Gemini Live, a conversational AI assistant that can be interrupted, have multi-turn conversations, and revisit conversations later, will become available for free to all Gemini mobile app users in English on Android.
A cybersecurity researcher is urging users to upgrade Adobe Acrobat Reader after a fix was released yesterday for a remote code execution zero-day with a public in-the-wild proof-of-concept exploit.
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is very secure, but not invulnerable. There are tricks and loopholes that hackers can exploit to take over an account.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2424573/watch-out-hackers-is-two-factor-login-insecure.html
Notification count in nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg seem to be inaccurate for the last couple of days, but it's otherwise running normally on desktop for me.
Apple will release macOS Sequoia on September 16, its earliest major desktop operating system launch ever, as the company leans heavily on AI features to drive a new wave of hardware upgrades.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/apple-to-release-ai-focused-macos-sequoia-on-september-16/
DuckDuckGo started as a browser and search engine that pledges to keep your search activity anonymous and not track you online, but the company has since expanded to offer a wider range of privacy-related services.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/duckduckgo-is-more-than-just-a-search-engine-now/
These are some Apple products you probably won’t be able to buy from the Apple Store as soon as tomorrow, September 9.
Distraction Control in Safari on iOS 18 lets you cut out pieces of a page you're not necessarily interested in, like images or menus.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-safari-distraction-control-feature/
Learn how to protect your Windows computer and important online services with face or finger recognition using passkeys.
One of the biggest changes Apple is finally bringing to iPhones with the release of iOS 18 is RCS support with Messages. RCS will make messaging between iPhones and Androids work better than ever.
https://9to5mac.com/what-is-rcs-ios-18s-long-awaited-fix-for-iphone-to-android-messaging/
Much like Arc browser, Zen is an effort to modernize the standard web browser user interface. And it's doing it on the basis of Mozilla's Firefox codebase.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/02/zen_firefox_fork_alpha/
As it turns out, you won't be able to uninstall Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature after all. 🤔
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-controversial-recall-feature-cant-be-uninstalled/
Enable XMP in your BIOS, a sort of overclock for your RAM modules that lets you achieve the speed and latency numbers advertised by your RAM kit. It's a one-click improvement to the performance of your PC.
The latest Apple OS betas introduce Apple Intelligence’s Clean Up feature to the Photos app. The AI-powered tool can remove intrusive elements from photos, smoothen blemishes, and pixelate people’s faces.
The equivalent feature on Android, called Magic Eraser, debuted in 2021.
https://www.androidauthority.com/ios-beta-clean-up-photos-3476238/
When it comes to the amount of RAM in iPhones, iPads, and Macs, there has been a disconnect over what users want (more) and what Apple thinks you need (less). Until now.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made history this month by officially releasing the first three quantum-resistant encryption standards set to shape the future of cryptography.
Since its inception, iPhone users have been unable to send or receive high quality photos and videos to or from other types of phones. With iOS 18, Apple has finally fixed this by adding RCS capabilities to the iMessage app.
https://www.slashgear.com/1654002/iphone-rcs-new-green-bubble-features-ios18/
OpenAI has revealed that ChatGPT has passed the 200 million weekly active users mark, and Apple is expected to help that number grow even further with iOS 18.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/08/29/chatgpt-200-million-weekly-users-ios-18/
