“Notarization checks if the app contains known malware using an encrypted connection that is resilient to server failures,” says Apple, further emphasizing, “These security checks have never included the user’s Apple ID or the identity of their device. To further protect privacy, we have stopped logging IP addresses associated with Developer ID certificate checks, and we will ensure that any collected IP addresses are removed from logs,” details Apple.
On top of this, Apple says “over the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks.”
What Wardle found is that the Mac App Store on the latest macOS bypasses any firewall. For all intents and purposes, its traffic is invisible to firewalls. What’s happening is that Apple apps on Big Sur are beginning to operate outside the user’s control.
Apple has released another video in its iPhone "Experiments" line, this time one that suggests ways that users can take advantage of the iPhone 12's camera and some everyday objects to try out at home.
The upshot: this is the best iPad keyboard you can buy. If the iPad were my only device, I’d buy this. The keys are great. (Finally.) The trackpad is tiny but better than anything else its size. The magnetic frame is a delight. The whole unit feels incredibly solid.
And yet, we have a situation where the whole is less than the sum of its parts because the genius of this thing is wrapped in a terrible material for a top-tier professional accessory: pseudo-soft polyurethane.
The bear’s throaty growl starts to my right, then circles predatorily around to my left as I turn. But I stay calm, because the beast is not really there – it’s an illusion. I’m on a street corner in Leeds on a bright, chilly autumn morning and there are no bears for thousands of miles – or at least there haven’t been for well over a century.
Between 1840 and 1858, before Burley Park was all tarmac and terraced housing, the street where I’m standing was part of the short-lived Headingley Zoological and Botanical Gardens. I’m on a guided “sound walk” around the graffitied remnants of its walls, and I’ve just reached Bearpit Gardens.
Apple’s continued use of contractually disingenuous phrases such as “complete all of the corrective actions required”, as if this is just a breach of a contractual warranty or representation obligation, does Apple no credit at all, and misrepresents the legal severity of these breaches.
The complaints by digital rights group Noyb were brought against Apple’s use of a tracking code that is automatically generated on every iPhone when it is set up, the so-called Identifier for Advertisers (IDFA).
I've had such high hopes for the new AirPods feature to connect automatically to the device -- iPhone, iPad, Mac -- that I am playing audio. Unfortunately, how Apple has implemented this feature has made my audio entertainment unpredictable and unreliable.
When I am listening on my iPhone, double-tapping on the AirPods will pause the audio, as expected. However, double-tapping again did not always un-pause the audio on the iPhone. Sometimes, it will start playing music on my iPad. Now that I have upgraded to Big Sur on my Mac mini, sometimes, it will launch the Music app on my Mac instead.
The AirPods had been a simple wonderful device. I'm hoping Apple will not complicate them too much.
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