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01 Apr 2025 14:15

Apple is working on their most affordable laptop yet: MacBook Lite

Apple is working on the MacBook Lite, its most affordable laptop, to compete with Chromebooks. The leaks show that it will have a minimum of 64GB eMMC storage (upgradable to 512GB) with no SSD Option and 4GB RAM (max 12GB).

The base price is not confirmed, but it could be around $599. However, the main drawback is that macOS won’t be pre-installed, and users must purchase a separate $200 license. Apps would not be pre-installed and can be chosen during setup.

There will probably be no TouchID, but this isn't confirmed yet. MacBook Lite is targeted for students and budget buyers.

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29 Mar 2025 08:38

Elon Musk has sold his Twitter/X to his own artificial intelligence company, xAI for $33 billion.

In other words, Elon Musk’s xAI bought Elon Musk’s X for $33 billion on paper. Elon Musk announced on X that "the combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)."

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24 Mar 2025 21:00

There are the first cases of freezing a user account on the Telegram Beta test server.

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23 Mar 2025 14:42

Ping Browser: Just a Brave rebrand, or something actually new?

The Ping Browser, which emerged as a second-place winner in India’s Web Browser Development Challenge, is now facing accusations of being just a Brave Browser rebrand while receiving received ₹75 lakhs in government funding. The "Atmanirbhar" initiative aimed at developing local technology sparked a controversy that initiated discussions about innovation practices, ethical standards, and taxpayer money usage.

TX and their team (Google Document), including @_mostwanted002_, @eshwnsingh, and @0xcowsecurity, accused Ping Browser of being a rebranded version of Brave Browser, an open-source browser focused on privacy. Their research revealed that Ping’s installer, "ping_installer (1).exe" contains files like "brave.exe" and "chrome_proxy.exe," with a directory structure being ditto same as Brave’s.

Ping’s GitHub repository, "ping-browser/ping-core," is a public fork of Brave’s "brave-core," with commits showing minimal changes like syncing with Brave’s updates and adding features such as a PDF signer and parental control extension. They didn't even make the repositories private. This "white-labelling" violates the competition’s spirit, with TX calling the ₹75 lakhs prize a "waste of hard-earned taxpayer’s money." This also violates Brave's terms of use.

Ping Browser is linked to FutureFlare Technologies LLP, its parent company, registered in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, at a farm address, as per its business profile on Falcon Ebiz. The company which has been active for about a year lists three directors, including Uday Bansal and his parents showing it operates as a family business. Despite its registration in Ghaziabad, Ping claims its headquarters are in Bengaluru, a hub for tech innovation. So fishy, lol.

Uday Bansal, identified as Ping’s founder responded to the allegations on LinkedIn. In replies, Bansal attributed the issue to an executable path bug causing conflicts with Brave, which he said is being fixed. He defended Ping’s compliance with the MPL-2.0 license (sections 3.2 and 3.3) and highlighted added features: Parental Controls, AI Summarizer & Rephraser, Hardware Token-Based Signatures, and Indian Root Certificate Support. Bansal even mentioned the video tour of Ping (attached) to demonstrate its functionality, comparing its development to Brave’s evolution on Chromium.

Uday Bansal also got a shoutout from his cousin brother Rachit Agarwal who works at Wormhome, a crypto firm. Rachit mentioned how they worked on probable startups and sought VC funding for a crypto payment and a T-shirt brand.

UPDATE: The funds of the prizes (₹75 lakhs for Team Ping and other prizes) have not been released as of 23rd March 2025.

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22 Mar 2025 05:29

Court Reserves Order on ProtonMail Ban, Urges Government Action

On March 21, 2025, the Karnataka High Court reserved its order on a petition seeking a ban on Proton Mail. The court deemed the petition's national security concerns and potential criminal misuse issues as serious matters.

The Union Government made reference to a mutual assistance agreement with Switzerland while detailing the specific procedures necessary for blocking.

The advocate for the company argued that the servers are outside of India and are not amenable to Indian Laws.

The government faced court pressure to act and the case remains pending as of now, with no decision announced.

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20 Mar 2025 14:19

Roku is forcing users to watch ads before they can use their TV in ‘test’

Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video advertisements on the home screen, and now they are getting forced to watch ads before they can even access the home screen.

Some people might not be as receptive to more obtrusive ad formats if they have grown accustomed to seeing a static image on an ignored area of their screen. One Redditor commented,

I could accept the static ad on the side. Forcing a loud commercial is awful.

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16 Mar 2025 19:37

Don't worry, it's not a bug, it's a feature!

The feature, unfortunately being called a bug, causes Microsoft Copilot to uninstall itself and unpin from the taskbar as well. Thanks Microsoft.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/03/16/microsoft-windows-11-march-2025-update-bug-deletes-copilot-app-unpins-from-the-taskbar/

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14 Mar 2025 18:26

RIP Google Assistant

Google announced today that the classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices.

"Over the coming months, we’re upgrading more users on mobile devices from Google Assistant to Gemini; and later this year, the classic Google Assistant will no longer be accessible on most mobile devices or available for new downloads on mobile app stores."

