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Apple planning more independent Mac display Apple may be planning a new display that can act as a smart display when not in use, according to an article published by Bloomberg. This would be similar to the feature Apple introduced in iOS 17, called StandBy, which lets iPhones serve as smart displays when they’re plugged…

Apple considered a finger-worn controller for the iPhone Apple’s new Vision Pro headset, which will come later this year, uses both eye-tracking and hand-tracking to control it, but at one point considered a finger-worn input device, according to an article in today’s Power On newsletter. Gurman says that early in the development of the headset,…

Valve won’t approve Steam games that use unauthorized AI artwork This past Thursday, we learn that Valve has taken a step further than just banning games with AI-generated content on Steam. It has rejected a submission from a Redditor named Potterharry97. Earlier in the month, another game dev penned a similar post, asking for permission…

Threads, a competitor of Meta’s Twitter, briefly showed up on Google Play Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who frequently digs into app code to expose unreleased features, had earlier spotted that Meta had released its Twitter clone, Thread, into the Google Play store. That leak served as the catalyst for the cage match between Meta CEO…

Elon Musk puts up paywalls for reading tweets, blaming ‘data scrapers Elon Musk continues to blame Twitter’s new posting restrictions on data-scypters and system manipulation. Today, he announced new temporary limits on how many posts people can read. Unverified accounts will now be able to see only 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts,…

Hackers Exploiting Unpatched WordPress Plugin Flaw to Create Backdoor Admin As many as 200,000 WordPress websites are at risk of ongoing attacks exploiting a critical unpatched security vulnerability in the Ultimate Member plugin. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-3460, affects all versions of the Ultimate Plus plugin, including the latest version (2.6.6) that was released on…

Beware: A new malware variant targeting macOS users has been discovered. An updated version of Rustbucket, a macOS malware family, has been discovered that can establish persistence and avoid detection by security software. It’s the first time anyone’s seen this kind of malware specifically targeted macOS users. The infection chain consists of a macOS installer…

Apple’s Card partnership could move from Goldman Sachs to American Express According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Goldman Sachs is in talks to offload its partnership with Apple and American Express. It appears that the bank wants to exit from both of these partnerships and have American Express take its place. A…

Call of Duty: Microsoft’s FTC Fight Judge Corley asks a lot of tough questions during the hearing. He even asks the FTC about other Bethesda games that are more popular than Call of Duty. The case gets pulled back and forth for a while, which leads to lots of back-and-forth between the defendant and judge.…

MITRE Releases List of Top 25 Software Weaknesses of 2023 MITRE has released its annual list of the most dangerous software weaknesses for the year 2023. It includes both Out-of-bounds Write bugs and ones that lead to serious vulnerabilities in software. Out-OF-Bounds Write ties for the top spot on the list for the second year…