Passwords gone in 17 hours unless you upgrade to iOS 8.2
Apple fans have more reason to update to iOS 8.2 with the discovery of a device used in the computer repair industry that automates password exploitation.…
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Health & Safety is the responsibility of Connor’s long-suffering girlfriend
Little Hitlers gonna Hitle
Stob Much discussion of health and safety concentrates on the opportunities the discipline affords our little Hitlers to little-Hitle. But when I did some work on an industrial site recently – this is the most relaxing environment to get your head around a mischievous lump of functional JavaScript, by the way, you absolutely must try it – my attention was caught by the health-and-safety refresher test I was obliged to take.…
Thanks a lot, Google, for snatching .dev for yourself. It’s not like the rest of us wanted it
Oh well, back to .io
Comment The internet is gradually gaining a whole lot of new top-level domain names, from the useful (.app, .dev) to the more whimsical (.ninja, .lol), thanks to ICANN’s dot-word gold rush.…
Studying humans for science? Wrap your eyeballs around our fine print, says Apple
If you want to do research on fanbois, you’d better ask first
Apple has updated its App Store developer guidelines to include new restrictions on apps that gather health data for purposes of medical research.…
Cyanogen said to be hoovering up cash, but NOT from Microsoft
Redmond reportedly sitting out firmware firm’s $110m funding round
Sources say Android alt-firmware outfit Cyanogen is close to closing a new round of funding, but Microsoft reportedly won’t be among the investors.…
Docker snacks on Mac app chaps: Kitematic to put UI on container tools
Point-and-click wrangling for devs running OS X
Linux container outfit Docker has expanded its staff yet again, this time by gobbling up the creators of a GUI Docker management tool for OS X.…
Google murders Google Code, orders everyone out to GitHub and co
Shutdown begins now, completely dead by January 2016
Google killing off its own software projects is nothing new, but the Mountain View goliath will soon kill your software projects, too, if you host them on Google Code.…
Microsoft hints at faster release cadence for Windows 10 previews
Builds are coming, really
After admitting that it hasn’t been seeding new builds of Windows 10 as often as many testers had hoped, Microsoft is gearing up to increase its release cadence.…
Want to check out iOS 8.3? Apple just might let you (but make a backup)
Cupertino giant begins public beta program
Just days after releasing iOS 8.2 to the masses, Apple is allowing some users to check out the early builds of iOS 8.3.…
Out with the old: the end of Microsoft support can be your storage opportunity
In with the new
Anyone who has not been locked in a cupboard for the past couple of years will be aware that two of Microsoft’s core products will reach the end of their supported lives in the next few months.…