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A fake WhatsApp clone is showing up before the real version on the Play Store

After a Chrome clone was spotted on the Play Store earlier this week, a user on Reddit says they’re seeing a fake version of WhatsApp in a “sponsored” slot above the real version. As reported earlier by Android Authority, the WhatsApp dupe has racked up over 500,000 downloads and, at the time of writing, its […]

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Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free

Meta’s new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites “associated” with the businesses that use its platforms – including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to “develop, improve, research,” and “train” […]

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This stretchy MagSafe storage pouch gives your phone a sizable trunk

There’s a new storage upgrade option for smartphones compatible with wireless chargers and other magnetic accessories, but it won’t help if you’ve run out of room for apps, pics, and videos. The MagSafe Flex Pouch looks like a magnetic wallet for pairing a small stack of credit cards to your phone, but its storage capacity […]

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iPhone Duo orders are already delayed into 2027

Delivery estimates for the iPhone Duo slipped into next year in less than an hour after Apple opened preorders for it at 8AM ET on Friday. At the time of writing we are seeing late January delivery dates for every configuration on Apple’s website. The foldable is slated to launch in stores on October 23rd, […]

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The Sony Xperia 10 VI won’t be getting a promised update to Android 17

When the midrange Sony Xperia 10 VI was announced over two years ago with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 chipset and Android 14, Sony promised three major OS updates which would have included this year’s Android 17 release. However, according to a notice posted to the company’s UK support site, the Xperia 10 VI […]

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The first vibe-coded gun is here

Since gun-rights activist and alt-right-friendly agitator Cody Wilson made the first 3D-printed firearm 13 years ago, he’s helped usher in a chaotic era of untraceable ghost guns. Now he’s claiming another first: “the first AI-made gun.” It’s called the WASP. I stood about 20 feet away as Wilson and his sidekick clamped the WASP to […]

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Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second

An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) voted to scrap the leap second, an ad hoc time adjustment that’s occasionally added so tracked time standards mirror the Earth’s real […]

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Israeli ad firm used online ads to spread Candiru spyware, report finds

Simply seeing an online ad was enough to infect devices at Al Jazeera with spyware, according to a Citizen Lab report published on Thursday. The University of Toronto researchers say it is the first public technical proof of so-called zero-click spyware arriving through ads, in which victims did not have to tap or click anything. The […]

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Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

Bluesky’s Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make “small” social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]

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Withings now charges $100 per year to sync your data to other apps

If you’re a new user of Withings’ fitness-tracking smartwatches or smart scales and want to sync and access your health data through third party apps like Apple Health or Google Health it’s now going to cost you. According to a discussion on Withings’ support forums spotted by MacRumors, new Withings accounts created from October 13th, […]

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