Author: Zach_Wilson
The Fairphone 4 comes to the US – but it’s not running the Android you know
The Fairphone 4 is going on sale in the US, Fairphone announced, but it won’t be running the same Google Play-enabled Android like you’ll find on the best Android phones. It’ll be powered by /e/OS, a secure mobile operating system based on Android but without any Google software, developed by…
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Billionaire brawl: all the latest on the cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
Elon Musk thinks his fight with Mark Zuckerberg “might actually happen.” In a Twitter Spaces session with Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance, at the 6:20 mark of the recording, Musk, who was at a friend’s birthday party, was asked about his proposed cage match with Zuckerberg (via Insider). Here’s an abridged…
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A 4G ‘smartphone’ for the price of a McDonald’s Big Mac meal? An Indian company just launched it
One of Asia’s biggest telecom companies has released a new mobile phone that aims to convince hundreds of millions of consumers in India to make the jump from 2G to 4G. Jio Bharat costs a mere 999 Indian Rupees (about £10, US$12, AU$18) making it by far the cheapest 4G…
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This new Android malware is draining bank accounts across the world – here’s what you need to know
A new malware campaign on Android has been discovered stealing people’s personally identifiable information (PII) and banking data, and in some cases, even stealing money from their bank accounts. As per a report by security expert Pol Thill, a threat actor known as Neo_Net has been targeting bank users worldwide…
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Ubisoft sees ‘major reduction’ in Rainbow Six Siege cheaters thanks to XIM detection
Ubisoft’s MouseTrap system for detecting cheaters in Rainbow Six Siege is already seeing results. Cheaters use devices like XIM to spoof controller inputs, and MouseTrap has now caused a “major reduction” of more than 70 percent in the amount of mouse and keyboard users on consoles. The team behind MouseTrap…
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Google confirms it’s training Bard on scraped web data, too
On Monday, Gizmodo spotted that the search giant updated its privacy policy to disclose that its various AI services, such as Bard and Cloud AI, may be trained on public data that the company has scraped from the web. “Our privacy policy has long been transparent that Google uses publicly…
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