2026-08-05 14:24:00

The world's first smartphone was available six years before the iPhone.https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/phones/travel-back-to-2001-and-the-dawn-of-the-camera-phone

2026-08-05 08:49:41

EFF began investigating the location-sharing practices of various advertising SDKs to better understand the pipeline from mobile apps to location data brokers. The probe revealed how such SDKs can facilitate and encourage location data sharing – without users’ knowledge or meaningful consent – through #privacy-invasive defaults, financial incentives, and unclear documentation. #adtech
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/mobile-ad-software-encourages-location-data-sharing-eff-report-finds

2026-08-03 17:53:46

A vision for #AI disruption in the app market:
- The entire economic logic of #iOS and #Android depends on apps. An agentic layer that dissolves those apps into tasks isn’t something either company wants to think about. The Chinese OEMs can blow up the app model because they had no stake in it. #China
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4203560/how-ai-in-china-is-killing-smartphone-apps.html

2026-07-29 10:24:00

Designers and eyewear companies are creating “anti-facial recognition” glasses in response to growing interest from customers who want to limit AI #camera biometric tracking and prevent facial recognition software from collecting their data. #privacy .https://petapixel.com/2026/07/23/these-anti-facial-recognition-glasses-block-surveillance-cameras/

2026-07-29 08:31:57

Google built one of the world’s largest companies by scraping the entire web without asking permission first. This week a court told Google it cannot stop others from scraping #Google. #copyright
https://thenextweb.com/news/google-serpapi-dmca-scraping-lawsuit-dismissed

2026-07-28 08:32:59

The research found that AI-generated content appeared in 40% of top health-related #TikTok videos, with most posted by a growing number of deepfake influencer accounts designed to resemble real doctors. #safety #cyber
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/27/misleading-ai-generated-doctors-public-safety-danger-tiktok

2026-07-27 17:52:39

SmartTV free streaming has a price:
--- The more you use your #TV with ACR enabled, the more it can figure out who you are. With a sizable catalog of viewing history, it can infer your age, gender, religious, political beliefs, and ethnicity. Even if you have a diverse palette of viewing tastes, your #identity can be figured out eventually.
https://www.pocket-lint.com/free-channels-arent-worth-it/

2026-07-24 09:06:00

The biggest difference comes when you look at what you “own” and what is “protected.” In other words, when you upload your work on these portals, you share your license to use these photos in a number of ways. #photography #copyright .https://www.thephoblographer.com/2026/07/23/does-any-social-media-platform-actually-protect-your-photos/

2026-07-24 08:36:26

A US judge approved a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and authors, ending the largest copyright class-action ever certified and granting the largest copyright settlement ever reached. #books #copyright
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/judge-approves-anthropics-1-5-billion-copyright-settlement-with-authors/

2026-07-23 08:29:34

A compact #ereader with 4.3 inch display proves there is a market for smaller mobile devices - are #phone vendors listening?
https://www.digitaltrends.com/tablets/xteinks-tiny-e-reader-finally-gets-the-upgrades-it-was-missing/

2026-07-22 12:42:00

For the rest of us who like to enjoy good food and wine while traveling in #Europe we have the ranking of top 7 cities for food, and the best wine regions as assessed in 2026. #travel #food #wine .https://klaava.com/the-best-cities-in-europe-for-enjoying-food-and-wine/

2026-07-22 08:45:28

For everyday internet users, the "So What?" of this #EU ruling is deeply reassuring. It validates that using a #VPN to encrypt your online traffic, hide your IP address, or bypass digital borders is a legitimate use of technology.
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpns-are-lawful-technical-tools-says-eu-court-in-landmark-anne-frank-copyright-ruling

2026-07-21 08:31:38

Updating #EV software over the air:
“Aside from data privacy concerns, the potential of a foreign actor sabotaging the controls of a moving vehicle is a possibility"
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/18/over-the-air-tech-in-vehicles-poses-cybersecurity-risks.html

2026-07-20 08:29:11

As traditional lithium-ion batteries push boundaries in size and scale, alternative #battery types could provide the same vital role in harnessing low-carbon energy.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/19/molten-salt-human-sweat-weird-batteries-store-renewable-energy

2026-07-17 12:44:49

For the rest of us who like to enjoy good food and wine while traveling in #Europe we have the ranking of top 7 cities for food, and the best wine regions as assessed in 2026. #travel #food #wine
https://klaava.com/the-best-cities-in-europe-for-enjoying-food-and-wine/

2026-07-03 08:30:43

"LLMs are not a path towards human level or human-like intelligence, or even animal-like intelligence, because they cannot deal with real world data, they just are not built for that,"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6gr0xkyr3o

2026-07-02 08:36:16

The UK Competition and Markets Authority argues that consumers and app owners are being let down by #Apple and #Google restrictions on spending money outside their app stores.
The regulator has described both tech companies as operating an “effective duopoly”.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/30/uk-apple-google-mobile-app-stores-developers-payment-cma

2026-06-30 08:32:24

Home broadband connection down? How to use a phone as a backup internet service provider for the home network.
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/how-to-use-old-android-phone-as-backup-internet-connection-for-home-router/

2026-06-29 08:24:24

Nearly one-third of Australian children still have social media accounts after ban.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/tech-firms-are-losing-the-public-social-media-age-bans-near-tipping-point

2026-06-26 19:26:11

A lot of people just don't know that they can get a device that isn't spying on them, that isn't constantly sending data back to Google or to Apple. And just the fact that these devices exist and work out of the box. #degoogled
https://itsfoss.com/brian-iode/