Apple is sealing up a security hole popularly used to install emulators and other software barred from its App Store. The latest beta versions of iOS 8.1, expected to be released to the public in late October, prevent users from using the bug, known as the “date trick”, to install unsigned apps straight from Safari onto their iOS devices – so-called “side loading”.
It's a fact of life in virtually every community that there will be countless daily distractions -- news announcements, controversies, squabbles -- that take up the majority of our time and energy, leaving little for the big picture.
Apple now has the dubious distinction of most-phished brand, according to the latest report from the Anti-Phishing Work Group. For the first half of this year, 17.7 percent of all phishing attacks were aimed at Apple -- a first for the brand -- followed by PayPal (14.4 percent) and Chinese shopping site Taobao.com (13.2 percent), the APWG reported. Have phishers suddenly become more interested in stocking their music libraries from iTunes than siphoning money from PayPal? Not quite.
Based on a scalable multiprojector system that adapts gaming content to the physical space, RoomAlive allows users to touch, shoot, stomp, dodge and steer projected content that becomes seamlessly integrated with their environment.
Later this week at the Paris Auto Show, CEO of Tesla Elon Musk will“unveil the D.” Assuming this isn’t just a thinly veiled reference to a region of Musk’s anatomy, what might he be showing off on October 9? Does the “D” allude to a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid? Or perhaps it’s a version of the Model S with some semi-self-driving tweaks? Or is it as simple/boring as a dual-motor — all-wheel drive — version of the Model S?