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June Wan/ZDNET Android users have been sideloading apps for a very long time. What is sideloading? Essentially, it’s the ability to install third-party applications from outside the built-in app store (such as the Google Play Store). Unfortunately, this feature has caused problems because some of those third-party app stores can include apps with malicious code. […] More
Flipper Zero is still a menace to iPhone users. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET The Flipper Zero is an amazing device, especially considering the $169 price tag, but as amazing as it is, I’m blown away by the fact that it could to crash an iPhone. Several readers have contacted me wanting to know if the latest iOS […] More
Maria Diaz/ZDNET ChatGPT has become my go-to artificial intelligence tool, taking the spot of Google for searches and Siri for questions on my iPhone. Imagine my surprise yesterday when I went to ask for a better way to describe something and was met with an outage. OpenAI reported periodic outages yesterday in ChatGPT and the […] More
<!–> SOPA Images/Contributor/Getty Images The Australian government is launching an investigation into an hours-long outage involving local telco Optus, which left millions without access to telephone and broadband services. More than 10 million customers, including 400,000 businesses, were affected by the service disruption that also brought down payment systems and resulted in transport delays. Local […] More
<!–> Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images Bitwarden–>, the password manager company, has been busy this year getting ready for passkeys with its acquisition of passwordless.dev, creating new passkey development tools, and carrying out research into passkey adoption. And the company is now rolling out passkey management tools to all its users, including those on its free plan. Also: What are passkeys? Experience the […] More
<!–> koiguo/Getty Images WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, and users largely prefer it because, aside from being easy to use, it boasts strong privacy features. This summer, WhatsApp added a new privacy feature that lets users silence unknown callers. Now the messaging app has a new setting to hide your […] More
<!–> Image: Getty Images Google’s Play Store has been persistently threatened by malicious and insecure apps over the years, triggering alarm bells among many Android users. In response, the company is trying a new tactic to generate more trust with people looking for safe and reliable software. Also: The best antivirus software and apps right […] More
<!–> TU IS/Getty Images A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been identified as the cause of an online service outage that affected several public healthcare institutions in Singapore. And the attacks are continuing, according to national healthtech agency Synapxe, which is responsible for the IT operations that support the country’s public healthcare network. This network […] More
