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Apple Encryption Safe After All? UK Reportedly Plans to Backtrack on Backdoor Demands

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-06 08:48:00

Apple's reputation for providing a private and secure experience for people who use its products and services is among the highest in the industry. All that has been under threat this year, as the UK government has asked Apple to provide it with backdoor access to the iCloud accounts not only of British citizens, but of people around the world. But it looks like following pressure from the US, the UK might have decided to reverse course. As reported by the Financial Times on Sunday, the Home Of

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New M5 iPad Pro rumor hints at another Mac feature coming to iPad

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-06 14:20:51

It’s shaping up to be a big year for the iPad, with iPadOS 26 the biggest productivity update ever and a new iPad Pro coming this fall. Now, a curious rumor about that M5 iPad Pro’s cameras hints at yet another Mac-inspired feature coming to iPad soon. M5 iPad Pro expected to feature two front-facing cameras This weekend in his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman shared a curious detail about a new M5 iPad Pro feature. Gurman writes: Apple is apparently adding a second, portrait-side front-faci

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Xbox cloud games will soon follow you just about everywhere

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-06 14:36:05

Microsoft just launched a service for Xbox Insiders that brings all cloud-playable games, along with play histories, to the official Xbox PC app. This includes console exclusives spanning multiple generations and hundreds of other releases. The service extends to games owned by the player and Game Pass titles. The big hook here is that recently-played games will follow people across devices, including Xbox consoles, PCs and Windows handhelds. This will make it easier for folks to jump back into

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Apple Only Has One Hope for a Foldable iPhone that Beats Samsung

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-08-06 18:08:42

Next year, Apple will enter the foldable phone market, and after more than seven years of mainstream folding devices, its debut won’t be light on competition. As noted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is no stranger to tough competitors, but its folding phone launch is shaping up to be a little different. “When the company introduces its first foldable iPhone at the end of next year, it will be entering a product category that’s already seven years old—pioneered and dominated by its biggest ha

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PDFgear Scan is an AI-powered, feature-packed scanning app – and it’s completely free

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-06 22:00:40

We don’t talk enough about the amount of paperwork we come across every day. From essential bank documents, work contracts, tax notices, and bills to invoices, application forms, IDs, letters, and more, keeping everything organized can be a chore. And even more so if there’s a mix of physical and digital paperwork to deal with. Scanning your documents and organizing them digitally is a smart idea. But while there are plenty of scanner apps, any features you might need beyond basic scanning are

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Memory Efficiency in iOS: Reducing footprint and beyond

news.ycombinator.com Anton Gubarenko 2025-08-06 21:59:40

Previously, we explored how memory is measured and what tools are available for inspecting usage in iOS apps. Now, let’s shift our focus to reducing memory consumption using a set of practical techniques and development best practices. But first let’s discuss different approaches to treat this problem. Initial Source of a Problem Every spike in memory has a cause, and memory optimization is no exception. Sometimes it’s a 3rd-party library — Lottie is a classic example, especially if you export

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tvOS 26 adds new feature that makes AirPlay speakers better than ever

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-08-07 02:28:47

tvOS 26 is the next major update for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD users. Joining the Liquid Glass design, new screensavers, and FaceTime upgrades, tvOS 26 introduces a new feature that could make AirPlay speakers an asset in your home theater setup. AirPlay speakers can now be permanent audio outputs in tvOS 26 If you’re in the market for home speakers in 2025, there’s a good chance you’re looking into wireless rather than wired speakers. For years, Apple TV 4K has offered a feature that suppo

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Deals: 24GB M4 MacBook Air $179 off, M4 Pro Mac mini $150+ off, USB-C AirPods Max $99 off, more

9to5mac.com Justin Kahn 2025-08-07 02:47:13

Your Monday edition of 9to5Toys Lunch Break is now live with notable discounts on Apple’s Midnight 15-inch 24GB M4 MacBook Air at $179 off courtesy of Amazon to join the ongoing $200 price drop on the 14-inch M4 MacBook Pro. Next up, we move over to the 24GB M4 Pro Mac mini at over $150 off that landed over the weekend alongside this morning’s $99 discount on the USB-C AirPods Max and up to $399 off iPhone 16 Pro Max units. Just make sure you scope out the all-time low on Twelve South’s AirFly S

