Enlarge / The current state of Google’s iOS app lineup. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google’s major iOS apps have been seeing serious neglect for the past few months. On December 8, Apple’s App Store started requiring all apps to show privacy “nutrition labels” in their app store listing, where developers self-report what data an app uses […]
Enlarge / Who doesn’t like cyan comments in their text editor? Lee Hutchinson, that’s who. (credit: Jim Salter) One fine Monday morning, Ars Technica Senior Technology Editor Lee Hutchinson came to me with a problem: the colors in his text editor, in his humble opinion, had Begun To Suck. In Lee’s 20 years or so […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Leon Justice) The Florida water treatment facility whose computer system experienced a potentially hazardous computer breach last week used an unsupported version of Windows with no firewall and shared the same TeamViewer password among its employees, government officials have reported. The computer intrusion happened last Friday in Oldsmar, a Florida […]
Enlarge / SIM card. SIM card replacement. close-up (credit: Getty Images) Ten people have been arrested in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks that reaped more than $100 million by taking over the mobile phone accounts of high-profile individuals, authorities said on Wednesday. SIM-swapping is a crime that involves replacing a target’s legitimate SIM […]
Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) The Trump administration spent the last two years going to war with Huawei, calling the company a national security risk due to its alleged ties with the Chinese government. An executive order barred companies (even international companies) from selling Huawei hardware or software that contained US technology, and additional […]
Enlarge / The update is available on supported Macs today. (credit: Samuel Axon) Today, Apple released a small update to macOS Big Sur, numbered 11.2.1. Primarily, it fixes a problem affecting some MacBook Pro models that prevented their batteries from charging properly. It also fixed a sudo bug that could in some cases play a […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) It’s the second Tuesday of February, and that means Microsoft and other software makers are releasing dozens of updates to fix security vulnerabilities. Topping of this month’s list are two zerodays under active exploit and critical networking flaws that allow attackers to remotely execute malicious code or shut down computers. The […]
Check out these colors! It looks like they are all driven by the wallpaper selection. A beige-colored wallpaper leads to a beige notification panel, widgets, icons, and more. [credit: XDA Developers ] The final version of Android 12 should be released sometime in September, but the first developer preview is expected any day now. Our […]
A phone you can easily grasp with one hand? Crazy talk. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Bad news for lovers of smaller phones: The iPhone 12 mini has sold poorly compared to other phones in the iPhone 12 lineup—poorly enough that analysts wonder whether Apple will remain committed to the smaller phone design moving forward. A […]
Enlarge / Former Apple hardware engineering leader Dan Riccio. (credit: Apple) A couple of weeks ago, Apple announced that longtime hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio will step down from his role to focus entirely on a “new project” within the company. According to yet another report at Bloomberg based on sources with knowledge of Apple’s […]