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As announced last month, Apple is rolling out its Fitness Plus service for all users with an iPhone, with the launch of iOS 16.1 on October 24th. Users can get access to various programs headed by experts in their respective fields, like yoga, running, or walking. Aside from the fitness features, the Apple Fitness Plus includes music albums from popular artists and on-screen data tracking of various activities. Apple Fitness Plus for iPhones Apple , in its event in September, announced that you no longer need an Apple Watch to try its Fitness app....

Without citing any proper reason, Apple said it’ll increase the prices of paid apps and in-app purchases in the App Store starting next month. Although this is applicable in some countries. The company has released a new price chart that bumped up the prices upto 20% – of what it’s been collecting now. Yet, it allows the auto-renewable subscriptions to remain as it is without any changes. The new prices will go into effect from October 5th onwards....

More leaks about Apple’s first-ever foldable phone appear, saying that it is already testing two variants . It has patterned with two Chinese manufacturers to test how these hinged phones will be and what type of display has to be used. Whatever, it clearly suggests that an Apple foldable will come in September 2022. Apple Foldable iPhone in 2022 Foldable smartphones are growing to be a new trend. After all, they should be, since the smartphone market is getting so competitive with many OEMs and minor innovations released almost every day....

As promised in November last year, Apple today announced the Self Service Repair Store for its US users. This program will let Apple users self-repair some of their iDevices. Currently, the list includes iPhone 12, 13, and the SE 3 handsets. Available in the US, Apple said it will bring this program to European users later this year. The website of this program includes over 200 genuine spare parts sold by Apple, at a price similar to its authorized stores outside....

He further states the feature has been in the works since at least 2020 but never made it to the public yet. Although, Apple started testing this with some people recently in a few stores, thus hinting at its inevitable launch. To better the in-store shopping experience of customers, Apple is reportedly testing a new AR feature in the App Store App that will allow users to scan any Apple product on display to see more information about it....

Gaming enthusiasts who crave less GPU noise, here’s your treat – ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition – having noise levels of less than 15dB(A). Asus is the first company to use Noctua’s fans for Nvidia’s RTX 3070 GPU and has two variants produced from this partnership. But, boasting as the world’s silent GPU, either company has not revealed the price or exact availability yet. Asus x Noctua Clarifying the rumors prevailing, Asus and Noctua have just announced their collaboration in producing the new ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 Noctua Edition....

Two of the Atlassian products – BitBucket and Data Center are infested with a bug, that’d let attackers take over the device by injecting arbitrary code remotely. Though the security researcher who discovered this was awarded a bounty, he’s decided to share the Proof of Concept exploit of this bug soon, which may spike the attacks against vulnerable systems. Thus Atlassian has made a patch available, and urges users to update....

In what’s termed as the largest centralized exchange hack , BitMart lost nearly $200 million worth of cryptocurrencies due to a security breach. This was initially reported by a security firm and later confirmed by BitMart’s CEO on Twitter. While they’re still investigating the attack source, the funds were seen constantly flowing to the hacker’s wallet, and then to a privacy mixer for laundering. Security Breach at BitMart Decentralization is one of the core concepts of blockchain and an attractive feature that’s drawing people to this new technology....

Caden, an app that pays you for sharing your personal data for advertising, is expanding its public beta testing to more users early next year. Based on your personal ‘data score’, Caden will pay you anywhere from $5 to $20 monthly, or even more. Aside from formally collecting data for targeted advertising, Caden says its analytics are useful for users to track their spending across apps and categories. Caden Expansion of Public Beta Testing Though criticized, targeted advertising runs the internet for most people....

Facebook’s data leak of over 553 million records is undoubtedly one of the biggest leaks in history. If you think you might have been affected by this, be glad as there are few portals made to clarify this. One among them is the Have I Been Pwned, a famous portal gathering all the data breaches and looking up your e-mail address. How to Check Whether You Are Affected in the Recent Facebook Data Leak?...

