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• Crash any App on Your Mac by Entering ‘File:///’
• Web Traffic From OS X 10.9 Continues to Grow, Announcement Imminent?
• evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak Progress Update: 80% Complete
• Oracle Releases Java 7 Update 13 To Fix Security Vulnerabilities, Re-enables Browser Plug-in on Mac
• Flex, The Jailbreak App That Lets You Create Your Own Tweaks, Is Now Available on Cydia
• Path Reaches Settlement With FTC Over iOS Privacy Issue, Fined $800,000
• FTC Recommends Apple, App Developers to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosures
• evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak Progress Update: Private Beta Testing Has Started
• Top Reasons To Jailbreak Your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
• Samsung’s Super Bowl Ad Teaser Mocks Apple’s Patent War

Crash any App on Your Mac by Entering ‘File:///’ Posted: 02 Feb 2013 03:28 AM PST A new bug on OS X lets you crash any Mac app with a text field as long as you enter a certain phrase. The bug was filed with Apple on Thursday and can be reproduced very easily in most apps like TweetDeck, Chrome, Safari, TextEdit that have a field to enter text. Continue reading →

Web Traffic From OS X 10.9 Continues to Grow, Announcement Imminent? Posted: 02 Feb 2013 02:29 AM PST Apple first announced OS X Mountain Lion on February 16th, releasing it later in July. If the company were to follow the same release cycle, Mountain Lion’s successor, OS X 10.9 should at least be feature complete by now for a public preview. And if traffic logs were any indication, it seems that the OS is ready to be shown off to tech journalists and the general public any time soon. Continue reading →

evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak Progress Update: 80% Complete Posted: 01 Feb 2013 10:22 PM PST evad3rs dev team has just updated the status of the evasi0n jailbreak for iOS 6.1, iOS 6.0.2, iOS 6.0.1 and iOS 6. Earlier today, we had reported that they had completed 75% of the work required for the jailbreak. Continue reading →

Oracle Releases Java 7 Update 13 To Fix Security Vulnerabilities, Re-enables Browser Plug-in on Mac Posted: 01 Feb 2013 07:52 PM PST Oracle has released Java 7 Update 13 to address several vulnerabilities. Couple of days back, Apple had remotely blocked the Java 7 browser plug-in for the second time due to security vulnerabilities. Continue reading →

Flex, The Jailbreak App That Lets You Create Your Own Tweaks, Is Now Available on Cydia Posted: 01 Feb 2013 12:39 PM PST A couple of weeks ago we’d told you about Flex, a jailbreak app that lets you create your own jailbreak tweaks without any programming background. The app is now live on Cydia’s Big Boss repository right in time for the impending public release of the evasi0n jailbreak. Continue reading →

Path Reaches Settlement With FTC Over iOS Privacy Issue, Fined $800,000 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 11:08 AM PST Last year, Path – the social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service received a lot of negative publicity when Singapore based developer and blogger discovered that Path's slick iPhone app uploads your entire address book to its servers. Apple was also criticised for giving developers far too much access to address book information without requiring a user prompt. Continue reading →

FTC Recommends Apple, App Developers to Improve Mobile Privacy Disclosures Posted: 01 Feb 2013 10:26 AM PST The Federal Trade Commission has posted a report laying out basic guidelines for platform owners and app developers to better handle mobile privacy disclosures, a topic of huge concern as smartphones become deeply ingrained in our daily lives and come in contact with highly personal data. Continue reading →

evasi0n iOS 6.x Jailbreak Progress Update: Private Beta Testing Has Started Posted: 01 Feb 2013 08:59 AM PST evad3rs dev team has updated the status of the evasi0n jailbreak on their website. According to the the progress bar on the website, they’ve now completed 75% of the work required for the jailbreak. Yesterday, the progress bar was at 68% after they confirmed that the apps for Mac and Windows were completed. Continue reading →

Top Reasons To Jailbreak Your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Posted: 01 Feb 2013 07:55 AM PST Ever since Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, there have a number of reasons to jailbreak it. Even though Apple has added features to iOS such as copy and paste, Custom Wallpaper, multitasking, Notification Center, FaceTime over cellular etc, that were only possible if you had jailbroken your iOS device, the jailbreak community has continued to release some amazing tweaks and apps that still make it quite compelling to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Continue reading →

Samsung’s Super Bowl Ad Teaser Mocks Apple’s Patent War Posted: 01 Feb 2013 05:37 AM PST Apple and Samsung have a very strange relationship. Samsung is Apple’s key manufacturing partner, the Korean company makes critical components such as Retina Displays, processors, flash storage etc. for iOS devices, whereas Apple is Samsung’s number one customer. But at the same time, both companies are also arch rivals in the smartphone and tablet marketplace. Continue reading →

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