Month: August 2024
Apple to Require Identity Verification for Sending $500+ in Apple Cash Starting in October
Apple today began sending out emails to customers letting them know about upcoming changes that are being made to the Apple Cash Terms and Conditions.
iOS 18 and watchOS 11 introduce Tap to Cash, a feature that allows users to exchange Apple Cash in person by holding an iPhone or Apple Watch near another iPhone or Apple Watch. As part of this feature implementation, Apple is changing the identity verification rules surrounding Apple Cash.
Starting on October 4, Apple will require that iPhone and Apple Watch users verify their identity to send more than a total of $500 in peer-to-peer transfers, which includes sending Apple Cash via Messages and making Tap to Cash payments. Identity verification is required whether sending money from an Apple Cash balance or from a supported card in the Wallet app. Prior transactions will count toward the limit that will trigger identity verification.
Apple already requires identity verification for Apple Cash for those who use the feature frequently. Apple’s support document says that users cannot add or receive $500 or more in total without identity verification, so it sounds like verification will also be required when sending large amounts of money as of October.
Identify verification for Apple Cash involves taking photos of a driver’s license or ID card, as well as answering personal history questions and providing information like home address, date of birth, and social security number.
Identity verification for sending payments makes sense as Tap to Cash will allow money to be exchanged without being accompanied by personal information like phone number. Tap to Cash is designed for private in-person transactions where Apple Cash is exchanged.
Apple’s email to customers also says that it is adding the Vision Pro as a supported device for Apple Cash and that weekly peer-to-peer transfer limits will apply to transfers that are sent as well as received. Apple allows users to send or receive a maximum of $10,000 within a 7-day period.Tags: Apple Cash, Tap to CashThis article, “Apple to Require Identity Verification for Sending $500+ in Apple Cash Starting in October” first appeared on MacRumors.comDiscuss this article in our forums
Apple today began sending out emails to customers letting them know about upcoming changes that are being made to the Apple Cash Terms and Conditions.
iOS 18 and watchOS 11 introduce Tap to Cash, a feature that allows users to exchange Apple Cash in person by holding an iPhone or Apple Watch near another iPhone or Apple Watch. As part of this feature implementation, Apple is changing the identity verification rules surrounding Apple Cash.
Starting on October 4, Apple will require that iPhone and Apple Watch users verify their identity to send more than a total of $500 in peer-to-peer transfers, which includes sending Apple Cash via Messages and making Tap to Cash payments. Identity verification is required whether sending money from an Apple Cash balance or from a supported card in the Wallet app. Prior transactions will count toward the limit that will trigger identity verification.
Apple already requires identity verification for Apple Cash for those who use the feature frequently. Apple’s support document says that users cannot add or receive $500 or more in total without identity verification, so it sounds like verification will also be required when sending large amounts of money as of October.
Identify verification for Apple Cash involves taking photos of a driver’s license or ID card, as well as answering personal history questions and providing information like home address, date of birth, and social security number.
Identity verification for sending payments makes sense as Tap to Cash will allow money to be exchanged without being accompanied by personal information like phone number. Tap to Cash is designed for private in-person transactions where Apple Cash is exchanged.
Apple’s email to customers also says that it is adding the Vision Pro as a supported device for Apple Cash and that weekly peer-to-peer transfer limits will apply to transfers that are sent as well as received. Apple allows users to send or receive a maximum of $10,000 within a 7-day period.
This article, “Apple to Require Identity Verification for Sending $500+ in Apple Cash Starting in October” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people
Eastern Equine Encephalitis is very rare in the US, but when it strikes, it’s bad.
Enlarge / A mosquito collected to test for mosquito-borne diseases. (credit: Getty | Jon Cherry)
A small town in Massachusetts is urging residents to stay indoors in the evenings after the spread of a dangerous mosquito-spread virus reached “critical risk level.”
The virus causes Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), which kills between 30 and 50 percent of people who are stricken—who are often children under the age of 15 and the elderly. Around half who survive are left permanently disabled, and some die within a few years due to complications. There is no treatment for EEE. So far, one person in the town—an elderly resident of Oxford—has already become seriously ill with neuroinvasive EEE.
EEE virus is spread by mosquitoes in certain swampy areas of the country, particularly in Atlantic and Gulf Coast states and the Great Lakes region. Mosquitoes shuttle the virus between wild birds and animals, including horses and humans. In humans, the virus causes very few cases in the US each year—an average of 11, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But given the extreme risk of EEE, health officials take any spread seriously.
I Played the New Star Wars Outlaws Game at Gamescom video
The upcoming heist adventure game set in the era of the original Star Wars trilogy will be released August 30, 2024.
The upcoming heist adventure game set in the era of the original Star Wars trilogy will be released August 30, 2024.
INE Security Launches Initiatives to Invest in the Education of Aspiring Cybersecurity Professionals
Cary, North Carolina, 22nd August 2024, CyberNewsWire
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Cary, North Carolina, 22nd August 2024, CyberNewsWire
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Tactical Breach Wizards weaves engaging tactics with lively dialogue
An arcane combo of witty dialogue, turn-based tactics, and magical friendship.
Enlarge / The player has a lot of agency in this game to choose exactly how snappy their responses will be. (credit: Suspicious Developments)
Tom Francis and his Suspicious Developments team spent 6.5 years crafting the perfect finale to his defenestration trilogy, and it shows. If you liked blasting people out of windows in Gunpoint or Heat Signature—or snappy writing, endearing characters, wizards, turn-based tactical gameplay, and efficiency challenges—you are going to love Tactical Breach Wizards.
The game’s name is as efficient as its design, telling you a lot about its tone and distinct offerings. You play as a small team of magic wielders, each of which you can control, one at a time, in a world where magic use, mana, and all the rest have been militarized and corporatized. There are stasis hexes put on illegally parked cars and even a Traffic Warlock, who, after getting on his bad side, will try to mow you down with an entire ghost highway full of spectral drivers.
Tactical Breach Wizards launch trailer.
Luckily, bad guys like him can only hit you if you don’t plan accordingly. Owing to the powers of your teammate Zan, you can foresee everything that will happen within a round of combat (he’s a one-second clairvoyant). Move team member Jen to this square on the grid, have her chain-zap three guys, seal the door next to her, then see what that leaves Zan to do. Don’t like the outcome? Rewind repeatedly until you’ve gotten the most out of your team’s actions or maybe achieved one of the game’s optional achievements. You get “Confidence” for pulling off stunts like “knock three baddies out a window with one action,” but they’re entirely optional because Confidence only unlocks cool outfits, not powers or gameplay. The actual perks you unlock give you delicious choices to make, deciding which way to take each character’s powers to complement or offset one another.