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Owners of the newly released iPhone Duo are seeing the inner screen crack along the hinge, often with a white line of pixels. Apple is replacing many affected units, but carrier customers may face delays.
Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, requiring any ad altered or created with AI to display a label that matches the ad’s format.
A memory corruption bug in Google's Brotli decoder can crash software or let attackers run code in several runtimes and proxies. The Hacker News reports fixes exist; update and restart services.
Google’s updated privacy policy now says data from Gmail, Drive, and Photos may be used to help target ads when you enable Personal Intelligence, linking AI answers with ad personalization.
Malwarebytes reports consumers lost $470 million to text scams in 2024 and says AI voice cloning has made calls harder to trust. This briefing gives five practical steps to reduce risk on phones.
The Verge reports that Apple’s long‑rumored touchscreen MacBook may draw on features found in Lenovo’s Yoga 9n, a 16‑inch convertible with an RTX Spark processor and a magnetic stylus.
The Browser Company will retire Arc on Dec 22, 2026, and push users toward its new AI‑first browser Dia, with data migration and security at the core of the transition.
Canva introduced Canva Craft, an AI model that plans a design before creating it, delivering up to 2K images in many formats. Small businesses can use it now via Dream Lab.
Google has added a centralized Customize hub to Gemini, making it easy for small businesses to add skills, connect apps, and manage permissions from one place.
A campaign that targeted Fortinet and Palo Alto firewall and VPN appliances exposed more than 70,000 device and LDAP credentials, according to The Hacker News and a joint investigation by Group-IB and NyxLab.
Owners of Samsung Galaxy S24 and S25 devices say the new One UI 9 update is cutting battery life dramatically, with some needing to charge three to four times a day.
Cloudflare says it deployed web application firewall protections ahead of public disclosure for two php2shell flaws in PHP that can lead to remote code execution, data exposure, or denial of service.
