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Everyone who uses social media knows that while it’s a good place to share ideas and communicate with friends and family, social media is also where rampant abuse can happen. Instagram has announced that it’s adding new features to its service to help protect users from abuse. Instagram says it has a responsibility to ensure people feel safe while using … Continue reading

House leaders announced their chamber will return from summer recess in two weeks to vote on the fiscal blueprint.

Apple has settled its 2019 lawsuit with Corellium, a company that build virtual iOS devices used security researchers to find bugs in iPhones and other iOS devices, the Washington Post has reported. The terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, but the agreement comes after Apple suffered a major court loss in the dispute in late 2020.

Corellium’s software allows users to run virtual iPhones on a computer browser, giving them deep access to iOS without the need for a physical device. In addition to accusing Corellium of infringing on its copyright, Apple said the company was selling its product indiscriminately, thereby compromising the platform’s security.

Specifically, Apple accused the company of selling its products to governments that could have probed its products for flaws. When he was employed by another company, Corellium co-founder David Wang helped the FBI unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist responsible for the San Bernardino attacks. 

However, a judge dismissed the copyright claims, calling them “puzzling, if not disingenuous.” He wrote in his ruling that “the Court finds that Corellium has met its burden of establishing fair use,” adding that its use of iOS in that context was permissible. 

Corellium started offering its platform to individual subscribers earlier this year, after previously only making it available to enterprise users. Each request for access is vetted individually so that it won’t fall into the wrong hands for malicious purposes, according to the company. 

T-Mobile has launched a pilot offering fiber optic home internet service in New York City, according to a report from T-Mo confirmed by The Verge. It’s testing the service in select Manhattan residential buildings, offering 940Mbps upload and download speeds along with a WiFi 6 router, according to the company’s new fiber product page. 

It’s using a third-party provider’s fiber rather than its own lines and running the program on a “very limited pilot,” the company told The Verge. It added that it would offer more information “when and if” it rolls out more widely. 

The fiber service is being marketed alongside T-Mobile’s 5G wireless home internet launched in April. T-Mobile said that service would deliver average download speeds greater than 100Mbps for most new customers, with a minimum 50Mbps speeds. The service is available for around $60 per month to 30 million Americans across 49 states (not including Alaska), and the company recently told investors it was on track to sign 500,000 customers by the end of 2021. 

The fiber offering is a new twist, though it’s not clear how widespread T-Mobile plans to go with it. We’ve also yet to learn pricing, but rival Verizon charges around $80 per month for similar speeds with its Fios service.