Stories by Austin Blake

Security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk have found three bugs in Apple's WebKit, the engine behind every browser on iOS. They say WebKit leaks your real network info even when you're using a proxy browser or Apple's iCloud Private Relay. Privacy browsers on iOS work by routing everything through a proxy server, so...

Manitobans on Bell MTS are getting another price increase this fall. The company recently posted a service bulletin update confirming that monthly rates on a range of home services are going up in price on October 1, 2026. Internet customers take the biggest hit, as every Fibe Internet plan goes up $5 a month, and...

Apple's Vision Pro has spent most of its life being called too heavy and too expensive. But a new peer-reviewed study out of UC San Diego suggests that in an operating room, it's actually neither and can be pretty useful for surgery. The paper, published in AJO International, looked at using Vision Pro as the...

Apple is giving its U.S. retail store workers a chance to work behind the scenes at its upcoming September iPhone event. The company has opened an internal lottery for retail employees interested in helping run the in-person event, according to an internal memo reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman on Tuesday. Selected Apple Store workers will...

Samsung is yanking apps from its smart TV store after researchers found software that turned living room TVs into gateways for other people's web traffic. The move comes out of new research from Norwegian cybersecurity firm Mnemonic, which showed how a fairly simple bit of code can let third parties route their browsing through your...

Microsoft plans to let developers bring Xbox 360 games to PC, according to an internal document shared with developers and obtained by The Verge.  The games will run on the upcoming Project Helix hardware, standard gaming PCs, and handheld devices. The gradual rollout for Xbox 360 games on PC is slated to take place between...

Apple is struggling with severe stock shortages for its most popular Mac, the MacBook Air, as an industrywide memory crunch continues to squeeze the tech giant's supply chain. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the supply bottlenecks that previously restricted lower-volume devices like the Mac mini and Mac Studio have now spread to the MacBook Air....

A massive telecom outage has cut off internet, mobile, and landline services for thousands of residents across northwestern B.C. after thieves damaged critical infrastructure. That also meant being cut off from 9-1-1 access for both landline and wireless. According to Telus, vandals intentionally cut network lines along Highway 16 near Mount Hayes on Sunday afternoon....

Apple is cracking down on how security researchers file bug reports, after getting buried under a wave of junk submissions written by AI. The company told the Financial Times it quietly updated its internal reporting portal back in June, capping how many open bug reports one researcher can have on the go at a time....

Tim Cook has finished his last earnings call as Apple CEO, and he spent the top of it talking about the exit rather than the quarter. Cook has been at Apple for 28 years, 15 of them running the company. He said Thursday's call was his 89th during his tenure. "Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks...

Apple reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Thursday, and it was the company's biggest June quarter ever. Revenue came in at a whopping $109.4 billion US, up 16 per cent from the same quarter last year, with earnings of $2.02 per share, a 29 per cent jump. The iPhone did most of the...

PC Mobile, which is available inside retail stores under the Loblaw brand, has tweaked its 5G plans (which run on the Bell network and also include the new suspicious call detection feature). Here are the changes made today to PC Mobile’s plans: $19/1GB 4G $25/5GB 5G $30/20GB (was 15GB) 5G $35/35GB (was 30GB) 5G As...