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WordPress 3.9 for iOS

WordPress 3.9 for iOS is now available. Thanks to the auto-App-update feature in iOS 7, users might not know that the WordPress App had been updated.

What’s New in Version 3.9

  • Exclusive iOS 7 support
  • Improved login screen and error message notification
  • Simplified tab-based user interface
  • Enhanced Reader, Comments, and Notifications
  • More seamless inline commenting experience
  • Redesigned posts/pages editing and viewing experience
  • Support added for deep linking from Twitter
  • Various bug fixes

When I opened the WordPress App on Thursday, January 30, 2014, I was somewhat surprised. It did not look like the WordPress App I had been used to using. It took me a few minutes to get used to it.

WordPress 3.9 for iOS

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Apple seeds OS X 10.9.2 build 13C48

Some sites hit the ground running over Apple Developer NDA and report that Apple seeds another OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 to Developers.

OS X 10.9.2 build 13C48

According to chatters within Apple Developers, there are still some outstanding Finder bugs that was introduced in the first seed of OS X 10.9.2.

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Yahoo Acknowledges Hacking Attempt, Resets Passwords for Affected Accounts.

From Yahoo Tumblr blog:

Security attacks are unfortunately becoming a more regular occurrence. Recently, we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts. Upon discovery, we took immediate action to protect our users, prompting them to reset passwords on impacted accounts.

Based on our current findings, the list of usernames and passwords that were used to execute the attack was likely collected from a third-party database compromise. We have no evidence that they were obtained directly from Yahoo’s systems. Our ongoing investigation shows that malicious computer software used the list of usernames and passwords to access Yahoo Mail accounts. The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails.

Yahoo has initiated password rest to affected accounts.

Upon reading this announcement I changed the passwords to all my Yahoo account. Yes, I do have multiple Yahoo accounts.

Yahoo Password Reset

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AMD announces its ARM-based Processor

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Ars Technica reports that AMD announces its first ARM-based processor.

Codenamed “Seattle,” the processors will be branded Opteron A-series and built on a 28 nm process. The first of these will be the A1100. This will have 4 or 8 cores based on ARM’s Cortex-A57 design. This is a high performance, 64-bit ARM core, and it will run at clock speeds of at least 2 GHz. The chips will have up to 4MB of level 2 cache and 8MB of level 3 cache, with both caches shared across all the cores. They’ll support dual channel DDR3 or DDR4, with up to 128GB RAM. The chips will also include a bunch of connectivity: eight PCIe 3 lanes, eight SATA 3 ports, and two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. Rounding out the SoCs, they’ll also include dedicated engines for cryptography and compression. The whole thing has an expected power usage of 25W.

ARM-based processors have definitely overtaken X86 Processors for the past few years. Most people do not even realize that their favorite electronic gadgets are ARM-based, including the iPhone, iPad and many Android devices.