An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: At CES 2020, Facebook plans to show off an innovative new concept for the company: privacy. It will have a booth at the tech show for giving demos on its updated Privacy Checkup tool, which it announced Monday morning. This is the first significant update to Facebook’s Privacy Checkup tool since it was…
Tag: user interface
Inside Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut
Apple is overhauling how it tests software after a swarm of bugs marred the latest iPhone and iPad operating systems, Bloomberg reported Thursday. From the report: Software chief Craig Federighi and lieutenants including Stacey Lysik announced the changes at a recent internal “kickoff” meeting with the company’s software developers. The new approach calls for Apple’s development teams to ensure that test…
Study of Over 11,000 Online Stores Finds ‘Dark Patterns’ on 1,254 sites
A large-scale academic study that analyzed more than 53,000 product pages on more than 11,000 online stores found widespread use of user interface “dark patterns” — practices meant to mislead customers into making purchases based on false or misleading information. from a report: The study — presented last week at the ACM CSCW 2019 conference — found 1,818 instances of dark…
Most System Administrators Prefer Firewall GUIs Over CLIs
When it comes to firewalls, most system administrators prefer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than a command-line interface (CLI), a new academic study published over the summer has revealed. From a report: Despite the many preconceptions that system administrators are almost all ardent CLI users, firewall GUIs won by a pretty large margin in a survey compiling results…
Apple Files Lawsuit Against Corellium For iOS Emulation
Apple has filed a lawsuit against Corellium, accusing the software company of illegally selling virtual copies of iOS under the guise of helping discover security flaws. “Apple said the software company Corellium has copied the operating system, graphical user interface and other aspects of the devices without permission, and wants a federal judge to stop the violations,” reports Bloomberg. From the…
Researcher Makes Legit-Looking iPhone Lightning Cables That Will Hijack Your Computer
A researcher known as MG has modified Lightning cables with extra components to let him remotely connect to the computers that the cables are connected to. “It looks like a legitimate cable and works just like one. Not even your computer will notice a difference. Until I, as an attacker, wirelessly take control of the cable,” MG said. Motherboard reports: One…
Landmark 2.80 Release of Open Source Blender 3D With Improved UI Now Available
“In the 3D content creation space, where are lot of professional 3D software costs anywhere from 2K to 8K Dollars a license, people have always hoped that the free, open source 3D software Blender would some day be up to the job of replacing expensive commercial 3D software packages,” writes Slashdot reader dryriver: This never happened, not because Blender didn’t have…
Microsoft’s New Windows Terminal Update Is Out and It’s ‘Huge’
Microsoft has released Windows Terminal Preview version 0.3, the recently launched command-line interface, which it wants to be the newest and best experience for developers who use Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell. ZDNet reports: It launched in June amid concern that it might replace the familiar Command Prompt and PowerShell. Microsoft is allowing Windows Terminal to co-exist with Windows Console but…
Can You Beat The World’s Worst User Interface?
Design firm Baggar writes:
A user assumes certain actions to be in a certain place or color because interface designers worldwide have been collaboratively educating users and feeding them these design-patterns. But what happens if we poke all good practice with a stick and stir it up? What if we don’t respect our self-created rules and expectations, and do everything the other…
Early Soyuz Spacecraft Had a Peculiar User Interface, Says Developer Charles Simonyi
Tekla Perry writes: When WYSIWIG pioneer Charles Simonyi went to space, he couldn’t but help notice the awkward user interface on the rocket’s control panel. It was a case of legacy systems, not wanting to change training and documentation, and an emulator that ran Unix on a 386 chip, he reported during a recent discussion on space software held at the…