Project Jedi decision 'risky for the country and for democracy,' says AWS CEO

Presidential 'disdain' may have been a factor re:Invernt  AWS CEO Andy Jassy faced the press yesterday at Amazon's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and there was one thing above all else that the press wanted to discuss. Why was Amazon heading to …

Project Jedi decision 'risky for the country and for democracy,' says AWS CEO

Presidential 'disdain' may have been a factor re:Invernt  AWS CEO Andy Jassy faced the press yesterday at Amazon's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, and there was one thing above all else that the press wanted to discuss. Why was Amazon heading to …

Fancy privacy in Chrome? Yeah, we'll get to that after we start app detection says Google

Privacy developers concerned over Chocolate Factory plans A nascent web API called getInstalledRelatedApps offers a glimpse of why online privacy remains such an uncertain proposition. In development since 2015, Google has been experimenting with th…

Asteroid Bennu is flinging particles of dust and rock from its surface and scientists can't work out why

Images beamed back from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leave scientists baffled Pic  A closeup image of Bennu snapped by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reveals that the asteroid’s surface is surprisingly volatile, randomly spitting out shards of debris …

The iPhone 11’s U1 chip necessitates constant geolocation pings, Apple says

The ultra-wideband is behind the latest iPhone privacy puzzler.

VCs find exciting new way to blow $1m: Wire it directly to hackers after getting spoofed

Who needs an elevator pitch when you have man-in-the-middle attack? A group of hackers used a compromised email account to steal a start-up's $1m venture capital payment.…

Apple seeds new developer betas of iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, tvOS 13.3, watchOS 6.1.1

Apple has released new developer betas of iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, tvOS 13.3, and watchOS 6.1.1. Registered developers can download the betas via Apple’s developer portal (https://developer.apple.com/account/#/welcome). Or they can be downloaded over-…

If there's somethin' stored in a secure enclave, who ya gonna call? Membuster!

Boffins ride the memory bus past Intel's SGX to your data Computer scientists from UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and semiconductor biz SK Hynix have found a way to defeat secure enclave protections by observing memory requests from a CPU to off-chip DRAM …

Uncle Sam challenged in court for slurping social media info on 'millions' of visa applicants

Documentary filmmakers lob sue ball to halt practice The US State Department is being sued over its policy of crawling the social media accounts of people applying for entry visas.…

Download: iOS 13.3 Beta 4 IPSW Links, OTA Update File Along With iPadOS 13.3 Beta 4 Out Now

You can now download iOS 13.3 beta 4 and iPadOS 13.3 beta 4 IPSW links and OTA Update file for your iPhone and iPad. Here are the details. [ Continue reading this over at RedmondPie.com ]

Qualcomm ontwikkelt 5g-chipset voor headsets en werkt met Niantic aan ar-bril

Qualcomm heeft zijn Snapdragon XR2-platform voor virtual reality en augmented reality aangekondigd. Headsets en brillen met de chips moeten volgend jaar onder andere 5g ondersteunen. Het bedrijf werkt met Niantic Labs aan een referentieontwerp van e…

Apple Pay Express Mode Now Live In London

Apple Pay Express Mode is now live for public transport riders in London after Transport for London (TfL) and Apple flicked the switch to turn everything on. [ Continue reading this over at RedmondPie.com ]

Following the wild, roaring success of its Snapdragon 8cx Arm laptop chip, Qualcomm's back with the 8c, 7c

Looking forward to seeing these in, well, anything would be nice Qualcomm will today expand its range of Snapdragon system-on-chips for always-connected Arm-based Windows 10 tablet-laptops from one to three.…

Apple: iPhone 11 vraagt locatie zonder toestemming op vanwege ultra-wideband

Omdat de iPhone 11-modellen ondersteuning voor ultra-wideband hebben, vragen de toestellen de locatie op zonder dat gebruikers dit via een toggle kunnen uitschakelen. Dat heeft Apple bevestigd nadat er vraagtekens rond de locatie-opvragingen gezet w…

Uber’s first ever safety report discloses 3,045 sexual assaults and nine murders in the US last year

Apple updates Clips for iOS and iPadOS

Apple has updated Clips, its free video creation app for the iPhone and iPad, to version 2.1. The app allows users to tap into the fun and creativity of Memoji and Animoji characters.  Users can now share personal video messages, slideshows, school …

Your duckface better be flawless: Huawei's Nova 6 mobe has a needlessly powerful selfie camera

Highest-ranked front shooter yet for the poser in your life The middle ground of the smartphone market is a bit of a battleground. Manufacturers of all stripes – except Apple – keep flinging devices at punters with fairly high-end specs, but price t…

These AirPods Like Truly Wireless Earphones Feature W1 Pairing, Bluetooth 5.0, Wireless Charging Case For 1/4th The Price

Here are AirPods 2 like truly-wireless earphones featuring W1 pairing, Bluetooth 5.0 and wireless charging case. [ Continue reading this over at RedmondPie.com ]

Voormalig voorzitter Nederlandse mediatoezichthouder vertrekt naar Netflix

De vrouw die een half jaar geleden stopte als voorzitter van het Commissariaat voor de Media, de Nederlandse mediatoezichthouder, gaat aan de slag als lobbyist voor Netflix. Ze gaat in Europa, Afrika en het Midden-Oosten proberen haar invloed voor N…

Future iPhones could drop charging ports altogether

Here’s a little early Christmas present for you. Apple analyst extraordinaire Ming-Chi Kuo is out with his latest Apple opus. Per usual, it’s got a lot of fascinating nuggets, this time projecting as far as 2021 in its look at iPhones to come. Let’s…

AirPlay 2 Has Been Cracked With Multiroom Play To Unsupported Speakers

AirPlay 2 has finally been cracked for multiroom play to unsupported speakers. Here's everything you need to know about this. [ Continue reading this over at RedmondPie.com ]