nicholfd

Metriacanthosaurus said:

After 15 years of downloading things in Safari, you now get the "feature" of having to approve access to your Downloads folder, manually, for every single website.

GuruZac said:

This article is bogus. See Apple's product info and compatibility on their own website...

https://www.apple.com/ipad-keyboards/

cloudguy said:

You can't even do something simple like install VSCode or Atom and write Javascript or Python code on an iPad.

GeorgeBMac said:

wood1208 said:

GeorgeBMac said:

I'm a little confused by this.   I thought Apple had halted updates to the iPhone 5 last September (2018).   Is it still getting updates?   Or maybe just security updates?

Because Apple is not Android OS or Android phone maker.

Well, they aren't -- but, in this case, Android and Apple work about the same.  Google updates its systems but, at least partly because so many phones are using customized versions of the code many of those phones have to be updated by the carrier -- which doesn't happen.   Actually the best of the two is neither -- it is Microsoft:   I'm typing this on a 10 year old machine running the latest version of Windows -- and I have even older machines running current versions as well.

But, none of that answered my original question of:  "What is Apple's policy regarding outdated equipment?  I thought they had halted updates to the iPhone 5."

iOS_Guy80 said:

caladanian said:

“ So long as the AirPods Pro are in the charging case and connected to an iOS device” - how can they be in the case and at the same time connected? 

I think he means just have the AirPods paired to a device. The closer they are to your router  the sooner the update will occur.

randominternetperson said:

dewme said:

The MacBook Pro's slight advantage over the Mac Mini tells me that Apple could probably tweak a lot more performance from the Mini if they were willing to sacrifice a bit on its aesthetics to have a more aggressive thermal management subsystem. Maybe a mini cheese grater design rather than the current cigar box design? 

What are you basing that on?  Based on the numbers DuhSesame (re)posted, the pro and the mini are identical--even with the 30-minute test.  Calling 7763 versus 7716 a "slight advantage" is like saying that something selling for $99.39 is "slightly cheaper" than something selling for $100.00.  While technically true, a 0.6% difference just statistical noise.

What these results tell me is that the M1 chip inside all the new Macs are identical (except in terms of memory and that sadly disabled 8th GPU core in the entry-level air), and that (unlike the very first MacBook Air, way back when) the lack of a fan not a huge deal (9% difference at 10 minutes, 18% different at 30 minutes). 

sflocal said:

That's seriously impressive power.  While I know that charging MacBooks comes close to that 100w limit on USBc, are there any peripherals currently that use that much power over USBc?

I'm curious what the transfer speed will be with USB5?  Will it use a faster version of the Thunderbolt interface?

rorwessels said:

And yet, iOS still does not support DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS.  Why?

Windows 10 now supports secure DNS (even if it’s only DNS over HTTPS).

Secure DNS as well as restoring the option for full device and cloud backup encryption would be a good start.

Adding an option to force emails to be encrypted would be great. Say a Mail+ service that simplifies and makes secure email a reality for all iOS ans macOS users.  Maybe even build in some message retention features like automatic document deletion after a period of time.

Maybe add an option in Messages so that messages would self destruct after being read or after a specified amount of time?

How about an assurance that NO records of message traffic are stored by Apple for any reason?

Just a few real world options that would make real contributions to user privacy.

Xed said:

nicholfd said:

Xed said:

rob53 said:

So what. Someone who knows what they're doing can do the same thing to every computer ever made. The trick is to make these changes without being obvious. All those jumper wires are obvious. I'd like to see him put it back into the enclosure and try and pass it off as an unmodified AirTag. I'm still waiting for mine and this guy wastes "multiple" AirTags. 

As the article mentioned, he can flash (i.e.: rewrite) the microcontroller and the wires are only used for power.

This is an impressive accomplishment for a product that has been out for a week, and to neither see nor acknowledge this blows my mind.

We have no idea what else could be done in the future. Nefarious users could figure out was to have it bypass sending or receiving data from Apple altogether, which could make this a very useful tool for certain people.

While I doubt we'll see many doing this, that's not the point for even one person using these in an unintended way for evil is worth protecting against, so I hope Apple can push a way to protect the HW soon.

The AirTag sends nothing to Apple.  The Apple iPhone/iPad/AppleWatch(?) picks up a unique BT ID, and THAT device talks to Apple.  All the AirTag does is broadcast its ID via BlueTooth for other Apple devices to pick up.

The AirTag receives nothing from Apple - it only receives data from Apple devices (probably only the device it is paired with.)

You really need to read up on how these tags (and others like it) work. They very clearly send data to Apple's servers as you can easily verify from your own AirTag or any number of articles and videos detailing how these work.

To put another way, these do function as ad-hoc devices with BT and UWB when you're within range, but they also work over the internet with your iCloud account so you can locate these trackers when you aren't in range by having them link to other devices securely which will forward their location to Apple which will let you know where they were found.