In the last few years, Apple has been sending notifications to targets and victims of government spyware, alerting them that they may have been hacked, and directing them to get help. Crucially, Apple doesn’t tell the targets to get in touch with its own security engineers, but with the nonprofit Access Now, which runs a digital helpline for people in civil society who suspect they have been targets of government spyware.
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While it may look like Apple is abdicating its responsibility to protect its users, cybersecurity experts who work with human rights defenders, journalists, and dissidents, generally agree that Apple’s approach in alerting victims to spyware attacks is the right one.
Apple Vision Pro users can watch a new episode of the "Adventure" series starting today, delving into a freezing underwater dive in the Arctic with athlete Ant Williams.
On an iPhone, you don’t have the option to have an AI assistant answer calls for you, as you can on Android — at least not yet. But there are ways to screen calls to some extent and cut down on the number of scammers, sellers, and robots you have to talk to.
Flying Meat has released version 8 of its Acorn image editor, a major update with several new powerful features and improvements. The AI-powered subject selection feature pinpoints and isolates subjects or backgrounds, while the Live Text tool can detect and highlight text for copying to the clipboard. The update also adds an intuitive on-canvas ruler, a Data Merge feature that imports a CSV file to populate text boxes and images, support for JPEG-XL import and export capabilities, and Look Up Table (LUT) support.
Daniel Alm has issued Timing 2024.6, enabling you to create rules based on the time of day (such as creating a filter that only shows overtime). The time and productivity tracking app also expands its AI capabilities, generating AI summaries when you select a range of time on the timeline and adding a new AI Summary button that summarizes your app usage.
Moment has excelled in making a very clever and intuitive filter system for the iPhones 15 and 16. They are small, light, inexpensive, and compact, and clearly, a lot of care has gone into the design. They are also extremely high quality in terms of the actual filter and something that I would happily use in front of any lens.
The Apple TV remote icon keeps popping up on my iPhone's control center. And by 'keeps popping up', I meant twice. Once after I upgraded the OS to 18.2, and once when I rebooted my iPhone.
Other than that, and besides the general non-usefulness of Apple Intelligence, I am enjoying iOS 18.2. I do like having the volume control on my lock screen, and I am keeping it.
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