Apple

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33588339

I received a text notification from an unknown number earlier today. I'm usually suspicious of such things, but clicked the notification. The messages app loaded, but displayed a blank white screen until I closed the app. After doing so, there was no evidence of the message notification or the message itself, in any of the message categories (known, unknown, all, deleted messages, etc).

This is on an iPhone 14 Pro Max using a fully up to date device running iOS 18.3.1 .

Has anyone else experienced this? I am hoping that the group might be able to offer insight into whether this is a bug worth reporting to Apple, or an attack of some sort? I am aware that at least one zero-click messaging bug was recently patched in iOS. I rebooted my device, and I'm waiting for the security delay to expire so I can reset my iCloud password. I have 2FA and stolen device protection switched on.

(please disregard link to example.com ; my Lemmy client wouldn't allow a text-only post without an image or a link).

I'm a very happy owner of an iPhone 13 mini, and recently I noticed that I had a new focus mode called "Reduce Interruptions". I thought that focus mode would only work with apple intelligence phones, so is there anything I'm missing? Does it work on my phone or is there some kind of compromise?

The research team found that the attack has a 90% success rate and can pinpoint a device's location within minutes. "While it is scary if your smart lock is hacked, it becomes far more horrifying if the attacker also knows its location," said one of the researchers.

What makes the exploit even more concerning is that it doesn't require physical access or administrator privileges on the target device – it can actually be executed remotely. In their experiments, the team successfully tracked a stationary computer with 10-foot accuracy and even reconstructed the exact flight path of a gaming console brought onboard an airplane.

The attack does require fairly hefty computing resources – the research team used hundreds of graphics processing units to quickly find matching cryptographic keys. However, they note that this could be achieved relatively inexpensively by renting GPUs, which has become a common practice in the crypto-mining community.

Mirror: https://archive.is/2025.02.25-164654/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-25/apple-investors-reject-call-to-end-dei-efforts-at-annual-meeting

My wife started an Apple One family plan in a country that includes the option of Fitness+. Her app has the option but mine doesn’t.

Any idea for fixing this? Aside from forcé close and restart phone. Thanks in advance.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/22932633

It’s time to resume our travels into GUI Wonderland, and go back to Apple’s garage to find out what happened to the Lisa’s younger sibling, the Macintosh, and its OS, called System! Is it a Lisa copycat, or are there any intriguing secrets behind it? Let’s find out!