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Conan makes fun of Chaffetz’s iPhone/health care comment in “Apple Health Care” send up video

If nothing else, you can definitely laugh at Representative Jason Chaffetz’s comment this week about how lower income Americans would have to choose between health care and snagging the latest iPhone. The guys at “Conan” took this as a challenge and released the following satirical video demonstrating how Apple products could be used for health […]

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WikiLeaks to share CIA hacking tools with Apple, other firms after security fixes are complete

Following WikiLeaks’ release of more than 8,000 documents from inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, Apple followed up, saying it had already fixed most of the exploits the agency had found to hack into iPhones. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday he will share the code, which was withheld from the published documents, with […]

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PowerVR Furian GPUs could bring 4K video, improved gaming specs to next-gen iPhones

The next generation of iPhone could feature a pretty dead sexy new graphics processor. Imagination Technologies today announced PowerVR Furian, its next-generation GPU architecture that promises significant improvements in graphics performance and power efficiency that could benefit future iPhones. The Furian architecture is stated to offer up to a 70 to 90 percent improvement in […]

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Apple responds to WikiLeaks’ release of CIA-based documents, states that ‘many’ of the iOS-related exploits have already been patched

With any luck, this’ll provide some consolation. Following up on the revelation that WikiLeaks had intercepted and released what might amount to 8,700+ documents from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence unit – part of which is devoted to obtaining zero-day exploits for iOS devices – and that the CIA had lost control of the […]

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WikiLeaks releases 8,700+ CIA-related documents, show agency efforts towards hacking Android systems, iPhones, operating systems and smart TVs

This is pretty much one for the ages. WikiLeaks has released more than 8,700 documents that have apparently originated from the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, with some of the leaks saying the agency had 24 “weaponized” and previously undisclosed exploits for the Android operating system as of 2016. Some of the Android-specific exploits were […]