The European Commission said today that TikTok is facing a fine because its addictive features, including infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and personalized recommendation systems, are breaching the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA). According to preliminary findings, TikTok has failed to adequately assess how these features could harm users’ physical and mental well-being, including minors and vulnerable adults. The commission found that TikTok fuels the users’ urge to keep scrolling and shifts their brains into “autopilot mode” by constantly rewarding users with new content, potentially reducing self-control and leading to compulsive behavior. TikTok has also disregarded important indicators of compulsive…
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When Google’s NotebookLM first dropped, it felt like magic – a dedicated AI research assistant that didn’t just chat, but truly understood my files and documents. But now Microsoft has entered the ring with Copilot Notebooks in OneNote. Whether you are a student managing a semester’s worth of PDFs or a project manager dealing with Word docs and Excel sheets, the promise is the same: generating insights with the help of AI. After pitting their file processing power against each other, the results weren’t just surprising – they changed my workflow. Related Until NotebookLM, I never believed AI could be…
SmarterTools SmarterMail business email and collaboration servers are targeted in attacks exploiting another recent critical-severity vulnerability, the US cybersecurity agency CISA warns. Roughly two weeks ago, security researchers raised the alarm about hackers exploiting an authentication bypass bug in SmarterMail to reset administrator account passwords and take control of vulnerable instances. Last week, CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog along with a second SmarterMail issue exploited in the same campaign. Now, the cybersecurity agency warns that a third SmarterMail vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-24423 (CVSS score of 9.3), has been abused in the wild. The issue…
In November 2015, Federal Police in Brazil launched Operation Blackbeard, a coordinated action to take down Latin America’s most popular pirate site: MegaFilmesHD.net. Launched in 2010 and mainly catering to the Portuguese-speaking market, the movie portal had been pulling in a reported 60 million monthly visits. At the time, the site offered a type of convenience that most legal services couldn’t match. In addition to the free and unrestricted access to content, this also included localized features such as Portuguese subtitles or dubbing. This reign ended when police made several arrests, including the site’s presumed operators, and seized several cars,…
Representatives from both the Google Search and Bing Search teams are recommending against creating separate markdown (.md) pages for LLM purposes. The purpose is to serve one piece of content to the LLM and another piece of content to your users, which technically may be considered a form of cloaking and against Google’s policies. The question. Lily Ray asked on Bluesky: “Not sure if you can answer, but starting to hear a lot about creating separate markdown / JSON pages for LLMs and serving those URLs to bots.” Google’s response. John Mueller from Google responded saying: “I’m not aware of…
Before you jump straight to the comments to tell me I’m an idiot wishing for the return of an objectively bad feature, I want to make one thing clear. I’m not calling for the return of curved displays as Samsung popularized. Instead, I’m looking back on a nearly-defunct feature and wondering, in an age of identical iPhone clones, should we look at our displays again? Samsung, once the pioneer of curved-screen technology, has completely abandoned the idea. Most companies that followed in its footsteps, like Honor, have also abandoned the design, with only Motorola remaining as a significant name producing…
Ryan Haines / Android AuthorityOne prompt. Two minutes of research. $419.20 saved on a single purchase. Thanks, Gemini.I was ready to click buy and spend over two grand on a fancy fitness machine, but the price just seemed excessive. I love a good deal and always try to negotiate when buying big-ticket items, but you can’t negotiate with a website. Or can you?I turned to my good friend Gemini and asked if it knew any tricks I could use to save money on my purchase, and it delivered. It gave me a few good ones, one of which worked right…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 05, 2026Malware / Cyber Espionage The elusive Iranian threat group known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia) has evolved its tactics as part of efforts to hide its tracks, even as it readied new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure coinciding with the end of the widespread internet blackout the regime imposed at the start of January 2026. “The threat actor stopped maintaining its C2 servers on January 8 for the first time since we began monitoring their activities,” Tomer Bar, vice president of security research at SafeBreach, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “This was the same…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Apple Watch is a powerful tool for following and tracking exercise. We’ve already shown you 10 hacks for all Apple Watch users, but I’m here with a follow-up on the fitness features, specifically. With these lesser-known settings, apps, and features, you can get more out of your workouts and your health data.Give your Apple Watch rings a “rest day” Credit: Beth Skwarecki The Apple Watch’s Fitness app famously includes three rings (Move, Exercise, Stand) that you can close with activity throughout the day. Not only should you change your…
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Microsoft has been giving us a lot of love with a non-stop supply of patches starting with January 2026 Patch Tuesday. The January releases addressed 92 vulnerabilities in Windows 11 and Server2025, as well as 79 vulnerabilities for Windows 10 and its associated servers. We also saw updates for legacy 2016 versions of Microsoft Office and even a SQL Server update. But these patches came with some problems because there were updates to address reported issues not long thereafter. Microsoft to roll up multiple OOB fixes for Windows and Office issues The…