You need to update your iPhone to iOS 9.3.5 right now:
Red alert! This is not a drill. Stop what you’re doing and update your iPhone. Now.
Seriously. There are major flaws with Apple iOS that put everything you do on your device at risk, from your emails and text messages to your photos and contacts, and you have to update your device immediately to fix them.
Source: dailydot.com
Android’s full-disk encryption just got much weaker—here’s why
Unlike Apple’s iOS, Android is vulnerable to several key-extraction techniques.
Apple’s Big Security Upgrades Will Save You From Yourself:
While Apple appears to have delayed some of its bigger security projects—most notably, encrypting iCloud backups so that not even Apple can access them—it’s still showing serious ambition, sometimes in surprising places. The result will be an iOS and macOS experience that trades convenience for protection in a few key ways. Apple will introduce small frustrations now, to prevent large, even unfixable, frustrations down the road.
Source: Wired
The Great iOS-Android Emoji Divide Narrows Ever So Slightly:
YOU PROBABLY KNOW already that the emoji that you see on your iOS device are different, sometimes by a wild degree, from those that your Android friends do, and vice versa. This makes for some fun confusion—is that a grimace or a grin?—but also frustration, particularly on the Android side, because many core Android emoji are objectively worse. But not for long!
Google has announced several updates as part of its latest Android N preview, but we can skip past the new 3D rendering API and launcher shortcuts and head straight to the real news, which is that Android will finally deploy emoji that look like actual people.
