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Contactless payments have become the convenient villain of card fraud: the fear is a hidden reader skimming a card through a pocket and cloning it. The evidence is more nuanced. European supervisors and researchers agree contactless has limits, but most card fraud happens elsewhere—mainly in remote payments and schemes that persuade the cardholder to act. … Read more
An imported smartphone or a device sold as a ‘global version’ can look like the same hardware at a much lower price. The savings are real, but they rarely come from the handset itself. They usually come from rights, checks and local accountability that disappear at checkout. Before comparing specs, buyers should audit five areas: … Read more
Three authorities have issued children’s screen-time guidance with different thresholds. The World Health Organization advises no screens before age 2 and at most one hour daily for ages 2 to 4. The Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP) goes further: avoid screens until 6, under one hour daily until 12, and under two hours after that. … Read more
Generative AI’s least publicised work sits in phone accessibility menus: cameras narrate scenes, apps read photos aloud, captions convert speech to text. Be My Eyes is the most visible example of a use that seldom makes headlines yet changes daily routines. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Be My Eyes offer such tools to blind, low-vision, deaf … Read more
Anthropic has filed an S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT, opening the books of Claude’s maker for the first time. Submitted on 26 October 2026, it was announced in an official note; the full filing is on the SEC site. TechCrunch, Engadget and Xataka covered … Read more
Microsoft has shipped security updates on an unscheduled basis for .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10 and the third release candidate of .NET 11. The driver is CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow rooted in how the framework invokes the Brotli decompression algorithm. The company’s advice is to install the patches immediately. Details went up on the … Read more
Changing banks is often delayed by recurring bills: electricity, insurance, salary and rent. Spain has a regulated, free service with fixed deadlines that makes both banks move those arrangements. You request it only at the new bank; all holders sign. It is free between providers in Spain, and the completion date cannot precede six business … Read more
Pennsylvania has imposed disclosure duties on certain synthetic-media advertisements, but the measure Governor Josh Shapiro signed on October 22 is narrower than some coverage implied. The Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, Act 99 of 2026, takes effect December 21, sixty days after signing. It targets deceptive commercial use of AI, not AI use itself. Key … Read more
Gemini, Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), ChatGPT and Claude can summarize a long video or a report of hundreds of pages, but each reads differently: some only a transcript, others only a PDF’s text and not its graphics. Free plans may not fit a 300-page document in working memory. Published limits help choose a tool and … Read more
World, the iris-scanning identity venture co-founded by Sam Altman, presented its first sector package at Money20/20 in Las Vegas on October 18: a banking-and-finance edition of World ID. It uses cryptographic proofs so a financial institution can verify a person, not an automated system. AI fraud is the backdrop; the missing pieces are a confirmed … Read more