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Security researchers cite SLAP and FLOP vulnerabilities found in a wide array of Apple Silicon hardware

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date January 29, 2025
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As nifty as the Apple Silicon processors are, there’s currently an exploit present in the hardware that allows potential hackers to siphon private data. The processors, which offer a speculative execution feature that guesses what you’ll need next, are generally right as to what you’ll need. Still, when these guesses are incorrect, they can create […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 mobile game scam surfaces, fake app briefly appears in the App Store

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date January 10, 2025
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If you see an ad promising Baldur’s Gate 3 for mobile, it’s a scam. Per Videogamer, a scam app has appeared in Apple’s App Store that taps into the popularity of Larian Studios’ extremely popular Baldur’s Gate 3. While Larian Studios has commented that there are no plans to bring the game to mobile at […]

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Apple announces Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date September 13, 2023

Over at its “Wonderlust” media event on Monday, Apple opened the show by announcing its new smartwatches, the first being the Apple Watch Series 8, which offers the first speed bump since 2020’s Series 6, on-device Siri processing, and more. While the Apple Watch Series 9 units brought no visible hardware redesign to the main […]

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TSMC Arizona chip plant falls behind schedule, initial test runs delayed until late 2024/early 2025

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date July 21, 2023

TSMC’s Arizona chip plant, which will include chips for older Apple devices, has been officially delayed by the company. Production had been scheduled to begin in late 2024 and has been pushed back to early 2025. The chipmaker had previously acknowledged that construction work had fallen well behind schedule, but had said at the time […]

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Ford to retain Apple CarPlay functionality for the foreseeable future

Post author By Chris Barylick
Post date May 4, 2023

Even though General Motors (GM) seems to be planning to phase out Apple’s CarPlay for its infotainment system, Ford seems to be looking to keep Apple’s technology in its vehicles for the foreseeable future. In an interview with Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal, Ford CEO Jim Farley spoke about the state of built-in […]