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Security researchers have identified a persistent hardware-level vulnerability affecting the A12 and A13 Bionic chips, impacting devices including the iPhone XR, iPhone 11 series, and older iPad models. Because this flaw resides within the physical silicon architecture of the processors rather than the software layer, it cannot be fully mitigated through standard iOS security updates, … Read more