GitHub, Oracle, & GDPR – Application Security Weekly #18

In the news, how other companies are responding to GDPR, Oracle plans to drop Java Serialization Port, Microsoft acquires GitHub, the percentage of open source code in proprietary apps is rising, & more on this episode of Application Security Weekl… Continue reading GitHub, Oracle, & GDPR – Application Security Weekly #18

Bringing Back the iPhone7 Headphone Jack

Plenty of people bemoaned Apple’s choice to drop the 1/8″ headphone jack from the iPhone 7. [Scotty Allen] wasn’t happy about it either, but he decided to do something about it: he designed a custom flex circuit and brought the jack back. If you don’t recognize [Scotty], he’s the same guy who built an iPhone 6 from parts obtained in Shenzhen markets. Those same markets were now used to design, and prototype an entirely new circuit.

The iPhone 7 features a barometric vent, which sits exactly where the headphone jack lived in the iPhone 6. The vent helps the barometric …read more

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