Smart Glasses for the Authorities

This collection highlights multiple high-impact security and privacy threats: (1) A new GPU rowhammer technique against NVIDIA Ampere cards that can flip GDDR bits and give attackers full control of host CPU memory (requires IOMMU disabled — often the BIOS default), enabling full system compromise. (2) DarkSword — an iOS full‑chain exploit chain using multiple zero‑days observed in the wild since Nov 2025 against targets in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine, attributed to commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state actors. (3) Advances in AI-assisted vulnerability discovery/​