Last Week's Tariff News Today! MOSK: 04.21.2025

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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4.8 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

- Apple Plugs Two Zero-Days with Range of OS Updates - Trump Walks Back Electronics Tariffs - Conversations with Cook May Have Eased Trump Tariffs - Trump Says Tariffs Being Shifted on Electronics, Not Exempted - Apple Analysts Relieved by Tariff Walk-Back - Earth Day Apple Watch Activity Challenge Set for Tuesday 22 April - Apple Offers Discount on New Accessories When Recycling Old Tech - Apple Marks 10 Years of Apple Watch with Global Close Your Rings Day - A look at last minute tax scams and how to avoid them PLUS the technological scapegoat in the Signal snafu on Checklist No. 419 - online at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken - Send me an email: [email protected] or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OS Ken.
0:08.9	Small but important OS updates.
0:11.6	Trump walks back Apple affecting tariffs.
0:14.3	And a big week for Apple Watch activity challenges.
0:18.3	Where have I been?
0:19.7	Where have you been? It is Monday the 21st of April
0:24.3	2025. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from macOS Ken. Brought to you by yours truly and supported
0:34.8	by people like you. Patrons through Patreon.
0:40.0	Find out more and add your support at patreon.com slash macOS can.
0:48.4	We will start with those OS updates I mentioned.
0:52.2	Last Wednesday, the 16th of April,
0:55.4	Mac Rumors was littered with tales of operating system updates from Apple.
1:00.7	Small bug-fixing updates they were said to be.
1:03.7	Among them were iOS and iPadOS 18.4.1,
1:08.7	MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1. TBOS 18.4.1, MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1, TVOS 18.4.1, and VisionOS 2.4.1.
1:18.6	The iOS update addressed a problem some have been talking about for a bit.
1:23.3	Remember how iOS 18.4 was borking wireless carplay across a range of autos?
1:30.0	Another piece from Mac Rumors says last week's 18.4.1 update fixes that issue.
1:36.6	That said, the real reason to download the iOS update is tied to security.
1:42.7	A piece from TechCrunch says 18.4.1 addresses two zero-day vulnerabilities believed to have been under active exploit.
1:52.3	For both issues, Apple Security Updates page says the company is aware of a report
1:57.6	that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against
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