macOS

Saurik says Cydia Impactor “Xcode 7.3” error fix could come mid-December

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 19, 2019

Saurik made a rare public appearance on Twitter Tuesday afternoon to discuss the future of Cydia Impactor and a particularly frustrating error that users have been experiencing since Apple pushed some of its latest software updates for Mac and iOS.

More specifically, Saurik talked about an error in which Cydia Impactor would tell users that they needed to upgrade to Xcode 7.3 when they were trying to side-load a pertinent jailbreak app, such as Chimera, Electra, or unc0ver. That message looked something like this:

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Path of Exile coming to iOS, Mac

Peter Cohen ∙ November 18, 2019
Path of Exile Mobile

Grinding Gear Games has announced plan to bring the popular free-to-play action role playing game Path of Exile to iOS and Android. What's more, the company is making a Mac version of the game.

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Checkra1n v0.9 beta now available for public testing

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated May 27, 2020

Following several weeks’ worth of electrifying teasers, hacker Luca Todesco officially unveiled checkra1n, a brand-new jailbreak utility based on @axi0mX’s new checkm8 bootrom exploit for A5-A11 devices. Todesco presented the new jailbreak after taking the stage at POC2019 in Seoul, South Korea on Friday, just as he said he would, but subtle issues delayed the original launch expectation by a few days.

Checkra1n is a precedent-setting jailbreak the likes of which we have not seen since limera1n on the A4-equipped iPhone 4. Checkra1n isn’t untethered like limera1n was, but it utilizes an exploit that can’t be patched by Apple with any traditional software update, which commendably means that impacted handsets can be jailbroken for life regardless of software version.

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