TechNews DevTop Staff 
For years, travellers have been told that plugging a phone into a public USB port at an airport, station or café could hand their data to a stranger. The warning is now so familiar that it functions as folklore. But the regulator that has repeated it most consistently also concedes something rarely quoted: it has … Read more
For travellers with an EU mobile line, roam like at home still means domestic rates across most of Europe. Yet the protected zone has hard edges: the UK, Switzerland, Andorra and onboard satellite networks can all produce surprise charges. TechNews DevTop explains where the rules stop and how to keep the bill under control. EU/EEA … Read more
Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app in which Claude stops waiting to be prompted and starts acting on its own. Announced on 21 October, Duet runs on a dedicated computer in the cloud with its own browser, watches the applications a subscriber connects, and keeps working after the laptop … Read more
A hardened WordPress install, a curated plugin list and two-factor authentication will not stop PHP2Shell. The two vulnerabilities patched on 21 October 2026 live inside the PHP interpreter, which parses every request before a single line of application code runs. Fixes shipped in 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and rated … Read more
Anyone publishing AI-generated text or imagery is relying on an ownership claim the law, in the United States and in Spain, is reluctant to grant. The rule is blunt: an author must be a person. What a machine produces from a bare instruction is rarely protected; what you select, arrange or rework can be. No … Read more
A notification that an unknown AirTag is traveling with you can be innocent—a partner’s keys in your bag—or a serious warning. iPhones and Android devices now alert users when a Bluetooth tracker separated from its owner moves with them, and both platforms can play a sound, identify the device and disable it. Order matters: documenting … Read more
Every smartphone battery sheds capacity over time, and no toggle reverses that. What a setting can change is the speed of the slide. Apple, Google and Samsung now ship charge ceilings and adaptive routines built specifically to keep lithium-ion cells away from the two states that hurt them most: sitting at full charge and running … Read more
AI-writing detectors are becoming gatekeepers in classrooms, newsrooms and literary prizes, but the evidence says they cannot reliably identify machine authorship. Style-based systems measure how predictable a text looks—a proxy that misfires on plain prose, translation and second-language writing. The result is a false-positive problem with real victims. False positives are systemic: Seven popular detectors … Read more
A message lands from a friend or relative: they supposedly sent a verification code to the wrong number by mistake and need you to forward it. Or the phone rings inside WhatsApp itself, and a calm voice claiming to represent technical support wants to “verify” your account. In both scenarios the caller is fishing for … Read more
OLED burn-in is often discussed as a binary defect, but it is better understood as a slow, usage-dependent form of wear. Each pixel emits its own light, so pixels that repeatedly render the same bright element can age faster than their neighbours. The practical questions are which habits raise the risk and which protections genuinely … Read more