Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack."
Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats.
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"Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals," the company revealed in security advisories issued on Wednesday.
Apple today shared a touching video that highlights how the iPhone's Action mode allows for people with Parkinson's disease to record stable videos.
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"For Brett, Bette, and Ellen, every moment matters," adds Apple. "With Action mode on iPhone, they can capture smooth hand-held videos and reclaim the joy of filming their favorite moments — supported by accessibility features like Voice Control, which help them operate the camera and navigate their iPhone with ease."
Support for Apple Pay's Express Mode has this week been added to the Bee Network in Greater Manchester, enabling passengers to pay for bus and tram travel without unlocking their iPhone or Apple Watch.
Finding the perfect seat on the pavement outside a cafe may be a matter of a chance stroll or a timely text from a friend. This summer, though, a digital solution has gained popularity in an extremely French instance of the old Apple slogan “there’s an app for that”: Jveuxdusoleil, an app that tracks the sun’s movement through the city’s maze of buildings to pinpoint exactly where you can claim a sunny spot on a terrace for your coffee. It arrives at a precarious moment for this particularly Parisian pursuit.
Available for macOS and iOS devices, this application can automatically remove all of the crap that's embedded in a URL. On the Mac it can even strip that junk from every URL you copy, automatically.
Mountain Duck is a handy desktop tool that lets users mount server and cloud storage accounts as local drives in Finder on macOS and File Explorer on Windows. This allows remote files to be opened, edited, and saved directly in applications as if they were stored on the computer itself.
The app, called Focus Friend, was made through a collaboration between Green—an author, YouTuber, and science educator—and Bria Sullivan, founder of the mobile game studio Honey B Games. Sullivan describes the app as a “gamified focus timer,” built with the primary goal of encouraging users not to doomscroll on social media.
In an update earlier today, the 2024 iPad App of the Year, Moises, released an impressive feature called AI Studio. It takes a recording of a single instrument and generates other instruments that match the original beat and style.
Masimo said in the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court that Customs improperly determined that Apple can import watches with pulse oximetry technology, reversing its own decision from last year without notifying Masimo.
The other week, I was reading an email I’d written when a strange notion occurred to me. Upon seeing a small typo, I hesitated for a moment before correcting it. Would it perhaps be better, an unsettling new voice suddenly whispered, to leave it in?
This is a thought that would’ve appalled me a year ago. As a professional writer, I have long prided myself on impeccable grammar, judiciously wielded punctuation, and (at times indulgent) verbosity. But in the age of A.I. paranoia—when the comment sections of social media posts and online articles are littered with accusations decrying the dehumanizing warp of ChatGPT—suddenly, writing that appears too polished, too bedecked with literary devices, not to mention a dubious affinity for the word delve, now arouses suspicion.
Some people are going to get rich doing updates to all those corporate training videos 'teaching' us all the tell-tale signs of phishing emails -- bad grammar, bad spelling -- to take into account the wide availability of Gen AI to bad actors.
Or maybe not. Can Gen AI just re-do all these corporate videos?
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