• Netherlands warns government employees not to use Microsoft's online Office apps

  In one example, it was found that some 300,000 top tier Office users, with the ‘365 Pro Plus' package were being sent back to the US for storage - exactly the sort of behaviour that got Dutch backs up.

  In a wider sense, this is a small but public battle in a much larger war, with the EU still leaning heavily on Microsoft to put its post-GDPR house in order.

• The iPhone now makes up less than half of Apple’s business

  Apple today reported its fiscal third quarter 2019 earnings, earning $53.8 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $2.18. That revenue is a 1 percent jump year over year. iPhone revenue was $25.99 billion compared to $29.47 billion a year ago. That means the iPhone represented under half of Apple’s revenue for the first time since 2012.

  The all-important services unit took in $11.46 billion in revenue. Wearables saw a big boost, likely thanks to Apple’s second-generation AirPods. CEO Tim Cook said that when the services and wearables / home / accessories divisions are combined, they approach the size of a Fortune 50 company. Revenue from Mac sales was $5.82 billion, and iPads were $5.023 billion, up from $4.634 billion last year at this time.

• Apple Finds Life After the iPhone While Still Banking on the iPhone

  Combined, Apple’s two major independent product lines not attached to the iPhone -- Mac computers and iPads -- made up only 20% of revenue in the fiscal third quarter, despite gains from the period a year ago, the Cupertino, California-based company reported Tuesday. Apple’s also working on a mixed augmented and virtual reality headset for the coming years, but that, too, is likely to be iPhone-reliant.

• Chrome 76 for Mac, Windows rolling out: Flash blocked by default, Incognito loophole closed, Settings tweak

  As a big HTML5 proponent for the past decade, Google encouraged sites to switch away from Flash for faster, safer, and more battery-efficient browsing. In late 2016 and early 2017, Chrome blocked background Flash elements and defaulted to HTML5, with users having to manually enable the Adobe plug-in on a site-by-site basis.

• Google Chrome 76 Released for Linux, Windows, and Mac with 43 Security Fixes

  Google promoted today the Chrome 76 web browser to the stable channel for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS.

  Google Chrome 76.0.3809.87 is now available as the latest stable version of the popular and cross-platform web browser from Google, based on the open source Chromium project. It contains various bug fixes and improvements, as well as no less than 43 security fixes for the latest vulnerabilities.

• You Don't Own What You've Bought: Microsoft's Books 'Will Stop Working'

  The latest in our forever ongoing series, recognizing in the digital age how you often no longer own what you've bought, thanks to DRM and copyright: this week, people with Microsoft ebooks will discover they're dead.

• Security updates for Tuesday

  Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (firefox, firefox-developer-edition, libarchive, and vlc), CentOS (firefox, thunderbird, and vim), Debian (firefox-esr, openssl, and python-django), Fedora (glpi and xen), Mageia (thunderbird), openSUSE (ImageMagick, irssi, libheimdal, and phpMyAdmin), Red Hat (libssh2 and qemu-kvm), Scientific Linux (firefox, thunderbird, and vim), SUSE (389-ds, cf-cli, curl, dbus-1, dnsmasq, evolution, glib2, gnutls, graphviz, java-1_8_0-openjdk, and libxslt), and Ubuntu (python-django).

• Kali Linux in the DigitalOcean Cloud

  DigitalOcean is a cloud provider similar to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and many others. They offer instances, called “droplets”, with different Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, etc. Similar to AWS, DigitalOcean has datacenters around the world and sometimes multiple datacenters in each country.

  However, one feature in particular sets them apart them from their competitors. A little while ago, they added support for custom images, which allows users to import virtual machine disks and use them as droplets. This is perfect for us as we can use our own version of Kali Linux in their cloud.

  While it might be possible to load the official Kali Linux virtual images, it wouldn’t be very efficient. Instead, we’ll build a lightweight Kali installation with the bare minimum to get it working.

• Cybersecurity Experts Blocked 5 Million Attempted Hacks of IoT Cameras

  Trend Micro cybersecurity experts report that they blocked an astounding five-million hack attempts on IoT cameras. It’s quite frightening to think what may have happened if these experts weren’t hard at work.

• Public Certificate Poisoning Can Break Some OpenPGP Implementations

  OpenPGP installations can grind to a halt and fail to verify the authenticity of downloaded packages as the keyserver network has been flooded with bogus extra signatures attesting ownership of a certificate.

  Vulnerabilities that allow this type of certificate spamming attack have been known for years and a timely fix or mitigation is nowhere in sight, neither from the keyserver network community nor the OpenPGP Working Group.

• Report: Apple Discovers MacBook Air Logic Board Issue

                 
  

                   

  Not all 13-inch MacBook Air with Retina Display units from 2018 are believed to be affected by the logic board issue. The memo reportedly said that only units with certain serial numbers were affected; Apple plans to inform the owners of those devices via email. Affected units can be taken to Apple's retail stores or authorized repair shops until four years after their original purchase date, 9to5Mac said. 
   

                   

  It's not clear why Apple didn't publicly announce the replacement program.  

