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Apple to Support Encrypted RCS Messaging in Future Software Update
Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services ( RCS ) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates. "End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported si...
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Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interop...
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Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments A federal judge has ordered six US government agencies to immediately rehire employees fired this year by the Trump administration.…
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A federal judge has ordered the rehiring of probationary workers terminated by the Trump administration.
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It's a major setback for Elon's government destruction project.
AirPods are arguably Apple's most popular post-iPhone product, and it sounds like the company has plans to make them even more essential. Bloomberg reports that Apple is adding a live-translate feature to AirPods later this year as part of an upcoming software update. The feature sounds like it w...
Apple is planning to bring live translation to AirPods, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The feature, which will let users translate conversations in real time, will be “tied” to the forthcoming iOS 19, Gurman says. Apple is a little behind others in adding live translation to ...
Apple is working on feature that will let the AirPods translate in-person conversations from one language to another, reports Bloomberg . The functionality will be linked to iOS 19 , and it will be introduced in an AirPods software update planned for later this year. The AirPods will be able to p...
Save up to $900 on the Galaxy S25 family of phones when you trade in your old one or save $300 without trade-in.
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The compact palm-sized travel shaver is elegant and waterproof, and it feels like a river-washed stone. But it won’t shave the unkempt.
It's been a while since Konami teased Silent Hill f , a mainline game in the franchise that's set in 1960s rural Japan instead of the titular town. Now, the publisher has released a full trailer for the much-awaited game at an online event livestreamed on YouTube . Konami's Motoi Okamoto, who's i...
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A tiling window manager can be a thing of efficient beauty, but with them can come a steep learning curve. Regolith Linux aims to lesson that curve and ease the transition.
It would have been really easy to miss it, but Apple last year briefly mentioned a new PayPal feature coming to the Wallet app on the iPhone. In an October 2024 press release , celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Apple Pay, Apple announced that iPhone users in the U.S. would be able to see the...
The DJI Power 1000 portable power station is capable of 2200W output and dropped in price by 58%.
The company behind Roomba robovacs told investors earlier this week that revenue was substantially down and it’s struggling to pay its debts. Amazon was briefly tapped to acquire the robot company iRobot, but the threat of a European Commission investigation led to the retailer terminating the de...
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The head of Poland's space agency was fired over a bungled response to SpaceX debris falling over Polish territory. 
Kerry Washington is expanding her angel investment portfolio, serving as lead investor in the pre-seed round of the wedding marketplace Cheersy. Cheersy, which was founded in 2024 by Amy Shack Egan, helps couples find day-of service wedding coordinators and has raised a total of $550,000, from o...
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Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday users The maintainer of one of the most popular extensions to customize the GNOME desktop is stepping down and seeking someone to take over development after a fundraising effort backfired.…
Two human rights groups have filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in an attempt to quash the UK government's demand for Apple to allow backdoor access to its encrypted data (via Financial Times ). Earlier this year, the UK government invoked the Investigatory ...
The U.K. government’s secret order to Apple demanding it backdoor the end-to-end encrypted version of its iCloud storage service has now been challenged by two civil rights groups, Liberty and Privacy International, which filed complaints Thursday. They called the order “unacceptable and dispropo...
It's both a great and bad week for Apple. In this episode, we dive into Devindra's review of the excellent M4-equipped MacBook Air (and briefly chat about the new Mac Studio). We also discuss Apple's surprise announcement that it's delaying its smarter, AI-infused Siri, which may not arrive until...
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Before I go any further, a programming note: On Thursday, March 27 at 1 p.m. ET, my colleague Max Ufberg and I will host “The AI Tools We Love Right Now—and What’s Next,” an online event exclusively for Fast Company Premium subscribers. We’ll discuss the AI-assisted productivity products that are...
Ars chats with epidemiologist Tara Smith about the film's scientific accuracy and impact over 3 decades. 
It's March already and you haven't patched? Researchers are tracking a newly discovered ransomware group with suspected links to LockBit after a series of intrusions were reported starting in January.…
Climate change and bird flu are already driving up food prices. Trump's tariffs are about to make it even worse.
Nubeo’s limited edition Atari Asteroids watch respects the manic nature of high-stakes arcade gaming.
