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  • Apple says Spatial Audio is a hit, drawing more listeners to Apple Music

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    iyfcalvin said:
    Personally, when the spatial audio songs were released, I went out of my way to sample some of the songs to experience the hype myself.  I have AirPod Pro’s on a new iPhone 13 Pro Max. My business background was 30 years in the record industry.
     I liked what I heard but found the feature only subtly unique. I was more impressed back in the 70s when the Quadrophonic Sound feature was debuted, but even then tired of it quickly.  Was the new feature a game breaker for me to listen to music?  Not at all. My preferences for music listening is recording and playback quality first.  Frankly, I actually cancelled my iTunes subscription after that. 
    With my Dolby atmos (5.2.2) setup I could really hear the difference, with my headphones I couldn’t.  I think you need discrete channels to really hear the difference. 
    Alex_Vwatto_cobra

  • Researchers discover 33 vulnerabilities affecting 'millions' of IoT, smart home devices

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    loopless said:
    Anyone with a HomeKit network should not have any concerns. Your devices are sitting behind a router on a local IP subnet so there is no way for hackers to target your devices directly.  And HomeKit is secure. This is more on an issue for industrial settings where a device might be visible to the internet.
    Nothing can be further from the truth.  Although HomeKit is the most secure IoT framework, there is still a security footprint that is open to attack.  Relying on a router for security (especially one that solely relies on NAT) is not the best option — there are many ways to attack through routers and firewalls.

    Vulnerabilities are found every day.  If the device manufacturer doesn’t have a monthly update cycle,  there are probably dozens of security vulnerabilities associated with these devices every year.


    dewmeMplsPexceptionhandler

  • Security researchers spent months hacking Apple -- here's what they found

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    michelb76 said:
    Given the vulnerabilities, this makes me wonder how long nation states have been silently exploiting them. I think Apple and many other tech giants have a much greater responsibility to counter this pro-actively. Not just through a bug bounty, but by actively hiring red teams. Some of these vulnerabilities sound extremely basic and would have been picked up by a scanner. I mean an XSS vulnerability in this day and age??

    every system has at least a few vulnerabilities.  Most of these are usually fixed by applying monthly security patches.  

    watto_cobra