Urgent warning for all iPhone users after cyber attack on devices

By Nikki Main Science Reporter for Dailymail.Com 4:30 PM June 3, 2024, updated 6:23 PM June 3, 2024 Anyone with an iPhone or Android should turn their device on and off once a week, officials say — to protect them from hackers. The idea is to thwart ‘zero-click’ hacks, which download spyware onto users’ phones … Read more

Urgent warning for all iPhone and Android users after secret cyber attack hits millions of devices: here’s how to protect yourself

Android and iPhone users have been told to restart their phones once a week and turn off WiFi and Bluetooth to prevent cyber attacks.  Criminals can use zero-click exploits to infect a device and collect data without the user having to click a link or download a file.

Anyone with an iPhone or Android should turn their device on and off once a week, officials say — to protect them from hackers. The idea is to thwart ‘zero-click’ hacks, which download spyware onto users’ phones without them ever clicking a link. The National Security Agency (NSA) endorses the restart method, which temporarily deletes … Read more

Android’s new Instant Hotspot feature will not be available on Samsung devices

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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL; DR Android’s new Instant Hotspot feature will not be available on Samsung devices. Instant Hotspot is a new feature that makes it easy to connect your Android tablet or Chromebook to your phone’s hotspot with one tap. This capability already existed on Chrome OS in the form of instant … Read more

Researchers describe spin-boson systems to configure quantum devices

This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! A spin (blue ball with arrow) interacts with the surrounding bosons described by non-Gaussian states – a new computational method to accurately describe what happens in quantum devices. Credit: Jiří Minář × close to A spin (blue ball with arrow) … Read more

How Apple has been steadily dropping the ‘i’ from its devices for over a decade

From the first iMac in the 1990s to today, the “i” prefix has come to symbolize Apple, but Apple has been working to get rid of it since the original iPad in 2010. Steve Jobs launched the iPad in 2010: the last Apple device with an ‘i’ There’s still the iPhone and the iPad, of … Read more

Android 15 improves standby battery life on some devices by up to 3 hours

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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL; DR Google says they have accelerated the speed at which phones enter sleep mode in Android 15 by 50%. The result is that some devices have up to 3 hours longer standby power on the latest operating system. This improvement comes to all devices that receive the Android 15 … Read more

iOS 17.5 bug can also surface deleted photos on wiped, sold devices

A bug in iOS 17.5 apparently causes deleted photos to reappear, and the problem even seems to affect iPhones and iPads that have been wiped and sold to other people. A Reddit user swiped an iPad in September 2023 following Apple guidelines before selling it to a friend. That friend updated the ‌iPad‌ to iPadOS … Read more