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Firefox Asks Before a Site Reaches the Devices on Your Home Network
The new release suggests grouping similar tabs and naming the group, and extends translation into embedded frames.
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Telegram Puts the Welcome Message Inside the App, and Buttons Inside the Text
Only new arrivals see it, formatting and media are allowed, and a file can now sit in a paragraph past three lines.
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Proton Mail Splits the Inbox Six Ways, and Leaves It Optional
Sorting happens on the server with encryption intact, and you move a message between groups by hand.
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Android 17 Reaches Nothing Phones: A Beta Now, Public in October
Sign-ups close on 2 September, and two features are held back to November and beyond.
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Signal Verifies Encryption Automatically, and Says Plainly What It Does Not Prove
The feature needs the other party's phone number, stops working if they change it, and can be switched off in advanced settings.
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Pixel 11: A Capture That Analyses Four Hundred Frames to Pick One
Google announced seven features, with prices starting at $899 and sales opening on 20 August.
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Two Hours a Day and a Block After Midnight: What Meta Agreed To
The settlement with 51 state attorneys general changes accounts for under-18s, and does not apply in Kuwait. But teen accounts themselves are available here.
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Honor Launches a Phone With a Mechanical Gimbal That Tracks the Subject
Two 200-megapixel cameras, a 7,060mAh battery, and a price announced in yuan only. Nothing yet about the Gulf.
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PlayStation Plus: Four Games Replace Three, Available Until 5 October
Sniper Elite, The Show, Wobbly Life and Chained Echoes are on the monthly list from the start of the month.
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A Call From a Number You Do Not Know: WhatsApp Now Tells You Where It Comes From
Three security additions announced this week: a passphrase instead of a PIN, multiple passkeys, and a line under the unknown caller's name.
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Huawei’s Folding Laptop: Eighteen Inches That Close Down to Thirteen
It weighs 1.16 kilograms without the keyboard, and measures 7.3 millimetres open and 14.9 shut. The screen is a dual-layer OLED peaking at 1,600 nits.
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Fenix 9: Thirty-One Days of Battery, and Diving to Forty Metres
Three case sizes, an AMOLED panel reaching 3,000 nits, and 64GB holding seven thousand songs. Prices start at $999.99.
