Benj Edwards reader comments 72 On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features like Siri in a future iPhone software update coming later in 2024, according to people familiar with the situation. Apple has also reportedly conducted similar talks with ChatGPT maker OpenAI. The potential… Read More »
reader comments 43 iMessage is getting a major makeover that makes it among the two messaging apps most prepared to withstand the coming advent of quantum computing, largely at parity with Signal or arguably incrementally more hardened. On Wednesday, Apple said messages sent through iMessage will now be protected by two forms of end-to-end encryption… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 43 As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a safer and more trustworthy source of apps, its operators scrambled Thursday to correct a major threat to that narrative: a listing that password manager maker LastPass said was a “fraudulent app impersonating” its brand. At the time… Read More »
Sofia Coppola has opened up a bit more about her scrapped adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country, which was set to star Florence Pugh for Apple TV+. Speaking to the New Yorker in a recent profile, Coppola opened up about the series, which was announced in 2020 and then promptly scrapped a… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 50 Chinese authorities recently said they’re using an advanced encryption attack to de-anonymize users of AirDrop in an effort to crack down on citizens who use the Apple file-sharing feature to mass-distribute content that’s outlawed in that country. According to a 2022 report from The New York Times,… Read More »
reader comments 95 Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky. Chief among the discoveries: the unknown attackers were able to achieve an unprecedented level of access by exploiting a vulnerability… Read More »
reader comments 160 with Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that now encompasses the Apple Card credit card, high-interest savings accounts, and a buy-now-pay-later service called Apple Pay Later. But even if those products have proven reasonably popular with consumers, they haven’t been working out for the bank… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »