Many Apple Services Were Having Problems Tuesday Night, 29 September

Many Apple services were hit by outages. These including App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, iCloud, Photos and more, according to Apple’s system status page.

However, Apple’s status page says that 25 outages were resolved today. Here are some of the services that were affected.

1. App Store
2. Apple Arcade
3. Apple Books
4. Apple Music
5. Apple Music radio
6. Apple TV Plus
7. Find My
8. Game Center
9. iCloud Account & Sign In
10. iCloud Backup
11. iCloud Calendar
12. iCloud Contacts
13. iCloud Mail
14. iCloud Web Apps (iCloud.com)
15. iWork for iCloud
16. Photos
17. Radio

Apple isn’t the only company to experience services outages lately. Similarly, many Microsoft services were affected by outage on Monday.

In addition, for a majority of the affected services, Apple vaguely said that “some users were affected”. Though for AppleCare in iOS and Apple School Manager, Apple said “all users were affected.” Apple hasn’t replied to a request for comment.

Many Apple Services Were Having Problems

Related: China continues to tighten its grip over the Apple Services

Apple began contacting developers who offer RSS news reader apps. They inform that their apps will no longer be available in the China App Store. In other words, this is the latest move from China to crack down on the App Store and get tighter control over.

With the recent tension between the United States government and China over TikTok and WeChat, another report suggests that Chinese regulation over the China App Store could continue to get even more strict.

Before that in August, Apple complied with orders from the Chinese government and removed over 26,000 games from the App Store in a single day.

 

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Season 6 patch notes are live

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone Season 6 patch is out now. And features playlist updates, bug fixes, map changes, new operators, and more besides.

Infinity Ward has run through the patch – which weighs in at an impressive 20 GB – over on the game’s official site, highlighting just what’s going to be different for anyone booting up the game today.

Yesterday, we saw developer Infinity Ward offer up a pre-load of the massive patch to players on PS4. PC and Xbox users have to download the huge update today, though, if they want to get online and play.

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In terms of the big changes that have arrived in the game with the new Season, the subway system has been unlocked on the Warzone map, allowing you to fast travel and opening up new areas to engage in skirmishes with your fellow combatants.

Two new operators, Farah and Nikolai “bring the fight underground” and can be unlocked via Battle Pass, too.

CALL OF DUTY GENERAL FIXES:

  • C4: Slight delay when performing a quick detonation. A beep will now play when quick detonation is triggered. Also reduced throw initial velocity by 30%
  • Fix for a bug where, after reviving a teammate in Survival, there will be a 5 second delay before the user is able to use their weapon again
  • Fix for an issue where players could obtain unlimited Stopping Power rounds
  • Fix for an issue where the defending player had a long respawn timer after the HQ was taken back and all players were dead while in a Headquarters match
  • Fix for an issue where it was possible to put a molotov or grenade into a planted bomb causing it to kill the defusing player

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TikTok stays in app stores as U.S. judge temporarily blocks ban

A federal judge in Washington has granted TikTok’s motion for a preliminary injunction. Thereby preventing President Trump’s TikTok ban from taking effect September 27 as originally expected.

Judge Carl J. Nichols made the ruling on the evening of Sunday, September 27. Just hours before the popular TikTok app was set to be pulled from app stores by Apple and Google.

It means that for the time being at least, anyone who hasn’t yet downloaded the app will be able to do so. It also means that TikTok will be able to continue to push updates to the app.

The court will now assess whether the TikTok app is a risk to national security. It is the reason Trump gave when signing an executive order in August to ban the software unless an American company bought its U.S. operations.

Only the court’s ruling was made public, with the reasoning provided only to the government and TikTok. The ruling will, however, be made publicly available once both parties have submitted requests for any redactions.

TikTok stays in app stores as U.S. judge temporarily blocks ban

The original date of the app’s ban was set for September 20. But a tentative deal between TikTok and U.S. software giant Oracle announced on September 19. And it prompted Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to push the ban to September 27.

With the clock ticking and no further delay or removal of the proposed ban announced by the U.S. government. TikTok lawyers moved on Sunday to urge the judge to block the ban until the matter of TikTok’s future can be properly resolved.

TikTok lawyers argued that the proposed ban was “arbitrary and capricious”. And it could have an adverse on the security of data as it would prevent any required fixes from reaching the app via updates.

