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Handing a relative your live position takes a couple of taps, yet the three dominant platforms do not hand over the same data — and they certainly do not switch off the same way. Whether you are following a teenager’s walk home after dark, keeping tabs on a parent hiking alone, or simply wanting to … Read more
In Spain, poor indoor mobile coverage has a tempting DIY fix—a cheap signal booster—but installing one without operator approval is illegal. The Ministry for Digital Transformation warns that these devices operate in licensed spectrum, and violations can bring severe penalties. For most homes, the legal alternative is Wi-Fi calling. Boosters require operator approval: Only mobile … Read more
Finding a payment on your card statement that you never made starts a legal clock most cardholders do not know exists. Under Spain’s payment-services framework, consumers have up to 13 months from the debit date to challenge an unauthorised transaction, and once the bank has been properly notified, the money should be back in the … Read more
Downloading a model’s parameters and calling it open source is one of the industry’s most persistent conflations. Almost everything sold as “open AI” is really open weights: a company publishes the learned parameters that let the model run, wrapped in a licence that is either genuinely permissive or stuffed with conditions. True open source, as … Read more
A seemingly harmless message offering paid online tasks has become one of the fastest-growing frauds on messaging platforms. The so-called task scam — also known as the “like scam” — promises easy money for liking posts or rating products, then demands deposits that victims never recover. TechNews DevTop breaks down the playbook, warning signs and … Read more
When you press the shutter, a modern smartphone has already been watching. It captures a stream of frames, picks the sharpest, aligns them and averages away noise. The result looks like one photograph, but it is a software composite: computational photography in action. Bursts, not single shots: Phones merge several frames to suppress noise and … Read more
Anyone buying a smartphone, laptop or television from a retailer in Spain gets a legal guarantee running three years from delivery — far beyond the twelve months most shoppers still assume. The framework sits in articles 114 to 127 bis of Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2007, as amended by Real Decreto-ley 7/2021 and applicable since 1 … Read more
The preconfigured AI assistant — the small, purpose-built bot you assemble inside ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude so you never have to paste the same instructions twice — is heading into its most disruptive stretch yet. Two of the three dominant formats are being taken apart and rebuilt under new names, while the third is quietly … Read more
Spotify has spent a year telling the music business that it takes AI-generated junk seriously. On 20 October the streaming platform put numbers behind the claim: more than 50 million tracks flagged as “slop and spam” have been pushed out of its recommendations during 2026. The verb is doing a lot of work. None of … Read more
Google has begun pushing Personal Intelligence into the car, a layer that lets Gemini answer spoken questions by drawing on data from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, Maps, YouTube and Search. The company announced the move on 20 October and described the rollout as global — a claim that holds only until you reach the … Read more