Apple said it is pushing forward a series of software updates that would previously have been ​bundled with a new version of its iOS operating ‌system, making them available, opens new tab earlier than in previous cycles in response to AI-driven security concerns. The company told Reuters on Monday it was adapting to ​the reality that, given the ability of artificial intelligence ​to speed the development of malicious hacking tools, it ⁠needed to reduce the time between when updates were first ​made public and when they were put into customers’ hands. The ​shift marks a notable change in Apple’s longstanding practice of packaging security fixes with broader software releases, an acknowledgment that AI is compressing the ​window attackers need to exploit known flaws. Unless security experts discover ​a hacking campaign targeting a previously unknown software flaw, Apple usually releases security ‌updates ⁠as part of a move from one version of iOS to the next, for example from the currently available version – 26.5 – to the next planned update, 26.6. In the interim, developers and ​other testers trial ​the next ⁠update to iron out any kinks.

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