Pranav Dixit
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The Secret Apple Team That Fixes An iPhone’s First Fatal Flaws
Hours after a new iPhone hits retails stores, couriers start putting defective devices on FedEx planes and shipping them right back to Cupertino. There, engineers try to figure out the problem and come up with a solution, which can be relayed to assembly lines in China before they manufacture more faulty iPhones.
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This Firewall Keeps Phony Towers From Intercepting Your Phone Calls
Earlier this week, we reported about how rogue mobile phone towers all over the US could be intercepting phone calls and loading malware on devices. The good news: There’s a firewall that identifies these towers and alerts you instantly. The bad news: You need a $US3500 device to use it.
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Would You Ever Use Twitter For Private Group Chats?
Twitter has never been a company to shy away from shaking up its core feature set. The company’s CFO Anthony Noto now says that you might soon be able to have Facebook Messenger-like group chats in your Direct Messages.
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Here’s A Shockingly Easy Way To Skirt iCloud’s Two-Factor Verification
There’s a major flaw in the way that Apple’s iCloud syncs photos that makes it laughably easy for a hacker to get all those naked selfies that you never want the world to see — and it’s possible to exploit even if you have two-factor verification enabled.