Additionally, we’ll be upgrading tablets, cars and devices that connect to your phone, such as headphones and watches, to Gemini. We're also bringing a new experience, powered by Gemini, to home devices like speakers, displays and TVs. 

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13 Mar 2025 16:54

💻 Vulkan is becoming the official graphics driver for Android!

Android is moving to a "modern, unified rendering stack with Vulkan at its core."

Here's what you should know about this big change, including details Google didn't mention👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/porting-pc-games-to-android-3534575/

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12 Mar 2025 14:24

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/191yu33/comment/kh3nuy3/

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11 Mar 2025 10:44

Google Pixel 10 Series Leaks
Source: Android Authority Mystic Leaks

Codenames:
Pixel 10: Frankel
10 Pro: Blazer
10 Pro XL: Mustang
10 Pro Fold: Rango

Google Tensor G5 would be manufactured by TSMC on its 3nm process. CPU:
• 1x Cortex-X4 @ 3.4GHz
• 5x Cortex-A725 @ 2.86GHz
• 2x Cortex-A520 @ 2.44GHz
GPU: PowerVR 2CU DXT-48-1536 @ 1100MHz
Integrated Virtualization, Ray Tracing and FSR support

Modem: MediaTek Samsung Exynos 5400
RAM: 12GB LPDDR5X DRAM (8533 MHz)
Camera: Now supports 8K30 recording!
Ultrasonic Fingerprint sensor by Qualcomm
Likely same BT/Wi-Fi chips as Pixel 9

• External Display via USB-C now supports up to 4K@ 60Hz
• Google's own UFS Controller Driver (HUGE hope for 4.0)
• Bootloader (and BootROM) is heavily changed (no more BL1, BL2, PBL).
• GSA bootloader is rewritten in Rust!
Wireless Charging: Google is testing a new chip (CPS4041) that supports "upto" 60W wireless & 20W reverse wireless charging

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10 Mar 2025 12:31

RIP Alert Slider

In a move to completely copy Apple 1:1, Oppo had decided to remove Alert Slider in favour of customisable button, basically seen as Action button on iPhones. OnePlus has now officially announced the transition.

The new Alert Slider of OnePlus will be called the Rubik's Cube Key. It's main functions:
• One-click mute
• Turn on the flash
• Take screenshots
• Take photos
• Translate
• Customize to quick-launch apps

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10 Mar 2025 10:29

Apple best bro.

Advertise a feature that isn't available yet but will debut soon to sell your 1000$ device. However, it gets delayed because of skill issues and thus simply delete the evidence that something was ever advertised 👍👍

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07 Mar 2025 06:46

Xiaomi once again nuked this device. After months of telling us to report and wait for a windows link integration, the message as usual for their failure is "hardware not supported" when cheaper redmi's and Xiaomi 13 got it


2. With these they say POCO X6 Pro don't support Xiaomi HyperAI, where it's Chinese variant Redmi K70E has all features.

But Global team u know
in official global HyperAI list there is no POCO X6 Pro, But X7 Pro available. They only love latest models, and X6 Pro is only 1 year old but still they are not providing HyperAI!

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05 Mar 2025 21:02

Nothing Phone 3a series Launched Globally

Common Specs:
• 6.77" (1080x2392 px) FHD+ OLED Display
• 30~120Hz refresh rate
• 2160Hz PWM dimming
• HDR10+, 10-bit depth
• 3000nits peak brightness
• Panda Glass protection
• Snapdragon 7s Gen 3
• LPDDR4X RAM; UFS 2.2 storage
• 4,500mm² steel vapor chamber
• Stereo speakers; Essential Key
• IP 64 ratings; Plastic frame
• In-display fingerprint scanner
• 5000mAh battery; 50W fast charging
• Glyph Lights
3 AndroidOS upgrades + 6yrs Security Patches

Phone 3a Pro:
• 50MP Main camera (Samsung GNJ; OIS)
• 8MP Ultrawide
• 50MP 3x Periscope Telephoto (LYT-600; OIS)
• 60X Digital Zoom; Macro mode
• 50MP front camera
8GB+128GB = Rs. 29,999
8GB+256GB = Rs. 31,999
12GB+256GB = Rs. 33,999/ £449 / $459 / €459

Phone 3a:
• 50MP Main camera (Samsung GN9; OIS)
• 8MP Ultrawide
• 50MP 2x Telephoto (Samsung JN5; OIS ❌)
• 30X Digital Zoom
• 32MP front camera
8GB+128GB = Rs. 24,999/ €330/ £329
8GB+256GB = Rs. 26,999
12GB+256GB = £379 / $379 / €379

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31 Mar 2025 17:22

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26 Mar 2025 05:59

So ChatGPT will allow you to draw sexy women and men (hot guy for OpenAI CEO) 🌚

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23 Mar 2025 17:52

⏩ Your Pixel phone quietly got a big boost in GPU performance in the latest Android update

Pixel phones with Tensor chips are seeing significant increases in GPU benchmark scores, likely due to GPU driver updates

More details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-phones-gpu-performance-boost-3537248/

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23 Mar 2025 08:03

A Google Message bug where notifications are being sent to the users even when the business was blocked previously.

