The list is topped by Facebook, followed by Instagram, Tinder, and others – sucking more personal data than usual to learn better about their users. The report is also surprising with many household apps known to take less data for their operations. Facebook is a Data Hungry App Data collection is a regulated practice, often scrutinized by various laws and experts. Yet, companies are caught collecting unnecessary data and face hefty penalties....

Flaws in the cache system? The research team claims to be notifying AMD about three vulnerabilities back in August 2019, but the maker didn’t address them yet. The new potential attacks will be targeting a feature called L1D cache way predictor, a CPU performance related function that deals with how the cached data is processed within memory. This was present in all those AMD chips, which has Bulldozer microarchitecture and produced from 2011....

The first version of the Android 12 Beta is available for a range of smartphones and has tons of new features and design changes. All can be learned here; Android 12 Beta 1 Records and Features While Google is gearing up to launch the second version of Android 12 Beta, the first version has hit an important milestone already. This is to become the most downloaded/installed Beta version in the history of Android – as revealed by Dave Burke, vice president of Android projects....

Android Worm Infecting WhatsApp Since WhatsApp is the largest instant messenger today, it’s no wonder that most of the threat actors are preying on it. A new WhatsApp worm was discovered by a security researcher named Lukas Stefanko, who demonstrated it, showing the infection and its code pulled from reverse engineering. The campaign starts with a message being received from a known contact or an unknown number. The message reads as “Download this application and Win a Lovely Phone” with a URL to the said application....

This includes Apple too, as confirmed by the company’s global marketing head today. Apple has already released the latest iPad with a USB-C port, and analysts say that the next iPhone series will come with a USB-C port as well. iPhones With USB-C Port We all knew this would come one day when Apple would be forced to use the USB-C port for its devices – pertaining to the formulating law by European Union....

While the Arizona plant is still under construction, Apple is trying hard to source materials from non-China-based entities as much as possible, so it can be more flexible and less dependent on rival nations of the US. Sourcing Chips For Apple Products The semiconductor sector is one of the many industries that grew rapidly in demand during the pandemic. This led several governments to pump money into developing their own plants while also encouraging the existing entities to increase their capacity....

Hyundai May Manufacture Apple’s Electric Cars A Korean local media has initially reported that Apple has approached Hyundai to make its electric cars in the future. This news has pushed Hyundai’s share price in the local exchange to go up by up to 25%, which added $9 billion to its market cap and $2 billion to the royal Hyundai family. While Apple didn’t make any comment on this news yet, Hyundai has shared that it’s in initial talks with Apple, and later revised the statement saying it’s been approached by multiple companies for making their electric cars, and didn’t specifically mention Apple in it....

Apple Unplugs Fortnite Creator Account Just a week ago, Epic warned all iOS and macOS users that, soon they would not be able to update Fortnite game after 28th August. John Voorhees, the Managing Editor of MacStories, shared this news on Twitter. He also said that App Store is highing PUBG, the Competitor of Fortnite. Also, this fight has gotten very petty. Today’s featured app? PUBG https://t.co/evp2R6qRxC pic.twitter.com/2vyRj6Oy1U — John Voorhees (@johnvoorhees) August 28, 2020 Earlier, this month, Apple and Epics legal fight started....

Removal of Unlicensed Gaming Apps? Tech firms as Huawei are spoiling amidst the cold war between China and the US. Thus, every corp that’s trying to survive has to soothe the regulators by obeying all their demands. Apple’s doing the same by barring unlicensed gaming app developers in China to house their apps in China’s iOS store. This move would drop at least one-third of nearly 60,000 apps next month if not complied....

The overall winner of this report is handed to AT&T, as it topped in most cases. This was followed by Verizon and T-Mobile. Analytics are calculated in various means like accessibility, speed, data, call, text, etc. Here’s more in detail; Best Telecom in H2 2021 The report from RootMetrics is collected from all the 50 states across the US, in over 125 of the nation’s most populated metropolitan areas. Using the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, RootMetrics has conducted over 3 million tests daily and night while walking and driving modes to produce the State of the Mobile Union report....

