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Australia passes contentious encryption bill opposed by Apple, other tech companies
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Apple Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam campaign
seanismorris said:Total $110,000
Cost of 1 bitcoin = $9,200
Assuming 1 bitcoin per stupid person. There are 12 stupid people that fell for this scam. I would have expected more...
Congratulation humanity! You’re smarter than I thought you were. -
A custom screw was the bottleneck in US Mac Pro production
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Apple rolls out improved Maps to all users in the US
I would be mostly satisfied if AM just gives me the correct directions each time. I'm by no means a frequent user of it, but I have had several times in the past two years where it directs me to a totally wrong location -- which I only found out after attempting to drive there and get into an endless loop once I'm close to what AM thought was the destination. Not encountered recently, but I also hope they fixed the problem where it would provide directions to an identically named place that is 1000+ miles from my current location instead of the one that is <5 miles from my current location. -
14-inch & 16-inch MacBook Pro rumored to get 1080p webcam
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Zoom freezing development to fix security & privacy flaws
Someone at my wife's school had a big problem when they attempted to use Zoom the first time for class online recently. One of the students (with malicious intent) published the meeting ID a few days earlier on some social media platform inviting anyone to crash the meeting and it snowballed -- something like 1000 undesirables joined the meeting and were extremely disruptive. The teacher had to end the meeting and that classroom session was effectively cancelled.
That event was not so much a Zoom security failure but an overall design point that is missing. I imagine what is needed are unique user invites -- the unique ID can only be used by a single Zoom userid. It would be additional overhead for the meeting organizer but it would enhance meeting confidentiality. I can't think of any other decent solutions that don't require something like VPN access which would be tough to get working for a diverse set of middle/high school students that use a variety of devices. Any other ideas out there? -
YouTube TV loses Disney networks as Google fails to make a deal
Nikon8 said:I didn’t even know there was a YouTube TV. -
16GB vs. 32GB -- Maximize a Mac's performance by choosing the right amount of memory
One thing I highly recommend is avoiding 8 GB of RAM unless you intend to use if for less than 3 years. While macOS does a lot better than the latest versions of Windows with low amounts of RAM (a mere 8 GB at my work is quite painful to use now without launching any apps), do not underestimate the ability of application programmers to be lazy and inefficient and consume far more memory than they need to. -
Apple Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam campaign
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Apple slapped with patent lawsuit over iPhone security features