iPhone 16 has the same new privacy feature as the M4 iPad Pro
When Apple introduced the earlier this year, the company quietly added a new privacy feature to it, which is called “Secure Exclave.” Now the company is bringing the same new privacy technology to the iPhone 16 models, which are powered by the A18 ...
Android applications can now block being sideloaded
It seems Google is hell-bent on removing anything from Android that makes the platform stand apart from iOS. One of the features of Android and the Play Store that users of rooted and/or de-Googled phones will be familiar with is SafetyNet Attestation,...
AirPods 4 tidbits: Secret capacitive button, Vision Pro lossless
Historically, AirPods cases have always had a physical button on the back to initiate pairing with your iPhone. With the announced this week, however, Apple is switching things up. Instead of a physical pairing button, the AirPods 4 case has a hidden c...
Quad7 Botnet Expands to Target SOHO Routers and VPN Appliances
The operators of the mysterious Quad7 botnet are actively evolving by compromising several brands of SOHO routers and VPN appliances by leveraging a combination of both known and unknown security flaws. Targets include devices from TP-LINK, Zyxel, Asus...
JaxJUG 2024
JaxJUG 2024 The second stop of the US South JUG Tour 2024 with Jakarta EE was Jacksonville Java User Group, or JaxJUG, for short. This time, I was very careful making sure that the address I gave to the Uber was the correct one and made it to the venue...
Gentoo Linux Touts Better MIPS & Alpha Platform Support
While Gentoo Linux recently ended their support for Itanium (IA-64) hardware, this popular source-based Linux distribution continues to support other aging platforms... Today they sent out an announcement highlighting their improved support for MIPS an...
Node.js adds built-in API for on-disk caching
Node.js 22.8.0, the latest release of the event-driven JavaScript runtime, adds a JavaScript API to enable on-disk caching of all modules loaded after the API is called, presenting a caching option for code. The API is called module.enable.CompileCach...
.NET 9 Release Candidate 1 is now available!
Try out the latest features in .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 across the .NET SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, SignalR, .NET MAUI, and more! The post .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 is now available! appeared first on .NET Blog.
The iPhone 16 event surprises that left me frustrated
An Apple event is always full of potential. Even though rumors and leaks tend to leave very little ‘new’ remaining for event day, Apple still tends to offer some surprises. Maybe a new feature that no one knew about. Or a unique angle that a rumor ...
Parallels 20 for Mac Released with Ubuntu 24.04 VM Support
Parallels Desktop 20 has been released for macOS. The virtualisation software introduces a number of buffs for Linux VMs running on macOS. The headline change in Parallels Desktop 20 is support for macOS Sequoia, both as host OS and as a guest — impo...
