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New jailbreak tool works on Apple?s just-released iOS 13.5

The Verge

A new tool by hacking group Unc0ver can jailbreak iOS 13.5, the just-released version of Apple’s mobile operating system, Wired reported. Unc0ver’s lead developer told Wired the jailbreak adds exceptions to existing rules, and “enables reading new jailbreak files and parts of the filesystem that contain no user data.”

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The new Apple-Google contact tracing tool finally seems useful

Vox

Public health authorities won’t need to make their own apps in order to use Apple and Google’s exposure notification tool. The Apple-Google exposure notification tool is getting a major upgrade. Streamlining the process of getting people to use this tool is a big deal. For Apple users, that’s all it takes to turn the tool on.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 19, 2024

GeekWire

to Wave Motion for development of Jet Gun technology Everett, Wash.-based … Read More Not just another coding bot: Pioneer Square Labs releases JACoB AI agent as open-source project Would it be possible to build an AI summer intern? . … Read More U.S. Army awards $1.6M based Wave Motion Launch Corp.

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Perhaps months too late, the Apple-Google Covid-19 contact tracing tool comes to America

Vox

Virginia’s Covidwise app is the first in America to use Apple and Google’s exposure notification tool. | The Apple-Google coronavirus exposure notification tool , which the companies are offering to public health authorities to help build their Bluetooth-based Covid-19 contact tracing apps, was announced in April and debuted in May.

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Free tool protects PCs from master boot record attacks

Network World

Cisco Systems' Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks. The tool, called MBRFilter , functions as a signed system driver and puts the disk's sector 0 into a read-only state.

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Scott Lowe

Networking The good folks over at Packet Pushers have compiled a list of open source networking projects. Operating Systems/Applications Google has open sourced Magicka, an AI-powered file type identification library. I hope you find something useful here! More details are available in this blog post.

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What You Need to Know about iOS 9

CTOvision

Craig Federighi, Apple's senior VP of software engineering, has just demoed the new in OS X and iOS 9 operating systems. Siri got a complete make-over and the search tool, Spotlight, has become a tool that you will actually use. There are many more updates with the new OS X and iOS 9 operating systems.