Day: June 7, 2021

Apple WWDC 2021 keynote: Live updates – CNET

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference shows us new software features coming to iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and more. …read more Source:: CNet


iOS 15 at WWDC21: FaceTime on Android and new notification features – CNET

The new operating system is a follow-up to last year’s iOS 14 and will launch this fall likely with the iPhone 13. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple Live Text takes on Google Lens, can read your photos – CNET

Live Text can pull information out of Apple Photos, much like Google Lens does. …read more Source:: CNet


Three thousand sea birds abandon nests amid nature reserve drone crash hullabaloo

Breeding season takes a tern for the worse Two drone crashes at a nature reserve in Orange County, California, are being blamed for a colony of some 3,000 sea birds abandoning their nests.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Cyber Athletes Compete to Form US Cyber Team

Here’s how security pros can showcase value to future employers: a field of friendly strife to measure their aptitude against competitors. …read more Source:: DarkReading


White House Hires Broadband Expert

Lisa Hone, a longtime Federal Communications Commission attorney with deep expertise in broadband policy, has joined the National Economic Council team to steer the Biden administration’s broadband expansion efforts. From a report: Expanding broadband internet service to all Americans is a top priority for the Biden White House. Hone’s primary focus is ensuring that money…


Ahead of WWDC, Apple bolsters AirTags privacy measures, says developing Android detector app – CNET

Apple’s upping its privacy efforts with AirTags about a month after they hit the market, and a week before WWDC, its biggest developer event of the year. …read more Source:: CNet


Zuckerberg calls out Apple’s 30% cut, says Facebook creator tools will stay free until 2023 – CNET

The social network is also launching a new payout interface for creators that’ll show the fees taken by other companies. …read more Source:: CNet


Apple settles with student after authorised repair workers leaked customer’s intimate pics to her Facebook page

Which pours cold water over Cupertino’s insistence that third-party fixes violate privacy Apple has paid a multimillion-dollar settlement to an unnamed Oregon college student after one of its outsourced repair facilities posted explicit pictures and videos of her to her Facebook page.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


South Korean regulator to probe in-app payments, creates new ‘team’ to look into digital ads

The usual suspects are accused of anti-competitive behaviour, naughtiness with data South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has set up a new team dedicated to investigating abuse of dominance and competition concerns in online ads.… …read more Source:: TheRegister