Mobile security has become a proxy battle for everything from banking and health data to private photos and work emails, and the choice between iOS and Android now feels less like picking a phone and ...

Now that most people have huge amounts of personal data on their phones, security is more important than ever—even if most people care a lot more about apps, ease of use, design, and price. But the ...

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About a decade ago, Apple and Google started updating iOS and Android, respectively, to make them less susceptible to “juice jacking,” a form of attack that could surreptitiously steal data or execute ...

Apple previously confirmed plans to add end-to-end encryption to RCS messages in a future software update We’ve now spotted code that suggests end-to-end encryption could be coming to RCS messages on ...

In the smartphone industry, there’s an unsaid perception around security and safety. iPhones are the better bet compared to Android. Given the open nature of Google’s smartphone OS, it’s not ...

New mobile apps from the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek have remained among the top three “free” downloads for Apple and Google devices since their debut on Jan. 25, 2025. But ...

In February, days before the Super Bowl, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI search startup Perplexity, gave users a sparkly incentive to install its app. He posted on X that instead of buying a Super Bowl ad ...

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