Apple has released an urgent fix for a iOS logging flaw (CVE-2026-28950) that could leave deleted notification data on iPhones and iPads. The vulnerability reportedly came under scrutiny after the FBI recovered Signal messages from an iPhone, raising concerns that system-level weaknesses can bypass app-level encryption assumptions. iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 address the retained data issue.
After an AWS outage, Elon Musk posted on X that it was “pretty weird” the disruption caused Signal to fail. He criticized Signal’s reliance on centralized cloud infrastructure and used the moment to promote X Chat. The incident has reignited debate over whether key communications services should depend on big cloud providers.
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