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Popcorn Time apps disabled; iPhone Duo jailbroken on launch day

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Two separate tech news items highlight recent developments in software and hardware. One discusses how abandoned Popcorn Time applications were disabled to prevent them from becoming a botnet, while the other reports on the jailbreaking of a newly released iPhone Duo running iOS 27.1 by a hacker team from California. AI

RANK_REASON The cluster contains two unrelated, low-impact tech news items that do not meet the criteria for other buckets.

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Popcorn Time apps disabled; iPhone Duo jailbroken on launch day

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming tor

    Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA's least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, bu…

    LINKS theverge.com/…/popcorn-time-piracy-botnet…
  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    iPhone Duo Jailbroken on Launch Day Just hours after being released, an iPhone Duo running iOS 27.1 has been jailbroken by hacker team Calif. Calif demonstrated

    iPhone Duo Jailbroken on Launch Day Just hours after being released, an iPhone Duo running iOS 27.1 has been jailbroken by hacker team Calif. Calif demonstrated the ‌iPhone Duo‌'s icons and widgets bouncing around, and added an anime character to the devi… https://www. macrumors.…

    LINKS macrumors.com/…/iphone-duo-jailbreak

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