A forgotten login can outlive the device behind it. After a lost phone, a resold laptop, a hotel computer or suspicious account activity, major services usually let you inspect active sessions and end them remotely. The warning is simple: signing out will not stop an intruder who already knows the password. Remote sign-out exists: Google, … Read more
A private account narrows visibility; it does not erase you. Instagram and TikTok offer a single toggle, Facebook demands post-by-post audience management, and all three leave a public-facing core that anyone can see — even without logging in. Instagram and TikTok: one private-account switch; Facebook relies on per-post audiences and a bulk “Limit Past Posts” … Read more
On 23 October, Instagram’s App Store page added Apple TV through a separate tvOS build, version 66.0. It is free and requires tvOS 26.0 or later. The same version and requirement appeared in Spain and seven other stores checked: the UK, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, Japan and India. Meta has never published a country list; … 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
Meta has switched off conversation sharing inside Muse, its personal AI agent, after a security firm demonstrated that shared chats could be harvested from public internet infrastructure without anyone ever receiving a link. The culprit was a naming decision: Muse built each share’s web address out of the conversation’s own title, and that title was … Read more
WhatsApp chats may feel as if they live inside the app, but the history sits on the phone—and the backup lands in Google on Android or iCloud on iPhone. As of October 2026, WhatsApp is also testing its own cloud storage, a third path not yet universally available. Because WhatsApp does not store chat history … Read more
Smart glasses with cameras look like ordinary eyewear, which is exactly why they raise privacy alarms. Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD, addressed the issue in a good-practice guide published on July 13, 2026, warning that conventional-looking frames can capture people without permission, especially in sensitive places such as pools and beaches. TechNews DevTop examines … 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 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
A bug in some Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses allowed the Meta AI assistant to activate, capture audio and generate transcripts without the wearer saying “Hey Meta”—even when the setting that permits wake-word-free activation was switched off. Meta says the problem has been resolved. What the company has not supplied is an explanation of what went … Read more