
Apple takes steps for criminal fanboys
Feature blocks the phone if not used for seven days
The iOS 11.4 update, currently being beta tested, includes a USB Restricted Mode that introduces a week-long expiration date on access to the Lightning port on your iOS devices if your phone hasn't been unlocked, which has implications for law enforcement tools like the GrayKey box.

Qualcomm allowed to quiz Apple's Eddy Cue and Chief Executive Tim Cook
Could prove crucial
A court has allowed Qualcomm to depose Apple services chief Eddy Cue in addition to Chief Executive Tim Cook as part of its case against the fruity cargo cult

Apple stinging customers on battery repairs
You think we made these profits by being good to customers?
BBC’s flagship consumer show Watchdog has blasted Apple for refusing to cheaply replace iPhone batteries without conducting additional, costly, repairs first.

Apple makes money even as iPhone dies
Never mind inovation look at my wad
You would think that with its iPhone cash cow dying and it being unable to make a decent PC any more, Apple would be struggling. But according to its latest results it is still doing quite well.

Wall Street wants Apple to do something about its cash pile
As iPhone and iCloud stalls
The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street are starting to get a bit miffed that Apple has not come up with any new products and its existing iPhone and iCloud products are stalling.

Foxconn and Apple will take water from Lake Michigan
2.7 million gallons of the water will disappear
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources granted permission to Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn, best known for assembling Apple's iPhones, to siphon off seven million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan.

Top three AIs are pretty stupid
Google is brighter, Siri is as intelligent as plankton
A new report has named Google as the cleverest AI but warns all three of the leading machines are pretty pants and disappointing.

Apple can't dump Qualcomm
Intel is not ready to fill the gap
Fruity cargo cult Apple, which has been refusing to pay what it owes Qualcomm because it is asking too much might have no choice, according to a new report.

Apple’s MacBook Pro bricked by poor design
Dust never sleeps
The fruity cargo cult Apple is having problems with users of the MacBook Pro. Apparently, after spending a fortune on a MacBook Pro, users are under the mistaken view that they get what they pay for, and not something that is so poorly designed that a single piece of dust can brick the shiny toy.

Apple pulls back on booby trapped OS
I find your lack of faith disturbing
Fruity cargo-cult Apple has retreated on a change in its iOS operating system which effectively bricked third-party screen repairs to make it appear as if they were less effective than those of its overpriced in-house repairs.