It was a cheeky bid to grab a slice of the action in the home of pizza.
But US chain Domino’s has admitted failure in its attempt to conquer Italy and has said a hasty arrivederci.
After spending seven years trying to persuade Romans and Neapolitans that popular American pizza toppings – such as pineapple – were not a sacrilege, it has closed all its 29 Italian stores.
Domino’s, which has more than 1,100 UK outlets, arrived in Italy in 2015 hoping to cash in on the home delivery market.
The firm said it aimed to open 880 stores and would use ‘purely Italian’ traditional ingredients such as prosciutto, gorgonzola, grana padano and mozzarella.
But Italy’s notoriously perfectionist diners proved hard to please.
They turned their noses up when Domino’s offered US-inspired varieties such as the cheeseburger topping, the pepperoni passion and, worst of all, the pineapple-strewn Hawaiian.
The coronavirus pandemic also saw potential customers flock to local, often cheaper, restaurants for home-grown options.
Domino’s main market in Italy, according to the firm’s detractors, was just “drunk American tourists”.
The US fast food giant shut its stores across Italy after local franchise holder ePizza went bankrupt.
ePizza, which had debts of nearly £9million, has blamed the COVID pandemic lockdowns and a significant rise in the level of competition, particularly from more traditional Italian outlets, for the decision to shut its restaurants.
The firm said: “We attribute the issue to the significantly increased level of competition in the food delivery market with both organized chains and “mom and pop” restaurants delivering food.”
It was a cheeky bid to grab a slice of the action in the home of pizza. But US chain Domino’s has admitted failure in its attempt to conquer Italy and has said a hasty arrivederci. Credit: YALCIN SONAT/yalcinsonat – stock.adobe.com
Italian newspaper Il Messaggero offered a more withering assessment of Domino’s attempts to win over the country.
“Italians don’t like pineapple pizza”, it said, claiming Domino’s menu “would turn up the nose of traditional pizza lovers, while intriguing xenophiles”.
In Italy, pizza is such a way of life that the original, traditional Neapolitian has protected status and strict requirements, while the art of dough twirling in Naples has even achieved Unesco world heritage recognition.
One online commentator said bringing the US chain to Italy was like “trying to sell snow in the North Pole”.
Another wrote: “May we all have the insane confidence of the Domino’s executive who pitched opening in Italy.”
But some American takeaway giants remain unperturbed by the pizza chain’s fate.
Starbucks has opened 16 stores across Italy in the hope of tempting coffee traditionalists away from the country’s much-loved espresso bars.
Taking a look back at another week of news and headlines from Cupertino, this week’s Apple Loop includes Apple’s powerful iPhone 14 Pro decision, increased iPhone 14 orders, the second Mac Mini is delayed, important iOS changes, USB-C for AirPods Pro, Apple slows acquisitions, and Google challenges aim at iMessage.
Apple Loop is here to remind you of a few of the very many discussions that have happened around Apple over the last seven days (and you can read my weekly digest of Android news here on Forbes).
Will Apple Perform Some Sleight Of Hand Games Over iPhone 14 Chip?
March saw news leak that Apple would be restricting the new A16 chip for the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models, leaving the smaller and cheaper iPhone 14 and 14 Max models to last year’s A15. That would create a bit of a marketing quandary with no Apple Silicon annual update.
Industry insider LeaksApplePro has suggested a potential solution; we might see some sleight of hand over the branding, with the appearance of a tweaked A15 badged as the A16 chipset for the lower specced iPhones and an A16 Pro for the more expensive models. Forbes’ Gordon Kelly reports:
“Speaking to me [LeaksApplePro said] Apple is fixed on using the iPhone 13’s year-old A15 chipset in its standard iPhone 14 models… “The iPhone 14 has the A15 even though Apple will call it A16,” explains LeaksApplePro. “The 14 Pro has the real A16 [tipped to be called the ‘A16 Pro’]; there are a lot of differences.”
