The Wiretap is your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy, and surveillance news. To receive it in your inbox, subscribe here. Free VPN apps endanger children’s privacy, researchers say. Getty Virtual private networks, or VPNs, are used by Internet users around the world to encrypt their web traffic and hide their IP addresses. Often they … Read more
Published 12:33 June 4, 2024 GMT+1 An explorer has revealed whether his journey to see a ‘bizarre’ Google Maps structure was as ‘treacherous’ as he first predicted A YouTube explorer has revealed what it was like to travel to a geological feature ‘on Google Earth that no one has seen before’. While searching Google Maps, … Read more
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL; DR A leak has exposed six years of privacy and security issues at Google that were reported internally by employees. The reports range from an algorithm that stores license plate numbers to a Google voice service that collects voice data from an estimated thousand children. Google says the … Read more
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 & Watch 6 Classic get One UI 6.1. Janhoi McGregor If you currently own a Galaxy Watch 4 or Watch 5, keep it, as Samsung isn’t done rolling out the AI-infused One UI 6 just yet. The company announced earlier this week that it is expanding its Galaxy AI toolset … Read more
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GOOGLE is finally letting Android users edit their text messages after sending them. The new feature is part of a major upgrade that adds a long list of perks to your Android phone. You can now edit texts in Google MessagesCredit: Google Google unveiled the new advantages in a blog post, promising to “take your … Read more
MILLIONS of Google Chrome users have been urged to update the browser app after researchers discovered a dangerous high-level vulnerability. Google researchers have discovered a serious security riskCredit: Getty The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, is a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. The issue was reported on May 20 … Read more
Bing.com, Microsoft’s search engine, was hit by a major outage early on Thursday, with the problem apparently spreading to the brand’s application programming interface, meaning services like DuckDuckGo were also down. According to reports, the outage will also affect ChatGPT and Ecosia. Despite Google’s dominance in the world of web search, Bing’s API has numerous … Read more
Google Pixel 8a Andy Boxall / Digital trends I hated explaining which cheap Pixel 8 phone to buy when I reviewed the Google Pixel 8a. Ultimately, I decided to say the Pixel 8a is the cheap Pixel phone you should buy… except for the times when you shouldn’t. This confusing situation is all Google’s doing … Read more
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