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Target is boosting Apple’s presence in its stores

A concept image from Target illustrating the new Apple shopping experience available in select Target locations.

Target, the eighth-largest retailer in the United States, will attempt to increase its revenue derived from selling Apple products by expanding Apple gadget offerings, both in its brick-and-mortar stores and online. This new Apple initiative is part of Target's existing strategy to house popular brands at its stores in an attempt to attract more customers to its locations.

A cringey Facebook video tries to sell the idea of privacy-breaching personalized ads

Facebook has launched a new campaign to tell the world that small businesses operating on its social platforms rely heavily on personalized advertising. It includes a video, titled “Good Ideas Deserve To Be Found,” featuring Houston-based fashion brand House of Takura. The company omits the fact that targeted advertising available on its platforms is a result of massive privacy breaches. Facebook is vehemently opposing Apple's upcoming App Tracking Transparency initiative that will require iOS apps to seek user permission to track users.

Pwn20wnd hints at unc0ver for iOS 14 with support for the latest A14 devices

It was only a couple of weeks ago that @ModernPwner released the cicuta_verosa kernel exploit for iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.3. But as we noted in a follow-up piece, teams of use were limited to CoolStar for the upcoming Odyssey14 jailbreak and to GPL-compliant projects, which the unc0ver jailbreak is not.

While unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd has been particularly silent over the past several months, he broke that silence early Thursday morning upon sharing a series of Tweets that contained some particularly notable teasers about the state of an iOS & iPadOS 14-compatible jailbreak for all devices.

Cylinder Reborn: Barrel-inspired Home Screen paging animations for pwned iOS 13 & 14 devices

When I first got into jailbreaking more than a decade ago, one of the first jailbreak tweaks to pique my interest was one called Barrel. It could animate the Home Screen’s app icons in unique ways with every swipe between Home Screen pages.

Barrel is no longer actively maintained, which is why the Cylinder tweak launched back in 2014. Today, we’re excited to share news of the release of Cylinder Reborn by iOS developers Ryan Nair and Reed Weichler — the latest iteration of the tweak designed for iOS & iPadOS 13 and 14.