Five 0-Day iOS Vulnerability Chains Have Been Exploited for Years
A collection of fourteen vulnerabilities affecting almost every iOS versions from iOS 10 to iOS 12 enabled a number of hacked Websites to gain control of their visitors’ devices and steal a wealth of private data aver at least two years, Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) engineer Ian Beer wrote. These vulnerabilities are not new. What is new is the discovery of their active exploit in the wild.
Swift 5.1 Brings Module Stability, Opaque Return Types, Property Wrappers and More
While module stability is by far the most impactful new feature in Swift 5.1, the latest version of Apple’s language includes a number of new language constructs, such as property wrappers and opaque return types, and a number of standard library extensions.
Google Enables Continuous Testing Using the Android Emulator
The Android Emulator is the main tool Android developers use to test their apps. Google has just made integrating the Android Emulator within a continuous testing pipeline easier by open sourcing the Android Emulator Container Scripts and two related tools.
IoT Visual Programming Environment Node-RED Hits 1.0
At the end of a two-year development cycle, Node-RED has finally reached version 1.0, bringing plenty of changes. Among the major new features in Node-RED 1.0 are a new asynchronous message passing model, new completion API, and message cloning by default. Additionally, the visual editor got a revamp.
Smartphone-Based VR at a Dead-End with Google's Demise of Daydream VR
Google’s decision to stop supporting its Daydream VR headset seemingly marks the end of phone-based virtual reality, a vision that attempted to combine the use of smartphones with “dumb” VR headsets to bring VR experiences to the masses. Google’s decision is accompanied by the BBC disbanding its VR content team after two years of successful experimentation.