Apple accused of intentionally breaking FaceTime on iOS 6

We don't normally cover individual lawsuits against corporations because, hey, they make a lot of money, and everyone wants a slice. But the circumstances around this one are sufficiently controversial that we've made an exception. A woman …

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Apple Releases $200 Pro Apps Bundle for Education Customers

Apple today introduced a Pro Apps Bundle for Education that includes Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, Motion 5, Compressor 4, and MainStage 3 for $199.99. The software bundle is available for teachers, faculty, staff, and students at universities, coll…

Tim Cook to Receive Honorary Degree From University of Glasgow

Apple CEO Tim Cook will receive an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow on February 8 at 6:00 p.m. local time, as spotted by 9to5Mac. Following the ceremony, there will be a "Fireside Chat" and Q&A session.Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple. As …

LG's fixing its 5K monitor to work near Wi-Fi routers

LG has ended its silence on the router proximity problems for its 5K Mac monitor that rolled out in late 2016. The company recently told Recode that 5K monitors manufactured after February 2017 would add extra shielding to prevent them from frea…

For $deity's sake, smile! It's Friday! Sad coders write bad code – official

Boffins urge bosses to keep their developers cheerful Miserable software developers produce miserable software, to the further detriment of organizational productivity and personal health.…

Humanity needs you... to build an AI bot that can finger rotten headlines

Identifying fake news is too hard at the moment, say developers, but we can spot lies in headings Two AI researchers are behind a daring open challenge to fight the spread of outrageous headlines that are completely detached from reality. (As if any…

Super-cool sysadmin fixes PCs with gravity, or his fists

Happy days as reader impersonates The Fonz ON-CALL  Welcome to another Friday and therefore to another edition of On-Call, The Register's regular recycling of readers' recollections!…

GCHQ cyber-chief slams security outfits peddling 'medieval witchcraft'

It's not Advanced Persistent Threats, it's Adequate Pernicious Toerags Usenix Enigma 2017  The chief technical director of GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre has rebuked infosec companies for spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about hackers to…

Aantal 'skills' van Amazon Alexa verdubbelt in paar maanden

Het aantal 'skills' van Amazon Alexa is binnen een paar maanden meer dan verdubbeld. Ontwikkelaars brachten volgens de webwinkel sinds oktober vierduizend nieuwe integraties uit voor de digitale assistent. Dat waren er in de vijftien maanden daarvoo…

Google blurs the line between websites and Android apps

With its latest Chrome Beta release, Google has given app-like websites called "Progressive Web Apps" a higher status on Android. If you launch a site like Flipkart Lite in the latest Android Chrome beta, you'll now get the option "add to h…

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Class-Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple For Breaking FaceTime in iOS 6

Apple has been slapped with a class-action lawsuit that claims the company forced iPhone 4 and iPhone 4s users to upgrade to iOS 7 by intentionally breaking FaceTime in iOS 6. Apple used peer-to-peer technology for FaceTime calls along with a seco…

AI vuln-hunter bots have seen things you people wouldn't believe

New classes of bugs found by machine-learning-powered tools Usenix Enigma 2017  Machine-learning systems are unearthing new classes of bugs in operating systems and apps, according to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency bods.…

Open GApps krijgt optie voor installatie Google Assistant op Android-telefoons

Open GApps, een dienst om via het recovery-menu Google-apps en -diensten op Android-telefoons te zetten, krijgt een optie om Google Assistant te installeren. Dat kon tot nu toe niet. Assistant werkt op de Pixel-smartphones en in de speaker Google Ho…

Moederbedrijf Snapchat wil Spectables-bril op meer plekken gaan verkopen

Het moederbedrijf achter Snapchat wil de camerabril Spectacles op meer plekken gaan verkopen. Dat blijkt uit stukken die het bedrijf heeft geopenbaard voorafgaand aan de beursgang. Spectacles gingen vorig jaar in de verkoop op slechts een paar plekk…

Apple Raises $10 Billion in Debt Ahead of Trump's Plans for Tax Holiday

Apple has raised $10 billion in debt through a nine-part bond sale of both fixed and floating rate notes, according to the company's final pricing term sheet filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The nine-part sale inc…

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Tablets become feebleslabs as sales spiral down

Even detachables like the Surface are making buyers snooze The tablet computer market has slumped into “spiraling decline”, according to box-counter IDC.…

ServiceNow pals up with Palo Alto and ties up with Tanium

Security ops service adds more sources telling you when to panic, and how much ServiceNow has made some new friends in the information security industry and will use its new friends to tell you how fast to panic about intrusions.…