In what can only be described as painfully ironic, Microsoft engineers are seemingly convinced…
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Apple offers Safari users safer browsing with USB security key support
Apple’s latest preview version of Safari features support…
Secure Safari: How to stay safe using Apple’s browser
Apple’s Safari is the second most popular web browser in the world…
Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google ad tracking
Facebook and other companies routinely track your online surfing habits to better target ads…
It’s long past time for Apple to fix the three biggest iCloud problems
No increase in the free tier in seven years, while storage costs have plummeted, makes Apple look like…
Significant artificial intelligence enhancements on tap for Apple’s platforms
WWDC 2018 introduced significant enhancements to artificial intelligence (AI) on Apple’s platforms…
MacOS Mojave: 6 hidden features you can find in the public beta
You probably already know about Dark Mode and desktop Stacks, but they are just the top-level features in a surprisingly deep update…
Apple releases Safari Technology Preview 59 with Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview…
Apple’s Safari browser leads the privacy battle
Apple’s decision to put an army into the war against ads tracking and surreptitious finger-printing techniques…
Apple previews iOS 12 with shared AR experiences, Group FaceTime, Memoji, and much more
Apple today announced iOS 12, the latest version of the most advanced mobile operating system…
Apple unveils ARKit 2
Apple today introduced ARKit 2, a platform that allows developers to integrate shared experiences…
Alphabet Inc’s Google could face $4.3 billion claim in U.K. iPhone privacy case
iPhone users suing Google over data-collection claims may be seeking as much as 3.2 billion pounds ($4.29 billion)…
Mozilla’s Firefox 60 is the world’s first browser to give you password-free logins
Mozilla has released Firefox 60 with support for a new option to sign in to websites without using a password…
Facebook’s surveillance machine
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
Researchers demonstrate macOS and Safari exploits at Pwn2Own 2018
The eighteenth annual CanSecWest security conference is underway in downtown…
Amazon’s Alexa is randomly laughing and nobody knows why
Some Alexa users may feel like they’ve been dropped into a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence gone awry…
European Union seeks power to seize overseas personal data from customers of Apple, Microsoft, other tech firms
The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data…
FBI agent texts criticize Apple: ‘Now if Tim Cook would fall off the face of the earth’
The messages are between Peter Strzok, an FBI counterintelligence agent, and Lisa Page, a lawyer for the FBI, who were involved in an extramarital affair at the time…
Apple goes back to the future with web apps
Service Workers allow background scripts to power offline web applications and should make it possible…
Apple releases iOS and macOS updates with a mitigation for Spectre CPU flaw
Apple just released iOS 11.2.2 with some Safari and WebKit improvements…
Meltdown and Spectre: What Apple users need to know
If your Apple device is running one of the following operating systems…
How Apple product users can protect themselves against Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws
Apple has confirmed that all Macs, iPhones, iPads and other devices…
Apple: All Mac systems and iOS devices are affected by Meltdown and Spectre security flaws
There are no known exploits impacting customers at this time…
Apple is leading the charge to offline artificial intelligence
When it comes to the companies that are leading the charge into artificial intelligence…
Firefox Quantum: 170 million installs so far, as more Chrome users jump ship
Firefox maker Mozilla is touting early figures that suggest its overhauled browser, Quantum…
Apple to users: Here’s why our data gathering doesn’t invade your privacy
Apple is using differential privacy to protect users, even when collecting very sensitive data such as keystrokes and the sites users visit…
Privacy worry? Apple is sharing your face data with third-party app developers
Apple just started sharing your face with lots of apps…
Google could be forced to pay over five million iPhone users £2.7 billion for selling their data without their consent
Google could be forced to pay over five million iPhone users £2.7 billion in compensation…
Google collects Android settlers’ locations even when location services are ‘disabled’
Many people realize that smartphones track their locations. But what if you actively turn off location services?
App developer access to iPhone X face data spooks some privacy experts
Apple Inc. won accolades from privacy experts in September for assuring that facial data used to unlock…
Apple’s Safari web browser now consumes much less memory
It’s time to tip a hat to Apple for a major change they’ve made in their latest desktop operating system…
Google Home Mini spies on everything reviewer said 24/7, transmits recordings to Google’s servers
It was waking up thousands of times a day, recording, then sending those recordings to Google…
37,000 users unwittingly installed a malicious Chrome web browser extension from Google’s Web Store
A fraudulent browser extension was downloaded by 37,000 Chrome users after it sneaked past Google’s Web Store vetting processes…
Apple ‘acqui-hires’ AI team to work on Siri
Earlier this week, a small startup called Init.ai announced that it soon would be discontinuing its service…
Google responds to Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention with new Google Analytics cookie is designed to keep ad tracking from Safari intact
Starting this month, Google is making changes to the way it captures and reports on conversions in AdWords…
Apple: Privacy is a fundamental right
Apple updated its privacy policy Wednesday and offered up more details on how it handles the data…
Apple begins mining browsing data in Safari via differential privacy
The public release of macOS High Sierra brings with it some key updates to Safari…
By blocking tracking ads, is Apple destroying the internet’s economic model?
For the second time in as many years, internet advertisers are facing unprecedented disruption…
Apple’s macOS High Sierra coming soon with these 23 features
Apple has continued to work on Safari, its web browser — and says that the new version…