Pi is an irrational number, and like some irrational people it just goes on and on. What is it with this crazy, crucial number?
If optimizing your social media privacy settings feels important but overwhelming, a company called Block Party may be able to help. Founder and CEO Tracy Chou has long been known for advocating for diversity in the tech industry. And like many diversity advocates, and women and people of color ...
The program aims to help lesser-known writers have their books heard.
Other iPads are nicer and faster, but I end up using all of them the same way. 
Is work religion, or is religion work? Both.
President Trump’s family has been weighing an investment in Binance.US, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The investment would come just a couple of years after Binance’s U.S. arm pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulation. As part of that guilty plea, Binance’...
A new study lends credence to the radical idea that our universe sits within a black hole.
The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.
During its rumored summer Unpacked event, industry insiders say Samsung could announce a pair of open-ear earbuds.
Mooney M20 propeller plane hit mountain in Slovenia amid bad weather One of the initial backers of infamous torrenting site The Pirate Bay, Carl Lundström, has died after crashing his aircraft in bad weather.…
SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic partnership with others like OpenAI. On Friday, the tech company confirmed it would pay $676 million for factory previously used by Sharp to build LCD panel...
From the White House to the local police department , TikTok trends are now part of the cultural conversation—for better or worse. But don’t expect to see the latest dance craze in the West Virginia football team’s locker room. Asked whether he had a social media policy for his program, Mountaine...
The smartwatch market is down, and the Apple Watch plays a major role in that decline.
The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factory On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register 's Friday column in which we share your astounding tales of being asked to tackle tech support jobs that seemingly defy common sense.…
Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 new moons put the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The International Astronomical Union on Tuesday ratified the recent discovery of 128 p...
Shark makes some seriously powerful vacuums, from handheld vacs to steam mops. Don’t miss 10% off your next vacuum as you dive into spring cleaning.
Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year...
Rideshare companies said it isn’t happening. Lawmakers aren’t convinced India’s government has ordered an investigation into whether Uber and local ride-share champion charge Ola customers more if they use iPhones.…
Universal Studios just previewed tons of merch for its upcoming new theme park—and the monsters are a standout.
The team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency.
In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don’t Die movement – wants to start “foodome” sequencing. “We’re going to sequence the U.S. ‘foodome,’ which means test 20% of foods that constitute 80% of the...
T-Mobile is letting some legacy plan customers know that a price increase is coming, 9to5Google reports. Many Reddit users on r/tmobile said the carrier sent them text messages that their plans will raise by $5 per month per line starting on April 2nd. In an internal memo obtained by CNET, T-Mobi...
The AI industry is growing up fast. New model releases are now a regular event and premium AI features are quickly overtaken by free or freemium alternatives. Exhibit A: OpenAI unveiled its Deep Research tool, which can write reports on complex topics in minutes, as part of its $200-a-month Pro p...
Pouring sensitive info into unapproved, unaccountable, unsafe models would be a 'severe' cybersecurity fail House Democrats have sent letters to 24 federal agencies asking for assurances that Elon Musk's DOGE team is not feeding sensitive government data into "unapproved and unaccountable" AI sys...
Apple’s AirPods 4 are down to the lowest price ever on Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, where you can pick them up starting at $99.99. That’s about 22 percent off the $129 list price. These are the newest version of Apple’s base AirPods, launched in September with the iPhone 16. They support spati...
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Apple made a major misstep with the way that it handled the delay of Apple Intelligence features for Siri , Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today . Announcing the delay through a press statement was a bad decision, and Apple should instead have gone through official channels. Kuo referenced the w...
Sesame, the AI company behind the impressively realistic voice assistant Maya, has released the base AI model powering Maya, as it recently promised. The model, which is 1 billion parameters in size (“parameters” referring to individual components of the model), is under an Apache 2.0 license, me...
The full trailer dropped today for Apple's F1 movie. The film is getting an international theatrical release starting June 25, and will be in theaters and IMAX domestically beginning June 27. F1 has received extensive involvement from the Formula 1 world, so it'll be fascinating to see how well ...
Schools across the country are cutting back as US research takes "severe blow." 