(Forbes).
iIhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini are seen inside ISpot store in … [+] Galeria Krakowska shopping mall in Krakow, Poland on May 30, 2022. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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More iPhones Heading Your Way
Nonetheless, Apple is hopeful for an upswing in iPhone sales, with production orders bumped up ahead of the September launch:
“A Taiwanese report says that Apple had told its suppliers to increase initial iPhone 14 production from 90M units to 95M, an increase of more than 5%. In response, lead iPhone assembler Foxconn is said to have substantially increased its recruitment bonus for iPhone workers .”
(United Daily News via 9to5Mac).
Mac Mini The Second
The M1 Mac Mini was launched alongside the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. Many wondered if the Mac Mini would follow the MacBook Pro with its own M1 Pro version – a scenario that has yet to happen. Indications are this model was planned but has been cancelled. Instead, the Mac Mini is going straight to the M2 Apple Silicon later this year, with a base M2 and a more powerful M2 Pro being prepared:
“Apple’s new M2 chip will power the updated Mac Mini, while the Pro version will include an as-yet unreleased M2 Pro chip with eight performance cores and four efficiency cores. This M2 Pro will, we assume, have significantly improved graphics over the M2 with extra GPU cores.”
(DigitalTrends).
How Much Battery Has Your New iPhone?
Another round of developer betas for iOS (and macOS) sees more tweaks and stability changes in the code. In addition, some UI changes will benefit consumers. It may have taken several beta versions to get there, but it will be there for the public launch of the iPhone 14:
“For the first time since the debut of Face ID iPhones, notched iPhone users can now view the battery percentage in the status bar — thanks to iOS 16 beta 5. Though, the feature seemingly doesn’t work on the iPhone XR, iPhone 11 , iPhone 12 Mini, and iPhone 13 Mini.”
(XDA Developers).
Who Is Listening About USB-C Charging
The tide of USB-C charging is turning, with European legislation and discussion in the US putting Apple’s lightning port on notice. One product that may soon join the move to the port are the AirPods Pro. While that may not happen with the AirPods Pro 2 when they launch, a USB-C-equipped charging case may be available in the future:
“Many people have been clamoring for Apple to switch to USB-C, but that apparently won’t happen with AirPods Pro 2. According to a recent tweet by TF International Securities analyst and leading Apple tipster Ming-Chi Kuo, AirPods Pro 2 May not ship with USB-C charging cases.However, even though AirPods Pro 2 could stick to Lightning, Kuo claims that Apple is planning to launch USB-C charging cases for all AirPods models next year.”
(ScreenRant).
Apple Slows Acquisitions
With the economy slowing down, Apple has also slowed down the rate it acquires companies and brings them into the mothership. Perhaps it has all the features it needs for the future, maybe the rapid expansion with Apple Silicon is slowing down, or maybe there’s nothing interesting that fits Apple’s future plans?
“Apple Inc., which used to acquire a company every three or four weeks, has dramatically slowed its dealmaking in the past two years, a sign the tech giant is being more choosy in the face of a shaky economy and heightened government scrutiny. The company spent just $33 million on payments connected to acquisitions in its last fiscal year and $169 million in the first nine months of the current year, according to regulatory filings. That’s down from $1.5 billion in fiscal 2020.”
(Bloombergs).
And Finally…
Google has been subtly pushing its agenda of bringing the RCS messaging standard across all smartphones and platforms. One of the biggest hold-outs in this look towards universality is Apple, whose iMessage proprietary methods remain at the forefront on the iPhone. Jon Porter looks at the reasons Apple may well be reluctant to adopt RCS:
“So, will Google’s new publicity campaign finally be the thing that pushes Apple to see the light and roll out RCS support on its phones? Given the huge incentives Apple has for not playing ball, I have to say the search giant’s chances don’t At this point, Apple adopting RCS feels about as likely as the US collectively ditching iMessage and moving to an encrypted cross-platform messaging service like WhatsApp or Signal.”