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Why I highly recommend the M4 MacBook Air to most people (and now it's on sale)

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-08-07 01:59:16

ZDNET's key takeaways Apple's MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon for $850, a competitive price for Apple's latest ultraportable. The M4 Air supports up to two external monitors with the lid open, and scales up to 32GB of unified memory. There are still only two USB-C ports on the left side, and I wish there were a nano-texture display option. View now at Amazon View now at Bhphotovideo View now at Apple more buying choices The MacBook Air M4 (13-inch) is on sale at Amazon, starting

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Quip is a smart clipboard management app for iOS and Mac

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-07 02:14:39

Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things. Its goal is to offer users more control and customization compared with the traditional clipboard, making it a more productive alternative. Quip is non-intrusive — on Mac, i

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9to5Mac Daily: July 21, 2025 – iPad Pro and iPhone 17 Air rumors

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-07 06:32:40

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. Sponsored by Bitwarden: Check out Bitwarden Password Manager, featuring a new Apple Watch authenticator integration, secure autofill on Safari and iOS apps, and enterprise-grade security tools that help you manage credentials with confidence. New episodes of 9to5Mac D

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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-07 06:46:40

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times. The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD Vance. “Th

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Installing apps on Linux? 4 ways it's different than any other OS - and mistakes to avoid

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-07 10:26:28

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When I first started using Linux in the late 90s, there was really only one way to install an application. You would download the app, unpack the archive, run the ./configure command, build the app with make, and then install it with make install. Inevitably, when you ran through that course, you would stumble because of dependencies and have to locate the dependency, run through the same process as you just did (only with the new software), and then find out the ne

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UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 10:30:09

Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the Trump administration over the UK’s demand that Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times. The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD Vance. “Th

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Report: iOS 27 to focus on new features for upcoming iPhone Fold

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-07 14:32:48

Act surprised: Apple is soon expected to formally kick off development of iOS 27. This year, Apple will have a big task: updating the iOS experience in preparation for its most radical new iPhone yet. Details are unclear, but iOS 27 will unsurprisingly focus heavily on optimizing software for Apple’s first foldable iPhone. This will include new features specifically for the iPhone Fold as well as ensuring that iOS as we know it today is optimized for the new form factor. In the latest edition

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Apple details how it trained its new AI models: 4 interesting highlights

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-07 14:58:15

During WWDC25, Apple announced new versions of its on-device and cloud-based foundation models. Now, they have published a tech report detailing how those models were trained, optimized, and evaluated. And the report includes some genuinely interesting under-the-hood tidbits. In a comprehensive document called “Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models – Tech Report 2025“, the company walks through multiple aspects of the new models, including their architecture, data sources, pre-training,

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The floating robot collecting rubbish in our waterways

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British government set to back down on secret iCloud backdoor after US pressure

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-08-07 23:16:30

We learned earlier this year that the British government had secretly ordered Apple to create a backdoor into encrypted data for all iCloud users worldwide. Specifically, it wanted a way to see personal data protected by Apple’s introduction of Advanced Data Protection (ADP), which extended end-to-end encryption to almost all iCloud data, meaning not even the iPhone maker could access it. Apple has been fighting the secret order in secret court hearings, but it now appears that the US governmen

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Apple Sports app expands soccer coverage and launches in a new country

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-08-07 23:55:20

The Apple Sports app, which allows users to track sports scores in real-time, today expanded its coverage of soccer. With the new 3.1 update, fans of the FA Community Shield soccer tournament can now follow along inside Apple Sports. Also notable is that the app is now available to download in Mexico. This means fans of Liga MX can now use the app for the first time to track the performance of their local teams, as well as how they fare in the MLS Leagues Cup. Apple also said the app has incre

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WhatsApp is dropping its native Windows app in favor of an uglier web version

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-08-07 21:38:40

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Meta is planning to drop its native WhatsApp Windows app in favor of a web wrapper version instead, just months after introducing a native iPad app. The latest beta version of WhatsApp on Windows includes the major changes, with Meta noting it has “updated how WhatsApp beta looks and works.” Behind the scenes it’s a big change to WhatsApp on Windows, moving it from a native Wi

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Here’s how Apple Intelligence keeps privacy in mind versus the competition

