This might be something that Microsoft wants to look into and fix. The current version of Skype feature a security flaw that could let an attacker gain control of Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. The company has stated that it isn’t planning on fixing the flaw, at least for now, because it amounts to rewriting […]
Category: Software
You can now access the news a bit easier through your iOS device or Apple TV. Apple has updated the prominent Watch Now section of the TV app to feature live news channels. iOS device users with iOS 11.2.5 and Apple TV users with tvOS 11.2.5 will see the change immediately. From the main screen, […]
Last last week, the source code for iBoot, a core component of iOS, was leaked to GitHub. Although the code was older, designed for iOS 9, it was quickly yanked from GitHub following Apple’s issuance of a DCMA takedown notice. Per Motherboard, which contacted unnamed sources involved in the leaks and investigated screenshots, text messages, […]
Video Lan Client, the nigh-indispensable open source media player for multiple audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Divx, ogg, etc.), was updated to version 3.0.0. The new version, a 46.8 megabyte download, adds a massive series of changes and fixed documented over on the changelog. VLC 3.0.0 requires an Intel-based Mac running Mac OS […]
Apple, and its legal department, do not like it when you leak source code for core components of iOS on GitHub. This is exactly what happened, as a chunk of source code, labeled “iBoot”, which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system, found its way […]