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EFF: VPN Apps Are Vanishing From Russia's App Store Again, and They Are Worth Defending
VPN developers report that Apple is once again pulling their apps from the Russian App Store. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls this an unacceptable blow to a tool that protects privacy and free speech.
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iOS 27.2 Lets You Wall Off Apps from Siri AI
Apple has added an "Excluded Apps" setting that blocks Siri AI from reading the contents of chosen apps. The EFF counts it as a win for its Encrypt It Already campaign, though it thinks Apple should go further.
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Apple brings CoreGraphics zero-day fix to older iPhones and iPads
Apple has released patches for older iPhones and iPads that close a zero-day vulnerability in CoreGraphics. According to the company, the flaw was used in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks.
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Cellebrite Advanced Unlocks: an iPhone break-in "over the air" from up to 8 meters?
A leaked confidential Cellebrite document describes a new product called Advanced Unlocks that, by its own description, does not appear to need a cable connection to the target device.
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macOS 15.8.2 Update Breaks OpenGL
Users report that the macOS 15.8.2 release breaks OpenGL. The thread drew a lively discussion on Hacker News.
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Apple tightens App Store rules against AI 'nudify' apps
Updated store rules now explicitly ban apps that use AI to generate intimate images of people without their consent. The changes follow criticism of Apple over deepfakes made with Grok.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a model built to run on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up on a new open-weight model that runs locally on Apple silicon — provided you can supply at least a terabyte of RAM.
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Apple Unveils Reference Image, a Verified Photography System
Apple has released Reference Image, a system that confirms a photo is exactly as an iPhone captured it — without revealing the specific device or the photographer behind it.
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GrayKey Defeats the iPhone's Inactivity Reboot
A maker of phone-cracking tools has found a way around the iOS feature that moves an idle iPhone into a more secure state. Instead of rebooting after 72 hours, the data is preserved indefinitely.
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From: anyone@icloud.com — Spoofing Any Apple iCloud Sender
A SEC Consult researcher found two ways to send email from any @icloud.com address through Apple's infrastructure — even tim.cook@icloud.com — while passing SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks.
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Apple to tighten Mac disk access over risks from AI agents
The company is adding new limits to macOS "full disk access," saying that as autonomous AI agents grow more capable, the risks tied to this permission will increase "substantially."
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Apple patches actively exploited CoreGraphics zero-day
Apple has shipped security updates that fix a zero-day flaw used in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks against iOS devices.
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One Pixel Too Many: A 0-Click Flaw in Apple's EXR Decoder
An ironPeak researcher details CVE-2026-86869: Apple's EXR image decoder on iOS, iPadOS and macOS overran a heap buffer, and the attack could be delivered over iMessage without a single tap.
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Two-Tier Encryption in Britain: Identical iPhones, Different Protection
Because of a secret UK government demand, some iPhone owners in the country keep stronger iCloud encryption while others can no longer switch it on.
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Apple Softens Tracking-Consent Screens for Apps in the EU
After a years-long antitrust investigation in Germany, Apple will let developers in the European Union show less alarming tracking-consent prompts.
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Apple Reference Image: teaching the iPhone to prove a photo is real
The iPhone 18 Pro will offer an optional camera mode that produces a cryptographically certified photograph — proof that the shot really was captured by a sensor rather than generated by AI.
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Siri in iOS 27 Can Be Swapped Out for Claude or ChatGPT — Found in the Code
A researcher has uncovered mechanisms in the private frameworks of iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate that make it possible to plug third-party AI models into Siri — up to and including a complete replacement of the assistant's server-side “brain.”
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Watches That Hear Everything: Apple Ushers In the Era of “Always-Listening” Devices
Apple is adding always-listening ambient features to the new Apple Watch. Privacy experts warn that the real problem isn’t protecting users — it’s the rights of the people who happen to be nearby.
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Cracking Open the Apple Neural Engine: Why the GPU Beats the NPU on Transformers
Developer Eileen Yoon returned to a project she had abandoned three years ago and finally reverse-engineered the full architecture of Apple's neural module on the M1 chip — just as Apple appears to be burying the standalone NPU.
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Apple Unveils the iPhone Duo — the Company's First Foldable Smartphone
More than seven years after the first Samsung Galaxy Fold, Apple has announced its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, with a 7.6-inch screen when unfolded.
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