🚨 Apple to Begin Scanning Publicly Shared iCloud Photos and Files for Harmful Content

Apple has announced plans to begin scanning publicly shared iCloud content with the release of iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3, expected in December 2026.

The new policy applies to photos and files shared through iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive using the "Anyone with the Link" option. Apple confirmed that content shared this way will be accessible to the company for inspection and will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption, even when Advanced Data Protection is enabled.

Apple has not specified exactly what qualifies as harmful content or whether previously created public links will be scanned.

Under the updated policy, Apple may remove or delete flagged material, suspend accounts, prevent users from creating new accounts, or involve law enforcement when necessary.

The change is limited to publicly accessible sharing links and does not mean Apple will begin scanning all privately stored iCloud files.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-us/149168

UK moving towards banning chat in games for under 16s https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/uk-moving-towards-banning-chat-in-games-for-under-16s/

#UK #OnlineSafety #Gaming #PCGaming

"Release Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 3" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/784318

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/03/british-fintech-revolut-slashes-ai-coding-costs-10x-by-cutting-out-claude-and-going-self-hosted/5307345

good luck with those ipos

How are customer services so incompetent?

Called Vodafone earlier for a pay as you go SIM..
One of the verification questions to get into the account with the agent was what the balance was.. "20.46".

OK.. then ask the question about why roaming can't be enabled, then comes the answer. "Because you don't have any balance so the service is suspended".

um. Pointed out that to find the account she asked for the balance and it clearly isn't zero.
*sigh*
Eventually they undo whatever bug.

#uspol wow.. Texas went democrat.

I'll temporarily DOX myself and post an actual real and currently hiring job opening in my org for a Senior Cloud Security engineer at IBM - they want hybrid (I know I know... - but in actuality they don't care if you come into the office much at all) in Austin TX or San Jose CA.

https://careers.ibm.com/en_US/careers/JobDetail?jobId=137705

#getfedihired

I find streaming services (netflix, hbo, disney etc.) an affront to the senses.
A show ends, not even any time for the credits or silence, it moves onto the next episode.

There's no natural break for thinking about what you've just seen, for people to talk about the episode, grab a drink etc.

Wow. The #Christmas decorations are already up around #GatwickAirport .

@GossiTheDog

Especially frightening as the place was the kind that you order lots of side dishes etc. So over the entire order that adds up to a lot of extra cost!

I have never used #Deliveroo before.. tried it today.
Added a bunch of stuff to cart and then stumbled upon the restaurants own website for delivery. Every dish was around £1.50 to £2 lower cost on their website than Deliveroo.

Insane. I guess collective laziness wins and these intermediate companies profit.

To be clear this is a supply chain attack, the threat actor got reverse SSH (command line) connectivity to Anthropic customer environments at scale.

Anthropic silently removed the backdoor 7 hours ago and hasn’t disclosed a security incident.

The plugin auto updates so every org will have been impacted.

That extension has millions of installs, one of the most popular extensions in DevOps. It creates a reverse SSH backdoor.

Anthropic Visual Studio Claude Code extension on Cursor has malware in it, which creates a remote access Trojan to desktops.

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/

I laughed

Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.

#getfedihired