(TheVerge).
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Paul Hogan has been spotted out and about in LA, more than a year after complaining he barely leaves his beachfront mansion.
The 82-year-old Australian movie star was seen running errands in his neighbourhood, where he was photographed filling up his car at a local petrol station.
the Crocodile Dundee actor, who has lived in California since 2003, cut a casual figure during the rate outing, wearing double denim and sunglasses.
It comes after he courted controversy for a Sunrise interview in May last year, in which he revealed he was “homesick” and had barely left his $4.5 million home in Venice Beach amid the pandemic and a rise in homelessness and crime in the area.
The usually upbeat Aussie star appeared out of sorts during his interview with co-host David Koch, who noted that Hogan, a regular guest on the show, was the “most down” he’d ever seen him.
Hogan went on to claim he was unhappy in LA but refused to return to Australia while strict hotel quarantine was in place.
“The crime’s up. I don’t go anywhere. The minute I can come home without being locked in a hotel for two weeks, I’m back,” he said.
That same month, Hogan was seen penning a letter to the homeless that he reportedly put outside his property.
According to the Daily MailHogan’s note read: “THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS.”
Hogan later denied writing the message, despite being pictured writing it with a red marker.
Months later in November, Hogan told Today he was finally returning to his home country in time for Christmas.
“I’m surviving. I’m homeick, but I’ll be back for Christmas … Looking forward to the end of this stupid disease,” he said at the time.
Hogan, who is now back in LA, has previously said he enjoys the anonymity he gets in the US, which he said kept him in tinseltown despite feeling “like a kangaroo in a Russian zoo”.
“I’m unknown,” he said in 2019, after so many years of scrutiny in his home country.
“I can just put me sunglasses on or a cap or something and no-one recognizes me … And that’s a luxury.”
Hogan – affectionately dubbed ‘Hoges’ – shot to fame as the loveable larrikin on The Paul Hogan Show in the early 70s, before becoming a global superstar – and a one-man arm of Australia’s tourism industry – with the smash hit film Crocodile Dundee in 1986.
A rural fire brigade captain was driving through a forest in northern New South Wales when a flash of color caught his eye.
He was compelled to investigate and was thrilled to discover it was a vintage Bedford fire truck.
The 1960s vehicle had belonged to the remote Bellbrook Rural Fire Brigade, west of Kempsey on the Mid North Coast, and was used by what is believed to be Australia’s first all-Indigenous Rural Fire Service crew.
Bellbrook Brigade captain Adam Hall said it was an exciting find.
Bellbrook captain Adam Hall is thrilled to have the old truck back.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
“Captain of the Newee Creek Brigade in the Nambucca Shire was driving through the Tamban State Forest,” Mr Hall said.
“Through some trees he noticed a little flash of red and saw an old fire truck and as firefighters tend to do, he got a bit excited, and he went and had a look and as he got closer, he saw Bellbrook was emblazoned on the side.”
The Bellbrook Brigade launched a public fundraiser so it could purchase the vehicle from the collector who had acquired it- the truck has now been moved from that property back to Bellbrook, with big plans for its restoration.
Gerard “Chunk” Wade served on the old truck in the 1980s.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
Mr Hall said the truck was supplied to Bellbrook in the 1970s and became the primary truck used by an all-Indigenous branch based at the local Thungutti Aboriginal community in the early 1990s.
“We have a very rich history of Indigenous participation in the brigade here and the truck ended up as the truck that was used by the first all-Indigenous fire crew,” he said.
“We believe it was the first all-Indigenous fire crew in the country… so rebuilding it is very important for the community, for our Thungutti people here as well, and helping to bring some pride into our little village.”
Special memories of Indigenous crew
Ray Quinn remembers his dad serving in the original Indigenous crew.(Supplied: Bellbrook Rural Fire Brigade)
The truck held special memories for Bellbrook Rural Fire Brigade member Ray Quinlan. His late father Eric was part of the original Indigenous crew.
