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Apple says the attack was “narrowly-focused” rather than a broad-based exploit of iPhones as described. Fewer than a dozen websites targeting Uighur Muslims were affected, according to Apple. Further, Apple says that Google created a false impression of mass exploitation, causing fear among iPhone owners.

Google also got the length of the attacks wrong. Apple says the websites were operational for approximately two months rather than two years, with the vulnerabilities fixed 10 days after Apple learned about them. Fixes were already in the works when Google approached Apple.

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Wait a minute, MySpace still exists??!! Source: MySpace loses 12 years worth of photos, songs & video files

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Who knew Corel still existed after all these years!!! Source: CorelDRAW Returns to Mac After Nearly 20 Years With macOS Mojave Dark Mode and Touch Bar Support – MacRumors

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Looks like you can now have some free private repositories on GitHub: Source: GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

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This is very curious that a single app can cause an iPhone to misbehave like this. This shouldn’t happen regardless of what the app is doing. I suspect we will hear more about this in the coming days. Source: Apple Identifies Issue With GasBuddy App Causing Some iPhones to Become Unresponsive [Updated] – Mac Rumors

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This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone

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This is probably the beginning of the end of Twitter as they are struggling with no viable business model at all.

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Perfect for all those worthless open office concepts: Source: Would you wear this muzzle around the office for private calling? – CNET

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Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. We’re excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service.

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So, are we still calling the Apple Watch a failure? Interestingly, it appears that this growth has resulted in Apple Watch shipments coming in higher than all Swiss watch brands combined for the first time last quarter, according to IDC research director Francisco Jeronimo.‏ In other words, Apple is now the biggest watchmaker in the […]

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