Apple has dropped a series of software updates across its various product lines as it aims to ward off the impact of two newly discovered zero-days, both of which may have already been exploited in the wild. The fixes for CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309 – both attributed to Clément Lecigne and Benoît Sevens of the Google…
Ahead of the holiday season, Uber announced new changes to its iPhone app. One of them is a new Home Screen widget, which the company says is especially useful during the holiday rush. With this update, iPhone users can add a new Uber widget to their Home Screen to quickly request a ride. According to…
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) approach of only fining public sector organisations “in the most serious cases” is under fire from privacy campaigners at Open Rights Group (ORG), who say there is an “urgent need” to test the regulator’s claims that fines do not act as an effective deterrent for public sector bodies. The campaigners…
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Following on from winning its antitrust case against Alphabet, the parent company of Google, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) is now seeking to force the search engine giant to offload its Chrome browser. The landmark US court ruling from August 2024 declared that Alphabet had illegally sought to maintain its hold on the online…
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NetApp has upgraded its AFF A- and C-series flash storage arrays while also boosting capacity and performance in StorageGrid object storage and E-series storage area networks (SANs), mostly as a result of new 60TB arrays plus central processing unit (CPU) and backplane enhancements. AFF A- and C-series – performance and capacity-oriented respectively – get new-generation…
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There’s no question that one of the best iPhone 16 features is battery life. Apple Intelligence is in its early days, Visual Intelligence hasn’t launched yet, and the Camera Control button has been very divisive. But you’ll notice the battery life improvements every day, and it’s all thanks to Apple’s work on the A18 chips…
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One of the more notable Apple rumors of the past 15 years has been resurrected. Writing for Bloomberg, Mark Gurman says that Apple is currently evaluating the “idea of making an Apple-branded TV set.” While I’d normally scoff at this type of report, Gurman has a stellar track record concerning Apple rumors, so it’s certainly…
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Intel is still planning for 3rd-gen desktop GPUs to follow BattlemageThis dismisses other rumors that Intel may not make these desktop cardsThe truth is likely that Intel hasn’t yet fully made the decision itselfIntel’s Celestial graphics cards for the desktop, which will be the 3rd-gen of Arc GPUs, to follow Battlemage – the next-gen that’s…
Apple is expected to unveil a bunch of new products in the first quarter of 2025, including an M4 MacBook Air refresh, the exciting iPhone SE 4, and a new iPad Air. But not all new Apple products set to hit stores in early 2025 will be updates to existing lineups.We learned a few days…
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Nvidia may keep the RTX 4050 mobile when RTX 5000 laptop GPUs launchIt will sit at the bottom tier, below the Blackwell mobile graphics cardsWhat isn’t clear is if it’ll drop in price to help with cheaper gaming laptopsNvidia will apparently keep its RTX 4050 GPU for laptops when new RTX 5000 mobile graphics cards…
