Ben Lovejoy: Until recently, however, it wasn’t practical to mount brute-force attacks on Macs with a T2 chip. This is because the Mac password is not stored on the SSD, and the chip limits the number of password attempts that can be made, so you’d …
Lees meerJuli Clover: It includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports (one upstream and one downstream), two HDMI 2.0 ports, a USB-C port, two USB 3.1 USB-A ports, two USB 2.0 USB-A ports, an SD card slot, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. It’s $400, comp…
Lees meerMalcolm Owen (tweet, Hacker News): Users of Google Drive can potentially receive an email warning that a file of theirs “violates Google Drive’s Terms of Service,” specifically its copyright infringement policy. However, it appears that Google’s aut…
Lees meerMike Peterson (Hacker News): The latest Dymo label printers sport RFID readers that can authenticate the labels that customers place within the printers. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, this allows Dymo to distinguish between first-…
Lees meerAdam Engst: I don’t use OneDrive, but users are up in arms after its most recent update made the Files On-Demand approach mandatory, removing the option to keep all files local with a single switch. Microsoft explained this move, but users remain un…
Lees meerCharlie Monroe (tweet): The update got rejected because someone at Apple suddenly (this feature in this form has been around from the very beginning) decided that Permute does not correctly implement the option to detect external subtitles. This fea…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: A Berlin-based company has developed an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple’s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.So now we have several problems with the system. Apple’s anti-stalker s…
Lees meerSami Fathi (tweet): Apple would rather pay a maximum of €50 million in fines than address concerns brought forward by the Dutch competition authority regarding developer access to third-party payment methods on the App Store, the EU’s head of digita…
Lees meerSteve Gehrman: You may be wondering, is this Path Finder 11? No, from now on it’s just called “Path Finder”. We’ve decided from now on we will no longer use version numbers in the apps name. There is still exists an internal build number which you c…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Checking dozens or even hundreds of backup snapshots stored on hard disks can take many hours. If you don’t check the snapshots, there’s little point in checking your backup storage, as all your backups are stored in snapshots. As sna…
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