Windows now lets you lock your PC from your phone
Microsoft has added a new feature to the Smartphone Link (Link to Windows) app that lets you lock your Windows PC remotely from your phone. This is one of those features that sounds small but…
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Ayaneo’s Pocket Play mashes a gaming handheld with a sliding phone
Modern smartphones are lighter, thinner, and faster than ever, but one thing they aren’t is stylish. I know because I’ve been looking for something that stands out from the sea of oblong rectangles in every…
Can’t afford a laptop? Acer has a screen/keyboard hack for your phone
It looks like the new floor for laptop prices will be around 700 dollars. And that isn’t going to get you a whole lot of laptop, especially if you want memory for RAM-hungry browser tabs.…
A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses
Prison calling service Pay Tel has secured a publicly exposed cloud server storing hundreds of thousands of driver’s licenses and other sensitive information about people who used its services, according to a cybersecurity firm that…
Upcoming iPhone feature could kick in the moment your phone is swiped
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Apple is developing an anti-snatching security feature for iPhones that automatically locks devices when theft is detected. The feature uses the iPhone’s accelerometer and…
These special phone and app features can help protect you from spyware
Spyware attacks on journalists, human rights defenders, and political dissidents are no longer rare or exotic. In early 2025, WhatsApp notified roughly 90 users — many of them journalists and civil society members across Europe…
Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses
Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it was exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers, and order identifiers to the open internet. Chris Walker, a spokesperson for the Trump-branded phone maker, told…
Google quietly cuts free storage to 5GB without a phone number
For years now, Google has provided users with 15 GB of online storage free of charge. But that era seems to be ending. Going forward, you’ll only get 15 GB of free storage if you…
A ChatGPT phone with agents would blow up your mobile bill
We’ve already got ChatGPT on our phones, but what about an actual ChatGPT phone with AI agents rather than apps? My mind immediately jumped to one issue: the monthly bill for those AI agents. OpenAI’s…
Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track people’s locations. The researchers say these two campaigns are likely a small snapshot of what…