Ahead of the annual “World Emoji Day”, Apple is showing off some of the newest icons that are coming in iOS 14 this Fall.
Some of the newest Emojis include a Ninja, Boomerang, Bubble Tea, a heart, beaver, and more.
To see some of them, click here.
Twitter has found out how it’s most trusted users got hacked - some of its employees fell for a social engineering scam that seemed to be true.
Because of this, the social media company issued the below statement via its blog, which reads:
At this time, we believe attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme. What does this mean? In this context, social engineering is the intentional manipulation of people into performing certain actions and divulging confidential information.
The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts. For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets. We are continuing our forensic review of all of the accounts to confirm all actions that may have been taken. In addition, we believe they may have attempted to sell some of the usernames.
For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account’s information through our “Your Twitter Data” tool. This is a tool that is meant to provide an account owner with a summary of their Twitter account details and activity. We are reaching out directly to any account owner where we know this to be true. None of the eight were verified accounts…
The most important question for people who use Twitter is likely — did the attackers see any of my private information? For the vast majority of people, we believe the answer is, no. For the 130 accounts that were targeted, here is what we know as of today.
• Attackers were not able to view previous account passwords, as those are not stored in plain text or available through the tools used in the attack.
• Attackers were able to view personal information including email addresses and phone numbers, which are displayed to some users of our internal support tools.
• In cases where an account was taken over by the attacker, they may have been able to view additional information. Our forensic investigation of these activities is still ongoing.
Via: Twitter Blog
If you're interested in becoming a developer for Apple, you must have a Mac, then download and install their development environment called Xcode. Xcode will allow you to develop apps for the Mac and iOS platforms using various languages such as Objective-C, Swift, and SwiftUI.
You must become a registered Apple Developer in order to download and install Xcode. Plans are as little as $100.00 a year and lower for students. That includes access to all libraries, documentation, developer's forums, and more.
Once you have that set-up, you'll need to download and install Xcode on your Mac.
Here's how:
There are plenty videos and documentation about Xcode to get you started and on your way to becoming a full-fledged Apple developer.
Under the proposed settlement, Apple will provide a cash payment of approximately $25 to each eligible iPhone owner who submits a claim, with its total payout to fall between $310 million and $500 million. The exact amount that each iPhone owner receives could vary slightly based on the number of claims submitted.
The class includes any U.S. resident who owns or previously owned an iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, and/or iPhone SE that ran iOS 10.2.1 or later, and/or an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus that ran iOS 11.2 or later, before December 21, 2017. Class members also must have experienced “diminished performance” on their devices…
Apple apologized for its lack of communication in December 2017, and reduced the price of battery replacements to $29 for iPhone 6 and newer through the end of 2018 to appease customers. Apple then released iOS 11.3 with a new feature that enables users to track their iPhone battery’s health and performance status.
The performance management system has also been disabled by default since iOS 11.3, and it is only enabled if an iPhone suffers an unexpected shutdown. The performance management can be manually disabled by users as well.
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