It’s Saturday and here’s a confusing Guitar Hero Server.
iPhone 5c Pre-order Begins
iPhone 5c is now available for pre-order.
Anecdotally, a few people I talked to were more interested in iPhone 5c than iPhone 5s. Notably, they like the bright colors of iPhone 5c.
iPhone 5s will be available for order starting Friday September 20, 2013.
OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5
Apple released OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 on Thursday September 12, 2013.
About the update
The OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 Update is recommended for all OS X Mountain Lion users. It improves the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. This update:
- Fixes an issue that may prevent Mail from displaying messages
- Improves AFP file transfer performance over 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Resolves an issue that may prevent a screen saver from starting automatically
- Improves Xsan reliability
- Improves reliability when transferring large files over Ethernet
- Improves performance when authenticating to an Open Directory server
- Addresses an issue that prevented a smart card from unlocking preference panes in System Preferences
- Contains the improvements included in MacBook Air (Mid 2013) Software Update 1.0
Apple also released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility 4.09.
WordPress 3.6.1
WordPress 3.6.1 is now available.
Summary
From the announcement post, this maintenance release addresses 13 bugs with version 3.6.
Additionally: Version 3.6.1 fixes three security issues:
- Remote Code Execution: Block unsafe PHP de-serialization that could occur in limited situations and setups, which can lead to remote code execution. Reported by Tom Van Goethem. CVE pending.
- Privilege Escalation: Prevent a user with an Author role, using a specially crafted request, from being able to create a post “written by” another user. Reported by Anakorn Kyavatanakij. CVE pending.
- Link Injection / Open Redirect: Fix insufficient input validation that could result in redirecting or leading a user to another website. Reported by Dave Cummo, a Northrup Grumman subcontractor for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CVE pending.
Additional security hardening:
- Updated security restrictions around file uploads to mitigate the potential for cross-site scripting. The extensions .swf and .exe are no longer allowed by default, and .htm and .html are only allowed if the user has the ability to use unfiltered HTML.
A full log of the changes made for 3.6.1 can be found at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/log/branches/3.6?stop_rev=24972&rev=25345.
Twelve Years To The Day
Twelve years to the day, an event that shaped today. It felt like a bad dream that turned into a nightmare, until I realized it was real.
Raise your drinking glass and remember still, the day that changed our world.
Apple, iOS 7, iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c.
From September 10, 2013 Apple announcement.
iOS 7 will be available as a free software update starting on Wednesday, September 18 for iPhone 4 and later, iPad 2 and later, iPad mini and iPod touch (fifth generation). Some features may not be available on all products.
Apple has seeded iOS 7 GM Build 11A465 to Developers as of Noon September 10, 2013.
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CUPERTINO, California—September 10, 2013—Apple® today introduced iPhone® 5c, featuring an all-new design, packed with incredible features in five gorgeous colors—blue, green, pink, yellow and white. iPhone 5c is built on a foundation of features people know and love like the beautiful 4-inch Retina® display, blazing fast performance of the A6 chip, and the 8 megapixel iSight® camera—all while delivering great battery life. iPhone 5c comes with more LTE bands than any other smartphone in the world, a new FaceTime® HD camera, and iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone.
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iPhone 5c will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK on Friday, September 20, and customers can pre-order their iPhone 5c beginning Friday, September 13.
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CUPERTINO, California—September 10, 2013—Apple® today announced iPhone® 5s, the most forward-thinking iPhone yet, featuring an all-new A7 chip, making iPhone 5s the world’s first smartphone with 64-bit desktop-class architecture for blazing fast performance in the palm of your hand. iPhone 5s redefines the best smartphone experience in the world with amazing new features all packed into a remarkable thin and light design, including an all-new 8 megapixel iSight® camera with True Tone flash and introducing Touch ID™, an innovative way to simply and securely unlock your phone with just the touch of a finger. iPhone 5s comes with iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone, engineered for 64-bit technology and featuring hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop®, enhanced Photos, Safari®, Siri® and iTunes Radio℠.
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iPhone 5s will be available in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK on Friday, September 20.
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In addition to that, Apple will be bundling iMovie, iPhoto, Keynote, Numbers and Pages with each and every new iOS 7 device.
Apple September 10, 2013 Live Coverage Links
It is that time of the season again, here comes the Apple special event. Join everyone else at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday September 10, 2013 for Apple’s “This should brighten everyone;s day.” special event.
There is a good chance Apple would live broadcast the event on Apple home page.
As usual there will be numbers of sites providing live coverage of the event. Here they are in alphabetical order:
- 9to5Mac
- AllThingsD
- AppleInsider
- Ars Technica
- Engadget
- The Loop
- MacNN
- MacWorld
- TechCrunch
- TUAW (The Uninformed Apple Weblog)
- The Verge
More links will be added as they become available.