Collaborate Disseminate
UPDATE 6/4/2024: Google has changed its repair policy in response to the controversial clause that was brought to light. Google says it will not keep phones sent in for repair and that it’s changing the wording of its ToS agreement to reflect this. Her… Continue reading Google Can Keep Your Phone If You Send It In For Repair With Non-OEM Parts [UPDATE: Changing Policy]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Authority: Like many other phone makers, Google has a self-repair program for servicing your damaged or malfunctioning Pixel device. As its support site explains, there are options to get repair tools, m… Continue reading Google Can Keep Your Phone If You Send It In For Repair With Non-OEM Parts
A new tool called Lifeseeker could help search and rescue teams find missing people in minutes using their cellphones. The technology acts as a miniature cellphone tower, allowing rescuers to pinpoint cellphone locations within a 3-mile radius, signifi… Continue reading New Tech May Help Find Missing People In the Backcountry Within Minutes
The SEC has blocked third-party messaging apps and texts from employees’ work phones, “bringing its own practices closer to the standards it’s enforcing for the industry,” reports Bloomberg. From the report: The SEC’s decision to block disappearing-mes… Continue reading SEC Targets Its Own Staff’s Texting, Nixes WhatsApp On Work Phones
Jessica Lyons reports via The Register: The FCC appears to finally be stepping up efforts to secure decades-old flaws in American telephone networks that are allegedly being used by foreign governments and surveillance outfits to remotely spy on and mo… Continue reading Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks
A Linux Foundation subsidiary has developed a free and open-source 3D game engine distributed under the Apache license. And last week the Open 3D Foundation announced “a big step forward, showcasing the power of open-source technologies in giving gamer… Continue reading Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game ‘MadWorld’ Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary’s Game Engine
America’s Department of Homeland Security “is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones,” reports the U.S. news site NOTUS.
They call the purchasers “a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hund… Continue reading America’s DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements
“The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development,” argues Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and business school ethics professor, saying that since the early 2010s, “something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolesc… Continue reading Social Psychologist Urges ‘End the Phone-Based Childhood Now’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The average toddler is missing out on hearing more than 1,000 words spoken by an adult each day due to screen time, setting back their language skills, a first-of-its kind study has found. The rese… Continue reading Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds
According to the Washington Post (paywalled), the FBI is using mobile push notification data to unmask people suspected of serious crimes, such as pedophilia, terrorism, and murder. Gizmodo reports: The Post did a little digging into court records and … Continue reading The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators