With bonuses, maximum rewards can be as high as $5 million. Since launching its bug bounty program nearly a decade ago, Apple has always touted notable maximum payouts—$200,000 in 2016 and $1 million in 2019. Now the company is upping the stakes again. At the Hexacon offensive security conference…
Texas requires sensitive info just to check weather and sports scores, Apple says. Apple yesterday announced a plan to comply with a Texas age verification law and warned that changes required by the law will reduce privacy for app users. “Beginning January 1, 2026, a new state law in…
SpaceX Starlink’s mobile power play: 50 MHz of spectrum and 15,000 new satellites. SpaceX’s $17 billion deal to buy spectrum licenses from EchoStar should help Starlink satellites deliver better service to smartphones, and it might give a few large corporations second thoughts about their current partnerships with Starlink competitors.…
Apple nixes tracking apps after Trump admin claimed they put ICE agents at risk. Acting on a demand from the Trump administration, Apple has removed apps that let iPhone users report the locations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. “We reached out to Apple today demanding they remove…
xAI’s claim that Apple gave ChatGPT a monopoly on prompts is “baseless,” OpenAI says. OpenAI and Apple have moved to dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s xAI alleging that ChatGPT’s integration into a “handful” of iPhone features violated antitrust laws by giving OpenAI a monopoly on prompts and Apple…
New order in September narrowed access request down to data of UK citizens. The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to…
Tech firms pressed to explain if H-1B workers are paid less than US workers. Senators are demanding answers from Big Tech companies accused of “filing thousands of H-1B skilled labor visa petitions after conducting mass layoffs of American employees.” In letters sent to Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft—among…
EU looks at Big Tech groups over handling of fake apps and search results. The EU is set to scrutinize if Apple, Google, and Microsoft are failing to adequately police financial fraud online, as it steps up efforts to police how Big Tech operates online. The EU’s tech chief…
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey. Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late ’00s. The community was working to…
OpenAI slams Musk’s lawsuit as part of his “ongoing pattern of harassment.” After a public outburst over Grok’s App Store rankings, on Monday, Elon Musk followed through on his threat to sue Apple and OpenAI. At first, Musk appeared fixated on ChatGPT consistently topping Apple’s “Must Have” app list—which…
