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Motherboard berichtet reported on a box capable of cracking an iPhone’s PIN. The GrayKey itself is a small, 4×4 inches box with two lightning cables for connecting iPhones, according to photographs published by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The device comes in two versions: a $15,000 one which requires online connectivity and allows 300 unlocks (or $50 per phone), and an offline, $30,000 version which can crack as many iPhones as the customer wants. Marketing material seen by Forbes says GrayKey can unlock devices running iterations of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 11, including on the iPhone X, Apple’s most recent phone. ...

A small software tip for anyone who has opted for a larger iCloud package and wants to remove unnecessary cloud data from their Mac. The open-source software iCloud Control integrates into the Finder and makes exactly this possible. Adds a menu to the Finder that allows control over files stored in iCloud, allowing user-controlled selective synchronization. Simply select the files you want to remove locally, click the small cloud icon in the Finder, and choose Remove selected item locally. ...

What you can do these days with pure CSS is pretty astonishing. The page A Single Div by Lynn Fisher shows what can be packed into a single div. Everything’s there — from heads and candy to cartoon characters and lovely icons. Really an impressive bit of fun. Thank you Stefan The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

IBM provides a truly beautiful, Helvetica-like typeface with IBM Plex. The typeface is open source and may be downloaded and used freely. IBM hopes for the widest possible adoption of the typeface. Thanks Achim

Ghost Minitaur ‘Ghost Minitaur’ is a 4-legged robot that can traverse tough terrain, jump, climb stairs, open doors, and even climb fences. The company hopes it could be used as a platform for “developing commercial unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), advanced gait and locomotion research, and machine learning and training applications.” It’s crazy how far robotics has come, and the thing is apparently powered by a Raspberry Pi (see 0:45). ...