Eric Quinlan was part of the all-Indigenous brigade at Bellbrook.(Supplied: Adam Hall)
In the early 1990s, the truck was used at the local Bellbrook Aboriginal community.(Supplied: Adam Hall)
“It means a lot, my old man used to be out all the time in the fire brigade… I just used to always say, ‘I want to come’,” he said.
“I just want to keep following his footsteps.
“Looking at all the old photos of him back in the day in his fire brigade suit, it just makes me real proud of him and I want to make him proud of me.”
Bellbrook Brigade member Elwyn Toby also remembered seeing the truck in action at the Thungutti community.
“It was great to see our Indigenous leaders step up and have a go,” he said.
“It inspired me as a child, watching our uncles and aunties jump on the truck and become firefighters.”
A different era of firefighting
The truck at the Bellbrook centenary parade in 1992.(Supplied: Adam Hall)
Bellbrook Rural Fire Brigade deputy captain Gerard ‘Chunk’ Wade recalled serving on the truck in the 1980s.
“I remember standing in the back, and there’s not a lot of creature comforts of safety. You had a bar to hang on to and off you went into the fire,” he said.
“It was just a blast from the past just to see it come back to Bellbrook. It’s just a piece of history, I think that it’s just gold.”
Gerard Wade remembers heading into fire events standing on the back of the old truck.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
Big restoration plans
It’s expected to take a couple of years for the truck to be fully restored.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
Thanks to social media, there have been offers from around the country to help with the truck’s restoration.
“I expect it will take two to three years to get it somewhere near its former glory, at which point we hope to be able to go to schools and to shows and rusty iron rallies, that sort of thing and just show it off and put Bellbrook on the map,” Captain Hall said.
“We are only a very small, fairly isolated village here and it’s nice to be able to show the rest of the world who we are.”
Offers to help with the truck’s restoration have flowed in from around the country.(Supplied: Adam Hall)
The old Bellbrook sign on the side of the truck caught the eye of a local fire captain.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
Bringing community together
Bellbrook’s current truck now also has ties to the region’s Indigenous heritage, featuring an artwork created by Mr Toby, who works as a local cultural arts teacher.
Elwyn Toby (right) has created an Indigenous artwork for the current Bellbrook fire truck.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
“The artwork is recognized for our local Indigenous population in Bellbrook and the wider community,” he said.
“In the blue you have the fire truck, then water around the truck… the symbols in the yellow are people.
“It’s about coming together in the fires.”
It’s hoped the old and new trucks at Bellbrook will eventually be displayed side-by-side.(ABC Mid North Coast: Emma Siossian)
Amazon’s Echo Show 15 comes with a digital photo frame picture that enables it to display only photos or artwork, uninterrupted by random Alexa skill suggestions, recipes or your schedule. Only the 15.6-inch had that feature, though — until now. According to TheVergethe e-commerce giant has recently added its dedicated photo frame feature to all Echo Show Models in the US, the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Australia.
The Verge says you can activate the slideshow by saying the voice command: “Alexa, start Photo Frame.” Your smart display will then start a slideshow using the contents of your Amazon Photos and your Facebook account. It can also display a random selection of stock images if you’ve yet to upload your personal photos or have yet to link your accounts with the device. Don’t worry: You can choose which album the feature uses for the slideshow under device settings if there are certain images you’d rather not show everyone else in your home.
The photo frame mode hides all the other elements you usually see on an Echo Show display, including the weather. All you’ll see are the images themselves and a small note on when they were taken and which album they’re from. The said, the slideshow only lasts uninterrupted for three hours, after which you’ll have to activate it again to turn your device into a digital photo frame.
Former Top Gear star James May has been rushed to hospital after a death-defying stunt went horribly wrong.
