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Cyber Safety Force wants to change conversation around risk

A group of like-minded cyber professionals who want to change how businesses think about threat defence and risk management have banded together to launch a new platform, the Cyber Safety Force (CSF), with the aim of moving the conversation from cyber security to cyber safety. Spearheaded by Performanta founder Guy Golan, 2020 Partners founder Greg Sim, former…

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Ofcom publishes draft online child safety rules for tech firms

Social media firms must implement effective age-checks and “tame toxic algorithms” recommending harmful content to children, according to Ofcom’s new safety codes of practice. Published by Ofcom on 8 April 2024, the children’s safety codes contain more than 40 measures designed to help social media firms comply with new legal obligations placed on them by…

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Sonos says redesigned app took ‘courage’ as users freak out over missing features

Well, here we are again. A beloved brand and a passionate community have converged over something the company changed that the community doesn’t like, and we can all guess what happened. This time, the redesign of the Sonos app is the company’s cause for outrage.The company announced the redesigned Sonos app for iPhone and Android…

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This AI app clones your dead family members, and people are horrified

A new AI app is drawing criticism and horror for its unsettling premise that it can clone your friends and loved ones. The app is called Vera AI, and while it isn’t available on the Google Play Store any longer in certain countries, reports about the app paint a very disturbing picture.For starters, the app’s…

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Post Office misjudged campaigner it labelled a ‘bluffer’

Labelled a “bluffer” and an agitator, a former subpostmaster was proved right when he alerted Post Office boss Paula Vennells to a major software bug and warned that inaction would eventually see her face a judicial review. The Post Office underestimated an ultimatum sent by Tim McCormack, who was described as a “bluffer” by a…

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I only keep 10 third-party apps on my iPhone

When I wrote about the 14 apps that I’ll always keep on my iPhone’s Home Screen, our editor Zach Epstein practically lost it that none of them were third-party apps. Yes, I am that person who rocks only built-in iPhone apps from Apple on the Home Screen.To give Zach some hope that the world isn’t…

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Are we about to see Snapdragon X Plus revealed? Qualcomm teaser suggests Apple could have more to worry about than Elite CPU

Qualcomm has teased that an announcement is coming for its inbound Snapdragon X ARM-based chip, silicon that has been causing a great deal of excitement of late as a potential Apple M3-beater (and for other reasons besides).Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the company offered up a short video clip showing a chip with an ‘X’…

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I’m on a quest for a more peaceful relationship with technology

I’ve been a technology nerd most of my life. I remember my family getting their first Gateway computer, and that was a total game-changer for me. I figured out everything I could about that computer and, of course, ended up on Napster quite quickly, ripping CDs for people at school.Even before that, I remember being…

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Pixelmator Pro is the best way to edit PDFs on a Mac after its latest update

With Pixelmator Pro update 3.5.8, users can now edit text in PDF files just like regular text layers, including in Apple PDFs exported from Safari, Keynote, or Pages. In addition, this Pixelmator Pro update adds the ability to create freely customizable outlines around text layers. It also adds a new collection of bento grid templates.Text…

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iPhone 15 Pro isn’t the gaming device I hoped it could be

I was never into mobile gaming. I mean, unless you consider Pokémon Shuffle, Pokémon GO, Alto’s Odyssey, and Mini Motors as software for gamers. With the iPhone 15 Pro, Apple focused a lot on its gaming capabilities with hardware raytracing and other GPU features focused on this market.I’m not entirely oblivious to the iPhone gaming…

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