Announcing macOS Sierra and iOS 10 - coming this fall

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iOS 10 coming this fall
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Big. Bold. Beautiful.
Everything you love is now even better with iOS 10, our biggest release yet. Express yourself in bold new ways in Messages. Find your route with beautifully redesigned Maps. Relive memories like never before in Photos. And use the power of Siri in more apps than ever. There’s so much to say about iOS 10 — here are just a few of our favorite things.

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Siri makes its debut on Mac, with new capabilities designed just for the desktop. And that’s not the only way your Mac is smarter. macOS Sierra helps you rediscover your best photos, shop more securely online, and work more seamlessly between devices. It can also help free up valuable storage space. Now your Mac does even more for you, so you can do more with your Mac.

Talk about big news. No matter what you’re working on, your favorite personal assistant is always a click away. The handy features of Siri on iOS are now on your Mac, along with brand-new ways to help you with the things you do every day on your desktop.

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[jamescv7]

Alright so everything is inspired from social networking sites style, well not bad at all.

For those avid user yes but not on enthusiastic ones haha.

 

[Alkajak]

Apple Finally Shuns Adobe’s Flash, Blocks It by Default on the Desktop

Tech companies are one by one giving up on Flash Player because of the issues that it leads to, be they performance- or security-related problems, and Apple is the latest name taking a bold step in the same direction.

Cupertino has announced that, starting with Safari 10 in macOS Sierra, Flash will be disabled by default and will attempt to load the HTML5 version of each website should it exist.

But because Flash continues to remain widely popular across the web, Safari 10 will allow users to manually enable Flash content they discover online, either for each component or across the entire website. An option to enable specific Flash content every time the user visits that website will also be offered, but otherwise, this only happens temporarily, so upon browser restart, the default settings will come into play and keep Flash disabled by default.

“Whenever a user enables a plug-in on a website, it’ll remain enabled as long as the user regularly visits the website and website still uses the plug-in. More specifically, Safari expires a user’s request to activate a plug-in on a particular website after it hasn’t seen that plug-in used on that site for a little over a month,” Apple explains.

More secure browsing
Obviously, Apple recommends developers to look for alternatives to Flash player, and the most popular remains the HTML5 implementation.

But as far as users are concerned, this should lead to a more secure, faster, and more stable browsing experience, especially when considering the number of bugs that Flash Player has experienced in the last couple of years.

“On websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 implementations of content, Safari users will now always experience the modern HTML5 implementation, delivering improved performance and battery life,” Apple explains.

In 2015, Adobe fixed a total of 316 security vulnerabilities in Flash Player, so it’s no surprise that more companies are trying to step away from it these days. Right now, for example, Adobe is working to address a critical Flash Player flaw that’s already being exploited in the wild and that exposes users to attacks that could eventually give cybercriminals full control of the vulnerable system. A patch is expected on Thursday, June 16.

Source: Apple Finally Shuns Adobe’s Flash, Blocks It by Default on the Desktop

 

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Dubbed 'Differential Privacy'

"Apple is looking to thread a fine needle, gaining access to the data it needs to make its servers smarter while also protecting user privacy. It’s doing so by employing a concept known as differential privacy.

However, the company was initially short on details on just what data it will be collecting and how. Here are a few things we’ve clarified over the past few days.

1. Differential data is making its debut with iOS 10 and Apple says it has not yet been collecting such data.
2. The decision to allow Apple use of data will be up to the user and require their opt-in consent.
3. Apple says it is not using iOS users’ cloud-stored photos to power the image recognition features in iOS 10, instead relying on other data sets to train its algorithms. (Apple hasn’t said what data it is using for that, other than to make clear it is not using its users photos.)

As for what data is being collected, Apple says that differential privacy will initially be limited to four specific use cases: New words that users add to their local dictionaries, emojis typed by the user (so that Apple can suggest emoji replacements), deep links used inside apps (provided they are marked for public indexing) and lookup hints within notes."

Apple won’t collect your data for its AI services unless you let it

Access to users' data will be Opt-In.