The spam issue with RCS is so annoying that even after unsubscribing (using the STOP text), they send messages with new identities (the company is the same).

Carriers like Jio and Vi verify these businesses (in India) but seems like these businesses are using loopholes to spam users even after being blocked by users.

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20 Mar 2025 19:33

Just for 1st pixel unit made in India. That's a Pixel 8 btw.

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19 Mar 2025 20:17

"Touch Grass" is now a Trademark of dbrand!

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15 Mar 2025 13:33

Microsoft apologizes after removing a Visual Studio Code extension used by millions

Microsoft has reinstated the 'Material Theme – Free' and 'Material Theme Icons – Free' extensions on the Visual Studio Marketplace after finding that the obfuscated code they contained wasn't actually malicious.

🔗 Bleeping Computer
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13 Mar 2025 20:17

🖥 This could be HUGE: Google is working on a new desktop mode for Android phones called Desktop View

Desktop View may be a full desktop mode experience for Android phones, and a new developer option is in the works that'll let you test it.

Details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-view-3533755/

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12 Mar 2025 14:33

Welcome back Samsung. Won't be surprised if the S-Pen will be back as well with the S26 Ultra

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11 Mar 2025 15:04

Google Pixel 10 Series Designs based on CAD
Source

Google Pixel 10 series will look the same as the Pixel 9 series and will have almost same dimensions (152.8 x 72 x 8.6mm), same bezels and same display size as well. Interestingly, regular Pixel 10 (frankel) will sport triple rear camera this time, which means it will get a telephoto lens upgrade.

Google Pixel 10 Display:
• 6.3" (1080x2424 px) OLED
• 60-120hz refresh rate, HDR10+
• 2000 nits (HBM), 3000 nits (peak) brightness

Pixel 10 Pro (blazer) will also have the same 6.3" display, meaning cases for either phone will fit both but it will be a bit brighter (2250nits HBM; 3300nits PEAK).

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10 Mar 2025 14:29

New Redmi Logo has started appearing on boot-up

In November, Xiaomi introduced a rebranded REDMI logo, upgrading the lowercase “Redmi” to the all-cap “REDMI.” The rebranding initially debuted with the Redmi K80 series and now is spreading to older Redmi phones through a system update. Users who boot up their phones will notice the old Redmi boot logo being substituted with new “REDMI” logo.

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10 Mar 2025 11:40

Pixel 4a battery update was due to overheating risk
Source

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’s Product Safety regulator shared a “Project Safety Recall’ notice on March 7 for Google Pixel 4a which noted that the “firmware update provides new battery management features to mitigate the risk of overheating.” In general, an “overheating battery could pose a risk of fire and/or burns to a user.”

Google dual sourced battery for the Pixel 4a for cost cutting. The ATL battery models 4a are unaffected and going well as usual. However, with the Lishen battery model, there was a risk for overheating and thus Google pushed an update which reduced the battery capacity of the device and impacted the charging performance as well.

In return, Google offered compensation in terms of battery replacement or 50$ payment or 100$ discount code on the purchase of a new pixel device.

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07 Mar 2025 18:37

🖥 FIRST LOOK: Android may soon add PC-like external display management tools!

Google is working on new external display management features for Android, including the ability to rearrange displays and move the mouse between them.

Video demo + details👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-external-display-management-3533257/

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06 Mar 2025 21:53

📱FIRST LOOK: Lock screen widgets are coming to phones in Android 16 QPR1!

Google confirmed the news today, but they didn't share any images. I enabled the feature and recorded a quick hands-on video demoing it!

Video + details can be found👇

🔗 https://www.androidauthority.com/lock-screen-widgets-on-phones-demo-3532896/

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05 Mar 2025 20:38

Samsung Galaxy A56 and A36 launched Globally

Common Specs:
• 6.67" (1080x2340 px) FHD+ sAMOLED Display
• 120Hz refresh rate
• 1900nits peak brightness (1200nits HBM)
• Gorilla Glass Victus+ protection
• 15% larger cooling chamber
• In-display Fingerprint sensor
• Stereo speakers; NO Samsung DEX support
• IP67 Dust & Water resistant; NFC
• 5000mAh battery with 45W Fast charging
• Virtual Proximity Sensor; USB-C 2.0
6 Android OS + 6yrs Security Patch

Galaxy A55
• Vision Booster
• Samsung Exynos 1580 SoC
• Samsung Xclipse 540 GPU based on AMD RDNA3
• 50MP main (OIS) + 12MP UltraWide + 5MP Macro
• 12MP Front camera
• Metal Frame
8GB+128GB = Rs. 41,999/ €480/ 500$
8GB+256GB = Rs. 44,999/ €530
12GB+256GB = Rs. 47,999

Galaxy A35
• Snapdragon 6 Gen 3 SoC
• 50MP main (OIS) + 8MP UltraWide + 5MP Macro
• 13MP Front camera
• Plastic Frame
8GB+128GB = Rs. 32,999/ €380/ 400$
8GB+256GB = Rs. 35,999/ €400
12GB+256GB = Rs. 38,000

Launch offers (India): FREE storage upgrade

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