A judge in Brazil has now fined Apple and Google for distributing, in their respective app stores, FaceApp: an app that seemingly doesn't care for user privacy. A few years ago, FaceApp stormed the internet with curious and slightly creepy AI-powered ways to get you to age or change your hair color without actually doing it in real life.

Buying a smart home product today means checking which ecosystems it works with by looking for the little “Works with Apple Home” or “Works with Google” badge on the package. Matter was supposed to get rid of those because if a product works with Matter,

Google users with Pixel 8a and onwards can now monitor their phone’s battery capacity via the Settings app and then selecting Battery Information. Here, users can see how many times the battery has already been fully charged, when it was manufactured, and its date of first use.

As the latest security research reveals just how nasty this ongoing attack threat is, email users are warned not to click at all. Here’s what you need to know.

With the release of iOS 18.4 in the spring, Apple's mobile operating system will likely let iPhone users in the European Union set

The tech giants agree to put more trust in the Matter smart home standard and its interoperability testing results, which could mean faster product development cycles.

Apple's reputation for security, user-friendly apps, and the world-beating iPad tablet lineup builds on its intricately controlled software ecosystem. However, a top EU court ruled in November that the California-based company's inconsistent App Store implementations violate regulations on regional availability and non-discriminatory behavior throughout the bloc.

TikTok creators are posting videos promoting ways to get around a looming shutdown of the app in the US, which could spell trouble for Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and other American tech companies required by law to enforce the ban or risk potentially billions in fines.

Gmail didn’t get off to a good start on the security and privacy front, but it’s much better now and its new upgrades make it an account worth keeping. But only if you use the new security upgrades and common sense to ensure you don’t lose your Gmail account (and those it leads to) to hackers or simply through lack of use.

Indian law now requires VPN apps to maintain customers’ names, email addresses, IP addresses, and transaction histories for five years.