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Scam messages aren’t always as obvious as a suspicious link or a text claiming you’ve won a lottery you never entered. Some scammers are clever enough to start perfectly normal conversations, gradually earn your trust, and only reveal what they’re after when it’s too late. Google wants to make those tricks harder to pull off. Earlier this month, the company announced a new Enhanced Protection mode for Google Messages, and it’s now starting to roll out to Android users. The optional setting adds more powerful AI-based scam detection, smarter checks for suspicious links, and extra warnings designed to keep you from making…

The media event follows the debut of the HUAWEI WATCH D3 at ISH-ECS 2026, bringing advanced blood pressure monitoring into everyday life UAE, 23 October 2026 – Huawei held its MEA Tech Innovation Talks conference in Dubai at Grand Plaza Movenpick today. The conference, highlighting the brand’s innovations across the wearables and smartphone segments, has featured several researchers and experts from the healthcare and technology sectors. Held on the sidelines of the ISH-ECS 2026 annual conference, where Huawei unveiled the new HUAWEI WATCH D3 medical-grade blood pressure monitoring smartwatch, the conference focused on wearable-based cardiovascular health management technology and early…

Part of me is relieved that an AI lab is hitting the brakes. The other part wishes it hadn’t taken real incidents to get there. OpenAI said Friday that its most advanced models will now train without live internet access. Instead, they’ll practice on a cached, simulated copy of the web. Why is OpenAI pulling the plug on the live web? The answer is both simple and scary: its models kept finding ways out. On September 20, 2026, an internal research model exploited a misconfiguration in a DNS resolver (the system that turns website names into addresses) and briefly accessed…

Spending $1,999 on a foldable and then squinting at a crammed web page isn’t something that anyone wants. Apple’s Safari team said Friday it is exploring a way for websites to use more of the iPhone Duo’s outer display. Right now, a column of Safari controls swallows a chunk of the screen. Why does Safari feel so cramped on the outer screen? The answer is simple: Safari controls sit on the right, and web pages can’t draw behind them. Apple moved them there to save vertical space, but it costs width.  That leaves pages about 382 CSS pixels wide in…

Apple has turned broken links on its music website into a tiny trip back to the 2000s. To mark the iPod’s 25th anniversary, Apple Music now hides a playable replica of the original click-wheel iPod on its 404 page. Besides a “Page not found” error, you get a monochrome screen, nostalgic song previews, and a secret Brick game tucked inside. All of these are free, so you don’t need an Apple Music subscription to check it out. How to find and play the hidden iPod on Apple Music? To find the hidden iPod, you need to visit a nonexistent page…

Today I learned about a touchpad tip that I think every Windows laptop user should know. Microsoft shared it as its Friday Windows tip of the day, and it’s all about scrolling. If you read long documents, browse webpages, or write code on a Windows laptop, you know the drill. You swipe, lift your fingers, and swipe again until you reach the part you need. Microsoft has three touchpad features that cut down on all that swiping. So, what changes when you scroll? The first one is accelerated scrolling. You can quickly swipe on a page to activate it, and…

Full-frame cameras tend to be chunky beasts, but Sigma wants to prove that big imaging doesn’t need a big body. Enter the Sigma FP2, the successor to its tiny, boxy fp mirrorless camera. It keeps the same modular design but packs in some serious upgrades, including a 24.5-megapixel partially stacked full-frame sensor, improved autofocus, 6K video recording, and 70GB of built-in storage. Sigma calls it the world’s smallest full-frame camera, and while it might be tiny, the same cannot be said for its price tag. Sigma FP2 brings faster shooting and 6K video The FP2’s 24.5-megapixel partially stacked full-frame sensor…

I have lost count of how many times I have gone to bed thinking I will finally sleep on time, only to somehow end up scrolling Instagram or X again. A few minutes turn into an hour, then another, and before I notice, it is 2 or 3 a.m. The next morning, I am usually annoyed with myself because I could have just slept and felt considerably better for the day ahead. It is also a surprisingly hard habit to beat. Knowing you should put the phone down does not always help once it is already in your hand. Brick…

Platforms tend to shrug off AI clutter until it threatens what they sell. For Etsy, that thing is trust in the maker. To protect that, Etsy has banned AI-generated how-to guides and listings made entirely by bots. Most sellers must show at least one unretouched photo of the item (via Etsy Seller Handbook). Why is Etsy drawing this line now? The reason is simple: shoppers can’t tell what they’re buying anymore. Etsy says many active buyers can’t spot AI-generated visual assets in Etsy listings. That confusion is why they shop there less.  Guides must now include a real finished piece…

Deliveries of the iPhone Duo have started arriving to customers, and a small number of early owners are already reporting display defects with their units. As MacRumors first reported, several affected phones have developed cracks or bright lines along the inner screen, with the damage appearing near the hinge. Reports of display failure have come from Australia, the U.S., Canada, and China. One Australian owner said his display cracked after fewer than 20 folds, despite no visible damage beforehand. Apple replaced the device, but it is still far too early to know whether these reports point to a wider hardware…