-over-Thread protocol, expressing her concerns and frustrations with trying to connect them to any smart home platform.
• Mikah talks about Nvidia's DLSS 5 that was unveiled at GTC 2026, and the criticism & memes it has faced since its unveiling.
• Andy Greenberg of WIRED joins the show to talk about a tool that has been discovered, called DarkSword, that can hack into millions of iPhones running iOS 18.
• And Mikah chats about hands-free driving technology in vehicles and NHTSA's probe into Tesla and Ford's hands-free driving systems.

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• Tech: Millions of iPhones Vulnerable: What To Know About the DarkSword Exploit
• Transcripts: Tech News Weekly 429 Transcript

Links

• Ikea tried to build a smart home for everyone — here’s why it’s not working yet | The Verge
• Ikea’s new Matter smart home devices are having connection problems | The Verge
• Troubleshooting IKEA Matter over Thread Devices: Architecture, Failure Modes, and Practical Fixes
• Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups - Ars Technica
• Nvidia’s DLSS 5 is like motion smoothing for video games, but worse | The Verge
• Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild | WIRED
• Tesla Faces Expanded U.S. Probe Over Self-Driving Performance in Poor Weather - WSJ
• Hands-Free Driving Systems Confuse Drivers, but Carmakers Push for More - WSJ
• Regulator Investigates Tesla’s Automated-Driving Feature After Fatal Crash - WSJ

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