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RECENTLY, APPLE BROUGHT out the latest update to its iOS software more than a fortnight ago, but it didn’t quite catch them all.
The company released a new update to iOS, where includes an “important security update… and is recommended for all users”.
The update is available to those with iPhone 4s and later, iPad 2 and later, and iPod touch (5th generation) or later.
The update in question fixes one issue, a memory corruption problem, which it credited to Chinese jailbreaking group Team Pangu.
The update will likely be the last one before iOS 10 arrives next month. Usually, the next version of iOS is released alongside the latest iPhone, which will be announced in September.
The update brings a number of changes to the software including a revamped lock screen and notifications, a redesigned control centre and updates to iMessage and the ability to remove most of Apple’s stock apps from your phone.
Squashing bugs
At a security conference in Las Vegas, Apple said it would start offering rewards of up to $200,000 to researchers and hackers who find major security flaws in its products.
The iPhone maker is joining other big tech companies that offer so-called “bug bounties” to people who discover vulnerabilities in their computer code.
The goal is to encourage individuals to come forward so the company can fix the problem — and to discourage hackers from exploiting the flaw or selling the information to others.
Google, Facebook and others have long offered such rewards. To start, Apple says it will offer rewards to a limited number of researchers it has worked with before, but it may expand the programme.
(Additional reporting from AP)
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Genuine question, is there anywhere else that allows comments on Irish stories?
Reddit Ireland or Boards.ie seem to be the only ones. Alot if people want to know real opinions on stories. The journal clearly is abandoning comments.
@:Hahaha,real opinions, coming from the likes of you is it,hahaha. I’ve never seen more deluded muppets on any Web site more than I have in my short time here.
Children’s hospitals in Ireland not as busy as children’s hospitals in Gaza, thankfully!:
@: who cares about comments?? Write a a letter to the editor like we used to do. What a snowflake. What an entitled, privileged fck.
@Tom Dillon: @Tom Dillon: tom trolled me. Therefore I am trolling you back tom. Good luck making a comment on any article in the next week. You state: ‘who cares about comments’, yet you are commenting on multiple posts within a short space of time. I comment once every 2 weeks, however for the next week I will be commenting on every one of your posts to highlight your trolling. After that I will go back to commenting casually as per previous.
I agree with you. The journal was enjoyable because of the comments. There is an article just released on the Beatles and that has closed comments. Makes no sense.
Poor children getting sick like that.
@C O’H: This place is gone to the dogs. Can’t even comment on the Beatles getting to number 1.
@C O’H: enjoyable because of the comments. Wow It’s a news platform. You can billow your comments down the pub
@Tom Dillon: why are you then commenting tom?? Off to the pub with you. I’m sure the locals in your pub would say ‘oh no look who just walked in’.
Is it me or is everyone getting hysterical over every illness now?
@Anna Carr (Morrigan_Dubh): Not fair to comment on sick children in this manner Anna. It is a very serious life threatening respiratory infection. Parents of those sick children may be reading these comments following reading the article, as it relates to their child. Could you please be kind.
@Anna Carr (Morrigan_Dubh): Where’s the hysteria? It clearly says in the article that the majority of children will recover without treatment, but it rightly highlights the fact that it can cause serious complications for small babies and children with underlying issues. What’s wrong with educating people on this?
Ringo might sue them.
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