Author: Botrax

COBBLE HILL — Late this afternoon, the engine of a BMW spontaneously burst into flames while the owners drove down Strong Place near Degraw Street. Fire Department of New York (FDNY) responders said this is […]

Wandera, a London-based mobile security company, found iPhones using iOS 11 took 96 minutes to empty their battery from 100 per cent charge. Those on iOS 10 took longer, at 240 minutes. Source: Apple users […]

One of the benefits of cryptocurrency technologies like Bitcoin is that all transactions are supposed to be anonymous. But new evidence put forth by researchers from Princeton University suggests that hidden tracking cookies within the […]

Apple just released the latest version of macOS, dubbed High Sierra, but the OS has a critical flaw zero-day flaw that allows rogue applications to export passwords in plaintext. Worse, the issue isn’t limited to […]

For those awaiting their new Apple Watch Series 3, be prepared for some connectivity issues. The Verge’s Lauren Goode reports that during her review of the new smartwatch, it frequently struggled to connect to LTE […]

Modest queues have been photographed outside of Apple’s flagship stores today in London, New York, Sydney and Singapore – a far cry from the snaking crowds of previous years. Source: Queues barely form at Apple’s […]

Confirming reports that reception for Apple’s newly launched iPhone 8 may be “underwhelming” to put it lightly, as the phone provides little if any material improvement over its lower-priced predecessor even as sales for hardcore […]

New Apple macOS High Sierra Vulnerability Lets Applications Steal Keychain Passwords in Plaintext Source: Apple macOS High Sierra Exploit Lets Hackers Steal Keychain Passwords in Plaintext

When Apple announced the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, it moved away from using metal for the back of its phones in favor of all-glass construction. The company promised that this would have no impact […]

It’s pretty tough for individuals and even third-party shops to repair Apple products, and often hard to predict whether Apple itself will repair, decline to fix or replace a busted iPhone. However, Business Insider has […]

The Essential PH-1 (aka Essential Phone) is designed to withstand dents and scratches, but what happens if something breaks on the inside? You can forget about fixing it yourself, apparently. The DIY repair crew at […]

White-hats warn voteware kaput weeks ahead of Bundestag poll Source: Achtung! German election tabulation software ‘insecure’ • The Register

With each passing day, it becomes increasingly difficult to find Internet-based companies that haven’t participated in some form of political censorship in recent months. Google, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, Cloudflare and GoDaddy are all examples of […]

If you like iPhones, Apple’s iPhone 8 is a perfectly good phone. It adds new features like TrueTone, an updated camera (particularly on the iPhone 8 Plus), a hexa-core CPU built on a 10nm process, […]

Kiss your Microsoft email goodbye, for now, if you update Source: Attention adults working in the real world: Do not upgrade to iOS 11 if you use Outlook, Exchange • The Register

Apps are gonna break. Plus of course, Apple always screws up the first iteration Source: Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit • The Register

If you’ve updated to Apple’s new iOS 11, you might have played around with the new Control Center. You also might think that toggling Bluetooth and WiFi “off” in the Center might actually, you know, […]

Tells Cisco’s Talos it’s a feature, not a bug. Apple and Google disagree and fixed it Source: Microsoft won’t patch Edge browser content security bypass • The Register

For those of you who miss the iPhone headphone jack, you’re definitely not alone. But Strange Parts creator Scotty Allen missed it so much that he decided to add one to his iPhone 7. He […]

AN EXPLODING air freshener left this car a mangled wreck and put its driver in hospital. The blast was caused when a lit cigarette ignited fumes that apparently came from an aerosol can. The doors,… […]

It’s double trouble for two teenage sisters who want to learn to drive – all because the system can’t tell them apart Source: Identical twins denied driving licence after baffling facial recognition computer system – […]

Google Drive services are down in parts of the US. The outage has been confirmed by Google, which says it’s working on resolving the issues. Source: Google Drive down in parts of US — RT […]

The eclipse came and went amidst a media hullabaloo. Much of the coverage focussed on where and how you could watch the event. And, almost every report carried a word of warning: Protect your eyes. […]

Those government websites that allow you to change voter registration details might seem convenient, but they also make you vulnerable to ID theft and could be used to manipulate elections. That’s what a team of […]