A change to Apple’s App Store rules has reversed an old rule that has historically prohibited emulators on the iPhone and iPad. The rule has altered a prohibition on apps that run external code, which has led to a de facto ban on console and classic game emulators. Specifically, Apple is now allowing “software that […]
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Apple, and its legal department, do not like it when you leak source code for core components of iOS on GitHub. This is exactly what happened, as a chunk of source code, labeled “iBoot”, which is the part of iOS that is responsible for ensuring a trusted boot of the operating system, found its way […]
It’s interesting what the intelligence community gets up to in its day to day work. According to Spiegel Online International, the Politerain hiring process posted ads for candidates who wanted “to break things.” Politerain is not a project associated with a conventional company. It is run by a US government intelligence organization, the National Security […]
Never knock a steadily updated app. VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.2.14. The new version, a 150 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – VMM: another TLB invalidation fix for non-present pages. – VMM: fixed a performance regression (4.2.8 regression; bug #11674). – GUI: […]
VirtualBox, an open source x86 virtualization project available for free has just hit version 4.2.4. The new version, a 101 megabyte download, features the following fixes and changes: – GUI: fixed validation warning on global settings / proxy page (4.2.2 regression, bug #11089). – GUI: fixed crash with multiple guest screens on certain conditions (OS […]