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Apple boosts bug bounty program, offers greater rewards for locating critical security vulnerabilities ahead of time

If you want the good stuff, you’ve got to pay for it. Apple has introduced an expanded bug bounty program that covers macOS, tvOS, iCloud, and iOS over at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas and hosted by head of security engineering Ivan Krstić. The company first introduced its bug bounty program for […]

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Apple to prevent device tracking via SSID, BSSID in iOS 13

Apple will apparently no longer track your device’s location by its SSID or BSSID signal. The note comes on the heels of Apple’s WWDC 2019 developer session 713 titled, “Advances in Networking” revealed that iOS 13 will stop location tracking using your device’s SSID/BSSID using the CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo API. Developers have reported receiving the following email from […]

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Apple working on folding iPhone, folding iPad, 2021 release date more likely for folding iPad, which is expected to be released first

Apple’s future might be foldable. Per a new note addressed to investors from USB, Apple is “steadily working on technology for folding devices. The note suggests that while a folding iPhone is en route, Apple could release a folding iPad. While Apple could release a folding iPad in 2020, the note states that 2021 is […]

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Rumor: Apple may have acquired Fashwell, snagged additional machine learning assets in the process

Apple may have gone shopping yet again. Albeit not officially confirmed, Apple may have procured Shopping search startup Fashwell, as the company’s employees, including CEO Matthias Dantone, CSO Lukas Bossard, and CTO Michael Emmersberger, have begun listing Apple as their current employer on their LinkedIn profiles. Fashwell has designed a visual AI search engine to […]

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Rumor: 16-inch MacBook Pro to enter production in September, will feature Coffee Lake processor

The latest batch of 16-inch MacBook Pro rumors are in, with one analyst claiming that Apple may start manufacturing the notebook as a de facto replacement for the 15-inch MacBook Pro units. In a note to investors over the weekend, IHS Markit analyst Jeff Lin said production of the as-yet-unannounced 16-inch MacBook Pro will begin in […]