Autodesk dropping support for Alias and VRED in macOS Mojave over OpenGL deprecation: "It isn't clear why Autodesk made the declaration that OpenGL's deprecation was responsible for the applications not working in Mojave."

Labels: open standards

Google launches “Shielded VMs” to protect cloud servers from rootkits, data theft | Ars Technica: "Both Microsoft and Google have launched confidential computing technologies; Microsoft's Azure Confidential Compute was announced last September, and Google's Asylo framework was launched in beta in May. These platforms run application containers in "trusted execution environments"—enclaves that prevent access to the data within those instances from being read by anything running on the underlying operating system or virtual environment."

Labels: 1984, security is hard, security policy

Wipe your iPhone before selling it, because if you don't you might get your data stolen: "Even if you can't use your phone, you can safeguard your data. For instance, Apple does let you remotely wipe everything using Find My iPhone from another iOS device. That has to be enabled: if you've never switched on Find My iPhone or you've actively switched it off, you can't remote wipe."

Labels: app security, security fail