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Will Smith came under fire this week after he uploaded a short video to Instagram and YouTube Shorts showing the crowds at some of his recent concerts. Some fans quickly noticed inconsistencies in the clip that suggested Will Smith’s team might have used generative AI to make a fake video. TechCrunch and blogger Andy Baio have…

Mattgush/Getty Images After a series of reports claimed that Apple is developing an all-screen “iPhone 20” smartphone for 2027 featuring a design mostly made of glass curving around the phone’s four edges, well-known insider UniverseIce said on X that Apple won’t make an iPhone with a curved display to celebrate the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. Instead,…

Northern Ireland police failed to disclose two covert surveillance operations against journalists to the UK’s independent surveillance watchdog, in breach of their statutory obligations. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) kept inspectors from the Investigatory Powers Commissioner’s Office (IPCO) in the dark about two covert operations against journalists in 2018 and 2023, it has…

José Adorno for BGR It won’t be long before iPhone users can download iOS 26. With iOS 26 beta 8 and IOS 26 public beta 5 now available to testers, Apple likely only has the Release Candidate (RC) version to ship before the final build launches in September. That said, it’s very unlikely that Apple between now…

Having spent the best part of a year and a half working to unify its products and tools with those of its new owners Cisco, Splunk is using its annual Splunk.conf event in Boston, Massachusetts, to showcase a number of future developments, beginning with the introduction of the new Cisco Data Fabric platform. Following the…

Wongsakorn 2468/Shutterstock Apple’s iPhone lineup is about to do something fairly interesting this year: Carry the entire smartphone market on its shoulders. Worldwide smartphone shipments, according to new data from IDC, are expected to grow by something on the order of 1% in 2025 (which is practically flat), reaching 1.24 billion units overall. Obviously, that…

The Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is unlawful, according to UK equality watchdog, citing the need for deployments of the technology to be necessary, proportionate and respectful of human rights. John Kirkpatrick, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), acknowledged that while the tech could be used help to…

Leona Octavii/Shutterstock YouTube looks to be gearing up for a major design change on Android — at least in its Spotify competitor, YouTube Music. The change is relatively minor, but it’s a nice quality-of-life feature that should be a welcome sight for most YouTube Music users. Previously, YouTube Music required users to tap on a…

At the end of 2024, OpenVault predicted ongoing monitoring and network adaptability would be crucial to maintain a high quality of experience amid rising demand. with upstream data usage now growing at more than twice the rate of downstream usage. In its latest quarterly analysis of broadband consumption for the second quarter of 2025, the…

The Home Office could be banned from unlawfully using computer algorithms to recommend whether migrants should be deported. Privacy International has filed a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over the Home Office’s collection and processing of information in immigration enforcement operations. The move follows a successful complaint by the campaign group over the…