Though Apple said it’s preparing to appeal this decision, the company may most likely lose this battle as in the past. Earlier, Apple’s environmental reasons for not including a power adapter with iPhones were quashed by the Brazilian ministry, and they were forced to follow their rules. Penalizing Apple in Brazil Since 2020, Apple has started selling iPhones without power adapters (charging bricks) – citing environmental reasons! The company has long been advocating that it could save hundreds of thousands of tons of copper, zinc, and other materials by not shipping charges with all the iPhones....

Starting with a few, this feature will be available to both Android and iOS gradually. Although, the platform clarified it won’t be a true black background, a velvety one instead. This is to help the night birds not to strain much and also to save the battery a bit. Dark Mode in Clubhouse Just a couple of years ago, a new social platform called Clubhouse had made rounds in the tech community with a popular offering – audio-only chat rooms....

Coil Leaks Users Email Addresses The Coil is a micro-payments platform supported by Ripple and is more like Flatter. It rewards content creators for drawing traffic and adds a source of income to them. The company has updated its “Privacy Policy” yesterday, which was notified to users through bulk email, which had a “human error,” causing the CEO to apologize soon. It’s seen that the bulk email notifications regarding the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy update sent to users have included the email addresses of others in the CC section....

Hitting the Crypto Investors Hard The cryptocurrency market has flourished so well earlier this year, only to wash off all those gains in a span of two weeks now. From Bitcoin to Dogecoin, all the cryptocurrencies have seen all-time high prices until April and are now hitting the ground very hard, resulting in the washing of investor money. According to reports, cryptocurrency investors have lost over $830 billion this week due to a couple of negative announcements....

After a controversial interview last night where West praised Hitler, he posted pictures of Swastika and the Star of David on Twitter. All these contributed to ditching from the platform – which Musk later confirmed as they were against the platform’s policies. Kanye West Booted From Twitter As if Musk isn’t enough to make Twitter controversial, the famous rapper Kanye West joins the list with his anti-semitic posts. Yesterday, West, in an interview, praised Adolf Hitler multiple times and why he liked him....

Thereby, the telecom operators will now be let to set up their 5G towers in the areas of airports, but not close that they interfere with the aircraft safety mechanisms. This agreement is the result of good collaboration and communication from telecom companies, says FAA. 5G around Airports in the US The Federal Aviation Administration, along with a dozen aircraft services have long been pushing the setup of 5G towers around airport areas, due to unwanted interception of communications with critical aircraft mechanisms....

Facebook and Esri Provide New and Free Geographic Database Google Maps have been an extensive resource for geographical data. Though it’s productive, privacy activists call against it since it needs a Google account, allowing the maker to lodge your interests. Besides Google, there are other maps similar to it which also provide the same datasets, but restrict users for certain uses. Since users are demanded commercial licenses for using geographical data, OpenStreetMap, a non-profit organization from the UK started pooling data from the public and supplying it to the world for free....

Facebook officials repeatedly deny claims of Whatsapp being hacked and are pinning the blame on Apple’s servers. Facebook, which acquired Whatsapp a couple of years back, is maintaining a stand on this issue, asking Apple Inc to look into bugs and malware in their handsets. Nick Clegg, who heads the Communications Department at Facebook, asked Apple officials for a sit-down and working in tandem to find the solution to this problem....

An app developer spotted the code for the Facebook smartwatch in the app, where the strings hinted about a new device called Milan. Also, the leaked images of this smartwatch reveal the rounded body design with detachable straps and a front camera in a notched display. Facebook Smartwatch Fresh Leaks Facebook, which just rebranded as Meta yesterday, is now a new company. The Zukerberg owned internet company now has a new goal, aside from managing social platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook....

Firefox 90 Brings Smooth Logins with Facebook The new SmartBlock feature protects the site from cross-site tracking and makes sure that the site logins are working. Apart from this, it brings improvements to the individual exceptions to HTTPS-only mode, a third-party page that identifies compatibility issues raised by the third-party apps. On desktop, Firefox 90 brings the ability to save, manage, and auto-fill credit card information. This feature was available on Chrome and Safari for many years....