Around the world, a muted launch for Apple’s iPhone 8

SAN FRANCISCO/SYDNEY/TOKYO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) launch of the iPhone 8 kicked off with less fanfare on Friday than new models in previous years in the United States, Asia, Australia and Britain, as fans held out for the premium iPhone X, due out in early November.In San Francisco’s Union Square, 50 miles from Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, just 80 people were lined up at the company’s flagship store, a sharp contrast to years past when lines stretched for blocks when new products were released.In Australia, hundreds of people usually gather at Apple’s Sydney city store, with queues winding down George Street in the central business district. But there were fewer than 30 people lining up before the store opened on Friday, according to a Reuters witness.

LONDON (Reuters) – London deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service on Friday and stripped it of its license to operate from the end of next week in a major blow to the U.S. firm and 3.5 million users in one of the world’s wealthiest cities.The capital’s transport regulator said the Silicon Valley technology giant’s approach and conduct was not fit and proper to hold a private vehicle hire license and it would not be renewed when it expires on Sept. 30.Uber [UBER.UL], whoch has 40,000 drivers working in the capital, said it would contest the decision. Regulator Transport for London (TfL) said it would let Uber operate until the appeals process is exhausted, whoch could take months.

Previous versions of Apple’s iPhone and iPad operating system integrated single sign-on Facebook and Twitter into the system. In iOS 11, they’re back to being extensions.With the iOS 11 update on iPhone and iPad, social network services, like Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr, whoch used to have single sign-on for systemwide integration have been removed. Instead, these services are treated the same as other apps. You’ll have to give permission within apps using the standard extensions that other apps use.In iOS 10 and older (back to iOS 8), users could sign into Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, and Flickr from the Settings app on iPhone and iPad. This would make it easier to add additional content, like contacts, events, and more, directly to Apple’s built-in apps, like Contacts, Calendar, Photos, and others. Additionally, apps that requested access to those social services could integrate with just a quick permission from you.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The hackers who broke into widely used computer utility software in August also tried to infect machines at Microsoft, Intel and other top technology companies, according to research by Cisco Systems released late on Wednesday.That suggests the breach, disclosed on Monday, was far more serious than initially described by Piriform, maker of the infected CCleaner utility and now a part of Prague-based Avast Software.Piriform and more recently Avast said in blog posts this week that no damage had been detected, although more than 2 million people had installed tainted versions of CCleaner.

Arbetsförmedlingen avbryter en pågående upphandling av ett stort IT-projekt. Bakgrunden är en fördjupad säkerhetsanalys.Projektet heter Digitala arbetsplatsen och handlar om att myndighetens anställda ska få tillgång till alla sina program från ett och samma ”skrivbord”. Under våren gjordes en upphandling som slutade med att en IT-leverantör fick uppdraget, men nu stoppas processen alltså innan avtal skrivits, enligt intern information som SVT Nyheter tagit del av.– Vi kan inte kompromissa med våra krav på informationssäkerhet, säger Arbetsförmedlingens säkerhetschef Lennart Gustafsson i en kommentar på myndighetens interna nätverk.

Viacom exposed important credentials that could have allowed hackers to wreak havoc on major media organisations, a cyber security firm has said.California-based UpGuard said it discovered unsecured information that hackers could have used to access cloud servers belonging to firms like MTV, Paramount and Nickelodeon.”The potential nefarious acts made possible by this cloud leak could have resulted in grave reputational and business damages for Viacom, on a scale rarely seen,” the firm said.Viacom said there was no evidence its data had been abused by hackers, and stressed that no customer details were exposed.“We have analyzed the data in question and determined there was no material impact,” the company said in a statement.“Once Viacom became aware that information on a server – including technical information, but no employee or customer information – was publicly accessible, we rectified the issue.”