New T2 security chip MacBooks needs to make microphone espionage extremely complicated
Apple's new MacBooks include a feature that will make it much more difficult for hackers to spy on or listen to users using the device's microphone. Apple added the new T2 security chip. It helps secure encryption keys, storage, fingerprint data and secure boot features.
Until today was little known...
iPad Pro 2018 gets new design and is aimed at the business professional
Not only did Apple present a new MacBook Air and Mac Mini today, it also presented a significant improvement on the iPad Pro. Just like the two aforementioned devices, Apple's tablet hadn't been redesigned for a long time. Until today, then.
Apple CEO Tim Cook presented the new iPad Pro at a present...
Apple brings new MacBook Air Retina screen and other enhancements
Apple unveiled its new MacBook Air on Tuesday afternoon. The device was in need of an update once in a while and has received one. The new device is equipped with a retina screen, narrower screen edges and some other improvements. The Mac Mini has also been updated.
For the first time since 2010, Ap...
Apple and Samsung get fine for slower phones from Italian competition authority
The Italian competition authority fined Apple and Samsung €5 million each. This was after complaints came in about software updates from the two smartphone manufacturers. The updates make smartphones slower and that should not be possible according to the competition authority. Apple will also...
Also AWS and Super Micro want Bloomberg to rectify story about Chinese spy chips
After Apple's Tim Cook asked Bloomberg yesterday to withdraw his story about Chinese espionage chips, now the CEOs of Amazon Web Services and server manufacturer Super Micro are also doing so. Earlier Bloomberg stated that Chinese microchips had compromised the computer networks of as many as thirty...
Apple CEO asks Bloomberg to rectify message about Chinese spy chips
Apple CEO Tim Cook wants financial news agency Bloomberg to withdraw a recent controversial story about Chinese microchips on U.S. servers. The boss of the world's largest tech company hopes that the news agency will do the right thing and expects a formal rectification.
Buzzfeed News reports that o...
Apple launches new iPad Pro and MacBook on October 30
On October 30, Apple will present new hardware. The event is likely to unveil the products that we had previously expected at the iPhone maker's September event. A new Mac and a new iPad Pro will most likely appear during the event.
The event will be unveiled at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New ...
Apple apologizes for Chinese account hacks
Apple apologizes to Chinese users from whom money has been stolen by hackers who misused their Apple IDs. The company acknowledges the problems, but stresses that only a small number of users have been affected.
Earlier this month, Alipay and Tencent Holdings warned that money had been stolen from ...
MacBooks will run on Apple ARM chips in 2 or 3 years’ time.
Within a year or two, maybe three, Apple's MacBooks run on ARM processors. The Apple-based analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expressed this expectation in a new report. Switching to your own chips has a number of advantages for Apple.
According to the AppleInsider site, Kuo, who is generally known as a reliable ...
Homeland Security denies Bloomberg story about Chinese espionage chips
Earlier this week, press agency Bloomberg stated that China had secretly placed small chips on Supermicro's motherboards. This would spy on various American tech companies, including Amazon and Apple. The companies denied the news and now the American secret service, Homeland Security, is putting it...
“China placed spy chips in servers Amazon, Apple and other companies.
Amazon and Apple are said to be targets of Chinese espionage. It is said that chips have been placed on the motherboard of certain servers in the data centres of the companies. The claims are denied by the companies, as well as by the manufacturer of the motherboards, Supermicro Computer.
The story ...
FBI forces suspicious iPhone to unlock with face recognition
Apple may make it extremely complicated for police and other security services to break into iPhones - it's not impossible. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has unlocked an iPhone X for the first time with a somewhat unconventional method.
For the first time, the FBI has forced a criminal su...