Apple removed 2,045 apps from the App Store in 2025 at the request of government authorities â in more than half of those cases, at the direction of Roskomnadzor. The figures come from Appleâs annual transparency report, which the independent Russian investigative outlet iStories was among the firstâŠ
Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day.
Ulf Kristersson aims to expand state-funded IVF as Sweden grapples with lowest fertility rate since records beganSwedenâs prime minister has promised to put IVF at the heart of his re-election campaign as he tries to win over female voters amid the countryâs record low birthrate.Ulf Kristerssonâs goâŠ
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South Africaâs Afrophobia reveals a troubling betrayal of pan-African solidarity. Historical injustices mirror todayâs xenophobic violence, reflecting deeper governance failures as the continent grapples with a migration crisis.
Hong Kongâs Cheung Chau Bun Festival had drawn more than 18,000 visitors by 5pm on Sunday, including tourists who had travelled specifically to watch the parade featuring âfloatingâ children dressed this year as Middle Eastern oil moguls and judges.
Visitors to the outlying island also splurged on fâŠ
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks. Here are how those modes work, what they do, and how to switch them on.
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Lots of our most-recommended headphones, power banks, and other gadgets are on sale for Memorial Day.
Apple is asking the Supreme Court to narrow the App Store injunction won by Epic Games and overturn the courtâs contempt ruling over external payment fees.
As Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with NATO foreign ministers in Sweden, the focus is on the U.S. moving to reduce its military footprint in Europe.
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Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers -- inâŠ
CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix...
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationâs Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice â or go straight to the RSS feed. In this weekâs roundupâŠ
This week, Apple released iOS 26.5, an update that supports end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services (RCS), meaning conversations between Android and iPhone will soon be encrypted in the default chat apps. This has been a long time coming, and is a welcome delivery on a promise both GooâŠ
After five teen girls were targeted by AI-generated child sexual abuse material, Radnor Township High School in Pennsylvania has become a case study in how schools and police around the country grapple with how to response to deepfake crimes involving children.
A group used Anthropicâs Mythos AI model to help find a kernel memory corruption vulnerability and exploit on Appleâs M5.
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Apple revealed that it blocked over $11 billion in fraudulent App Store transactions over the last six years, more than $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent App Store transactions in 2025 alone. [...]
Natural language commands and better image descriptions but Mac users and dictation fans may still be waiting
Ever since Apple introduced their video wallpapers I wanted to be able to put custom videos there. I decided to reverse engineer and see what I can do.I built Phosphene to sell it, but the existing competitors were polished enough that the time it would have taken to catch up wasn't going to pay offâŠ
The company blocked over 1.1 billion accounts and $2.2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions.
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Unlike Euphoria, the Apple TV show wants to humanize the experience of sex workers rather than catastrophize the extremes of the profession.
From R9,500 commercialisation conferences to millions of livestream views, school sport is increasingly being drawn into a professionalised, high-pressure economy. Coaches, psychologists and parents say its educational and developmental purpose is being displaced by performance and profit, while legâŠ
While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem...
Two new battery-related fires involving Volvo Cars' VOLCARb.ST EX30 has prompted Thailand's consumer watchdog to consider civil action, adding to pressure on the Swedish automaker as it grapples with a global recall of the electric SUV.
The SHub Reaper stealer, which hides behind fake WeChat and Miro installers, marks a shift from ClickFix social engineering to Apple script-based execution.
Epic says it expects regulators worldwide to reject Apple's App Store fees once a U.S. court forces the company to disclose its costs
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Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes
From Ebola outbreaks in Central Africa to the complex evacuation of passengers aboard a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) opened its annual assembly on Monday as countries grapple with disease outbreaks, deep funding cuts and growing geopolitical tension.
While also spoofing all the trusted domains - Apple, Microsoft, and Google - in the same attack
A new variant of the 'SHub' macOS infostealer uses AppleScript to show a fake security update message and installs a backdoor. [...]
For more than 200 years, scientists have struggled to pin down the exact strength of gravity â and one physicist spent a decade chasing the answer while keeping his own results hidden from himself. Stephan Schlamminger and his team at NIST painstakingly recreated a landmark French experiment designeâŠ
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri.
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Last year the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library introduced Apple ProRes video acceleration using shaders with the Vulkan API. Now FFmpeg has taken it a step further and can support Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-based video decoding...
The Register tests Dellâs first attempt at outplaying Appleâs AirPods
Soaring housing costs, climate shocks and conflicts are leaving millions without adequate shelter â but what can be done? As the 13th UN World Urban Forum opens on Sunday in Baku, Azerbaijan, participants will grapple with solutions to a deepening global housing crisis.
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Like AirDrop, minus the Apple lock-in
Around 60 governments that want to make progress on transitioning away from coal, oil and gas are meeting in Colombia to work out how they can do it an equitable way
The post Santa Marta: Ministers grapple with practicalities of fossil fuel phase-out appeared first on Climate Home News.
The recent âinternet addictionâ verdicts against Apple, Meta, and YouTube drew applause from those eager to see big tech take a hit. But look behind the headlines and the result is something else entirely. These cases wonât help children. They will fuel a litigation plague that raises costs, chills âŠ
Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.
In a town where history has been silenced, an eyewitness to murder speaks out in search of the boy she loved. The award-winning film Among Neighbors is now on Amazon & Apple TV.
The post The most awarded Jewish film of the year is now on Prime Video & Apple TV. appeared first on The Times of Israel.âŠ
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US President Donald Trump invested millions of dollars in Apple and Nvidia in the first quarter, according to financial disclosures released as he was wrapping up his first state visit to China since 2017.
According to a filing disclosed by the US Office of Government Ethics on Thursday, Trump increâŠ