During the WWDC 2024 keynote, Apple previewed iOS 18‘s Genmoji, which is part of its Apple Intelligence features that will be released later this year. With this function, iPhone users will use AI to generate new emoji characters based on text input, such as “T-rex wearing a tutu on a surfboard.”What makes Genmoji in iOS…
Ahead of the iOS 18 release next week, Apple launched a firmware update for AirPods Pro 2. It comes with five new features for Apple users running the latest software updates (iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and so on).The firmware has a build number of 7A294, up from 6F8, and is available to all…
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Thousands of applications that have taken advantage of open source Python Package Index (PyPI) software packages may be at risk of hijacking and subversion by malicious actors, opening up the possibility of major supply chain attacks affecting even greater numbers of downstream organisations and users. That is according to threat researchers at jFrog, who identified…
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Dial-a-Ride, the free door-to-door transit service for disabled people operated across the capital by Transport for London (TfL), was forced to temporarily suspend new booking requests for a time as a result of an ongoing cyber attack against the wider TfL IT estate. It is understood that the continuing incident, the nature of which has…
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Spotify users are about to suffer from a major drawback in the iPhone app. The company announced that Spotify Connect, which lets you control your songs when playing them on a speaker, will lose a simple yet very important feature: the ability to control volume with the iPhone’s physical volume buttons.According to an update Spotify…
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The CXL consortium has had a regular presence at FMS (which rechristened itself from ‘Flash Memory Summit’ to the ‘Future of Memory and Storage’ this year). Back at FMS 2022, the company had announced v3.0 of the CXL specifications. This was followed by CXL 3.1’s introduction at Supercomputing 2023. Having started off as a host…
After the iPhone 15 release, we turn our attention to Apple’s upcoming iPhone 16. The company will unveil this new device during its Glowtime event on September 9. One of the highlights could be an iPhone Ultra model, although it seems AI will be the main feature of this lineup. That said, is the iPhone…
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The UK government has sought to be proactive in its approach to addressing climate change, committing to ambitious targets such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 68% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels and achieving net zero by 2050. In support of these goals, obligations will come to the fore as organisations develop…
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It’s estimated that 75% of security vulnerabilities go undiscovered. Much of this has to do simply with ease of access – for a long time, mobile security has relied on biometric authentication, such as fingerprint scans and facial recognition. However, as cyber threats evolve, these methods are no longer sufficient to counter the sophisticated tactics…
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Google has dramatically changed course on its proposals to deprecate third-party cookies in its Chrome web browser in favour of a “new experience” that it claims will enable people to make an “informed choice” about their web privacy. The changes, which mirror those made already in the Firefox and Safari browsers, would have been due…
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