Is the Windows and Android ‘acropalypse’ coming to your iPhone and Mac?

While we don’t usually pay attention to security issues on Android and Windows devices, one caught our eye this week. Dubbed “acropalypse,” it affects photos and screenshots that have been cropped using built-in software in Pixel phones and Windows 11 PCs. As discovered by programmer Simon Aarons, the bug is a weird one. While looking at photos cropped by the Markup tool exclusive to Pixel phones, Aarons found that the information that was supposedly cropped out wasn’t actually deleted

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