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Here are some of the latest apps available at the Apple App Store for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.

The Stone Age adventure Fire: Ungh’s Quest from Daedalic Entertainment is now available for the iPad for US$3.99. It’s the tale of the clumsy Ungh, who falls asleep during the night watch and lets his tribe’s campfire go out. He’s then ordered to go on a quest for a new fire. With unusual tools like mammoths, monkeys, and coconuts, the exploration adventure relies on intuitive puzzles and a lot of tricky tasks.

Apple has bought an undeveloped 43-acre site in San Jose in a deal worth US$138 million, according to the Silicon Valley Business Journal (http://tinyurl.com/phylr7v). It could add as much as 2.8 million square feet of space to Apple’s inventory, the article says.

The deal comes on the heels of Apple’s lease of property from Ellis Partners in an already constructed building almost next door. The Cupertino-based company is the new tenant of the 290,000-square-foot building near the corner of Orchard Parkway and Charcott Avenue in North San Jose.

Two researchers have found that several known vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of all the top PC makers can also hit the firmware of Macs, claims Wired (http://tinyurl.com/nmkesyl).

What’s more, the article says that researchers have designed a proof-of-concept worm for the first time that would allow a firmware attack to spread automatically from MacBook to MacBook, without the need for them to be networked.