Apple has reportedly caught some app vendors trying to circumvent customers’ anti-tracking settings via a tracking system called CAID. Apple blocked updates that implemented CAID. CAID is an system that allows participating app vendors to track users’ activity across apps, even if they declined permission to be tracked on their iPhones. It was introduced by…
SpaceX has launched 1,500 satellites for the Starlink Internet service so far and has operations in a dozen countries. The satellite Internet service has promised to outperform the previous (and spotty) attempts at implementing satellite Internet by other companies. This journey has been a very costly one. However, Starlink’s improved approach gives it a greater…
New Zealand is getting an enormous Internet upgrade, thanks to a cable installed under the sea. The capable is expected to double New Zealand’s Internet capacity by providing an additional 72 Terabits per second of bandwidth. That’s equivalent to streaming more than 4.5 million 4K videos simultaneously. The cable is made of multiple layers of…
For many people (especially people who are just learning how to use the Internet), the Internet may feel like an unsafe minefield that exploits people for their personal information. It kind of is. After spending years on the Internet and researching it thoroughly, you will eventually become accustomed to the threats and avoid them more…
900 Canadian customers experienced an Internet outage caused by beavers gnawing through a crucial fiber optic cable. The outage occurred in Tumbler Ridge, a municipality in British Columbia. The region, home to 2,000 people endured the outage for 36 hours. The determined rodents dug down alongside the creek, chewed through the 4.5″ conduit and then…
Does it seem as if nearly every time you install an app, it wants you to register with your email or phone number? To add to that, these apps usually want loads of other sensitive information that they don’t need. This is because of desperate data collection attempts, as your personal information is like gold…
Microsoft is launching the Xbox Cloud gaming service for iPhones, iPads, and PCs this week. They are doing so on an invite-only basis, for now. The service, formerly called xCloud is a cloud-based service that enables users to play games in the Xbox cloud instead of running it natively on your phone or PC. With…
ShapeShift has launched a decentralized exchange that will soon be able to natively trade BTC for ETH or LTC in a non-custodial, permissionless manner.
DuckDuckGo, Brave, and Vivaldi move to block Google’s FLoC tracking method, questioning its privacy benefits.
A password is something that you don’t want to lose. You also don’t want hackers to get access to it. How do you prevent a hacker from stealing your password? The answer is complicated, because there are multiple ways that a thief can steal your passwords, card numbers, keys, among other sensitive information. The clipboard…
The Session messenger has taken privacy beyond Signal’s level by providing anonymity and using a decentralized network of service nodes.
Facebook has tasked developers with the challenge of building their own operating system (OS). The company has been expanding its offerings and building experience outside of its original niche — social networking. One of which is VR — a budding industry that is likely to take off massively in the future as it provides highly…