Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway are set to star in an Apple TV+ series about the rise and fall of WeWork called ‘WeCrashed’.
Apple Releases 'Shot on iPhone 12 Pro Max' Chinese New Year Short
Apple released a new video to celebrate Chinese New Year called ‘Nian’, that was shot on an iPhone 12 Pro Max.
App Tracking Transparency Is Already Here
While developers aren’t yet required to follow the new privacy feature, App Tracking Transparency is already here. As Jeff Butts has found, there are some app developers who are even using it before they have to.
Investigation Shows Some App Store Privacy Labels are Misleading
iOS 14 added App Store privacy labels as a way for developers to disclose the data their apps collect. But some of these labels may be inaccurate.
Hyundai Apple Car Tie Up May be Hampered by Culture Clash
Executives at Hyundai are divided on the subject of working on the Apple Car, reducing the likelihood of a deal.
Pixelmator Pro ML Super Resolution Now Removes WebP Compression Artifacts
Pixelmator Pro has a new update ready, version 2.0.4. It brings an improvement to its ML Super Resolution image upscaler. It can now remove compression artifacts from WebP files. Another improvement adds support for portrait masks in Apple ProRAW images.
Pixelmator Pro already supports the WebP file format and, as it gains more users around the web, it’s becoming clear that the WebP compression algorithm produces unique compression artifacts. ML Super Resolution has already been trained to remove JPEG artifacts when resampling images but, with today’s update, it can now remove WebP artifacts too.
Apple has Released macOS Big Sur 11.2 RC 3 to Testers
Apple has released the third Release Candidate (RC) for macOS Big Sur 11.2 for developers and public beta testers.
Pandora’s Thumbprint Radio Celebrates 5th Anniversary With 50 Million Users
Since its launch five years ago, Pandora Thumbprint Radio has reached 50 million users with over 2 billion hours of music listening.
How Apple Improved iMessage Security in iOS 14
Project Zero, Google’s security team, reverse-engineered iMessage to see how Apple improved it in its latest OS 14 releases. Specially, how it has gained new protections against zero-day attacks using BlastDoor, resliding of the shared cache, and exponential throttling.
One of the major changes in iOS 14 is the introduction of a new, tightly sandboxed “BlastDoor” service which is now responsible for almost all parsing of untrusted data in iMessages (for example, NSKeyedArchiver payloads). Furthermore, this service is written in Swift, a (mostly) memory safe language which makes it significantly harder to introduce classic memory corruption vulnerabilities into the code base.
This Person Hacked His iPod to Stream Spotify Using Raspberry Pi
Guy Dupont recently hacked an old iPod to stream Spotify. He used a Raspberry PI Zero W and a custom UI built using Python. Additionally, he fitted a 1000 mAh batter into it, a motor for haptic feedback, and a 2-inch LCD Adafruit display. “My mother-in-law recently gifted me a bag of the family’s retired iPods. I had forgotten how good it feels to hold and use one of these things. Naturally, I decided to modify one. I wanted to supply some modern features (streaming, search, Bluetooth audio, etc), while paying homage to the amazing UX that Apple originally released almost 20 years ago.”