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Encryption at the Heart of New Apple File System (APFS)

Yesterday’s Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) announced a range of enhancements to its software development platforms, including a completely new filesystem, Apple File System (APFS), to succeed HFS+ which has been in use since 1998. Embed from Getty Images Times have changed since the days of spinning hard drives and floppy disks, and APFS is designed to reflect that. The […]

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Apple and President Obama Say: Use HTTPS for Everything

  Why waste time figuring out whether you should use HTTP or HTTPS? These days there’s no reason not to encrypt – better be on the safe side! New versions of Apple’s mobile and desktop OS announced this week include a new feature called App Transport Security. It’s the first step by Apple in deprecating HTTP for developers. If you’re developing […]

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Plenty for Developers to Play With at WWDC 2015

Apple’s Wordwide Developers Conference, WWDC, kicked off yesterday in San Francisco with a raft of announcements about products and platforms we’re likely to see in the months ahead. As well as new versions of OSX (El Capitan) and iOS (9.0), and split-screen multitasking on the iPad, there’s also an SDK for developing native apps on which run […]

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