Leading hackers believe a long-awaited iOS 6 jailbreak will become available to the general public in the nearest future. According to hacker planetbeing, the exploit is nearly finished and ready for release. “The future is looking bright for jailbreaking,” he tweets, claiming that he has actually developed a working jailbreak, but has been testing it to eliminate any possible glitches.
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Everybody knows that Apple is currently trying to improve its virtual voice assistant Siri. As follows from that recent post the company hasn’t finished yet and vigorous efforts need to be applied to reach that goal. Being unable to cope with the problem on its own, Apple is searching for somebody to refine the Siri dialog.
The application Siri is definitely good at providing cultural knowledge and explaining relatively complicated things in rather a funny way. Respectively, the ideal candidate who will try to tackle the problem should combine a sincere love for language, conversation and wordplay with substantial experience in bringing worthy content to life in the sophisticated technical environment.
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Typically, it doesn’t take long for the hacking community to come up with a jailbreak for a fresh iOS version. However, the sixth release of Apple’s mobile operating system seems to be hard to crack. And the company is working to increase the level of protection it has already managed to achieve. According to hacker i0n1c, the upcoming iOS 6.1 update will be even tougher to jailbreak due to drastically enhanced security, which he links to a “changing of the guard.” Whether he refers to top white-hat hacker Kristin Paget being hired as Apple’s “core OS security researcher” or to Craig Federighi being put in charge of both iOS and OS X, though, remains unclear.
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Apple has started seeding another minor iOS 6 update reportedly addressing a glitch that could affect Wi-Fi on the iPhone 5 and iPad mini. The company didn’t elaborate on specific Wi-Fi issues fixed in the new release. Since the latest iOS version became available for download, users have taken to Apple’s support forum to report multiple bugs, from weak signal reception to interrupted connections. The release note doesn’t mention any other fixes, improvements or new features.
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The newly released iOS 6 has been plagued by an unusually large number of various issues, from the substandard Google Maps replacement to bad Wi-Fi connectivity. And the latter seems to be a very persistent one, with thousands of never-ending complaints all over the Internet adding to the already painful migraine.
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