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Apple settles with states for $113M over iPhone battery throttling

Enlarge / An iPhone 6. reader comments 69 with 43 posters participating Share this story The attorneys general for 33 states and the District of Columbia have reached a $113 million settlement with Apple over allegations that the iPhone maker throttled performance in several generations of the device to conceal a design defect in the… Read More »

Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls

Patrick Wardle reader comments 94 with 70 posters participating Share this story Firewalls aren’t just for corporate networks. Large numbers of security- or privacy-conscious people also use them to filter or redirect traffic flowing in and out of their computers. Apple recently made a major change to macOS that frustrates these efforts. Beginning with macOS… Read More »

Bride: Scarlett Johansson to Star in Frankenstein Story for Apple & A24

Bride: Scarlett Johansson to Star in Sci-Fi Drama Film From Apple & A24 Apple has teamed up with A24 to produce a new sci-fi drama film titled Bride with Academy Award-nominated actress Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story, MCU) officially signing on to lead the project. This marks Apple’s latest collaboration with the critically-acclaimed studio following the… Read More »

Microsoft thumbs its nose at Apple with new “app fairness” policy

Enlarge / Microsoft sign at the entrance of their Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. reader comments 123 with 65 posters participating Share this story Microsoft this week adopted a whole slew of “fairness principles” for its Windows app store. The list of principles does look like a decent set of guidelines for both… Read More »

Apple pays $288,000 to white-hat hackers who had run of company’s network

Nick Wright. Used by permission. reader comments 56 with 51 posters participating Share this story For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers, a security researcher said on Thursday. Sam Curry, a… Read More »

Wolfwalkers Trailer Previews Apple’s Fantasy Animated Film

Wolfwalkers Trailer Previews Apple’s Fantasy Animated Film Apple has released the official Wolfwalkers trailer for their upcoming original fantasy animated feature which hails from Cartoon Saloon, an acclaimed Irish animation studio who are the ones behind Oscar-nominated films The Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea and The Breadwinner. The film is expected to have its… Read More »