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Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/ai-startup-replit-launches-feature-to-vibe-code-mobile-apps.html

AI startup Replit launches feature to vibe code mobile apps
Replit launched a feature that lets users create publishable mobile apps using just natural language prompts.

from my link log —
How London finally cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-underground-86784/
saved…

How London finally cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground
Dotted around London, there are a number of private hotels that aren’t the sort of hotel you might expect – they’re needed to make mobile phones work on the London Underground.

Nice! A clean getaway >:3
Anyway, enjoy the $20 gift cards!
Verizon blames nationwide outage on a "software issue"
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/mobile/verizon-blames-nationwide-outage-on-a…

Verizon blames nationwide outage on a "software issue"
Verizon has confirmed that yesterday's nationwide wireless outage was caused by a software issue, though the company has not shared additional details about what went wrong.

With so much going on in the world, check out today's Metacurity for a one-stop run-down of the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft took down massive cybercrime platform RedVDS,
--Google's Fast Pair protocol enables hackers to connect with audio accessories,
--Shipping-related firm Bluspark Global patched a raft of flaws,
--Kimwolf botnet may have hit its maximum potential,
--CNIL fined French mobile companies for data bre…

Microsoft took down massive cybercrime platform RedVDS
Google's Fast Pair protocol enables hackers to connect with audio accessories, Shipping-related firm Bluspark Global patched a raft of flaws, Kimwolf botnet may have hit its maximum potential, CNIL fined French mobile companies for data breach, Cyber authorities warn of OT threats, much more

Remember Firefox OS? Of course you don't.
Well, they tried to do "for mobile what we did for the web" and utterly failed—while neglecting their core product.
Now they’re all in on “doing for AI what we did for the web”.

Grumbling yet again at t-mobile 5G having a weird nonstandard MTU that breaks things unpredictably

OnePlus 15R review: the new $700 device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/smartphone

OnePlus 15R review: A 165Hz display and big battery for $700
The OnePlus 15R has many of the same strengths as the more expensive OP15, but shaves off $200 off by compromising on cameras.

"At a meeting in the Oval Office last week, a frustrated Mr. Trump pressed Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about why the United States could not immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The answer was straightforward: Even one Iranian soldier or militia member zipping across the narrow neck of the strait in a speedboat could fire a mobile missile right into a slow-moving supertanker, or plant a limpet mine on its hull."

Entering War’s Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices
As the conflict with Iran expands and intensifies, President Trump’s options — to fight on, or to move toward declaring victory and pulling back — both carry deeply problematic consequences.

Millionenstrafe nach Datenpanne: CNIL sanktioniert französischen Provider Free
Nach einem großen Datenabfluss bei Free und Free Mobile zieht die französische Aufsicht Konsequenzen: Die Unternehmen müssen 42 Millionen Euro Bußgeld zahlen.

These aren’t AI firms, they’re defense contractors. We can’t let them hide behind their models
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/15/ai-defense-warfare-companies
> From Gaza to Iran, the pattern is the s…

1988: "It exceeds 640K."
1990: "It supports 32-bit & a GUI."
1992: "It delivers true multitasking."
1995: "It's client-server based."
1997: "It's connected to the Internet."
2004: "It's a thin client."
2008: "It's mobile-enabled."
2010: "It's container deployable."
2014: "It's powered by the cloud."
2025: "It's AI-powered.…

Millionenstrafe nach Datenpanne: CNIL sanktioniert französischen Provider Free | heise online
https://heise.de/-11142177

Millionenstrafe nach Datenpanne: CNIL sanktioniert französischen Provider Free
Nach einem großen Datenabfluss bei Free und Free Mobile zieht die französische Aufsicht Konsequenzen: Die Unternehmen müssen 42 Millionen Euro Bußgeld zahlen.

Somebody using #Jellyfin Mobile on iOS on an iPhone ? Does yours play in the background? On mine the music stops as soon as I switch to another app. Background refresh is enabled for the app.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@locuta/116085942988973997
*vinkt af*
Overstap naar Freedom Internet gefikst. Glasvezel hier in de wijk was eerst exclusief aan T-Mobile, nu Odido. Maar gelukkig zitten we daar niet meer aan vast. Nooit gelukkig geweest met Odido…

The good news is that they don't need our donations any more, or our contributions.
"Wikipedia Turns 25, Sells Access To Amazon, Meta, Microsoft And Other AI Giants"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

🖼️ Native vision-language design with early multimodal fusion trained on massive text-image-video data
🌍 Expanded multilingual coverage to 201 languages & dialects
🤖 Demonstrates visual agent workflows across mobile & desktop interfaces beyond passive chat
📊 First open-weight release: Qwen3.5-397B-A17B ultra-sparse MoE model
🔬 Large-scale reinforcement learning across multi-agent environments for real-world adaptability

So, T-Mobile will route each phone call through an AI system? What can possible go wrong?
T-Mobile Will Live Translate Regular Phone Calls Without an App - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/11/141215/t-mobile-will-l…

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/peacock-expand…

Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming | TechCrunch
Peacock is betting on new AI-powered video experiences, vertical clips, and mobile games to help its growth.

iPhone nur auf dem Papier offen: Erster App-Marktplatz in EU schließt
Statt mehr werden es weniger: Mit Setapp Mobile schließt ein erster alternativer App-Marktplatz seine Pforten. Für Nutzer ist das unbequem.

I finally deleted my Twitter account. Created in 2010, got a lot of security news value out of it until around 2022. Then something happened and I created an account on Mastodon and stopped posting at Twitter. Now the value became clearly negative, even for holding an old, inactive account.

