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…

The Google Pixel 10 is finally here, bringing with it a slew of new AI-powered features to figuratively knock your socks off. Before you dive into all the AI goodies and technological upgrade that await you, there’s one setting you’ll want to change on your Pixel 10 to ensure you have the smoothest visual experience…

PhotoGranary02/Shutterstock Microsoft launched its first two homegrown AI models this week. The models are now available in various Copilot programs and could signal a move to start incorporating the company’s own models into the Windows-centric assistant instead of relying so heavily on OpenAI’s GPT models. The new models, called MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, debuted on Thursday,…

Apple has pushed another update to its mobile operating systems, iOS and iPadOS, to address a newly discovered zero-day that is already being exploited by threat actors in the wild to enable so-called zero-click attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, the flaw is an out-of-bounds write issue in the ImageIO framework – which is used to enable…

Christian de Looper for BGR The hits just keep coming for Google’s new Pixel 10. This time, it looks like the listed 12GB of RAM on the phone doesn’t tell the whole story. Instead, at least 3GB of that memory is permanently locked up by the phone’s AI systems, even if you never plan to…

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted there have been more than 12 times as many data breaches linked to its Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (Arap) programme than previously thought. Until now, a total of four breaches were known to have hit Arap, a scheme established back in April 2021 to bring Afghan citizens…