Monica Chin (via Nilay Patel): Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, had just completed his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it …
Lees meerQualys (via Marcel Weiher, Matthew Garrett, Hacker News): Surprisingly, we re-discovered these vulnerabilities during a recent qmail audit; they have never been fixed because, as stated by qmail’s author Daniel J. Bernstein: This claim is denied. No…
Lees meerAlex Hern (via Julian Mair): A former Apple contractor who helped blow the whistle on the company’s programme to listen to users’ Siri recordings has decided to go public, in protest at the lack of action taken as a result of the disclosures. In a l…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.5, major updates that come more than a month after the launch of iOS and iPadOS 13.4.1. iOS 13.5 is a major health-related update that brings many features related to the ongoing public health cris…
Lees meerOlivia Solon (via John Gruber): Software called Hide UI, created by Grayshift, a company that makes iPhone-cracking devices for law enforcement, can track a suspect’s passcode when it’s entered into a phone, according to two people in law enforcemen…
Lees meerYesterday, Apple released the latest update to the iPhone operating system. Apple just calls it iOS 13.5, but to me, this is the COVID-19 update. It includes a number of changes to make the iPhone work better in a world...
Lees meerKevin Purdy (via Josh Centers): Most importantly, don’t try to use rice to “draw out the moisture.” It doesn’t work, at all. You’re giving water more time to corrode your laptop, and you’re probably getting rice inside your laptop or under your keys…
Lees meerJoe Rogan: Starting on September 1 the podcast will be available on Spotify as well as all platforms, and then at the end of the year it will move exclusively to Spotify… The podcast was already hugely financially successful, and it seems like this …
Lees meerBen Sandofsky: Meanwhile, a storm brewed on the horizon: iOS 13. At the start of summer, we tested Halide with the first iOS beta, and found significant issues. We filed tickets with Apple and hoped for the best, but as iOS 13 reached its last few b…
Lees meerAdam Engst: When I used Siri to create the calendar event for the call, because I specified Mickie and Gary by name, Siri tried to be smart and invited them to the event without telling me. I didn’t want that to happen—the event was for my reference…
Lees meerIf law enforcement officials choose to wage a campaign to make strong encryption illegal under they guise that only “good guys” would have the circumvention keys, that’s on them, but news media need to get their shit together on the fact that what l…
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