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  • Rumor: Apple tapping display supplier Novatek for iPhone 17 Air

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    I doubt it will be a single camera - it's likely that from now on, all new iphones will have two lens which is required for spatial photos. 
     
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  • iPhone 16 A18 processor isn't a 'binned' A18 Pro

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    Are there other processors with DRAM embedded inside chips? I don't recall any. That definitely interests me, because if that's the case, I imagine the Mac Studio Ultra with M4 or M5 having RAM embedded will be knocking our socks off with massive memory bandwidth and performance (reduced latency as well).



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  • Meta stored 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords in plain text

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    I don't understand how that is possible for FB, with thousands of engineers, not to recognize the importance of salting and hashing passwords?!?!  That has been around since 1970's! 

    Even FB should know that passwords should never be in plain text or even be encrypted. They should just salt and hash their passwords which makes it impossible to hack for the foreseeable future and the passwords will never be known to anyone but the user (or the password manager). 




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  • If you're having problems with USB on macOS Sequoia, you're not alone

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    I have several USB devices connected to my USB hub to my Macs (both Intel and M). No issues so far. 
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  • Trump demanding that Apple must unlock shooter's iPhones because of foreign apps

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    sflagel said:
    In my mind, an analogy is a house versus a safe deposit box or a vault. 

    Parts of the iPhone and its data (iCloud) are like a house, but within that house, there may be a safe within which documents cannot be accessed.  The house can be accessed with the appropriate warrant;  but that does not mean that law-enforcement has access to the safe. 

    Are banks and manufacturers of safes boxes required to provide a master key for the safe deposit box to law-enforcement if asked? If that is the case, then the same should apply to virtual safety deposit boxes. If they are not required to provide master keys, then neither should technology providers. 
    This is not how end to end encryption works.

    A better analogy would be that a bank safe have TWO locks on the door, one lock requires the bank to have the key and the other lock requires the customer's key. If you unlock one of them, it still won't open. Both locks have to be unlocked in order for the safe door to be opened.

    So, if a customer doesn't have the key, the bank cannot unlock it.  
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