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Nothing Chats mobile app removed from Google Play Store because of huge privacy issues

11/24/202311/23/2023 Stephanie Beck

The developer has withdrawn its iMessage bridge application following discovery of widespread data concerns. The Nothing Chats iMessage compatible mobile app has been taken off the Google Play Store by Nothing and Sunbird because of widespread privacy concerns. The companies took the application down voluntarily, but only after the data usage behaviors were discovered. The mobile app was taken down after it was found out that Sunbird was logging and retaining user vCards, messages, and more. That said, that same user data was also downloadable by other parties. This led…

Quishing trends take off as smartphone users increasingly scammed by QR code scans

11/15/202311/14/2023 Stephanie Beck

A new report suggests that the number of attacks using quick response barcodes is up 587 percent. Quishing, that is, the practice of launching a cybersecurity attack by way of a QR code scan, is a trend that is rising much more rapidly than many smartphone users realize, placing them at risk of falling victim to one of these scams. According to a recent report, the rise in instances from August to September 2023 alone was a staggering 587 percent. Researchers from Check Point’s Harmony Email team observed thousands of…

Canadian government bans WeChat Chinese app from its devices

11/10/202311/09/2023 Stephanie Beck

Chinese app ban - Image of Canadian federal government building

The country officially announced that the application is banned on all government gadgets. Canada’s federal government has announced that it is banning the popular Chinese app WeChat from all its devices. WeChat, often nicknamed the “everything app”, is like a combination of many other popular applications. The Chinese app is somewhat like a combination of Facebook, WhatsApp, Amazon and Tinder, all in one place. That said, there are some substantial concerns about the application among Western governments. Mainly, this has to do with the potential for the application to be…

Apple Watch adds new wearable technology double tap gesture

11/01/202310/31/2023 Stephanie Beck

Wearable technology - Person using Apple Watch

The new gesture is meant to reduce a wearer’s dependence on using the phone to use the smartwatch. When the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 wearable technology devices were launched in September, one of the most interesting features they were designed to provide was not yet available. The newest Apple Watch models have now received the double tap gesture in the watchOS 10.1 update. The latest wearable technology update for the smartwatches provides a new way for wearers to interact with their devices without having to use the…

Rapper Pras blames artificial intelligence use for losing his case

10/27/202310/26/2023 Stephanie Beck

Prakazrel Michel of the Fugees says AI caused his lawyer to botch his closing arguments. Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, Fugees rapper, recently lost a multimillion-dollar conspiracy trial that moved through both entertainment and political environments, and now that it was lost, it is taking aim at artificial intelligence technology. The rapper claims that the closing was botched by the lawyer who had used an AI program. According to Michel, the trial attorney used an “experimental” generative artificial intelligence program. This was one of several errors the “unqualified, unprepared and ineffectual” trial…