#ios-permissions

#ios-permissions

Apple privately threatened to remove Elon Musk's artificial intelligence app, Grok, from its App Store in January after Musk's xAI failed to do enough to stop it from creating nude or sexualized deepfakes.

In the first beta of iOS 26.5, Apple Maps started showing ads in the 'Suggested Places' section of the app. A new pop-up informs users that advertisements are now part of the results.

Freecash paid users to play mobile games while collecting sensitive information including race, religion, sexual orientation and health data, according to cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit's Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously crafted web content.

This fix associated with the Coruna exploit was shipped in iOS 17.2 on December 11th, 2023. This update brings that fix to devices that cannot update to the latest iOS version.

When someone taps your link in a social app or email, it often opens in an in-app browser (embedded browser), a contained environment inside that app. Those in-app browsers don't share cookies, logins, or referral data with Safari or Chrome. They sever the continuity that website-centric analytics depend on. So these sessions look like anonymous visits.

Telegram has announced that it's rolling out a fully redesigned interface for its Android app, making navigation and search quicker and more intuitive. The most notable change this redesign brings is the new bottom bar, which lets you quickly switch between the Chats, Settings, Profile, and other tabs. In addition to the UI redesign, Telegram "completely rebuilt" the interface code to maximize efficiency and increase responsiveness. You can head to the Settings > Power Saving menu to maximize performance and extend battery life.

As a high-level description, Swift is an ahead-of-time compiled, memory-safe, multi-paradigm programming language. Swift uses reference counting for memory management instead of garbage collection, and has recently added support for limited lifetime analysis. Finally, Swift leans heavily on types with value semantics by leveraging copy-on-write. This enables powerful local reasoning, as value types are either mutable or shared, but not both.

Tracked as CVE-2026-20700, the zero-day flaw is described as a memory corruption issue that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution. It affects dyld (Dynamic Link Editor), the system component responsible for loading dynamic libraries into memory and which acts as a connector between application code and system frameworks. "Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26," Apple noted in its advisory.