This week’s iTunes movie deals include Disney Movies and a Harry Potter bundle featuring all eight films, as well as other movie deals.
Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 2.2, Third Party Content Easier to Find
The What’s Next feature has also received an upgrade to improve the suggestions it makes, while touch gestures have been made more precise.
Yet Another Facebook Vulnerability Found
Another Facebook vulnerability has been found that could have exposed information about users and their friends.
The security company Imperva has released new details on a Facebook vulnerability that could have exposed user data. The bug allowed websites to obtain private information about Facebook users and their friends through unauthorized access to a company API, playing off a specific behavior in the Chrome browser. The bug was disclosed to Facebook and resolved in May.
At this point Facebook is a giant dumpster fire. Get out while you still can.
iPhone Top Selling Phone at Alibaba Singles Day
Phones accounted for at least 100 million yuan ($14.36 million) in sales during the record-breaking event.
Pandora Podcasts Engine Launches in Beta Today
It will mix human curation and algorithms to suggest podcasts for you.
Some Users Report Their Apple IDs Being Locked
A number of users are reporting that their Apple IDs have been locked on their iOS devices, with the reason for the issue unknown.
Google Traffic Was Hijacked, Routed Through Russia, China
In another BGP hijack, Google traffic was rerouted yesterday through Russia and China. This included Google Cloud, YouTube, and other services.
Specifically, network connectivity to Google was instead routed through TransTelekom in Russia (
mskn17ra-lo1.transtelecom.net), and into a China Telecom gateway (ChinaTelecom-gw.transtelecom.net) that black-holed the packets. Both hostnames have since stopped resolving to IP addresses.
Hijack me once, shame on you. Hijack me twice, shame on me.
Snapchat Adds Friendship Profiles, New Bitmoji
Snapchat is adding some features to its app, like Friendship Profiles, new Bitmoji, Bitmoji Stories, and Bitmoji Merch.
New HTTP Version is Coming, Won't Use TCP
A new HTTP version is coming, and it will work differently than previous versions. Instead of using TCP, it will use a Google technology called QUIC.
In its continued efforts to make Web networking faster, Google has been working on an experimental network protocol named QUIC: “Quick UDP Internet Connections.” QUIC reinstates the reliability and ordering that TCP has but without introducing the same number of round trips and latency.
For example, if a client is reconnecting to a server, the client can send important encryption data with the very first packet, enabling the server to resurrect the old connection, using the same encryption as previously negotiated, without requiring any additional round trips.
Syncwire UNBREAKcable MFi-Certified Lightning Cable: $10.99
Check out the Syncwire UNBREAKcable, an MFi-Certified Lightning cable bend-tested for 30,000 charging cycles. It features a TPE jacket exterior and tinplate-wrapped inner wires. And it’s $10.99 through our deal.
