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Apple issues “Report Junk” feature for iCloud calendar users to address recent spam issue, macOS and iOS versions expected soon

If you’ve been annoyed by iCloud Calendar spam over the past few weeks, Apple may be working on a solution. Recently, Apple has added a new “Report Junk” feature to its calendar program on iCloud.com. lets users remove spammy invites from their calendar and reports the sender to Apple for further investigation. The feature is […]

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iPhones secretly storing call data in iCloud, allows later access for law enforcement (Updated)

This definitely qualifies as a mess between privacy, security and law enforcement. While Apple emerged as a guardian of privacy earlier this year, fighting the FBI’s demands to help crack San Bernadino shooter Syed Farouk’s iPhone, implementing improved encryption for all its handsets and refusing to undermine that encryption, it appears that private data is […]

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Apple posts $9 billion profit on $46.9 billion in revenue from Q4 of 2016, down from Q4 of 2015 numbers

Apple’s annual revenue has fallen for the first time since 2001. The company went from $233.7 billion in 2015 to $217 billion in the 2016 fiscal year. This marks a 9 percent decline since 2001, largely due to the continued decline in iPhone sales, down 5 percent year over year. The company sold 45.5 million […]

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Apple releases macOS 10.12.1 Sierra update

On Monday, Apple released macOS 10.12.1, the first major update to its recently-released macOS 10.12 Sierra operating system. The update, which weighs in around 584 megabytes, includes the following fixes and changes: Fixes: Adds an automatic smart album in Photos for Depth Effect images taken on iPhone 7 Plus. Improves the compatibility of Microsoft Office […]

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Officials look into Friday’s Mirai-based DDoS, cite Apple’s HomeKit security protocol

Following up on the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Friday that temporarily took down large chunks of the Internet, it looks like Apple’s controversial “walled garden” approach to its HomeKit devices may have worked out. As detailed in recent reports, the attack, which also targeted unprotected “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices, focused […]