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Shroot farms — Exploit based on SIP entitlement inheritance was patched by Apple on October 26. Lee Hutchinson – Oct 29, 2021 4:57 pm UTC

The Meta Watch watch is on — A Meta smart watch with at least one camera could be on the way. Scharon Harding – Oct 29, 2021 4:27 pm UTC Facebook just won’t stay idle. After announcing on Thursday that Facebook’s parent company will be changing its name to Meta, it seems the tech giant…

In brief: Apple is working on an iPhone feature that will dial 911 automatically in the event you are in an auto accident. Sources familiar with the matter provided documents to The Wall Street Journal detailing the feature, tentatively called “crash detection” for iPhones and the Apple Watch. It’ll use data from sensors built into…

The big picture: Do you own an older Mac computer and look forward to trying out the latest version of macOS—Monterey? You may want to reel in that excitement. Reports are arriving of the machines being bricked as soon as the new operating system is installed. MacRumors reports there are at least ten separate posts…

In context: GoldenEye 007 was released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997 and quickly became one of the console’s most popular games in most of the world. It was never, however, released in Germany. Prior to its release, Germany classified GoldenEye as “media harmful to young persons” and included it on a list of games…

A Tudor rose — Polyethylene glycol applied to hull for preservation is also breaking down into acids. Jennifer Ouellette – Nov 1, 2021 10:45 am UTC Enlarge / The hull of Henry VIII’s favorite warship, the Mary Rose, and many thousands of recovered artifacts are housed in the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, England.Johnny Black…

Island Press is “the nation’s leading publisher on environmental issues.” In its latest release, Thicker than Water, Erica Cirino, a photojournalist and licensed wildlife rehabilitator, explores what becomes of plastic—all 8 billion or so tons of it that humans have manufactured in the last 70-ish years. Plastic’s greatest strength is also its greatest flaw: it…

Do not look behind you — The Babylonian tablet may have come from an ancient exorcist’s library. Kiona N. Smith – Oct 31, 2021 11:30 am UTC Photograph: The British Museum A curator exploring the shadowy recesses of the British Museum’s archives recently encountered a ghost—or rather, the world’s oldest image of one, etched onto…

Sega and Microsoft this week announced a new partnership where Sega will make games on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. It seems to be the next step in Sega’s previously stated plan for a “Super Game” initiative. The announcement came on Sega’s press channel on Monday. More specifically, Sega says it’s utilizing Microsoft’s Azure platform to…

Bottom line: Tesla founder Elon Musk said in a recent Twitter post that if the World Food Programme, a food-assistance branch of the United Nations, can explain exactly how $6 billion would solve world hunger, he will sell his Tesla stock to make it happen. Musk in a follow-up tweet said the proposed plan must…