It was an unusual fiscal second quarter for Apple—and for basically everyone else on Earth, too, of course. But on Thursday we got a little bit of a sense of how Apple has weathered the storm so far and what might be in the company’s future, as Apple reported its quarterly results and spent an …
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. Despite disruptions to both supply and demand caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, Apple posted $58.3 billion in revenue in its second quarter, eking out 1 percent growth over last year’s second quarter. This beat some recent expectations by investors, but it falls well behind the $63-67 billion guidance …
Enlarge / The TrueDepth sensor array on the iPhone. Samuel Axon Apple’s Face ID method for authenticating on recent iPhones offers a number of security benefits, and it’s a neat trick to boot. But in a pandemic-stricken world where many people either opt to or are even required to wear protective masks, users have discovered …
The Fairphone 3, now with a new /e/ OS option. The front earpiece and rear camera. Buttons. The phone is easily repairable and breaks into modules. The modules. Fairphone and e Foundation are teaming up and taking the rare step of selling a non-Google Android phone to the public. The Fairphone 3, a midrange smartphone …
In the last few months, multiple groups of attackers successfully compromised corporate email accounts of at least 156 high-ranking officers at various firms based in Germany, the UK, Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Dubbed ‘PerSwaysion,’ the newly spotted cyberattack campaign leveraged Microsoft file-sharing services—including Sway, SharePoint, and OneNote—to launch highly targeted phishing attacks. According to …
Intel’s latest 10th-gen “Comet Lake S” desktop processors solve the hyperthreading issues that plagued Intel’s 9th-gen chips, with a unique wrinkle: the ability to dial hyperthreading on and off on a per-core basis. The fastest of the thirty-two new chips pushes clock speeds up to 5.3GHz, though that’s specific to a single core. Intel boasts the …
A new type of mobile banking malware has been discovered abusing Android’s accessibility features to exfiltrate sensitive data from financial applications, read user SMS messages, and hijack SMS-based two-factor authentication codes. Called “EventBot” by Cybereason researchers, the malware is capable of targeting over 200 different financial apps, including banking, money transfer services, and crypto-currency wallets …
In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we take a deep dive into the iPhone SE. Who should buy Apple’s new phone, and why? This is episode 695 with Jason Cross, Leif Johnson, and Roman Loyola. Listen to episode 696 Get info For the lowdown on what we talked about on the show, read the …
Yes, you can just install Gnome Boxes from Software Center—but I’m a sysadmin at heart; I used apt instead. Jim Salter I really like the Welcome Tutorial that Boxes gives you. It’s short, to the point, and exposes features you’d likely miss otherwise. Jim Salter The easy downloads is a pretty nifty feature—you don’t need …
Security researchers are sounding the alarm over newly discovered vulnerabilities in some popular online learning management system (LMS) plugins that various organizations and universities use to offer online training courses through their WordPress-based websites. According to the Check Point Research Team, the three WordPress plugins in question — LearnPress, LearnDash, and LifterLMS — have security …