TikTok also claimed that the proposed ban would “prohibit core constitutionally protected speech: videos composed by millions of Americans containing a vast array of individual expression, ranging from art to political speech.”

But lawyers for the government said the ban was valid. Because TikTok’s connections to the Chinese government via its parent company ByteDance made it a national security issue.


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Vivo recently unveiled its latest V20 series of smartphones in the market. Yet again the company has come up with a new SE model to the latest series. The V20 SE is priced at MYR 1,199 (approx. Rs. 21,300) for the single 8GB + 128GB variant. The phone is now available for pre-orders in Malaysia.

Vivo is now planning to launch the V20 smartphone in India. Vivo hasn’t announced yet but sources say the smartphone will launch sometime in October. And then, V20 SE will now join its other siblings Vivo V20 and V20 Pro. It is the company’s third smartphone to its latest line up which comes with toned down specifications.

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The Vivo V20 comes in two colour options of Midnight Jazz and Sunset Melody. The new SE comes with a triple rear camera set up, 33W fast charging support and a waterdrop-style notch display. It has a triple camera setup at the back with a 64-megapixel primary sensor.

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More than that, V20 SE comes with a 6.44-inch full-HD AMOLED display with 1,080×2,400 pixels of resolution with a 20:9 aspect ratio. The smartphone runs on Funtouch OS 11 on top of Android 10. On the connectivity front, there is 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/ A-GPS, FM radio, and a USB Type-C port for charging. The smartphone measures 161.00 x 74.08 x 7.83mm and it weighs 171 grams.

Moreover, the phone brings a new 3D design on its back panel and it runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 processor. The Vivo V20 SE houses a 4,100mAh battery that supports 33W FlashCharge fast charging tech. However, Vivo hasn’t revealed anything else about the phone yet.

 

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Riot Games revealed latest Champion Roadmap for League of Legends

Riot Games has finally revealed its latest Champion Roadmap for League of Legends, sharing teasers of all the upcoming characters; including a “romantic” new jungler coming in Season 11.

With Yone, Lillia, Sett, and now Samira joining the League of Legends roster in 2020. Riot devs are already looking forward to the next batch of champions they plan on adding in the coming season.

Riot Games has already revealed major changes coming in Season 11, with a massive item overhaul expected to arrive in the preseason. And they have now revealed teasers for each of the champions expected to arrive before and during the next season.

League of Legends 11 Champion Roadmap

In Riot’s blog post on September 24, League of Legends dev Reav3 explained that, after Yone’s addition to the game, they were keen on introducing more characters as champions that may have already appeared or been mentioned in the lore of Runeterra.

Reav3 followed up hinting that one of the champions to be introduced would see yet another familiar character; explaining that they are “going to bring another character players have been longing for to the Rift next year.”

For this champion roadmap, Riot revealed that they still had a mid-lane Mage, who is expected to be confirmed as the mysterious character Seraphine, and a new Support champ, to add in 2020.

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Seraphine is expected to be the “mid-lane mage” that Riot has been teasing.

New League of Legends Support champion

The new support character has been described as a “heavily-armored runaway criminal;” in the champion roadmap, leaving any enemies and their gear “twisted and shattered.”

While this new champion’s playstyle is currently unknown, Riot hinted that they may have some mobile abilities in their kit. Adding that the “criminal’s been known to mount a quick retreat when cornered;” although we will have to wait to see how that will translate in-game.

This fugitive is currently scheduled to be final champion released in 2020; although champion release dates are always subject to change.

New League of Legends Jungler teased for Season 11

Following the addition of Lillia in the Spirit Blossom event, it looks like Riot has yet another jungle skirmisher in the works. And they are expected to be the first champion released in early 2021.

“You may just find yourself falling for our romantic new jungle skirmisher, who will be twisting hearts and possessing minds early next year.” Riot Games teased, before sharing an image of a ring that ties in with the new champ.

League of Legends fans will likely have to wait for more information about the 2021 Jungler. But Riot seems to have plenty of champions lined up to keep fans entertained until then.

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Riot also shared some concept art for the old champion’s rework, revealing a modern take on Mundo and giving fans a glimpse of what to expect from the VGU.

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