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Apple 'Hide My Email' Bug Reveals Real Addresses

A security researcher has reported a vulnerability in Apple’s 'Hide My Email' feature (part of iCloud+) that can reveal users’ actual email addresses behind one-time, randomly generated forwarding addresses. According to 404 Media, researcher Tyler Murphy of the data-deletion service Easyoptouts discovered the bug in June 2025 and notified Apple, but the company has not fixed the issue for about a year. 404 Media says it was able to reproduce the disclosure using the exploit supplied by Murphy. Both Murphy and 404 Media withheld technical details to avoid enabling abuse; Apple previously asked the researcher not to publish exploit details. The flaw raises privacy risks, including the ability to link masked addresses to personal data on public people-search sites.

Bug in Apple’s Hide My Email Exposes Real Addresses

New research reported by 404 Media and summarized by TechCrunch claims a vulnerability in Apple’s Hide My Email feature can reveal users’ real email addresses. Researcher Tyler Murphy, co‑founder of EasyOptOuts, says he informed Apple more than a year ago and that 404 Media tested and verified the issue; in limited volunteer tests Murphy reported 100% of Hide My Email addresses were exploitable. Details of the vulnerability have been withheld from public disclosure to avoid abuse. Murphy warned that people‑search and data broker sites can link exposed emails to additional personal information, increasing privacy risk. TechCrunch contacted Apple for comment. The report follows prior scrutiny of Apple privacy features in 2022 and 2023 for other perceived privacy failures.

US Seeks Tight Control Over Frontier AI Model Releases

Recent U.S. actions are placing frontier AI models under tighter government oversight. A White House decree in early June establishes a voluntary framework giving U.S. authorities pre-release access to large language models from American firms; the government also reportedly asked OpenAI to phase the public rollout of its next model. The move follows the U.S. imposition of export controls on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 days after its launch. Coverage notes rising competition from models such as Z.ai’s GLM-5.2, and European commentators argue that Europe need not panic: open-source and smaller local models are rapidly improving and many business use-cases do not require frontier models. The debate highlights trade-offs between national security oversight, commercial rollout speed, and the growing viability of alternative, lower-cost models and on-premises deployments.