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Apple to pay $30 billion tax bill on overseas cash, look into second campus site

Apple is about to pay a fairly huge tax bill of $38 billion on its overseas cash. The company said it will make about $38 billion in tax payments on its overseas cash and plans to open a second U.S. campus as part of a 5-year, $30 billion U.S. investment plan. Apple has also said […]

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App Store-based password reset vulnerability discovered in macOS High Sierra, appears to be fixed in forthcoming update

This is why Apple has a team working on security features. For the third time in recent month, a vulnerability has been discovered in macOS High Sierra. Back in September, security researcher Patrick Wardle discovered an exploit to snag plaintext passwords from the Keychain utility. Two months later, software developer Lemi Orhan Ergin realized that […]

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Apple releases Safari 11.0.2 for macOS El Capitan 10.11, macOS Sierra 11.2, looks to address Spectre issue with update

As sick as everyone is of hearing about Spectre and Meltdown, Apple has just released an updated version of Safari that could help with the Spectre vulnerability. On Monday, the company released Safari 11.0.2, the new version of its web browser. The update, a 75.6 megabyte download, includes security improvements to mitigate the effects of […]

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Face ID unable to approve family purchases, reasons for this unknown

This is a bit strange. A number of iPhone X owners have discovered that Face ID isn’t available as an authentication method for the “Ask to Buy” feature, which allows parents to approve their kids’ iOS purchases and downloads. At present, the parent, or controlling Apple ID account holder, must enter their entire Apple account […]

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Apple releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 update

It’s not the heftiest update in the world, but it could be helpful. On Tuesday, Apple released its macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 update. The update adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixes a bug where Bluetooth appeared as unavailable during Apple Pay transactions. – Improves the reliability of Microsoft Exchange message sync in Mail. […]