77 posts tagged ‘iOS 17’
Computational Bridal Photo
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Matt Growcoot: A woman says that “the fabric of reality crumbled” after she looked at an iPhone photo of herself trying on a wedding dress and noticed that her reflection looked different.Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coates’ reflection does not return the same pose that she is making, and not only that, […]
iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): iOS 17.1.2 includes important security fixes. Specifically, the update addresses vulnerabilities that may have been exploited in earlier versions of iOS.Processing web content may disclose sensitive information.[…]Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution. Previously: iOS 17.1.1 and iPadOS 17.1.1
Apple Cash Escheat Heads-up
Dana E. Stevens: I had a small balance in Apple Cash and had not made any transactions in a bit over 3 years. I received a text message notice of a “Balance Adjustment” resulting in a $0 balance in Apple Cash. Called Apple Support. They said the balance had been escheated to the state I […]
Google Drive Loses Months of Customer Data
Yeonjoong (via Hacker News): My Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023. data from May until today disappeared, and the folder structure went back to status in May.Google Drive activity doesn’t show any changes (only show activity that was in May) No files was deleted manually, so […]
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown
Paresh Dave (Hacker News, Reddit): In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears that a security update to the company’s Chrome browser could hamper ad zapping. Google, which draws […]
Privacy Is Priceless, But Signal Is Expensive
Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund (Hacker News): Signal is also a nonprofit, unlike almost every other consumer tech company. This provides an essential structural safeguard ensuring that we stay true to our privacy-focused mission. To put it bluntly, as a nonprofit we don’t have investors or profit-minded board members knocking during hard times, urging us […]
Black Friday 2023
My apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Affinity Akismet AllTrails Apparent Software Appfigures Astro CYME Corel Curio Dada Mail Deckset (INDIE-APP-SALES) DisplayBuddy (INDIEAPPSALES) DEVONtechnologies DevUtils Drafts Ducklet DxO Ergonis Flexibits Gaia GPS Gentlemen Coders Gitonium GlanceCam […]
Apple to Add RCS Messaging in iOS 17 Update
Lance Ulanoff (Hacker News, MacRumors): Apple will finally add RCS messaging standard support to the iPhone through a software release early next year, the company told TechRadar.[…]“Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe the RCS Universal Profile will offer […]