The iOS 12.4 Jailbreak Nobody Saw Coming
Apple accidentally reopened an old security hole in iOS 12.4, and for the first time in years the current version of iOS is jailbreakable. A look at the bug, and some nostalgia for the Cydia days.
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The Note10 Ditched the Headphone Jack and I'm Weirdly Sentimental About It
The Galaxy Note10 and Note10+ hit stores yesterday, and the detail that actually stuck with me wasn't the price - it was Samsung finally dropping the headphone jack on its last holdout flagship.
Reading Cloudflare's S-1 at 1 AM
Cloudflare filed its IPO paperwork this week, and I spent way too long reading the actual S-1 instead of just skimming a headline about it.
Adam Neumann Sold WeWork the Word "We" for $5.9 Million
WeWork's newly public S-1 filing is a wild read, especially the part where Adam Neumann sold his own company the rights to the word "We" for $5.9 million.
Samsung Killed the Note's Headphone Jack and I'm Not Over It
Samsung's new Note10 lineup dropped the headphone jack this week, and after years of Samsung mocking Apple for doing the same thing, it stings more than it should.
Samsung Killed the Headphone Jack on the Note, and the Irony Is Not Lost on Me
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note10 today and finally killed the headphone jack, three years after mocking Apple for doing the exact same thing.
The Capital One Thing Wasn't a Password Problem
The Capital One breach wasn't a stolen password, it was a misconfigured firewall and an AWS metadata endpoint handing out IAM credentials for the asking.
The Capital One Hack Wasn't Even Clever
Capital One says a hacker got at data on over 100 million people through a misconfigured firewall, not some brilliant zero-day. That's the part that should actually worry you.
The Equifax $125 Check You're Probably Not Getting
The FTC's Equifax settlement promises up to $125 cash, but the fine print reveals a $31 million pool that could shrink real payouts to just a few dollars each.
The Website That Made Me Stay Up Past Midnight for a 50-Year-Old Moon Landing
A tab-obsessive night with apolloinrealtime.org, the site replaying Apollo 11 minute-by-minute exactly fifty years later, and why its restraint is what makes it work.
The BA Fine Is Huge, But Watch Where the Money Actually Goes
British Airways just got hit with a record £183m GDPR fine over last year's card-skimming hack, and the part nobody's talking much about is who actually gets that money (hint: not you).
GDPR Finally Grew Teeth This Week (Ask British Airways)
The ICO hit British Airways and Marriott with record-breaking GDPR fines this week, £183m and £99m respectively, and for once a privacy penalty actually looks like it might hurt.