Your iMessage messages could be on the verge of becoming substantially more secure. Apple on Wednesday announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called “PQ3.” The company stated that this “groundbreaking” and “state-of-the-art” protocol provides “extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks,” as seen in their public release: Today we are announcing the […]
This could definitely be fun. Publisher Feral Interactive has announced that the company is bringing “Sid Meier’s Railroads!” to Apple’s App Store in April, and that the game is available for preorder now. The game will arrive on April 15 and will be available for $12.99. Players can create a transport network in locations across […]
You’re going to have to update your operating system to Mac OS X 10.6 or later to keep using Dropbox. Per 9to5Mac, Dropbox has announced through an email to users on older versions of OS X that it will soon be discontinuing support for computers running Leopard or other older versions of the operating system. […]
This suggestion came in over the weekend from one Larry Macy, Ph.D over at the University of Pennsylvania and it’s pretty interesting. For those of you still running Mac OS X 10.4 to Mac OS X 10.6.8, a workaround has been discovered for the recently discovered Shellshock bash vulnerabilities. Per Macy, the process replaces bash […]
This could be somewhat helpful. On Tuesday, Dropbox released version 2.4.5 of its cloud-based storage client for Mac OS X. The new version, a 32.1 megabyte download (via MacUpdate), which adds the following fixes and changes: – Fixed Finder crash at startup. – Fixed crash when quitting in XP. – Other small fixes. Dropbox 2.4.5 […]