A bug was discovered in MacOS High Sierra on Tuesday that allows anyone to log in to your computer using the username “root” with no password. Originally brought to light on Twitter by developer Lemi Orhan Ergin, the bug appeared when you opened System Preferences and go to Users & Groups. To make changes in this menu normally requires a password …
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Apple’s “root” problem has a solution. The company said on Wednesday that it has issued a software update for the High Sierra version of its MacOS that closes up a glaring vulnerability. The flaw let you log in to any Mac running on High Sierra by simply typing in “root” in the username field and leaving the password blank. The …
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It was apparently a Black Friday bonanza for Apple. Over the long holiday weekend, buyers snapped up 6 million iPhone X handsets, according to analysts from Rosenblatt. The analysts estimate that this brings the total of iPhone Xs sold so far to about 15 million. That’s a lot of phones in just three weeks since the official sale date. The iPhone X, Apple’s most …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Wait, what are they doing? Motorola/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It’s painful when you don’t get invited to the party. You can sulk. You can post something mean or hurt on Facebook. Or you can just crash the festivities. This seems to have been Motorola’s …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. An unseen presence. Beats/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET How many times a day do people tell you that you’re wrong? How many times do you get bullied, one way or another, and told to back off? A new ad from Apple-owned Beats, narrated by Michael …
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Apple’s main supplier in China used student workers illegally to manufacture parts for the newly launched iPhone X, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Six high school students said they regularly worked 11-hour days for Foxconn, a longtime manufacturing partner of Apple, at a factory in Zhengzhou. Students are classed as interns, making their overtime hours illegal under Chinese law, the …
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Tucked inside the upcoming iMac Pro — alongside 18 cores of Intel Xeon processors — could be a stowaway chip that comes straight from the iPhone. Now playing: Watch this: New iMac, iMac Pro designed with crisper displays, more… 1:28 The A10 Fusion processor belonged to last year’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and it’s reportedly bringing always-on Siri voice search functionality — aka …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. She tried to throw me off the scent. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I admit to being entirely unsurprised that HomePod won’t be home for Christmas. Somehow, it seemed inevitable that it would suffer the same fate as so many much-hyped Apple products of the past. …
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Now playing: Watch this: Apple HomePod is delayed until 2018 1:07 HomePod is now a 2018 product. James Martin/CNET Expected to launch in December, Apple’s HomePod is being pushed back to 2018, the company announced Friday. “We can’t wait for people to experience HomePod, Apple’s breakthrough wireless speaker for the home, but we need a little more time before it’s ready …
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Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 8, 8 Plus or X: Which should you get? 3:42 Picking an iPhone used to be dead simple: just get the new one. But, in 2017, Apple has three new iPhones: a basic iPhone 8, an upgraded 8 Plus, and a fancy iPhone X. That’s not even counting all the other iPhones Apple still sells, …
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