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Why Facebook and Apple are going to war over privacy

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers a speech on privacy at a virtual conference. (credit: CPDP) Today, Apple announced plans to finally roll out its previously delayed change in policy on apps’ use of IDFA (ID for Advertisers) to track users for targeted advertising. The feature will be in the next beta release of […]

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iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 adds new camera features, fixes bunches of bugs

Enlarge / The 2020 iPad Air—one of several devices supported by today’s new software releases. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple began rolling out iOS 14.4 and iPadOS 14.4 to supported iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. The company also pushed watchOS 7.3 to Apple Watches and tvOS 14.4 to Apple TVs. iOS 14.4/iPadOS 14.4 is […]

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How law enforcement gets around your smartphone’s encryption

Enlarge / Uberwachung, Symbolbild, Datensicherheit, Datenhoheit (credit: Westend61 | Getty Images) Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national security is at stake. But new research indicates governments already have methods and tools that, […]

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Amazon cuts off Parler’s web hosting following Apple, Google bans

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Amazon Web Services is suspending Parler’s access to its hosting services at the end of the weekend, potentially driving the service offline unless it can find a new provider. “Because Parler cannot comply with our terms of service and poses a very real risk to public safety, we […]

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Corellium notches partial victory in Apple iOS copyright case

Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. (credit: Kristin Lee | Getty Images) Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it, as a judge ruled […]

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Xbox Cloud Gambling Support Strikes iOS, Windows PCs in spring 2021 

Expand / This demo of Microsoft’s Job xCloud as played a Razer Kishi controller, attached to your normal Android smartphone, may be a sign of what is to come to iOS apparatus in spring of 2021. At a blog article now retrieved everything from forthcoming games to programs for Xbox collection X/S, Microsoft announced that […]

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IPhone zero-click Wi-Fi harness is among the most stunning hacks in history

Expand / / That is a Great Deal of display. Before this year, Apple patched among the most stunning iPhone vulnerabilities in history: some memory corruption bug at the iOS kernel which gave believers remote access to the full apparatus –on Wi-Fi, without any user interaction needed in any way. Oh, and whistles were wormable–significance […]

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Apple moving Ahead with plan to Restrict”creepy” user Monitoring

Expand / / A person glowers in an iPhone, as advertising firms are concerned iOS users will whenever they find how they’re being monitored and they can determine of it. (charge: Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images) Apple’s strategy to bring a new privacy feature to iOS to restrict”invasive, even creepy” monitoring by third […]

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Stadia game streaming will come to iOS via Web browser

Embossed text, ’cause it’s fancy. [credit: Kyle Orland ] After over a year of being barred from iOS, Google’s Stadia game-streaming service will soon be available on the mobile platform as a progressive Web application running through a browser, Google announced today. Testing for the mobile Web version of the service will begin this week, […]

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Apple drops its Reduction of App Store Earnings from 30 Percent to 15 Percent for some Programmers

Expand / / Apple’s App Store. (charge: Silas Stein/picture alliance through Getty Images) In one of their greatest changes on the App Store version, Apple now declared that nearly all third-party programmers releasing games and apps on the provider’s App Store will observe a decrease in Apple’s reduction of earnings from 30% to 15 percent. […]