On June 5, we celebrate Global Running Day. To mark this date, Apple Watch users can get a limited-edition award if they run at least 5 km (around 3,10 miles) this Wednesday. Apple promotes limited-edition awards almost monthly to help users engage in exercises to improve their health.Running, for example, is one of the most…
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Apple has reportedly signed a deal with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to iOS 18. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Cupertino will unveil this plan during WWDC 2024 next week as the company tackles AI after almost two years of delay.The journalist reports that Apple is expected to offer its new AI features as an “opt-in…
iOS 18 ChatGPT integration to be opt-in, with Apple’s own chatbot coming soon Read More »
Once again, a critical security vulnerability has shone a light on the reality of open source today. Unpaid hobbyists maintaining so-called ‘Nebraska projects’, named for the now ubiquitous XKCD comic, ‘Dependency’, bear the weight of the modern world on their shoulders. All software has bugs, including critical security vulnerabilities. Proprietary vendors are famous for Patch…
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The feature I want most for the Apple Watch is real-time blood sugar monitoring. It’s something Apple and other tech companies are rumored to be working on. The ability to check your blood glucose on the fly will be a game-changer.It’ll help patients better manage their diabetes by providing blood sugar data immediately without needing…
Apple Watch finally lets you monitor blood sugar, but you’ll need a Dexcom G7 Read More »
Dozens of university, charity and policing websites designed to help people get support for serious issues like sexual abuse, addiction or mental health are inadvertently collecting and sharing site visitors’ sensitive data with advertisers. A variety of tracking tools embedded on these sites – including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics – mean that when a…
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The cloud recently became more complicated and more important than ever; but I’ll leave the best bit to the end. One of the main security concerns with using the cloud, although I accept that there are several, are misconfigurations. These lead to data breaches or, in the case of hacktivism, misconfigurations allow for denial-of-service attacks.…
Security Think Tank: The cloud just got more complicated Read More »
Subpostmasters fighting for financial redress for the suffering inflicted upon them by the Post Office will resort to legal action against the government within months if the stalemate continues. Two decades after some had their lives upturned by the Post Office, and following a huge court victory in 2019, many are still without fair financial…
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It’s been a few years parents have been complaining about bugs with the iPhone’s Screen Time. This feature is helpful for parents to limit the amount of time children can stay on some apps, block access to websites, and even for those trying to keep their bank data safe if they get robbed.The last time…
Apple says it finally fixed the Screen Time bug that let kids see blocked websites Read More »
Intel’s Panther Lake processors, which are to follow next-gen Arrow Lake – so we’re talking about two generations removed from current Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs – have reached their ‘power on’ milestone.As announced by Intel CEO, Pat Gelsinger, at Computex 2024, this means that Panther Lake is now officially powered on and the silicon is…
Research looking into IT project management has found almost two-thirds of projects that use the Agile Manifesto fail. The research, conducted for a book called Impact engineering, found 65% of software projects adopting Agile engineering practices fail to be delivered on time and within budget to a high standard of quality. While it focuses on…
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