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Thursday April 11, 2024. 06:01 PM
Apple is finally making it easier for users to repair their iPhones with used parts. From a report: In an update on Thursday, the company announced that this fall, owners of 'select' iPhone models will be able to repair their devices with used, genuine parts while retaining...
Apple sent threat notifications to iPhone users in 92 countries on Wednesday, warning them that may have been targeted by mercenary spyware attacks. From a report: The company said it sent the alerts to individuals in 92 nations at 12pm Pacific Time Wednesday. The...
Tuesday April 9, 2024. 10:02 PM
We're seeing a boom in journaling apps as safer, easier ways to ease us back into posting everything online. From a report: Last year, Apple released a journal app with iOS 17. Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just unveiled a photo app called Shine, which is made to share...
Late last year the messaging app Beeper raised the ire of Apple when it found a way to recreate Apple's infamous 'blue bubble' messaging on Android. Apple later hobbled Beeper, but it's not an entirely unhappy ending: The startup has been acquired in a deal valued at $125...
Sunday April 7, 2024. 01:34 PM
Four months ago long-time Slashdot reader Shayde tried restoring a 1986 DEC PDP-11 minicomputer. But now he's gone even further back in time. Shayde writes: In 1984, Apple II's were at the top of their game in the 8 bit market. A company in New Jersey decided to get in on...
Saturday April 6, 2024. 01:20 AM
In an update on Friday, Apple announced that game emulators can come to the App Store globally and offer downloadable games. 'Apple says those games must comply with 'all applicable laws,' though -- an indication it will ban apps that provide pirated titles,' adds The Verge. ...
Apple is laying off more than 700 employees across the company, including its Micro-LED displays division and the recently shut down Apple Car project. 9to5Mac reports: As seen by 9to5Mac in the latest WARN report provided by the California Employment Development Department, ...
Friday April 5, 2024. 11:20 PM
Matthew Connatser reports via The Register: A study has concluded that Apple's privacy practices aren't particularly effective, because default apps on the iPhone and Mac have limited privacy settings and confusing configuration options. The research was conducted by Amel...
Thursday April 4, 2024. 12:40 AM
As reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots following the shut down of its electric vehicle project. CNBC reports: Engineers at Apple have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes and a tabletop...
Wednesday April 3, 2024. 02:50 AM
Sara Fischer reports via Axios: Jon Stewart on Monday told Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan that Apple wouldn't let him interview her for a podcast. 'I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,' 'The Daily Show' host said to Khan, in...
Monday April 1, 2024. 10:40 PM
Zac Hall reports via 9to5Mac: In a newly published research paper (PDF), Apple's AI gurus describe a system in which Siri can do much more than try to recognize what's in an image. The best part? It thinks one of its models for doing this benchmarks better than ChatGPT 4.0....
Friday March 29, 2024. 08:00 AM
Apple has sued its former employee Andrew Aude for leaking information about more than a half-dozen Apple products and policies, including its then-unannounced Journal app and Vision Pro headset, product development policies, strategies for regulatory compliance, employee...
Thursday March 28, 2024. 09:01 PM
An anonymous reader writes: What if you could update the device while it's still in the box? That's the latest plan cooked up by Apple, which is close to rolling out a system that will let Apple Stores wirelessly update new iPhones while they're still in their boxes. The new ...
Wednesday March 27, 2024. 11:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple's password reset feature. In this scenario, a target's Apple devices are forced to...
Tuesday March 26, 2024. 09:24 PM
Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is set to take place June 10 through 14, 2024. It'll be an online event open to all developers at no cost. MacRumors reports: Apple will hold a WWDC 2024 keynote event on Monday, June 10 to...
Monday March 25, 2024. 05:41 PM
Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market, piggybacking on a sweeping antitrust case lodged by the U.S. Justice Department and 15 states last week. From a report: At least three proposed class...
FrankOVD shares a report: Here's a paragraph from the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple in full: 'In addition to degrading the quality of third-party messaging apps, Apple affirmatively undermines the quality of rival smartphones. For example, if an iPhone user messages...
The European Union has launched investigations into Apple, Meta and Google under its sweeping new digital-competition law, adding to the regulatory scrutiny large U.S. tech companies are facing worldwide. From a report: The suite of probes [Editor's note: the link may be...
Saturday March 23, 2024. 04:34 PM
'On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker,' writes cURL lead developer Daniel Stenberg: The title stated of the problem in this case was quite clear: flag -cacert behavior isn't consistent between macOS and Linux, and it was filed by Yuedong...
'There is a new side channel attack against Apple 'M' series CPUs that does not appear to be fixable without a major performance hit,' writes Slashdot reader EncryptedSoldier. SecurityWeek reports: A team of researchers representing several universities in the United States...
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