The new UK government is considering reversing its predecessor's refusal to adopt the EU USB-C charger mandate, while Apple holds its breath for the future of the iPhone. Just over a year before the UK's long-standing Conservative government was voted out of office in mid-2024, it made one of its many anti-European Union moves. It…
SSL/TLS helps keep website secure for users Apple has proposed for a shortening of validity for security certificates used by websites from 398 days down to just 45 days, a move that system administrators have objected to publicly. Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates are used to make sure that a website user's connection…
Apple's data center in Waukee, Iowa, is finally operational (Source: Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register) Begun in 2017, Apple's $1.3 billion data center in Waukee, Iowa, has at last opened — at least partially. Apple has technically had data centers that took longer to build, but only because protests ultimately led to the abandonment of one in…
The A20 chip that will be used in the iPhone 18 could be packaged with a new tech that will give Apple more configuration options, while still being as small as possible. Apple's chips, produced by TSMC, are currently packaged using a method known as InFo (Integrated Fan-Out), which helps create very compact chips for…
Apple passkey registration The FIDO Alliance standards body has published specifications that should lead to passkeys being able to get shared seamlessly between platforms and also different password apps. Apple first joined the Fast Identity Online Alliance (FIDO) in 2020, several years after competitors such as Microsoft, Google, and Samsung. It's since extended its support…
The new iPad mini with A17 Pro The iPad mini 7 is here, equipped with the A17 Pro chip, Apple Pencil Pro support, and Apple Intelligence. When Apple redesigned the iPad miniin 2021 with flat sides and no Home Button, it changed the tiny-device game. That diminutive tablet is back with a host of upgrades…
Surfshark's Black Friday VPN deals start now. [Image source: Surfshark] The Surfshark One subscription goes beyond offering a simple VPN by including several tools like security alerts, private search, and database removal requests, and it's on sale for Black Friday 2024. The internet hasn't been user-friendly in a long time, if ever. Everyone needs to…
A 1986 Macintosh Plus updated and online. (Source: Hunter Irving) A coder and Raspberry Pi user has revived a Macintosh Plus and got it showing modern websites like ChatGPT and Wikipedia. If you're patient. Today you can 3D-print the chassis of a 1980s Macintosh Plus at home, and you can effectively make a brand new…
After a three-year gap, Apple has finally updated the iPad mini. Here's what's changed in the seventh-gen model compared to the previous release. The October launch of the seventh-generation iPad mini brings an end to the long wait for the update. Arriving a lengthy three years after the sixth-generation iPad mini, the new model has…