And Ahsoka Tano too, but we all know it's Jar Jar's world and we're just living in it.
Meta is adding a new incentive to get people to create and share photos and videos on Facebook. The company announced today that creators in Facebook's Content Monetization program can now earn money off people viewing their Facebook Stories . Since you can already easily share photos and videos ...
While one company is in the pursuit of superintelligence, the other is not. What does this mean for their partnership?
Nintendo has set the date for its second US store to set up shop. Following the announcement last year, Nintendo's brick and mortar location in San Francisco will open its doors on May 15. The opening is happening almost exactly two decades after Nintendo launched its first US store, which is in ...
Showrunner Tony Gilroy teases the layers of Luthen's mysteries that will be uncovered when the Star Wars streaming series returns next month.
Rad Power Bikes has named a new CEO, just a few days after its previous leader stepped down. The e-bike company has tapped Kathi Lentzsch, who has spent the last few decades helping turn around underperforming companies in both the consumer and B2B spaces. The change comes as Rad Power continues ...
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. 
Flock Safety and one of its long-time VCs, Bedrock Capital, announced Thursday that the startup raised a fresh $275 million at a $7.5 billion valuation. Flock makes computer vision-enabled video surveillance technology used by law enforcement as well as businesses, property management companies, ...
Google announced on Thursday that Android phones will soon support Auracast, a new Bluetooth technology that uses a phone to enable a direct connection from hearing aids to audio broadcasts in noisy environments. With Auracast, compatible hearing aids and earbuds can receive direct audio streams,...
Indie browser maker asks judge for legal shield against copyright threats over AI summaries Brave has gone to court to head off potential legal action from News Corp over the browser maker's auto-generated AI summaries of articles published by Rupert Murdoch's media empire.…
While Lunar Trailblazer's mission is no longer possible, the space agency is assessing other options for the spacecraft.
This can-sized projector can cast a large image, and it comes with Google TV and Netflix.
If you’ve got a smartphone, you probably spend too much time on it — checking Instagram, watching silly TikTok videos, messaging on WhatsApp or doomscrolling on X. It can be hard to curb excessive use of smartphones and social media, which are addictive by design . Reducing your screen time is of...
"You lose it, and then what do you do? You don't give up. You go back in." 
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Microsoft has reinstated the 'Material Theme - Free' and 'Material Theme Icons - Free' extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace after finding that the obfuscated code they contained wasn't actually malicious. [...]
Opus, A24âs new horror-tinged thriller from writer / director Mark Anthony Green, has a lot to say about the symbiotic (and sometimes parasitic) relationship between entertainment journalists and celebrities. In the filmâs story about reporters tripping over themselves just to be close to an ...
Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to openly support Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to crack open Big Tech’s market power. The DMA designates six tech co...
Jeff and Annie Strain, the owners of publisher Prytania Media, are suing NetEase over claims of "defamation, unfair trade practices and interference with business relations," Polygon reports . The new lawsuit runs counter to the couple's previous claim that leaks shared with Kotaku led to them sh...
Google is rolling out a fix for Chromecast device issues that left many users with “untrusted device” errors that disabled casting. The issue, which appeared over the weekend, seemed to widely affect Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices. Google has not said what caused the error...
It'll take a few days, give or take your situation Google has told The Register it's beginning to roll out a fix for Chromecast devices that were bricked due to an expired security certificate authority. We're assured this deployment will take place over the next few days.…
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In the two weeks since the iPhone 16e launched, some early adopters of the device have experienced a Bluetooth audio issue. According to complaints from affected users across the Apple Support Community , Reddit , and X , audio being streamed from an iPhone 16e to a Bluetooth speaker periodically...
Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an update rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, you’ll be able to summarize information in Notepad by highlighting a chunk of text, right-clicking it, and selecting Summarize. Notepad will then generate a summary o...
Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes. [...]
The Emperor protects! Warhammer 40K fans, it appears you won't have to wait nearly as long for a new Space Marine game as you did for a sequel to the 2011 original. Games Workshop announced today that Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment are working on a new installment in the series. "Spec...
For no reason besides we felt like it, we revisited the incredible Jim Henson Company prequel series.
