A former Meta product manager has claimed that the social network circumvented Apple’s privacy protections, as well as cheating advertisers, and fired him when he repeatedly raised the issue internally.

Meta is said to have found ways to identify Apple users even after they refused consent for app tracking, in order to avoid an estimated $10 billion loss of revenue …

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) carried out a record number of phone searches of travelers arriving at, or returning to, the US in the last quarter.

The legal position on these searches is unclear when it comes to US citizens, but there are steps you can take to protect your privacy …

have so far been cheap and cheerful devices, often bought for children. Running a heavily-customized version of Android known as Fire OS, they haven’t achieved much traction in the market …

More than 370,000 Grok AI chats have been published on the Grok website and indexed by search engines, making them public.

In addition to the interactive chats themselves, Elon Musk’s xAI company also published photos, spreadsheets and other uploaded documents …

Two of Verizon’s mobile plans are getting some upgrades at no additional cost. The improvements are being made to the Simple Mobile and Total Wireless plans.

All five of the Simple Mobile tiers are being upgraded, while the same is true of the top two Total Wireless levels …

It’s proving a very long wait for the new Siri, but perhaps it doesn’t matter so much after all. A new survey shows that most people are using Siri and other voice assistants in exactly the same way they did way back in 2018.

While some new capabilities have been added, and there are some generational differences in usage, the vast majority of it falls into five rather basic categories …

If you prefer to do your own repairs of Apple devices or to use independent shops, then it’s now easier to do so in Canada.

Apple has today brought its self-service repair and genuine parts distributor programs to the country …

A random report from an account with zero track-record for anything claims that the iPhone 18 will drop the Camera Control button as too few people are using it.

The claim is entirely meaningless, but I strongly suspect that it’s right in one respect: that hardly anyone is using the feature …

Indie content platform Substack now lets you subscribe to newsletters, podcasts, and video channels via an in-app purchase.

However, while this removes friction from the subscription sign-up process, you definitely shouldn’t use it, for two reasons …

A new report says that Apple will finally hit a long-held goal to reduce its dependence on China with the launch of the iPhone 17.

Indian iPhone production has always lagged behind that of China, but all this is now changing – with import tariffs acting as an additional incentive …