Apple is planning to crack down on sites that utilize cross-site tracking. According to Apple, moving forward, it will take a firm stance against these practices by implementing “technical protections” into WebKit the browser engine that Safari runs on. Apple is taking a tough new stance on websites that attempt to monitor and share individuals’ […]
The US Federal Aviation Administration has banned the 2015 MacBook Pro particularly those sold between September 2015 and February 2017 from flights after Apple issued a recall in June. Cupertino said those laptops’ batteries may overheat and pose a safety risk. The agency told Bloomberg in a statement that it’s “aware of the recalled batteries […]
The National Transportation Safety Board asked Google, Apple and Microsoft in 2016 to add railroad crossings to their navigation apps according to a report in Politico. The NTSB, which investigates accidents but has no regulatory power, requested the safety improvements as part of a probe into the Oxnard crash. In that accident, a truck driver […]
Apple wasn’t quite able to make its promised AirPower wireless charging pad work. It canceled the project 18 months after announcing it. Its goal was to let you charge several devices at once using a single pad. However, where Apple failed, Mophie may have succeeded. Those who were anxiously awaiting the AirPower mat might be […]
Apple is rewarding security researchers for finding security flaws in macOS. At the Black Hat conference, Apple announced that it is greatly expanding its existing bug bounty program to include macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and iCloud. It will include rewards of up to $1 million for a zero-click, full chain kernel code execution attack. Apple announced […]
Apple is under investigation in Russia following a complaint from cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab and may be abusing its dominant market position, Russia’s anti-monopoly watchdog. The nation’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) is investigating a complaint by Kaspersky Lab over the rejection of its Safe Kids app from the App Store, reported Reuters. The tech giant […]
Apple has activated a “dormant software lock” that effectively kneecaps third-party replacement batteries on some newer models of iPhone, according to a report from iFixIt on Wednesday, by disabling access to battery health data unless the replacement has been installed by Apple or an authorized service provider. iFixIt wrote that this appears to be an […]
Apple plans to restrict how apps implement internet voice call functionality, which currently could allow mobile software to collect data while running in the background. An upcoming change in iOS 13 that limits data collection practices using VoIP APIs will impact apps like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, forcing them to be redesigned, reports The Information. […]
Ahead of the launch of the Apple Card, the customer agreement for the card has been found on the Goldman Sachs website, offering up a look at the ins and outs of how it will work. The agreement goes over eligibility (an Apple ID and two-factor authentication are required), how accounts may be used (no […]
Last week a report by The Guardian dug into a program where third-party contractors listened in to anonymized recordings of Apple users asking Siri questions to judge the assistant’s responses, and now Apple has shut it down. In a statement to TechCrunch, the company said that while it conducts a “thorough” review, it’s suspending the […]
Apple’s latest earnings report is out, and as many had expected, it’s very much on-trend with the numbers we’ve seen coming out of Cupertino this year. The company managed to grow its overall revenue a little, raking in a total of $53.8 billion compared to $53.3 billion this time last year. That’s not a huge […]
Today, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, developing interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud. A number of alternative social networks have also joined the project, with Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project enabling the import and export of contacts, and Mastodon allowing for the import and export of posts. An […]
Ming-Chi Kuo reported that Apple would launch three new iPhones in 2020, all of which will have OLED screens, but only two of which would have 5G connectivity. The lower end model would be the obvious outlier, being that many people are wary about dropping $1,000+ on a phone and prefer to give up some […]
Apple today registered two unreleased iPad models in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database, using the model identifiers A2200 and A2232, according to listings uncovered by MySmartPrice and confirmed by MacRumors. There appear to be three families in the mix: one A2000-series iPad (A2068), two A2100-series variants (A2197 and A2198) and four A2200 editions (A2200, […]
President Trump didn’t resist the temptation to tweet yet another loud message aimed at big tech, and more specifically Apple. The U.S. president says his administration won’t be getting any tax exemptions on the new Mac Pro, which is not unexpected if you consider his general stance on products made in China. Trump had previously […]