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-07 16:10:43

Artificial intelligence has obviously been the industry craze for the past couple years. While large language models are incredibly capable, they’ve always come with a bit of a compromise: privacy. Ultimately, you’re still using a model hosted in the cloud, and all of your conversations are stored on some server. Apple’s always had privacy at the core of its products – so in the months leading up to the debut of Apple’s AI features, many people wondered: how would Apple handle it? Today, we del

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Apple's next iPad Pro will reportedly get two front-facing cameras

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-07 17:20:42

The iPad Pro with the M5 chip is expected to be just as easy to use for selfies in a landscape or portrait orientation. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple will add a second front-facing camera on the portrait edge of the upcoming iPad Pro that's expected to launch later this year. It may seem like a small quality-of-life upgrade, but it means the iPad Pro can use either camera to center the subject for selfies or FaceTime calls. Compared to the previous iPad models, the upcoming iPad P

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iOS 26’s Photos app has a helpful new feature for events: Here’s how it works

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-08-07 18:46:25

At WWDC25, Apple introduced a few new capabilities to the Photos app for iOS 26. Most notably, it reintroduces a tab bar layout after last year’s controversial single-page redesign. It also allows you to create spatial scenes from existing photos. On top of those headlining features, there’s another underlying feature in the Photos app for iOS 26 that a lot of users might appreciate, and thats event details. Let’s explain. With iOS 26, if you’ve gone to a concert, sporting event, or some sort

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Java was not underhyped in 1997 (2021)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-04 03:37:50

Java Criminally Underhyped? Not Back in 1997. Earlier today, a fun little moment of Twitter serendipity alerted me to an article by Jackson Roberts, a computer science student at the University of Colorado, entitled “Java is criminally underhyped”. It’s a really interesting article, and Jackson’s observations correlate with a lot of my own thinking about languages and platforms, although I am squarely in the .NET / CLR camp on that particular front. But Jackson ends his article: I am curious

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These are the 6 Android widgets I simply can’t live without

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-07 14:00:41

Megan Ellis / Android Authority From calendars to reminder apps, everyone has their own list of the best Android widgets. For me, widgets help me get overviews of various things without needing to open up the app that they’re linked to. I recently switched to a new smartphone, and while there are certain things I do whenever I set up a new phone, I also realized that I needed to refresh some of my widget setups. As a result, these ones have become indispensable to my daily routine. 1. TickTic

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5 underrated Android features I use all the time, and you should too

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-07 15:00:59

Andy Walker / Android Authority Features like split-screen mode, Quick Share, and various battery optimizations are more or less common knowledge amongst Android users. But Google’s OS has so many features, it’s easy for some to fly under the radar — especially since they can be buried deep within the settings. A lot of the features I use regularly aren’t talked about as much as they should be, partly due to the fact not everyone is aware that they even exist. I want to change that by sharing

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Report: M5 iPad Pro to have dual front-facing cameras

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-08-07 16:43:43

With last year’s M4 iPad Pro, Apple made a long-awaited change to the design: it moved the front-facing camera from the top to the side. According to Bloomberg today, Apple has another big change to the iPad Pro’s front-facing camera in store for the M5 update coming later this year. In the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman reports: Apple is apparently adding a second, portrait-side front-facing camera to the upcoming M5 iPad Pro, presumably so FaceTimers and selfie fans

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A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-07 11:13:15

To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript. Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your platform.

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XMLUI

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Jon Udell 2025-08-07 17:03:39

In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on the shoulders of the coders who built those components. If you’re younger than 45 you may not know what that was like, nor realize web components have never worked the same way. The project we’re announcing today, XMLUI, brings the VB model to the modern web and its React-based component ecosystem. XML

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James Gunn Talks Future Superman Plans, Dropping Henry Cavill

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-07 17:30:39

James Gunn’s spent the past few weeks talking about why he agreed to do Superman, and he’s also taking time to address the awkward part: agreeing to do it at the apparent expense of Henry Cavill’s superhero comeback. In 2022, the mid-credits scene for Black Adam none too subtly declared Cavill’s return and his team up (or fight) with Dwayne Johnson’s thunderous antihero. Nothing came of that, however, because as Gunn explained in a recent Happy Sad Confused episode, it was “never part of the eq

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