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Google is rolling out two new safety features for Messages, including the launch of Android Key Verifier. After previewing last year and sharing more details in May, Key Verifier is “now available to all Android 10+ users” to protect against impersonators and fraudsters. This system uses QR codes to provide “extra assurance that your end-to-end encrypted messages are truly private …

AT&T is testing an AI-powered assistant designed to screen phone calls for you. The mobile carrier is bringing the feature to a select group of customers this year, and likens it to a “digital receptionist” that can identify and filter out robocallers based on the information from its network, like your call history. “This is only the foundation of what …

We first saw Apple Calendar spam almost a decade ago, when it hit such levels that the iPhone maker issued an apology and said that it was blocking suspicious senders. We’ve seen the problem re-emerge several times since then, with Apple even publishing a YouTube video on how to remove it. Despite all of these efforts, however, it seems to …

Andrew Ferguson, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Trade Commission, recently expressed concern that “Alphabet’s administration of Gmail is designed to have partisan effects.” In a letter addressed to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Ferguson pointed to a recent story in the New York Post describing complaints by Targeted Victory (a consulting and PR firm that’s worked with the Republican National …

I don’t know about you, but I receive multiple spam calls every single week. As well as being an interruption and an annoyance, they can also be potentially dangerous. And with an increasing number of scammers trying their luck, it’s important to know how to put a stop to these unwanted calls. The simplest option on iPhone is to manually …

It’s been revealed today that Microsoft is working to combat “bundle spam” on the Xbox Store, issuing a new set of rules for developers and publishers to address the “large number of complaints from both developers and consumers”. Basically, Microsoft wants to stop these teams from putting out bundles where they’re just combining different SKUs of the same game – …

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Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24. The beta brought a handful of new features, like a new Liquid Glass design and the ability to change your alarm’s snooze length, to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. It also gave developers and beta testers the ability to screen incoming unknown calls, that way spam …

Nintendo has quietly made some subtle changes to its guidelines for developers publishing games on its Nintendo Switch 2 eShop, seemingly in an effort to slow an oft-criticized flood of low-effort “slop” content that’s been crowding out other games and frustrating users. Earlier this year, we reported on a growing epidemic of “slop” games flooding the recommendation pages of multiple …