The 59-year-old UK TV presenter was filming for his popular Amazon Prime Video series The Grand Tour when he crashed his car into a wall at 120km/h, suffering a broken rib, The Sun reports.
May and his co-hosts Jeremy Clarkson, 62, and Richard Hammond, 52, had been filming a dangerous drag-style race when the accident unfolded.
The challenge involved the stars individually steering speed rally cars through a tunnel towards a rock wall at a Norwegian naval base.
The tunnel’s lights only came on as the cars sped past, giving all three men just seconds to react as they ran out of time before hitting the wall.
May, who is ironically nicknamed ‘Captain Slow’ by his co-stars, hit the brakes too late and crashed into the wall.
He was helped out of his Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 8 by paramedics, before being taken to hospital for a brain scan and X-rays. He was reportedly given the all-clear a short time later.
May had to abandon filming while Clarkson and Hammond continued on their Arctic Circle trip without him.
May’s accident happened at the decommissioned Olavsvern naval base near the city of Tromso, as part of a new grand-tour special which will be released later this year.
A television source told The Sun, “It looked extremely worrying at first. Jeremy and Richard were concerned about their mate and the paramedics swooped in quickly.
“As ever on a shoot of this scale, medical staff are waiting in the wings in case — as they did here — things go horribly wrong.
“James smashed his head quite hard in the impact, and was bloodied by it. He was complaining about pain in his back and neck from him. He was only able to join them once given the all-clear a day or so later.”
The shock incident came after Hammond cheated death in a horror accident in 2006, when he was traveling at 460km/h in a jet-powered car while filming for the BBC’s hit show, topgear.
This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission
An ominous-looking storm was rolling in when Kristoffer Green and his family pulled up at an Ipswich medical center in queensland.
It was November 2015 and Green’s young daughter had a wasp bite he and his wife wanted a doctor to take a look at.
“We saw the dark clouds and we said, ‘Oh, we better watch that’,” the father-of-two, 31, told 9news.com.au.
Kristoffer Green was holding an umbrella when he was struck by lightning back in 2015. (9News)
Green thought nothing more than the storm until they were leaving the medical center in the pouring rain.
“I was helping my wife get my daughter in the backseat of the car and I was holding an umbrella,” Green said.
“The umbrella had a wooden handle, but the tip of my right index finger was resting on the metal pole in the center.”
Green said he remembers almost nothing of the moment the lightning bolt struck, hitting the metal top of his umbrella, traveling down its shaft and up his index finger into his arm.
“It was just like a blinding light and then I blacked out,” he said.
“My wife said I just simply collapsed.”
Thinking fast, Green’s wife raced into the medical center to get help from staff.
“When I woke up in the medical center my wife was crying over me and I was just completely shocked. I had no idea where I was or what had happened,” he said.
Medical center staff had hooked Green up to a monitor, which showed his heart was racing “a million miles an hour”, he said.
The young dad, who was 24 at the time, was taken by ambulance to Ipswich hospital for monitoring before being sent home the next day.
Every year, around five to ten Australians are killed by lightning strikes and 100 injuries are reported, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
Bolts of lightning during a storm in Sydney. (SMH/Nick Moir)
Green is one of the lucky majority to survive a lightning strike.
But the effects, both physical and psychological, would linger for him.
For days after the strike, Green said his right arm would not stop tingling.
Green went from liking storms and taking pleasure in watching the lightning dance across the sky, to having an extreme aversion to the weather phenomenon.
“If there was a storm, I would get stressed and have heart palpitations,” he said.
Green claims he even developed a sort of internal barometer of his own, which alerted him if a storm was approaching.
“For a few years after the strike, my right arm – where the lightning went through – would tingle and start to hurt before a storm was overhead.
“I sometimes even still do it. I’ll say to my wife, ‘There’s a storm coming, hun’ and sure enough, a few hours later, there’s a storm coming in.”
Smells of ‘burning flesh and hair’
Far North Queensland man Sol Daley was out on the front verandah watching a storm on his rural property in Innisfail in 2016 when he was hit by a lightning bolt.