A new ransomware operator named 'Mora_001' is exploiting two Fortinet vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access to firewall appliances and deploy a custom ransomware strain dubbed SuperBlack. [...]
TikTok has until April to finalize a sale to a U.S.-based buyer, yet uncertainties about the future of the short-form video app remain. However, a new report has emerged, suggesting that Oracle is the leading candidate to serve as the cloud technology partner for managing TikTok in the U.S., acco...
Disco Elysium is a critically acclaimed RPG from 2019 that won many accolades for its smart storytelling and writing. Later this year, the game is getting reimagined exclusively for Android devices. This mobile version is slated for a summer 2025 launch. The new format looks akin to what you'd fi...
Google's Gemini AI product is now able to absorb a user's search history in order to provide more personalized information, Google announced today . The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model is able to connect to Google apps and services to tailor responses based on past searches. Google says that this...
America’s favorite low poly electric truck is facing a new set of problems that don’t have anything to do with people spray painting swastikas or crude comments about Elon Musk on them. Deliveries of the Tesla Cybertruck are on hold while the company addresses issues with reports that the trim is...
Why would I want Gemini to be more "personal," anyway?
This seemed inevitable. You can't have a personal assistant if they don't have access to everything you do.
The seventh season of Black Mirror is headed to Netflix on April 10, and based on its first trailer, happily returning to concepts and episodes that have come to define the series. You'll see plenty of the stars that were already announced to be in the new episodes in the trailer, like Paul Giam...
"Ten years ago this was embraced by everyone, and seen as a win-win for all." 
The Trump administration withdrew Weldon's nomination just minutes before a crucial Senate committee hearing.
When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black t-shirt was emblazoned with black text stretching across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a t-shirt that the billionaire founder wore at an...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown will be released on May 22 for PC via Steam . As the name indicates, this is a turn-based strategy RPG. It also happens to be the first turn-based game in franchise history . It’s being developed by Strange Scaffold, who made the fantastic El Paso, ...
OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT chatbot, today submitted AI recommendations to the Trump administration, calling for deregulation and policies that give AI companies free rein to train models on copyrighted material in order to compete with China on AI development. AI companies cannot freely innova...
Google, following on the heels of OpenAI, published a policy proposal in response to the Trump Administration’s call for a national “AI Action Plan.” The tech giant endorsed weak copyright restrictions on AI training, as well as “balanced” export controls that “protect national security while ena...
Amazon won't say if it will stop hosting data from three phone surveillance operations that spilled private data on millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. 
Microsoft just announced the pending availability of Copilot for Gaming , an AI-powered assistant that’s being advertised as a novel way to help players get better at their favorite titles. The company says it will accompany people through games, offering tips, guides and useful information along...
On Tuesday morning, some PC gamers woke up to discover their computers were seemingly under threat. A âHackToolâ called WinRing0 had suddenly started triggering a Windows Defender alert, as if their PCs were under attack. Some of those computers even began behaving oddly âââ like blasti...
The billionaire has previously suggested the NSA needs more straight white men.
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
NBC will continue airing the Olympics in the US for the foreseeable future. Its parent company, Comcast, just announced a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that will keep the games on NBC’s platforms, including Peacock, through 2036. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, NBC’s pre...
Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation stars Tom Hiddleston and hits theaters this summer.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday it's creating a new Council for National Security within the agency. The FCC's announcement doesn't go into much detail about what the group will do, but a list of its broader goals focuses on US competition with China, including in AI ...
The prosecutor's office said it raided 21 addresses in Belgium, according to local media.
Just keep your Chromecast plugged in, and it should come back to life. 
Rumman Chowdhury, a data scientist, nonprofit founder, and former director of Twitter’s machine ethics team, had strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during an SXSW panel on Thursday. “When your funding is frozen and you don’t know if you’re gonna be fired...
The do-everything fitness wearable finally gets the one feature it’s been missing.
Flatiron Books, the publisher of a new book by an ex-Meta staffer alleging misconduct and harassment at the company, says in a statement that a recent arbitration order demanding that the book no longer be published has “no impact” on Macmillan. The ruling instructs Sarah Wynn-Williams, the autho...
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