Massive Tea App Breach Raises Privacy Alarms
The Tea app leaked selfies, IDs, and private messages. Here’s how it happened and what it says about trust, tech, and digital privacy.| Techreport
SensorLM explains the “Why” behind your fitness tracker’s data: Instead of just showing raw data like heart rate or step count, SensorLM turns it into human-like descriptions, adding helpful context. SensorLM is highly effective at recognizing and explaining activities. It successfully identified 20 activities without additional training. It also outperformed larger general-purpose AI models during testing. Big Tech’s Race in AI-Powered Fitness Devices: Apple has published similar res...| Techreport
China’s censorship system just got more complex and more fragile: A major upgrade to the Great Firewall added deep packet inspection for QUIC traffic, but new research shows this makes the system slower, easier to bypass, and vulnerable to abuse. Spoofing the firewall is now possible: Researchers found a way to trick the GFW into blocking any UDP traffic, even if it’s legitimate. This availability attack impacts cloud providers and reveals a new class of risks beyond censorship. Circumv...| Techreport
OpenAI recently struck a $30B/year deal with Oracle in a bid to generate an additional 4.5 GW of computing power for its Stargate project. See the potential winners and losers in the long term. The post OpenAI, Oracle Strike Lease Deal to Generate 4.5 GW of Computing Power appeared first on Techreport.| Techreport
The Tea app leaked selfies, IDs, and private messages. Here’s how it happened and what it says about trust, tech, and digital privacy.| Techreport
Is the UK's Online Safety Act protecting users or silencing them? Explore what the law means for free speech and digital privacy| Techreport
Lumo and Duck AI both promise to keep your chats private. Read this article to compare their privacy features and pick the safer option.| Techreport
Antigravity, a new drone brand from Insta360, launches with the world’s first 360° camera drone under 249g.| Techreport
Discover how Google’s Trends API gives researchers, journalists, and developers access to search data for deeper insights into global trends.| Techreport
Insta360 marks 10 years with a STAR Market debut, new Flow 2 Pro stabilizer, and big moves into drones and creator tools.| Techreport
The latest data breach amounts to 16 billion credentials leaked. Password hygiene becomes paramount, and Bitwarden can help you improve it.| Techreport
Foldable phones promised a revolution but haven’t taken off. Learn why buyers are hesitant, and if the vivo X Fold5 can shift the narrative.| Techreport
YouTube’s new AI age checks aim to protect kids online, but they've raised fresh privacy and accuracy concerns.| Techreport
Temporarily halting tariffs on some electronics is a reprieve for businesses like Apple that may need to shift to local production.| Techreport
Elon Musk has launched Grok 3, claiming it to be the smartest and most sarcastic AI. It answers “almost anything”.| Techreport
