The problem with making WebKit mandatory, according to security researchers, is that Apple's browser engine is in some respects less secure than Chrome's. Amy Burnett, a founder of security firm Ret2 who leads trainings in both Chrome and WebKit exploitation, says that it's not clear which of the two browsers has the most exploitable bugs. But she argues that Chrome's bugs are fixed faster, which she credits in part to Google's internal efforts to find and eliminate security flaws in its own code, often through automated techniques like fuzzing.
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More fundamentally, iMessage has innate privileges in iOS that other messaging apps are denied. In fact, non-Apple apps are cordoned off from the rest of the operating system by rigorous sandboxes. That means that if a third-party app like WhatsApp is compromised, for instance, a hacker still has to break through its sandbox with another, distinct technique to gain deeper control of the device. But Project Zero's Silvanovich noted in her writeup of the iMessage flaws that some of iMessage's vulnerable components are integrated with SpringBoard, iOS's program for managing a device's home screen, which Silvanovich writes has no sandbox at all.
A Reddit user recently posted an email exchange he had with Apple VP of software Craig Federighi asking for a scheduled iMessage feature for iPhone and iPad. Federighi revealed that Apple has actually considered and is still considering the feature. However, there are a couple of issues with how scheduled iMessages are received that has caused Apple to hold back on the idea for now.
The headline features of version 15 are the adoption of Apple’s Metal API and support for Microsoft DirectX 11. Version 15 users can run several CAD apps plus PC game titles as new options for Mac. Now, Autodesk 3ds Max 2020, Lumion, ArcGIS Pro, Master Series, FIFA 19, Age of Empires, Fallout 4 and more can all run through Parallels. I know for people who use Autodesk products, they have often preferred the PC versions over the native Mac ones due to various optimizations. My sister-in-law is a landscape architect, and she prefers to use the PC versions on low spec hardware over the Mac version on a souped-up iMac. With the continued enhancements to Parallels, she could easily run the PC version on top of macOS without much slowdown.
Microsoft today has officially unveiled an all-new version of its To Do application as it continues to integrate features of the Wunderlist platform it acquired in 2015. The company touts that the new To Do application is a major upgrade, with a new design, deeper integration with other platforms, and more.