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Apple officially rejects Fortnite mobile App Store submission as Epic Games pulls game from platform worldwide

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 16, 2025

Just last night we reported on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney’s statement that Apple had neither approved nor rejected the company’s popular Fortnite mobile game for the iOS & iPadOS App Store after a resubmission following a United States-based court order that ruled Apple needed to allow third-party payment options in apps rather than going through the App Store and collecting the 15-30% Apple tax for every transaction.

Alfiecg_dev shares details about an updated untethered iOS 14 jailbreak that uses the Trigon exploit

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 15, 2025

A couple of months ago, talented hobbyist and security researcher @alfiecg_dev shared a write-up on a deterministic kernel exploit called Trigon that was based on CVE-2023-32434 with a 100% success rate, but support was limited to certain older devices running older firmware. Since then, it appears that @alfiecg_dev has been busy…

Epic Games pulls and re-submits Fortnite app submission to iOS App Store as Apple stalls

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 15, 2025

Just last week, Fortnite game publisher Epic Games re-submitted the popular battle royale game to Apple’s App Store following a U.S.-based judge’s ruling that Apple could not charge 15-30% commission fees on in-app purchases made from apps and that app makers could use their own payment systems outside of the App Store’s.

Save big on 4K laser projectors, Pro Controllers, and other Nintendo Switch accessories & games

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 15, 2025

We’re coming up close on the official launch date of the Nintendo Switch 2, and whether you’re eagerly anticipating its launch, or you’re sticking with an original Nintendo Switch model, there are some great game and accessory deals in today’s post for everyone to take advantage of – especially since the Nintendo Switch 2 can play most Nintendo Switch games.

Security researcher shares PoC for CVE-2023-41992 local privilege escalation bug

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2025

When Apple released iOS & iPadOS 16.7 back in 2023, they patched a security vulnerability discovered by Bill Marczak that has since been coined CVE-2023-41992. Apple noted in the online ‘About the security content of iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7’ support document page that this was a kernel vulnerability that may have enabled an attacker to elevate their privileges.

Lumier is a project that lets you run easily-configured virtual machines on your Mac using Docker

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2025

Virtual machines have long been used by Mac owners to run non-native operating systems or several instances of macOS on their workstation. Likewise, Docker containers have often been used in conjunction with virtual machines to enhance security, improve migration, and offer a more user-configurable environment.

How and when to use the different selection tools in Adobe Photoshop

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 14, 2025

When editing images in Adobe Photoshop, there will come a time when you want to select a specific part of those images so that you can apply edits to highly specialized areas as opposed to the entire frame. This applies whether you’re editing photographs captured in-camera, or digital images that you’ve made for a website.

Topaz Photo AI v4.0 now out with dust & scratch repair, neck & hair face recovery tools, and other improvements

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 13, 2025

Topaz Labs have been launching updates for their popular Topaz Photo AI software rather frequently lately, with each subsequent update continuing to enhance the popular AI-based photo editing software with user-friendly one-click features that can instantly elevate even your worst images to a semi or fully usable state.

Lars Fröder, developer of Dopamine jailbreak, shares full video presentation from Nullcon Goa 2025 in March

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 13, 2025

Back in March, Dopamine jailbreak tool and TrollStore perma-signing utility lead developer Lars Fröder, or perhaps better known in this community as @opa334dev, spoke at a cybersecurity conference called Nullcon Goa 2025 to discuss the state of jailbreaking in 2025.

Apple offers limited time 6% Daily Cash back on Nike purchases via Apple Card with Apple Pay

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 13, 2025

Apple just got finished announcing a reduction to the Daily Cash back reward from shopping at T-Mobile with Apple Card via Apple Pay from 3% to 2% last week, set to be effective this June. But there’s still something to look forward to if you’re trying to maximize your Daily Cash back.

Infuse Plus is a jailbreak tweak that brings premium features to the popular Infuse app at no cost

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 12, 2025

Anyone who uses the Infuse media app on their iPhone or iPad to enjoy video content in almost any video format they can imagine could probably benefit from the likes of a handy jailbreak tweak called Infuse Plus by iOS developer Dayanch96.

Developers use Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 write-up to bring MacDirtyCow-like tweaks to newer firmware

Anthony Bouchard ∙ May 12, 2025

In case you didn’t already know, there’s a new kernel exploit out in the wild that renowned Google Project Zero security researcher Ian Beer recently published a writeup about. CVE-2025-24203, which is being referred to by the iPhone & iPad hacking community as dirtyZero or mdc0, is a kernel exploit that allows for certain system customizations akin to what the MacDirtyCow exploit was once capable of on supported firmware.