Since Steve and I can’t cover everything, at the end of each week day, we’ll offer this wrap-up of news items you should check out.
According to Business Insider, Apple convened an invitation-only meeting in New York in April of 2017 to tell developers they needed to be concerned with recurring revenue from subscriptions rather than one-time sales. This has resulted in more apps switching to a subscription model.
Former The Killing and Altered Carbon star Joel Kinnaman, Patriot star Michael Dorman and Damnation co-star Sarah Jones have been tapped as the leads in Apple’s upcoming space drama series from Battlestar Galactica‘s and Outlander‘s Ronald D. Moore.
Beyond primary protections that prevent malware infections in the first place, Apple engineers also build a variety of defense-in-depth measures that are designed to lessen the damage that can happen once a Mac is compromised. Now, a former National Security Agency hacker and macOS security expert has exposed a major shortcoming that generically affects many of these secondary defenses.
Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s is trialling new scan, pay and go technology that will allow customers at one of its London stores to pay for their shopping using their iPhone and skip the checkout completely.
President Trump has signed the $716 billion “John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act” into law, and while the legislation stopped short of a full-on ban on mobile phones from the Chinese manufacturers, it did block government agencies from purchasing devices from ZTE, Huawei, and other Chinese entities.
