Juli Clover:
Apple failed in its attempt to get the antitrust lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Justice filed against it dismissed, reports Reuters. U.S. District Judge Julien Neals, who is overseeing the case, today denied Apple’s motion for dismissal.
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The DOJ accused Apple of a smartphone monopoly in the United States, citing Apple’s restriction of third-party access to Apple services and features and claiming that consumers are “locked” into Apple’s ecosystem. Apple argues that the DOJ is attempting to force it to spend money on enriching its competitors, and that it is not a monopolist because it faces competition from companies like Samsung and Google.
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The case is unlikely to make it to trial until 2028 or even later.
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Joe Rossignol:
iOS 26 adds a new Recovery Assistant feature to all compatible iPhones, and it can help return the device to a working state, with no Mac or PC required.
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According to a Reddit post, Recovery Assistant can help you return an iPhone to a working state with help from another Apple device, such as an iPad. This process can be initiated through the menu in the top-right corner of the Recovery mode on the affected iPhone. On the other Apple device, you can follow the on-screen steps to download and install a newer iOS version on the iPhone that is in Recovery mode, to help revive it.
It sounds like iOS automatically opens Recovery, if needed, but there’s no way to manually bring it up like with macOS Recovery.
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Nate Parrott:
didn’t realize everything in iOS 26 is just a little bigger and way less stuff fits on screen now?
Riccardo Mori:
Let’s make a fun comparison about information density across various versions of iOS and device screen sizes.
In reverse chronological order.
Corollary: iOS 26 kinda sucks at information density.
Riccardo Mori:
[Apple:] To give content room to breathe, organizational components like lists, tables, and forms have a larger row height and padding. Sections have an increased corner radius to match the curvature of controls across the system.
Which is largely unnecessary. It reduces the amount of information displayed on screen, and you’ll have to scroll more as a consequence. Look at the Before and After layouts: the Before layout doesn’t need solutions to increase its clarity. You’re just injecting white space everywhere. It’s also ironic that where more space and ‘breathing room’ are actually necessary, the header (“Single Table Row” in the figure) is pushed even nearer to the status bar.
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Cynthia Brumfield (via Hacker News):
After DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified, MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program was slated for an abrupt shutdown on April 16, which would have left security flaw tracking in limbo.
Gavin D. Howard (via Hacker News):
The CVE system has been less good about securing our infrastructure than they
have been about giving headaches to some of the most important projects. Curl
gets bogus CVEs all the time and has to spend precious time dealing with
them. Postgresql does too. The Linux kernel went a different route and
just spams CVEs so that kernel CVEs essentially become worthless.
Worthless? Does that mean that CVEs were actually worth something to people?
Yes, absolutely. Script-kiddies that consider themselves “security researchers”
try to find bugs in big projects and then get them labeled as CVEs so they can
add those CVEs to their résumés. As one user on Hacker News said,
“Unfortunately, the CVE database(s) are too noisy to be useful.”
In fact, it got so bad that Curl decided to do extra work to become a
CNA, just so they can reject spurious reports and avoid the NVD from
giving excessively high vulnerability scores.
CVE Foundation (via Hacker News):
The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a critical pillar of the global cybersecurity infrastructure for 25 years.
Jessica Lyons:
Earlier this week, the widely used Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program faced doom as the US government discontinued funding for MITRE, the non-profit that operates the program. Uncle Sam U-turned at the very last minute, and promised another 11 months of cash [via CISA] to keep the program going.
Meanwhile, the EU is rolling its own.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) developed and maintains this alternative, which is known as the EUVD, or the European Union Vulnerability Database.
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