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Apple: yes, we were hacked, here’s your fix

Ed Sutherland ∙ Updated October 27, 2016

Apple is just the latest technology firm to announce it was the victim of hackers. Tuesday, the iPhone maker announced a limited number of employee computers were affected, however software would be released today protecting consumers. The malware infected a limited number of Macs through a vulnerability in the Java plug-in for browsers, the company confirmed.

The announcement - unprecedented from the usually tight-lipped company - included a statement by Apple attempting to calm consumer fears, saying there was "no evidence" that any data leaked out. This comes on the heels Facebook had also been targeted by hackers. Friday, the social networking giant said hackers based in China breached employee laptops, but no Facebook user data was taken.

UPDATE: less than three hours later, Apple has pushed out a Java update to patch the vulnerability...

Steve Jobs wanted to take on Detroit with iCar

Christian Zibreg ∙ February 11, 2013

Before he died, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was dreaming about building an Apple-branded car, an iCar if you will, a Sunday newspaper report has briefly reasserted. Conveniently, Apple's head of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, is on the board of Ferrari. This isn't the first time we've heard that Apple was considering building a car.

Apple board member Mickey Drexler said at a conference last year that Steve at one point was keen on having Apple build a car, having even reportedly met with German car-maker Volkswagen back in 2007 to discuss the project.

And then there is SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller's testimony during the monster August 2012 Apple v. Samsung trial where he said that Apple, after it had gotten its wind back from conquering the music biz with the iPod, considered all kinds of things it could do, among them "make a car"...

Walt Mossberg agrees that Google Maps is better on iPhone than on Android

Christian Zibreg ∙ December 19, 2012

Google's new iOS Maps app is universally accepted as the best experience on any mobile platform. First Google told The New York Times columnist David Pogue that it "admits that it’s even better than Google Maps for Android phones", which Pogue says has accommodated its evolving feature set "mainly by piling on menus". And now, Pogue's peer over at The Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg, seems to agree as he calls Google's iPhone mapping software "better in most respects" on the iPhone than it is on Android phones, where "it looks inelegant by comparison"...