Archive for March 21, 2025

Apple Gets Sued Over The Apple Intelligence Debacle

Posted in Commentary with tags on March 21, 2025 by itnerd

Seeing as Apple was hyping Apple Intelligence to sell iPhones and Macs, and then had to back away from that when they delayed the new Siri, you knew that a lawsuit was going to be inbound. And sure enough, here’s the lawsuit:

The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, seeks class action status and unspecified financial damages on behalf of those who purchased Apple Intelligence-capable iPhones and other devices.

And:

“Apple’s advertisements saturated the internet, television, and other airwaves to cultivate a clear and reasonable consumer expectation that these transformative features would be available upon the iPhone’s release,” the suit reads.

  • “This drove unprecedented excitement in the market, even for Apple, as the company knew it would, and as part of Apple’s ongoing effort to convince consumers to upgrade at a premium price and to distinguish itself from competitors deemed to be winning the AI-arms race.”
  • “Contrary to Defendant’s claims of advanced AI capabilities, the Products offered a significantly limited or entirely absent version of Apple Intelligence, misleading consumers about its actual utility and performance. Worse yet, Defendant promoted its Products based on these overstated AI capabilities, leading consumers to believe they were purchasing a device with features that did not exist or were materially misrepresented.”

Now I am not a lawyer, but I think that this has merit. Apple did hype Apple Intelligence massively and they did tie it into product launches. So I can see how someone might be a bit ticked off if they bought a new iPhone and some of the key features of Apple Intelligence were not there or didn’t work the way one would have been led to believe. Thus I think Apple might have a problem here that their team of lawyers might have difficulty swatting away. The usual this hasn’t been tested in court applies here. But I suspect Apple is going to focus their efforts in terms of settling this out of court as fast as they possibly can.

218 Repos Exposed in GitHub Action Supply Chain Attack

Posted in Commentary with tags on March 21, 2025 by itnerd

Endor Labs has a story on a GitHub based supply chain attack that’s worth reading. Though only 218 repositories out of the 23,000 exposed secrets in the supply chain attack on the GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files, the impact is still significant as some repositories are very popular and could be used in new supply chain attacks. Details below:

https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/blast-radius-of-the-tj-actions-changed-files-supply-chain-attack

Jim Routh, Chief Trust Officer at Saviynt, commented:

“This information represents excellent work by the writer, Henrik Plate from Endor Labs to demonstrate how threat actors use compromised credentials to access the software supply chain. Although the scope and impact, in this case, are not widespread, the threat actor tactics are useful to understand, due to the exploitation of non-human and human account credentials. This represents another reminder for enterprises to invest in more robust privilege access management capabilities (including continuous validation) applied to those with access to the software supply chain for the enterprise.” 

Any organization that uses GitHub should read this report by Endor Labs as it provides a whole lot of insight of how threat actors can execute an attack like this. Thus giving you more insight in terms of how to stop them.

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra ranked #1 by Consumer Reports and gets rave reviews elsewhere

Posted in Commentary with tags on March 21, 2025 by itnerd

Samsung’s newest Galaxy S25 Ultra is the #1 smartphone of 2025 with recognition across global markets including the US, EU, Denmark and the UK. With its powerful AI features, exceptional camera system, and flagship performance, the S25 Ultra stands out as the smartphone to beat in 2025.  

More specifically, Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra earned the highest score of 5 in most of Consumer Reports’ 10 evaluation categories, including performance, rear camera image quality, display, durability, and ease of use.   

What’s driving this global recognition? The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra earned praise for its best-in-class camera system and Galaxy AI capabilities with One UI 7Apart from the Galaxy S25 Ultra’s recognition on the US Consumer Reports ranking, it has also been highlighted as the top smartphone in evaluations across five European countries (Italy, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and Sweden), and by consumer magazines the UK’s Which? and Denmark’s Taenk. 

You can read the details here.