Enlarge / Which Steve Jobs is the real one? Ars Technica reader comments 45 with 38 posters participating Share this story A voice synthesis company based in Dubai published a fictional podcast interview between Joe Rogan and Steve Jobs using realistic voices digitally cloned from both men. It takes place during the “first episode” of… Read More: Fake Joe Rogan interviews fake Steve Jobs in an AI-powered… »
Enlarge / Matter promises to make smart home devices work with any control system you want to use, securely. This marketing image also seems to promise an intriguing future involving smart mid-century modern chairs and smart statement globes. reader comments 65 with 44 posters participating, including story author Share this story The specification for Matter… Read More: IoT harmony? What Matter and Thread really mean for your… »
Getty Images reader comments 41 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story A security researcher says that Apple’s iOS devices don’t fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a longtime computer security blogger… Read More: iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years,… »
Enlarge (credit: Kentaroo Tryman | Getty Images) Small businesses are cutting back marketing spending due to Apple’s sweeping privacy changes that have made it harder to target new customers online, in a growing trend that has led to billions of dollars in lost revenues for platforms like Facebook. Apple last year began forcing app developers… Read More: Small businesses count cost of Apple’s privacy changes »
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Mercenary spyware is one of the hardest threats to combat. It targets an infinitesimally small percentage of the world, making it statistically unlikely for most of us to ever see. And yet, because it selects only the most influential individuals (think diplomats, political dissidents, and lawyers), the sophisticated malware private companies sell… Read More: Why Lockdown mode from Apple is one of the coolest… »
Getty Images reader comments 68 with 46 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency, a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across other apps without first receiving those users’ explicit permission. Privacy advocates praised the initiative, and Facebook warned it would spell certain… Read More: Your iOS app may still be covertly tracking you, despite… »
reader comments 41 with 32 posters participating, including story author Share this story Apple on Thursday released fixes for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhones, iPads, and Macs that give hackers dangerous access to the internals of the OSes the devices run on. Apple credited an anonymous researcher with discovering both vulnerabilities. The first vulnerability,… Read More: Apple rushes out patches for two zero-days threatening iOS and… »
Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images reader comments 70 with 44 posters participating Share this story Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices that allows information about millions of users to be sent to servers located in its home country. The revelation relates to software created by Yandex that permits… Read More: Data-harvesting code in mobile apps sends user data to “Russia’s… »
reader comments 20 with 20 posters participating Share this story Scammers pushing iOS malware are stepping up their game by abusing two legitimate Apple features to bypass App Store vetting requirements and trick people into installing malicious apps. Apple has long required that apps pass a security review and be admitted to the App Store… Read More: Scammers have 2 clever new ways to install malicious apps… »
Getty Images reader comments 58 with 41 posters participating Share this story For the past four months, Apple’s iOS and iPadOS devices and Safari browser have violated one of the Internet’s most sacrosanct security policies. The violation results from a bug that leaks user identities and browsing activity in real time. The same-origin policy is… Read More: Safari and iOS users: Your browsing activity is being leaked… »