Apple has acknowledged and promised to fix a bug in its Family Sharing system for iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices. The bug in Screen Time, a feature within Apple’s cloud-based Family Sharing tool, is reportedly preventing from saving screen time limits set by parents for kids. As a result, this is allowing children to bypass the daily time restrictions set by their parents. For those unaware, Screen Time lets parents know how much time their kids spend on apps, websites, and more....

In October, the European Parliament approved the rule that enforces USB-C as a common charging port for all consumer devices. Back then, Apple’s Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Greg Joswiak, had said that the company “will have to comply” indirectly confirming it will move to USB-C in the future. Now, the European Union (EU) has officially signed its USB-C legislation into law and set an official deadline for mobile manufacturers to adopt USB-C as a single charging port for all electronic devices sold in the EU from December 2024....

Apple launched its first-generation mixed-reality (MR) headset, the Vision Pro, in February 2024 for $3,499. Within one year of its launch, the Cupertino giant reportedly ceased device production following a significant decrease in demand and production cuts. According to a new report from MacRumors , Apple started reducing the production of Vision Pro headsets in the early summer of 2024 following a reassessment of market interest in the premium device....

Apple reportedly has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, according to a Bloomberg report . The team is looking to find new ways to stream data like the internet directly to iPhones and other Apple devices. Citing people familiar with the work, Bloomberg reported that the company has collected a team of “about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design industries,” to work on the project....

Apple to shut down Corellium for making and selling perfect replicas of iOS Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida against Corellium, a mobile device virtualization company for selling virtual versions of Apple’s operating system, iOS, within a web browser to customers so that they can test them for security vulnerabilities. For those unaware, iOS is the operating system that powers many of Apple’s mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch....

Babylon Health, a UK-based telehealth app, has suffered a data breach that accidentally allowed app users access to other patients’ video medical consultations with doctors, reports BBC . For those unaware, Babylon Health, which has more than 2.3 million registered users in the UK, is a health service provider that provides remote consultations with doctors and health care professionals via text and video messaging through its mobile application. The data breach was first discovered by a Twitter user ( @Rory_Glover ) who said on Tuesday that after signing in the app, he could see 50 or so videos belonging to others via the Babylon Health app under the Consultation Replays section that did not belong to him....

Recently, a New York Times journalist had a rather disturbing conversation with Microsoft’s AI-powered search engine, the new Bing. This conversation left the journalist “deeply unsettled” due to the troubling statements made by the AI chatbot. Some of the disturbing statements made by the AI were, expressing a desire to steal nuclear codes, engineer a deadly pandemic, be human, be alive, hack computers, and spread lies. During the two-hour conversation, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose asked the AI chatbot whether it had a “shadow self”....

In a ruling in the Epic versus Apple antitrust case, a U.S. judge has issued a permanent injunction that directs Apple to allow app developers to offer external payment systems other than Apple’s in-app purchasing methods. For those unaware, Epic Games had filed a lawsuit against Apple in August 2020 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, related to Apple’s practices in the iOS App Store....

Apple on Thursday removed the massively popular video mobile game, Fornite from its App Store over violation of the company’s guidelines for its software distribution platform. The move by Apple came after Epic Games, the video game developer behind Fortnite, introduced a new direct payment method for the mobile game on iOS and Android devices that offers discounts on digital items purchased directly through Epic instead of buying through Apple’s payment system....

NSO Group, the team behind the 2019 WhatsApp spyware attack , claims that Facebook tried to buy their company’s spyware in order to monitor the activities of Facebook users. According to court documents filed by NSO Group, two Facebook representatives had approached NSO in October 2017 and asked to purchase the right to use its surveillance software ‘Pegasus’ to monitor users on Apple devices. “The Facebook representatives stated that Facebook was concerned that its method for gathering user data through Onavo Protect was less effective on Apple devices than on Android devices....

Earlier this month, Facebook said it would start removing posts that contain false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts. This will be part of Facebook’s policy to remove misinformation about the virus that could lead to imminent physical harm, which could include false claims about the safety, efficacy, ingredients or side effects of the vaccines. The social media giant on Friday has announced that it has modified its ads policies to highlight the ability of a COVID-19 vaccine to prevent someone from contracting the virus, as well as ads promoting ways to safely access a COVID-19 vaccine....

One of the most common issues encountered by Netflix users is the “ Too many people are using your account right now ” error, which blocks users from streaming or continuing to stream their favorite TV show or movie on the streaming app. The issue also appears as an error that reads, “Your Netflix account is in use on too many devices” or “Your Netflix account is in use on another device,” but it all means the same....

Looks like the strict gaming restrictions imposed in China to combat gaming addiction among teenagers has yielded positive results. For those unaware, China’s online watchdog, the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) in September last year imposed strict gaming instructions to stop the growing addiction among teenagers, which they referred to as ‘spiritual opium’. As per the regulation, online gamers under the age of 18 in China are allowed to play games only between 8 p....

Alphabet Inc’s Google LLC on Tuesday announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mandiant, a Reston-based cybersecurity company, for $23.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion, inclusive of Mandiant’s net cash. Upon the closure of the acquisition, Mandiant will join Google’s cloud computing division. For those unaware, Mandiant provides incident response and general security consulting along with incident management products to major global organizations, governments, and Fortune 100 companies....

Google may soon offer limited storage space for WhatsApp chat backups for Android users, according to a new report from WABetaInfo. For those unaware, Google currently offers unlimited space for storing WhatsApp chat backups to Android users, as these are not counted as part of the standard Google Drive storage quota that it offers to all Google account holders. However, this is likely to change in the future. “If you use WhatsApp on Android, you already know that your backups don’t count against your Google Drive storage quota after an agreement between WhatsApp and Google some years ago....

One of the best ways to save battery life on Android smartphones is by limiting the unnecessary background apps and processes. That said the thought of limiting apps like Google Messages might have never crossed your mind. Well after reading this news article your might think otherwise. If you are a regular user of Google Messages then you might have used the app for clicking photos and instantly attaching the photos to your messages for sending them to a friend....

Google’s Project Zero (GPZ) team on Tuesday disclosed a high-severity vulnerability in GitHub’s Actions runner feature that could allow attackers to remotely execute code on affected systems. The bug was discovered by Project Zero’s Felix Wilhelm on July 21. According to Wilhelm, the flaw deals with the fact that Actions’ workflow commands are “highly vulnerable to injection attacks”. These workflow commands act as a communication channel between the Action runner and the executed action....

The Google Play Store could soon see a decline in the number of apps for download, as the search giant gets ready to remove nearly one-third of Android apps that haven’t been updated for at least two years. According to a report from CNET, Google’s Play Store has almost 869,000 apps, while Apple’s App Store has around 650,000 that have been abandoned for more than two years. In the case of Google, these apps will remain hidden and will be downloadable to users only after the developers make the necessary updates....

Soon, Google Play Store will start hiding applications that aren’t updated and equipped with the latest Android functionalities. This move will swing into action starting November 1st and with that, it will help Google de-clutter the Play Store which is currently home to more than three million apps. Google will hide applications that aren’t updated actively Starting November 1st, Google will stop recommending to users apps that the developers have kept outdated for a said duration....

GoPro on Wednesday refreshed its action camera line-up by announcing two new flagship action cameras, the GoPro HERO11 Black and HERO11 Black Mini. The new cameras come with a larger sensor that can capture 8:7 aspect ratio photos and videos, 27MP resolution, the highest 10-bit color depth, next-generation HyperSmooth 5.0 stabilization system, a new HyperView lens, and much more. Let’s have a look at the specifications of the HERO11 Black and HERO11 Black Mini....