TNW 431: iPhone Hacking Tools Go Public - DarkSword & Coruda Puts Older iOS Users at Risk
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Abrar Al-Heeti joins Mikah Sargent this week! Meta is in dispute with the Motion Picture Association. Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code's source code. Apple is continuing to extend updates to those affected by the DarkSword exploit. And Meta & YouTube are found liable for having features that are addictive for younger users.
- Abrar talks about Meta's deal with the Motion Picture Association to scale back the use of film ratings when describing its teen accounts.
- Mikah shares how Anthropic's Claude code was leaked, unveiling some next-gen AI coding features.
- Mikah gives an update on the DarkSword and Coruna exploit tools that utilize zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS 18.
- And both Meta and YouTube were found liable for some of their features that make their social media platforms addictive for younger users, having to pay millions in fines.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Abrar Al-Heeti
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Abrar Alhiti is here. |
| 0:03.0 | We talk about how Meta and the MPAA have come to an agreement about using movie ratings on the platform. |
| 0:11.0 | Then I talk about that Claude Code leak and all the stuff Anthropic has in the works before we discuss the very scary Dark Sword Toolkit for hacking into modern iPhones and |
| 0:26.2 | meta and YouTube facing big trials about the way that their platforms do or don't harm kids. |
| 0:36.5 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:41.3 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:43.1 | From people you trust. |
| 0:45.6 | This is Twit. |
| 0:49.2 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 431, with Abar Al-Hiti and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, April 2nd, 2026. |
| 0:58.5 | iPhone hacking tools go public. |
| 1:02.4 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking that tech news. |
| 1:08.8 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week by |
| 1:12.2 | the wonderful Abraar Al-Hiti. Hello, Abra. Hello, friend. How are you? I am exceptional. |
| 1:20.8 | Thank you very much. I love that. That's a great adjective. |
| 1:24.3 | Thank you. Thank you. For people tuning into this show for the first time, welcome, for those of you who are back, also welcome. We appreciate having you. This is the part of the show where we kick off with our stories of the week. These stories we find interesting and want to talk about. So that's what we're going to do here on the show. A brar, could you tell us |
| 1:46.8 | about your story of the week? I would love to. So I'm going to talk about meta and the Motion |
| 1:51.6 | Picture Association budding heads over how meta runs its Instagram teen account. So first, |
| 1:58.5 | let's take a step back to October real quick. |
| 2:05.2 | So meta rolled out an update to its teen accounts because, you know, obviously there's a lot of pushback about the health and safety of platforms like Instagram, which are very popular |
| 2:13.5 | among teenagers. |
| 2:14.4 | But what meta had said at the time was in the same way that you might, in a PG-13 film, |
| 2:21.3 | see some suggestive content or hear some strong language, that is essentially what |
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