             

• Apple finds issue w/ logic board in some 2018 MacBook Airs, offers free repair

                 
  

                   

  Apple has confirmed in an internal document to repair staff that it’s identified an issue with the main logic board in what it says is a “very small number” of MacBook Air models. Apple Stores and authorized repair staff have been informed to replace the main logic board in affected machines at no cost to customers, according to the document obtained by 9to5Mac.  

             

• Apple Recalls 15-Inch MacBook Pro Laptop Computers Due to Fire Hazard

                 
  

                   

  The batteries in the recalled laptop computers can overheat, posing a fire hazard.  

             

• Apple recalls 432,000 MacBook Pro laptops for fire and burn risks

                 
  

                   

  Manufactured in China, the recalled computers had a retail price of $2,000 and more, and were sold at Apple and electronics stores nationwide, as well as online, from September 2015 through February 2017.  

             

• 2015 15" MacBook Pro Recall Applies to About 432,000 Units, Apple Received 26 Reports of Batteries Overheating

                 
  

                   

  Last week, Apple launched a worldwide recall and replacement program for select 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro units, sold primarily between September 2015 and February 2017, due to batteries that "may overheat and pose a fire safety risk." Apple will replace affected batteries free of charge.  

                 

• 'Dangerous' Muslim Brotherhood fatwa app in Apple Store's top 100 downloads

                     
  

                       

  The Euro Fatwa app, which was launched in April, was created by the European Council for Fatwa and Research, a Dublin private foundation set up by Yusuf Al Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.
   

                       

  Touted as a guide to help Muslims adhere to Islam, critics including Germany’s security service, say the app is a radicalisation tool.  

                 

• Jony Ive found Tim Cook's disinterest in design 'dispiriting'

                     
  

                       

  But more damagingly, the WSJ highlights that Ive was left "dispirited" by Tim Cook, in stark contrast to his close relationship with Steve Jobs. Cook, apparently "showed little interest in the product development process" according to the paper's sources. Ive was also left frustrated by the makeup of Apple's board of directors, which was filled with people with backgrounds outside of Apple's core business (the pun is ours, and very much intended). 
   

                       

  As well as these reports, Ive's own words have come back to haunt the company. Back in 2014, he told The Times he'd leave Apple if it stopped innovating. Awkward.  

Darling is the open-source project we first covered back in 2012 that aimed to be able to run macOS software (binaries) on Linux. It's what Wine is to running Windows programs on Linux but rather to be able to handle Apple/Mac software. While we haven't heard much from the project recently, they still are pursuing their goal.

Over the years Darling has made some project on handling Mac binaries on Linux albeit times that the project seemed on hiatus without any development work. The last time we covered Darling on Phoronix was in November of 2017 when they were still aiming for macOS apps on Linux.

Direct: Darling Progress Report Q1 2019

• Windows 10 (19H1) Build 18342 Brings Linux Files to File Explorer [Ed: False. These are not "Linux files". It's Windows.]

  Microsoft has just released a new Windows 10 preview build, this time for users enrolled in the Fast ring of the Windows Insider program.

• Linux love hits Windows 10 19H1 amid a second round of zombie slaying [Ed: This is not "Linux love"; there's no Linux in there, it's Windows]

• Windows 10 Preview adds support for Linux files, and Chrome extension for timeline [Ed: Over the past week Microsoft totally spammed or "googlebombed" Linux news with something that has nothing to do with Linux and is all about Vista 10. They promote a confusion and media plays a long in this mislabeled fusion.]

• Latest Windows 10 April 2019 Update Preview Build Brings Linux To File Explorer, Gaming Improvements

• It is finally possible to access Linux files on Windows

• Windows 10 File Explorer will be able to browse Linux Files

• Microsoft releases Windows 10 19H1 Build 18342 with Timeline for Chrome and access to Linux files from File Explorer

• Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Linux files, gaming improvements, and Timeline for Chrome

• Chrome OS 74 brings audio support to Linux apps

  Linux development has continued to expand and the latest information reveals that audio support is coming to Chrome OS starting with version 74.

• Fix For A Glaring Linux Audio Issue Coming In Chrome OS 74

  Googlers will be fixing an obvious but under-reported issue in Linux on Chrome OS by finally adding audio support for associated applications, based on a recently spotted commit in the Chromium Gerrit. The commit adjusts code and documentation to enable support for audio for containers and VMs in Chrome OS 74, which are specifically used to run or access Linux applications.

• Linux users are unable to manage their Apple ID on apple․com [U]

  For some reason, Apple’s website where you can manage your Apple ID (appleid.apple.com) is blocking users of Linux browsers from accessing it. Having access to the website is important to manage things such as payment information, two-factor authentication, and other account details. Even though the number of Linux users accessing the website must be relatively small compared to other operating systems, some iPhone users who use Linux on the desktop noticed the issue.

• Linux Users Are Unable To Manage Their Apple ID on Applecom

  For some reason, Apple's website where you can manage your Apple ID (appleid.apple.com) is blocking users of Linux browsers from accessing it.