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Apple Patches A Signal Leak - DTNS 5254

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

And Korean scientists have developed a way to switch from 2D to 3D in the same display.


Starring Tom Merritt, Huyen Tue Dao and Bodie Grimm


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, April 23rd, 26.

0:08.0

We tell you what you need to know, give you some context, and help each other understand.

0:13.0

Today, Bodie Grimm tells us about the fastest EV charging battery yet and Apple Patches a leak in signal messages.

0:20.0

Oh my gosh, a leak. It wasn't really a leak in signal. It wasn't a leak in signal messages. Oh my gosh, a leak.

0:22.3

It wasn't really a leak in signal.

0:23.8

It wasn't a leak in encryption.

0:24.8

We'll explain if you haven't heard already.

0:26.4

I'm Tom Merritt.

0:27.3

I'm windwit now.

0:28.2

Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

0:32.4

So yeah, Apple pushed a software update on Wednesday for iOS and iPadOS that fixed a bug where, in Apple's patch notes words, notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device.

0:48.0

Now, think back all the way to April 9th, two weeks ago, when we told you about 404 media reporting on the FBI successfully

0:56.3

pulling notifications for signal messages out of the internal notification storage cache.

1:04.7

And according to 404, notifications in there could persist for up to 30 days after you deleted

1:10.3

them, after you

1:11.0

dismissed them. They should go away immediately, but they weren't. They were sticking around in cash.

1:16.6

So the recommendation at the time that we gave, and everybody was giving, was if this is a problem

1:21.6

for you, you want to set your signal notification to name only or no name or content. That might

1:27.1

be something to just keep in mind as a safety precaution anyway,

1:30.7

especially if you haven't pushed to this software update yet.

1:34.1

But basically what was going on was if you got a preview text of your signal message and notification.

1:40.2

In other words, you got the notification and the text of what was sent to you was in the notification.

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