“My partner at the time was in the front yard moving pot plants around,” he said.
“Funnily enough, I said to her, ‘Get out of there because there’s lightning about’.
“As she stepped on the verandah, ‘bang’, the lightning hit.”
Sol Daley was hit by lightning at his property in Innisfail, northern Queensland, in 2016. (Facebook)
Daley was sitting on an aluminum chair.
“It was like a big blue finger and it came across, went through my arm and came out my foot,” he said.
“All I remember was the incredible bang, the flash of light and it was like someone was trying to kick their way out of my chest and between my legs.
“There was a smell of burning flesh and burning hair.”
Daley spent a day at Innisfail Hospital before being sent home.
But it soon became apparent that his recovery would not be straightforward.
“The next day I woke up, and I felt sort of felt okay, but when I went to speak, I couldn’t. My words were all mixed up like I had a stroke,” he said.
Daley said his speech issues continued for about a month, along with other symptoms.
“I was getting scrambled thoughts and I used to get the shakes, I called it the electric boogaloo.”
Lightning does strike twice
Julie Martineau, from Iowa in the US, is living proof that the old idiom “lightning doesn’t strike twice” has no basis in fact.
The first time Martineau was hit was back in 1999 when she was living in a mobile home.
It was the evening, a storm had blown up and she was doing the laundry.
As Martineau put her hand on the clothes dryer door, a bolt of lightning missed a large tree overhanging her mobile home and shot down the wiring connected to the dryer.
The electric current entered Martineau’s right hand, traveled across her chest and exited through her left hand.
This photo of a lightning strike survivor shows the feathered markings left on his body by the electrical charge. (Massachusetts Medical Society)
“I remember everything,” she said.
“I remember the bolt striking, I remember the crackle of the bolt coming down and feeling like time stopped.
“I could hear my heart beating and counting the heartbeats and thinking ‘Holy crow, there’s something really wrong’ and trying to let go of the dryer and I couldn’t let go, the current was holding me in place.”
Martineau said for months after the lightning strike she suffered a range of debilitating health effects, some of which still plague her today.
“I had a lot of pain, mainly in my arms. There was some confusion, some irritability, some personality changes, but the big one was that I couldn’t sleep.”
Just over a year later, in October 2000, Martineau had moved from her mobile home after buying a house.
It was night-time and a storm was raging outside.
“I was asleep, lying in a waterbed and somehow a bolt came in through the second-storey window,” she said.
“My bed was maybe (a few meters) from the window and the bolt came in through the window and basically flashed over the bladder for the waterbed.
“It kind of flashed over that and caught me in the process, I was collateral damage.”
Rare flurry of snow dusts Western Australia
Martineau has since started up a Facebook support group for lightning strike survivors.
A Native American, Martineau said she sought answers during a traditional ceremony about her two painful lightning experiences and had found peace in the belief the spirits had chosen her.
How to keep safe in a storm
Every day, there are as many as 8 million lightning strikes globally, with around 44 strikes recorded per second at any one time.
In Australia, Darwin is the thunderstorm capital, with over 80 thunderstorm days per year.
So what can you do to keep safe during a storm? Here are some of the Bureau of Meteorology’s top tips:
Stay inside and shelter well clear of windows, doors and skylights
Don’t use a landline telephone during a thunderstorm
Avoid touching brick or concrete, or standing barefoot on concrete or tiled floors; and
Keep checking the Bureau’s website or app and listen to your local radio station for storm warnings and updates.
For Davey, it all comes down to taking care and using common sense.
“Don’t think you’re too good and that it’s not going to happen because it can happen in a heartbeat,” he said.
Every time you shut down your Mac, a pop-up appears: “Are you sure you want to shut down your computer now?” Nestled under the prompt is another option most of us likely to overlook: the choice to reopen the apps and windows you have open now when your machine is turned back on. Researchers have now found a way to exploit a vulnerability in this “saved state” feature—and it can be used to break the key layers of Apple’s security protections.
