News style articles about announcements that happened recently. This is mostly for temporary things.
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, recently tweeted a long post that complains about “What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.” He’s referring to the internet as a whole but may not realize the hypocrisy of his statements. A number of countries are starting to implement laws enforcing privacy violating technologies such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning …
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UPDATE Jan 27, 2026 – even more lawsuits now Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption | PCMag New Lawsuit Claims that Meta Can Read All the WhatsApp Users Messages Lawsuit Claims Meta Can See WhatsApp Chats in Breach of Privacy – Bloomberg Meta can access all WhatsApp chats, lawsuit claims; Company replies – The Times of India Meta sued over claims that WhatsApp messages are fully secure – The Economic Times UPDATE Oct …
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The Bild Expo first started in September of 2023 as a big 50th anniversary for the B&H Photography & Video super store. After attending that, I figured it was just a one-time event for the photography store’s big birthday, but in 2025 a second Bild Expo was scheduled. It was actually even bigger than the previous one two years ago. It is great to see that maybe a new big photography expo will regularly come …
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The Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra and Pro smartphones have just been announced with their launch scheduled for March 27 and we got our hands on the Ultra version. The new design looks pretty great with the circular camera array housing and a matte finish for the lower part of the phone vs the glossy upper part. Our version is the black model, but the yellow version looks pretty amazing. Stay tuned for a full review, …
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I got to take a look at the new BMW Operating System 9 in some new Mini Countryman and Mini Cooper cars to learn about the new user experience. The most obvious and unique aspect of the Mini brand of BMW OS 9 is the circular screen and interface designed to match the original Mini’s circular center dashboard. Designing and building software for a circular screen certainly is challenging as almost all other touch screen …
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Today Dynabook announces another new laptop computer; this time an updated Portégé X30W-M tablet PC convertible. I’ve been using Windows based tablet PCs and tablet PC convertibles since 2002 when they were first launched with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, so I always love seeing new Windows tablets come around. This one purportedly even has the excellent Wacom-based stylus pen digitizer technology so that creative drawing programs and note-taking software will work well. Though the …
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