438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
macOS 13.6.2
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Apple (release notes, full installer for M1 and M2, M3): This update has no published CVE entries. Available for MacBook Pro (2021 and later) and iMac (2023) Enterprise release notes: MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch computers with Apple silicon no longer start up to a black screen or circled exclamation point after the built-in display’s […]
watchOS 10.1.1
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): Today’s update addresses an issue that is causing some Apple Watch models to drain battery more quickly than expected. Complaints about Apple Watch battery started after the launch of watchOS 10.1, and Apple confirmed in a memo over the weekend that the battery problems would be fixed in a […]
Bike Outline Paths
Jesse Grosjean: Use outline paths to query your Bike outlines. Today they are used through AppleScript and Shortcuts actions. In the future they will be used to build new features such as stylesheets and outline filtering. There’s a video demonstrating them and documentation for the syntax. Previously: Bike 1.12
iOS 17.1 Lock Screen Photo Album Shuffle
Zachary McAuliffe: Apple introduced Photo Shuffle for lock screen in iOS 16. However, you could only choose categories of photos in your library and camera roll, like People and Pets, or you could use the Select Photos Manually option and go through your library to find the right photos. You were limited to 50 manually […]
Mint.com Replaced by Credit Karma
Emma Roth (via Hacker News, Reddit): Intuit first acquired Mint in 2009, an app that has offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions. Now, Intuit is inviting users to Credit Karma, a service that the company acquired in 2020. While Credit Karma offers […]
Apple’s Trademark Exploit
GiovanH (via Hacker News): Apple puts its logo on the devices it sells: not just the outer casing, but also each internal component. The vast majority of these logos are totally enclosed and invisible to the naked eye. This seems like a strange practice — especially since Apple doesn’t sell these parts separately — except […]
The Negative Impact of Mobile-First Web Design on Desktop
Kim Salazar, Tim Neusesser, and Nishi Chitale (via Hacker News): Many modern websites are designed with a mobile-first approach. When these pages render on desktop devices, the content can appear overly large and stretched out. Screen-covering images, large bloated text, and excessive negative space result in long pages requiring more scrolling to consume all content. […]
iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
Jason Kim et al. (Hacker News): We present iLeakage, a transient execution side channel targeting the Safari web browser present on Macs, iPads and iPhones. iLeakage shows that the Spectre attack is still relevant and exploitable, even after nearly 6 years of effort to mitigate it since its discovery. We show how an attacker can […]