The vulnerability, which is susceptible to a process injection attack to break macOS security, could allow an attacker to read every file on a Mac or take control of the webcam, says Thijs Alkemade, a security researcher at Netherlands-based cybersecurity firm Computest who found the flaw. “It’s basically one vulnerability that could be applied to three different locations,” he says.
After deploying the initial attack against the saved state feature, Alkemade was able to move through other parts of the Apple ecosystem: first escaping the macOS sandbox, which is designed to limit successful hacks to one app, and then bypassing the System Integrity Protection (SIP ), a key defense designed to stop authorized code from accessing sensitive files on a Mac.
Alkemade—who is presenting the work at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas this week—first found the vulnerability in December 2020 and reported the issue to Apple through its bug bounty scheme. He was paid a “pretty nice” reward for the research, he says, although he refuses to detail how much. Since then Apple has issued two updates to fix the flaw, first in April 2021 and again in October 2021.
When asked about the flaw, Apple said it did not have any comment prior to Alkemade’s presentation. The company’s two public updates about the vulnerability are light on detail, but they say the issues could allow malicious apps to leak sensitive user information and escalate privileges for an attacker to move through a system.
Apple’s changes can also be seen in Xcode, the company’s development workspace for app creators, a blog post describing the attack from Alkemade says. The researcher says that while Apple fixed the issue for Macs running the Monterey operating system, which was released in October 2021, the previous versions of macOS are still vulnerable to the attack.
There are multiple steps to successfully launching the attack, but fundamentally they come back to the initial process injection vulnerability. Process injection attacks allow hackers to inject code into a device and run code in a way that’s different from what was originally intended.
The attacks are not uncommon. “It’s quite often possible to find the process injection vulnerability in a specific application,” Alkemade says. “But to have one that’s so universally applicable is a very rare find,” he says.
The vulnerability Alkemade found is in a “serialized” object in the saved state system, which saves the apps and windows you have open when you shut down a Mac. This saved state system can also run while a Mac is in use, in a process called App Nap.
Melbourne socialite and philanthropist Lillian Frank is being remembered for her contribution to the city’s life and culture, after her death aged 92.
Key points:
The Toorak hairdresser was a vibrant fixture of the city’s fashion scene
She also raised millions of dollars for charitable causes
Her daughter remembered her as “the most spectacular selfless human being”
Ms Frank’s daughter, Jackie Frank, announced the news on social media, saying her family had lost its “heart and soul” on Friday night.
“She lived life to the max, without any regrets and was forever grateful,” Ms Frank said.
“She used her flamboyant personality and social standing for good, raising millions and millions for charity.
“She had a very public life and I was often asked what’s it like growing up with Lillian Frank as your mum?
“My answer, to us she was mum, to my kids’ nani and the most spectacular selfless human being in the world with the biggest heart.”
Lillian Frank’s daughter says her mother lived life through “rose colored glasses” and always saw the good in people.(Instagram)
Lillian Frank was born in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), before her family fled during the Japanese invasion of World War II.
Her daughter wrote that despite the adversity she faced, “she saw the good in everyone and everything.”
Lillian Frank settled in Melbourne in the 1950s, establishing her Toorak hairdressing salon and becoming highly active in the city’s social scene.
She was the hair stylist for Jean Shrimpton when the English model famously wore a white mini-dress to the Melbourne races in 1965.
Lillian Frank styled the hair of Jean Shrimpton when the model broke with fashion conventions to wear a mini-dress to the Melbourne Spring Carnival in the 1960s.(fashion)
Ms Frank continued to sit as a judge for the Melbourne racing season’s fashion events for several years.
A philanthropist, Ms Frank was made a Member of the Order of Australia and a Member of the Order of the British Empire for her charity and community work.
