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Sileo Team releases open source Sileo v2.0.0 alpha 1 for testing

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 24, 2020

At the start of the week, the Sileo Team turned a new leaf that resonated positively with the jailbreak community when it said that most of the first alpha iteration of Sileo v2.0.0 had been published to GitHub as open source software. But since then, the team has been particularly tight-lipped about when it would be pushed to the default repositories for hands-on testing.

Fortunately, that’s no longer a mystery. In an announcement shared via Twitter Friday evening, the Sileo Team said that Sileo v2.0.0 alpha 1 could now be installed from the Electra and Chimera repositories on their respective jailbreaks:

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Ryan Petrich’s MailMend jailbreak tweak fixes a vulnerability in iOS’ Mail app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 24, 2020

Earlier today, we showed you a new jailbreak tweak called CaptureTheFlag that could be installed to patch a rather tedious text message-centric bug in which someone could send you a string of text from the Sindhi language to ‘freeze’ or ‘crash’ your iPhone. A great add-on to have if you’re jailbroken, but perhaps not the only one…

Yet another new jailbreak tweak release dubbed MailMend by iOS developer Ryan Petrich claims to patch a vulnerability that was only just recently discovered and disclosed in iOS’ native emailing app (Mail) by cybersecurity company ZecOps.

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CaptureTheFlag fixes the Sindhi text message glitch for iOS jailbreakers

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 24, 2020

If you’ve been following the news lately, then you’ve unquestionably heard about the latest text message bug affecting the iOS platform that can crash or freeze the recipient’s iPhone. Demonstrations of the glitch were published all over YouTube and internet news sources yesterday afternoon, and reveal that characters of the Sindhi language are the primary culprit.

Apple will unquestionably address this issue in a future software update to iOS and iPadOS, but jailbreakers who want to avoid updating to new software releases will be excited to learn that there’s now an unofficial patch by way of a newly released jailbreak tweak dubbed CaptureTheFlag by iOS developer MTAC.

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Teardown video: iPhone SE (2020) vs. iPhone 8 (2017)

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 24, 2020

The new iPhone SE has landed on store shelves today, and you'd be forgiven for easily mistaking it for the iPhone 8 because the two devices share virtually indistinguishable chassis. On the inside, they're nearly identical as well, sharing the same display and many other internal components. While we await until wizards over at iFixit report findings of their teardown analysis of the new iPhone SE, one Apple fan has now posted an interesting teardown video which compares the insides of the new iPhone SE with the iPhone 8, which launched in 2017.

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UBS is ready to finally adopt Apple Pay

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 24, 2020

By now, most of the major banks in Switzerland have adopted Apple Pay, the iPhone maker's mobile payments solution which launched six years ago. And now, UBS — a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company, and a major Apple Pay holdout — has confirmed that it's finally ready to implement Apple's service in the coming weeks.

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