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Dropbox adds new Transfer feature, allows for files up to 2 GB to be sent to users who don’t have Dropbox accounts

This is pretty nifty. Dropbox has introduced a new feature called “Transfer,” which allows users to send files up to 2 GB, even to recipients who do not have a Dropbox account. Any file can be sent, and they don’t need to be in the user’s Dropbox. Notifications can alert users as to when a […]

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Apple releases updated 13-inch, 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with 8th and 9th-gen Intel chips, updated butterfly keyboards

Apple has announced its new group of MacBook Pro notebooks, complete with Intel’s newest 8th and 9th generation Core processors as well as a revamped ultra slim butterfly keyboard with new enhancements to substantially reduce issues users may experience with stuck or unresponsive keys.  The 15-inch MacBook Pro was updated no less than twice in […]

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Security researchers warn of PGP, S/MIME encryption vulnerabilities in Apple Mail, other email clients

This might keep Apple’s security teams for a few night working on a patch. A group of vulnerabilities discovered in PGP and S/MIME that could allow an attacker to read emails encrypted using the standards, with one attack potentially allowing for a message to be decrypted by abusing a flaw in the way Mail for […]

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EEC filings hint at upcoming iPhone models for 2018

Sometimes it’s the regulatory filings that hint at the really nifty products en route to the market. Per French website Consomac, a new Russian-language regulatory filing discovered in the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) database pointing towards several unreleased iPhone models that Apple could be launching relatively soon. The new iPhone model numbers running iOS 11 […]

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FBI director Christopher Wray calls for weakened encryption, backdoor access to assist law enforcement efforts

Because apparently several experts telling you something is mathematically impossible doesn’t mean a whole lot. Newly minted FBI director Christopher Wray has renewed calls to weaken or bypass encryption. Wray, citing more than 7,700 locked devices that have proven inaccessible to the FBI, has stated that encryption can be weakened without putting users at risks. […]