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The Family Plan Release Date Set for Mark Wahlberg-Led Apple TV+ Movie

Apple Original Films announced a release date for The Family Plan on Wednesday, revealing when the action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Monaghan is set to arrive. The Family Plan release date has been set for December 15, 2023, when the film will premiere on AppleTV+. Alongside the official announcement of the release date,… Read More »

Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools

Enlarge / A section of Apple’s repair manual for the M2 MacBook Air from 2022. Apple already offers customers some repair manuals and parts through its Self-Service Repair program. reader comments 51 with Right-to-repair advocates have long stated that passing repair laws in individual states was worth the uphill battle. Once enough states demanded that… Read More »

Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more

Kim et al. reader comments 49 with Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets by exploiting a side channel vulnerability in the A- and M-series CPUs running modern iOS and macOS devices. iLeakage, as the academic researchers have named the attack, is practical… Read More »

Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device

Enlarge / Ex-Apple designer Jony Ive (left) and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right). Getty Images reader comments 75 with Ex-Apple design star Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have been discussing the design of an unspecified new AI device, reports The Information, citing two people familiar with the talks. It’s unclear what exactly the… Read More »

Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters

Getty Images reader comments 51 with Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday. Two weeks ago, Apple reported that threat actors… Read More »

An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass

reader comments 10 with One of your Mac’s built-in malware detection tools may not be working quite as well as you think. At the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas, longtime Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle presented findings on Saturday about vulnerabilities in Apple’s macOS Background Task Management mechanism, which could be exploited to bypass… Read More »

Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs

Enlarge / Silicon wafers from a TSMC factory. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. reader comments 41 with It’s been rumored for several months now that Apple will be using a new 3 nm manufacturing process from Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) for its next-generation chips, including M3 series processors for Macs and the A17 Bionic for some… Read More »

It’s a hot 0-day summer for Apple, Google, and Microsoft security fixes

reader comments 10 with The summer patch cycle shows no signs of slowing down, with tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft releasing multiple updates to fix flaws being used in real-life attacks. July also saw serious bugs squashed by enterprise software firms SAP, Citrix, and Oracle. Here’s everything you need to know about the major… Read More »

Apple avoids “AI” hype at WWDC keynote by baking ML into products

Enlarge / Someone scans their face using Apple’s “most advanced machine learning techniques” with the Apple Vision Pro during a WWDC 2023 keynote demo reel. reader comments 42 with Amid notable new products like the Apple Silicon Mac Pro and the Apple Vision Pro revealed at Monday’s WWDC 2023 keynote event, Apple presenters never once… Read More »