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“Silent AirTags” surface on eBay and Etsy, highlight privacy and legal concerns

This could be construed as concerning. According to PCMag, a number of Apple AirTag tracking devices with deactivated speakers have been spotted for sale on eBay and Etsy, raising privacy concerns about the risks of removing one of the AirTag’s safeguards. The modified AirTags, dubbed “Silent ‌AirTags‌,” have had their internal speaker removed so that […]

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Adobe Flash support disabled in Safari Technology Preview 99, portends end of support for the plug-in on macOS

Presaging the end of Adobe Flash on Safari, Apple on Wednesday disabled support for the multimedia plug-in in the Safari Technology Preview 99. Apple quietly announced the imminent demise of Flash on Safari in a set of release notes accompanying Safari Technology Preview 99. Along with a number of enhancements to WebKit code and assets is […]

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Apple may have killed an assortment of third party extensions in Safari 12

Every time Apple overhauls its Safari web browser, there’s always a few days, weeks, or months of kerfuffle as developers catch up. In the case of Safari 12, it appears that a number of third party extensions within Safari may be disabled for the time being. A series of reports on Reddit and GitHub have […]

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Jordan Castor, 22, shows what a blind Apple engineer can do

You’ve got to admit, this is impressive. Jordyn Castor, 22, who was born 15 weeks early, weighed just under two pounds and who has been blind since birth, is now one of the lead engineers for Apple’s VoiceOver technology, codes on a Braille device and is working on Apple’s new Playgrounds project for iOS. Castor, […]

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iOS 8.4 disables some Home Sharing functions, Apple says it’s working on a fix for iOS 9

This is why they invented bug fixes. A number of iOS 8.4 users have stepped forward to complain that the recent update disabled their Home Sharing functionality. They, in turn, have been told that they’re have to wait until iOS 9’s release to get the feature working again. Home Sharing lets users stream their iTunes […]