‘A big loss to Melbourne’
Food critic and weekend ABC broadcaster Matt Preston recalled her “real lust for life” and adventure.
“[She was] such a feature of Melbourne when I started writing about food, she was a great person to sit with and eat with,” he said.
“It’s sad news and my thoughts go out to all the family and everyone who knew her.
“She’s a big loss to Melbourne.”
Fashion designer Alex Perry was among those to pay tribute on social media, writing the late philanthropist would be “shining down” forever.
Fellow designer Toni Maticevski remembered her as a “bloody amazing woman” who brought “sparkle and smiles to everyone”.
A south-east Queensland artist has been hunting for matchboxes — but the only fire she is interested in lighting is a creative spark.
Sharks leaping into a waterspout, penguins mingling with nuns and a space shuttle gliding over the Sydney Opera House show some of the stories inside Marlies Oakley’s mind.
The German-born Bundaberg woman creates miniature stories inside matchboxes using a cut and paste collage technique, then joins the boxes together to create large voyeuristic artworks.
Individual stories contained in the matchboxes symbolize disconnect and isolation.(ABC Wide Bay: Brad Marsellos)
“Every matchbox is different,” Ms Oakley said.
“They consist of a background, with a few other elements within the matchbox for a 3D format. All collage and hand cut.”
Ms Oakley began working with collage after her home and business were devastated by the 2013 Bundaberg floods.
Her early works involved cutting postage stamps to create large-scale portraits and the process helped calm her mind.
Ms Oakley’s early collage work involved portraits created from postage stamps.(Supplied: Marlies Oakley)
Working with matchboxes was triggered by a more recent stress — COVID-19 lockdowns.
“A couple of years ago, I got a big box of matches at the Tender Centre,” Ms Oakley said.
“I forgot about them, but then I opened them up during COVID lockdown and I thought, ‘Oh, what can I do with them?’ and I started to collage them.”
Each matchbox contains its own “weird” or “quirky” tiny tale and when linked they represent the common feelings of isolation and disconnection during lockdowns.
“They are all their own stories because during COVID we have all got sort of inside our own homes and cocoons and nobody went out,” she said.
Each matchbox has a background, with images pasted to form an individual story.(ABC Wide Bay: Brad Marsellos)
“We started to think inside our own box.
“I love them all, I just giggle when I see them.”
Matchboxes strike interest
The artworks have captured the attention of galleries, with Ms Oakley claiming several art prizes for her works including the prestigious Martin Hanson Memorial Art Award and ‘Highly Commended’ Lethbridge Gallery Small Art Award, two years in a row.
Her 2022 entry ‘Thinking Inside the Box (cubed)’ is 462 matchbox stories linked to form a cube.
The cube took Ms Oakley about a week to create, in a process she describes as a “memory game” where she surrounded herself with images she had cut.
Creating the stories is a mindful practice for Ms Oakley but it is cutting the small images from op-shop books and magazines that has been the most helpful in calming her mind.
Marlies Oakley with her cube telling 462 collage stories.(ABC Wide Bay: Brad Marsellos)
“For hours I’m just cutting things out,” Ms Oakley said.
“Even if I don’t glue in a day, every night, even in front of the telly, I’m cutting things out — it’s part of my life now.
“I had a holiday for three weeks and I didn’t do it and at the end I thought, ‘I need it, I miss it’. I go into my own little world and cut and glue.”
An expensive venture
Sourcing the matchboxes is one of the only downsides of Ms Oakley’s creations, with many shops no longer stocking them.
And they are not cheap.
“It’s quite expensive to find the old matchboxes,” Ms Oakley said.
“But I found a really good supply at a major hardware store — I don’t know if they use them for barbecues or whatever, but you can still find them.”
She removes the matches and places them into a large jar, which she may use in an artwork in the future.
Ms Oakley’s artwork ‘Thinking Inside the Box (cubed)’ is currently on display the Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery as part of the HERE + now 2022 exhibition, which runs until November 13.