Since the cold war between China and the US is rising each day, the eastern party plays a new step to localize its business source code. China is now pushing its local GitHub alternative , Gitee to be more followed by businesses and individual developers, thereby reducing the heavy reliance on American GitHub. The Gitee platform is backed by big institutions to take over GitHub, at least in China. China is Preparing a GitHub Alternative for Chinese Community GitHub Alternatives...

If you use the VLC Media Player, you should look better for an alternative after a warning from the CERT of the Federal Office for Information Security (CERT-Bund). Because in the VLC gapes again a security gap, which was classified as critical. Bad News for VLC Media Player Users High-Risk Assessment The CERT Confederation has classified the vulnerability as critical and awarded the risk assessment “High” (Level 4). This is the second-highest warning level for security holes in the CERT....

DeepSeek has emerged as a disruptive force in the fast-evolving world of artificial intelligence, challenging industry norms with its rapid ascent. For Hemanth Mandapati, CEO of German startup Novo AI, the transition from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to DeepSeek’s chatbot wasn’t just swift—it was transformative. “Switching took us just minutes,” he shared at the GoWest conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, highlighting the seamless integration and immediate cost benefits. DeepSeek’s competitive pricing, reportedly five times lower than industry standards, has become a major draw, offering substantial savings without compromising performance....

Discord is currently experiencing a global outage that is keeping users from logging in on their PCs and mobile devices. At around 8:00 a.m. EDT the internet chat room went down and the user has been unable to log in since. Discord is aware of the issue and tweeted that work is underway on a fix. Discord Down? If you want to see when Discord is back up, you can check their server status page....

DISH Network and its subsidiary, Sling TV are suing four pirate sites that are illegally streaming sports content by circumventing their DRM protections. The alleged sites are related to one group and are streaming copyrighted content like Olympics, NBA matches, NFL games, etc for free. The plaintiffs are now asking the court for a permanent injunction, and compensation for their violations. Pirates Sites Streaming Sports From Sling TV The US-based DISH Network and its subsidiary Sling TV have filed a lawsuit against four streaming sites in Texas court, alleging them for illegal transmission of copyrighted content without authorization....

After testing with a closed community for months, DuckDuckGo is releasing its browser app on Windows for public beta testing this week. Announcing this expansion, DuckDuckGo lists all the features that its Windows browser app has – email protection, Duck Player, blocking trackers etc., similar to its other apps. Boasting that it’s faster than Chrome, DuckDuckGo invites interested users to download and try the app now. Another Privacy Browser on Windows DuckDuckGo, the company that started as a privacy-centric search engine, is now making web browsers....

Just as we’re wondering, Elon Musk claims to receive threats from Apple that his newly purchased social platform – Twitter, will be withheld from its App Store. While there’s no specific reason mentioned – like Elon Musk claimed, this could mostly be of the content moderation policies that Twitter is now following. After the acquisition, Musk reportedly lowered the content moderation tools to let free speech prevail on the platform....

On a shocking but reasonable note, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would not accept Bitcoin for purchasing its EVs anymore! This is because of the unfavorable impact of Bitcoin mining on the environment, which leads to the rapid use of fossil fuels causing the worst emissions. While it’s suspended now, Musk said they might reconsider this decision once the “mining transitions to more sustainable energy. ” Now You Can’t Buy a Tesla With Bitcoin....

We all know Tiktok and how this platform has achieved much success in just a few years. But in 2020, as we all know, it will be banned in many parts of the world. However, at that time, Facebook-owned Instagram, seeing this as an opportunity, launched a new short video segment in their Instagram app called Instagram reels. Unfortunately, many users from all around the world started noticing that the reels section was not appearing on their Instagram....

Fonix ransomware, also known as Xinof or FoxinCrypter has announced its closure and released the master decryption to unlock victimized computers for free. This group has started operations in mid-2020 and had infected a few to date. The released master decryptor is only capable of decrypting one file at a time, but not the whole system. Fonix Ransomware Shuts Down FoxinCrypter or the Foxin ransomware group has picked up the page in November last year, after starting in June the same year....