Tag Archives: Apple

Apple’s ransomware mess is the future of online extortion

Aurich Lawson reader comments 53 with 46 posters participating Share this story On the day Apple was set to announce a slew of new products at its Spring Loaded event, a leak appeared from an unexpected quarter. The notorious ransomware gang REvil said they had stolen data and schematics from Apple supplier Quanta Computer about… Read More »

Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

Enlarge / Insomnia people and mobile-addiction concepts. (credit: Getty Images) Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google. Now, a researcher has provided a side-by-side comparison that suggests that, while both iOS and Android collect handset data… Read More »

Judge grants class-action status to MacBook butterfly-keyboard suit

reader comments 74 with 46 posters participating Share this story A judge has granted class-action status to a suit against Apple over its controversial, allegedly defective MacBook “butterfly” keyboard design, agreeing that owners of any affected model in seven states qualify for the class. Beginning in 2018, several MacBook owners in seven states filed suits… Read More »

Tantoo Cardinal & More Round Out Killers of the Flower Moon Indigenous Cast

Tantoo Cardinal & more round out Killers of the Flower Moon Indigenous cast Just a month after finding its lead Indigenous star in Lily Gladstone (First Cow), Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon has rounded out its diverse cast with the additions of Tantoo Cardinal (Stumptown), Cara Jade Myers (This Is Us), JaNae Collins (Longmire) and… Read More »

Jodie Comer to Play Josephine in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Bonaparte Film Kitbag

Jodie Comer to Play Josephine in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Bonaparte Film Kitbag Jodie Comer has joined Ridley Scott’s (The Martian, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) biopic epic Kitbag to play Napoleon Bonaparte’s beloved Josephine in the upcoming feature from Apple Studios, according to Deadline. The Golden Globe-nominated and Emmy-winning Killing Eve star recently worked on Scott’s drama The Last… Read More »

Masters of the Air: Austin Butler & Callum Turner Join Band of Brothers Sequel

Masters of the Air: Austin Butler & Callum Turner Join Band of Brothers Sequel Apple Studios’ Band of Brothers sequel event series Masters of the Air has added Austin Butler (Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, The Dead Don’t Die) and Callum Turner (Emma., The Capture) to its cast, according to Deadline. Butler will star… Read More »

Lessons in Chemistry: Brie Larson to Star in Apple’s New Drama Series

Lessons in Chemistry: Brie Larson to Star in Apple’s New Drama Series Following an intense bidding war, Variety brings word that Apple has successfully won the rights to the series adaptation of author Bonnie Garmus’ upcoming debut novel titled Lessons in Chemistry with Oscar-winner Brie Larson officially signing on for the leading role. Apple has… Read More »

Corellium notches partial victory in Apple iOS copyright case

Enlarge / Just some of the iDevice types that Corellium didn’t break one law—but may still have broken another—by emulating. reader comments 13 with 11 posters participating Share this story Security firm Corellium, which develops software that researchers can use to analyze Apple products, has been handed a partial victory in Apple’s lawsuit against it,… Read More »

iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever

Enlarge / That’s a lot of screen. Samuel Axon reader comments 144 with 106 posters participating Share this story Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device—over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required… Read More »