“Your Apple ID is your gateway to all of Apple’s cloud services: iTunes, Apple Music, and iCloud. But what about your actual username? It’s usually an email address: Often, it’s an @icloud, @me, or @mac address — but you might also have signed up with your third-party email account, like @gmail.”
ColorWare Releases Custom-Painted AirPods With Classic Macintosh Design for $399
“ColorWare this week released custom-painted AirPods with a classic Macintosh design, including a beige finish with faux vents and a six-color rainbow pairing button reminiscent of Apple’s logo between 1977 and 1998.”
Ensuring your security and privacy within Gmail
“We make it possible for applications from other developers to integrate with Gmail—like email clients, trip planners and customer relationship management (CRM) systems—so that you have options around how you access and use your email.”
Google allows third-party developers to access your account data — here’s how to disconnect apps you don’t trust before they read your mail
“The three groups are apps that allow for “Signing in with Google,” “Third-party apps with account access,” and “Google apps.” It’s obvious what Google apps are — things like Chrome and Drive.”
Millions of Roku and Sonos Devices Easily Hacked: What to Do
“Two days ago, we reported that Google Home and Chromecast devices were vulnerable to attacks through regular web browsers running on ordinary computers.”
How to enable Google Home’s Continued Conversation
“Continued Conversations is a new Google Home feature that allows users to ask the Google Assistant follow-up questions without having to repeatedly say the “Ok/Hey Google” hotword.”
Apple fined $9 million for misleading customers with faulty iPhones and iPads
“Apple has been fined $9 million for making false or misleading representations to customers with faulty iPhones and iPads about their consumer rights.”
Prevent DNS Rebinding Attacks by Adjusting Your Router
“Programmer (and artist) Brannon Dorsey wrote up a fascinating and fairly technical piece about the perils of DNS rebinding the other day.”
Android Messages for web begins rolling out, starting with web client
“Google revealed in April that its future messaging solution for consumers would be named “Chat” and based on existing RCS efforts. Those features will be built into the existing Android Messages client with Assistant and Message for web functionality touted.”
Apple will limit iPhone access via charging port, irking police
“Apple is moving ahead with plans to limit the ability to access data from an iPhone via its charging port, a move that has drawn some concern from law enforcement.”