Good news: Your iCloud password wasn’t compromised in teh big iPhone malware attack

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Apple is currently working on fixing the largest security breach in the history of the App Store after hackers infiltrated malware inside genuine apps by fooling developers to download a compromised iOS app making software version. Even though Apple said it has removed apps that contained malicious code, security firms said that some app versions still contained malware. But the good news, for affected customers, is that Apple will now notify you if you have installed apps compromised by the XcodeGhost malware.

More importantly, Apple says that user data is safe, as the code couldn’t have stolen critical personal information such as Apple ID credentials.

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Halo 5: Guardians’ campaign is set to be the most chaotic and diverse in series history

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After spending several hours with the Arena multiplayer beta at the beginning of the year and going hands-on with the new Warzone mode at E3, Halo 5: Guardians has quickly become one of my most anticipated games of 2015.

Earlier this month, I had a chance to play through two missions of the campaign for the very first time, giving me a chance to see the final (and possibly most vital) piece of the Halo 5 puzzle. So how does single-player hold up?

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Tim Cook calls kid whose life was saved by his Apple Watch

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Call us crazy, but we’re pretty sure Apple secured a fan for life this week. 17-year-old Massachusetts resident Paul Houle this past weekend was finishing up football practice when his Apple Watch alerted him that his heart rate was abnormal. He eventually went to the hospital to seek treatment and learned that he had rhabdomyolysis, a condition that can lead to heart, liver and kidney failure if not treated. In other words, his Apple Watch’s heartbeat alerts probably saved his life.

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Watch a sickeningly smug CEO justify raising the price for an AIDS pill by 5,500%

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Have you ever heard of the drug Daraprim? Probably not. Nonetheless, it’s a drug that’s used by people with HIV to help fight off potentially deadly parasitic infections. The company with the rights to this drug is Turing Pharmaceuticals and it’s run by a man named Martin Shkreli, a former hedge-fund manager who’s bringing a Wall Street attitude to the pharmaceutical industry. After acquiring Daraprim earlier this year, Shkreli decided to raise its price from $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet, despite the fact that this is not a new medicine, it isn’t facing massive shortages, and it doesn’t cost anywhere close to $750 per tablet for the company to produce.

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Apple Music is now 15 million users strong

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The number of Apple Music trial subscribers has reportedly increased by about 36% in just the last six weeks. According to a report in the New York Post, there are now 15 million people subscribed to Apple’s nascent music service, a sizable bump from the 11 million figure Apple quoted in early August.

The report further adds that about half of Apple Music users haven’t turned off the service’s auto-pay toggle, the obvious implication being that Apple may soon have a significant number of paying subscribers.

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Security agency offers $3 million for iOS 9 jailbreak

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In an initiative dubbed The Million Dollar iOS 9 Bug Bounty, Zerodium CEO Chaouki Bekrar is offering upwards of $3 million to anyone or group of people who can come up with a way to jailbreak iOS 9.

Zerodium is specifically seeking an exclusive, browser or text message-based, “workable, remote and untethered jailbreak that will persist even after reboot.” The rules add that the exploit should be achievable without requiring any proactive action from users beyond visiting a webpage or reading a text message.

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All the best shows and movies coming to HBO Now in October

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With the launch of HBO Now, we all finally have access to the award-winning content that the network produces, regardless of whether or not we pay for cable. That means that anyone who pays the $14.99 monthly fee can watch HBO’s entire back catalog, but it also means you can watch new shows and movies the minute they become available.

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DSEI: Tech hunts concealed threats to better protect US airports

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New tech could be coming to an airport near you to help keep you safe.

Unveiled for the first time at last week’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London, the TSA is developing the SPO-NX with QinetiQ, a U.K.-based defense specialist that has its roots in the British Government’s prestigious Defence Establishment Research Agency.

Terrorists often seek to strike in areas that are densely populated. It is very challenging to protect these environments. But with this state of the art technology, threats lurking in a crowd can be spotted and exposed from a distance.

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