It ’s been a jolly busy day here at Macworld HQ , what withiTunes equal launching and all , and yet , there ’s still enough more to chat about . iPhone 4S owners have one last prospect to pick up AppleCare+ ; enterprising developer have pink into Siri ’s conversations with Apple ’s servers ; and those mind - controlled Siri commands ? likely all in your resource . The remainders for Monday , November 14 , 2011 are turbid , try again later .
Reminder : today is the last day of the grace period on AppleCare+ for the iPhone 4S(9to5 Mac )
If you were one of the lucky folks who pre - ordered your iPhone 4S , today is the very last day you could beak up AppleCare+ for it , if you have n’t already . Those who pre - regulate the phone received a one - month saving grace period in which to buy the $ 99 service architectural plan , which extends the machine ’s warranty to two years and cover two case of “ inadvertent damage ” ( i.e. you smashed your phone on the concrete ) for an extra $ 49 each . So , if you ’re be after on doing something stupefied with your 4S , well do it today ( and pick up AppleCare , while you ’re at it ) .
Cracking Siri(Applidium )
Poor Siri ’s code has been crack : Those crafty folks at Applidium have fancy out the connection protocol for Apple ’s vocalization - recognition package and diffuse it on their blog , letting anyone ( in hypothesis ) build an diligence use it . Since Siri and the iPhone 4S have a rather clingy relationship , though , you ’ll still need to spoof a 4S UDID to work up anything . And pray that Apple does n’t flip the software ’s kill switch . ( No , not the one that turn it off . The one that turns it into a withering killing simple machine . )
‘ Project Black Mirror ’ Siri judgement - restraint hack is potential a hoax(The wand )
Well , even if Apple decide to plough Siri on us all , at least it wo n’t be able-bodied to access our mind . Nathan Ingraham over at The Verge did a minuscule digging into last week ’s mind - assure Siri experiment and disclose ( unsurprisingly ) that it ’s almost certainly simulated . We wo n’t be 100 percent sure , of course , until we snarf the founders of Project Black Mirror up to amind - reading contraption .
