DAVID SHAYER 4 August 2020No comments   Apple recently announced the Security Research Device Program (SRD), in which select security researchers receive special iPhones to help them root out iOS security problems (see “Apple Releases Dedicated Security Research...

DAVID SHAYER 17 August 202021 comments   It was a gray day in late 2005. I was sitting at my desk, writing code for the next year’s iPod. Without knocking, the director of iPod Software—my boss’s boss—abruptly entered and closed the door behind him. He cut to the...

JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA 31 August 20203 comments   The use of videoconferencing services such as Zoom and Google Meethas spiked in recent months, largely due to the pandemic. With so many stuck at home, these services have become critical, not only for work meetings but...

JOSH CENTERS 1 September 20204 comments   Apple has released iOS 13.7 with a new COVID-19 notification system and unspecified bug fixes. The company also released iPadOS 13.7 with equally unspecified bug fixes. Neither iOS 13.7 nor iPadOS 13.7 has CVE security...

RICH MOGULL 14 August 20202 comments   Like many families, our lives were completely upended last spring by the sudden transition from regular school to “School at Home.” Our three elementary school students hung up their backpacks, stored their lunch boxes, and...

ADAM ENGST 31 August 20209 comments Speech recognition has long been the holy grail of computer data input. Or, rather, we have mostly wanted to control our computers via voice—see episodes of Star Trek from the 1960s. The problem has always been that what we want to...

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