The first and only serious alternative to the #iOS App Store #Setapp is already pulling out of Apple's mobile platforms again. This seems exactly what #Apple was aiming for wi…

Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/

Long weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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You Know What? Just Don’t Split Words into Letters
This is an unplanned part two for Barriers from Links with ARIA. The title reflects my exasperation because this isn’t new, ‘veI simply failed to be explicit about it over the last decade or so. In 2012 I vented about TypeButter using for each letter. In 2020…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Schwimmequipment (Plural!) gekauft
🙂 Zusage vom Lieblingssuperphysio bekommen: er macht im März alles wieder heile
🙂 rausgefunden, dass ich mein mobile-Daten-Angebot ziemlich ausreize 🤭

So gaming has been one of my main hobbies since I was introduced to video games.
But recentl I've been feeling unsatisfactory or even mad after playing anything. I haven't been able to find something enjoyable even in my main games.
So I decided to try spending ny free time that sound interesting so I went with #mobile

BLUETTI just dropped something big at CES 2026: a road trip charger that runs on your alternator and solar, plus power stations made from bio-circular plastics that slash CO2 emissions.
The Charger 2 solves slow-charging headaches with universal compatibility and bi-directional power. Meanwhile, their new Elite series brings sustainable materials to high-density energy storage.

BLUETTI Targets Circular Economy & High-Speed Mobile Charging — CES 2026 Launch - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The “spec war” in portable power is officially shifting toward material science and deep vehicle integration. Monitoring the latest from CES 2026, it’s clear that BLUETTI is moving beyond the simple “more kilowatt-hours” race to tackle two of the industry’s ... [continued]

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1661852/this-is-hands-down-the-most-wholesome-stranger-things-fact-ever

This is hands down the most wholesome "Stranger Things" fact ever
Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values with no corporate overlords. This instance is run by the founder of PieFed. [Mobile apps for PieFed](https://piefed.social/post/1258559)

Vibe coded a functional Go/chess clock at https://clock.covay.vn
It supports byoyomi, Canadian byoyomi and Fischer time. PWA. Installable on mobile devices. Best used on mobiles.

For some live events, NBC Sports plans to use tech from Japan's Nippon Television Network that uses AI to track individual players and reframe them vertically (Pranob Mehrotra/Digital Trends)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/nb…

NBC Sports will soon use AI to put your favorite athletes front and center during live broadcasts
NBC Sports has announced it will debut a new AI feature in its mobile app later this year that will let fans follow their favorite athletes in real time.

After being delayed for 16 years due to the conflict, a shipment of Nokia mobile phones ordered in 2010 has finally reached a Libyan trader in Tripoli.
[Insert joke about charge remaining here]
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTallPtANoh/

ICE has used the "Mobile Fortify" facial recognition app to identify immigrants and citizens alike
💥over 100,000 times, by one estimate.
❌It wasn't built to work like that
—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
https://www.…

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

The 1% club in IP4 concentration continues:
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KHBBFZYFV9GTB8CSWYNRFZ3V

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"T-Mobile USA, Inc." transferred: 70.0.0.0/13, 70.10.0.0/15 (Taken from 70.10.0.0/14), 174.144.0.0/12, 173.128.0.0/11, 107.24.0.0/13, 75.92.0.0/14, 71.20.0.0/14, 173.96.0.0/11, 108.96.0.0/11, 70.12.0.0/15 (Taken from 70.10.0.0/14) to "Amazon.com, Inc." (Estimated Market Value: $208.1...

#DataRetention

Czechia illegally stored citizens’ phone data: here’s what it means
The ruling affects metadata from calls and texts, shows who communicated and where; lawmakers must revise rules, tightening access and protecting privacy.

2026 Senior Bowl roster reveal: Three things you need to know https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-senior-bowl-roster-reveal-things-you-need-to-know

Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/13/peacock-expand…

Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming | TechCrunch
Peacock is betting on new AI-powered video experiences, vertical clips, and mobile games to help its growth.

the best non-medical feature about West Coast General Hospital is definitely the atrium/waiting room.
Nice natural light. Running water. Naturally planted foliage. Calming, quiet and comfortable even though all around the edges it is go go go.
I am waiting for Tree to finish her MRI. It is a mobile unit that attends WCGH for three weeks, then goes to other hospitals for 7 weeks i think, on a rotation. It is not fancy. you have to go outside to access it which really sucks in the cold and rain.
But it is there and makes a big difference.
#health #bc #portalberni

I've been using
@… to track my listening habits. At least while I'm out of the car, there's no tracking on VLC Mobile that I can tell.
I'm normally protective of my data, but this is fun and with my listening tastes I need ways to find new music.
Mostly underground hip hop but I went on a Sting bender when I had to use up some Amazon c…

ListenBrainz 2025 Year in Music for slackingvalium
Check out the music review for 2025 that @ListenBrainz created from my listening history!

Microsoft Teams: Mobilversion erfragt im Februar neue Standardprogramme
Teams Mobile soll im Februar nachfragen, welche Programme Nicht-Office- und PDF-Links standardmäßig öffnen sollen.
https://www.<…

Here's a thought experiment.
Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.
If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?
If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one wo…

That is a lot of mobile malware.
The nTrust anti-fraud system recorded 62,952 new types of mobile malware discovered in Vietnam in 2025
https://vietnamnet.vn/en/mobile-users-in-vietnam-face-surge-in-new-malware-attacks-2479643.html…

Mobile users in Vietnam face surge in new malware attacks
National cybersecurity authorities reveal a troubling increase in sophisticated mobile threats, with nearly 63,000 new strains recorded.

A big shoutout to Pascal and his @… team for a great #DSpacePT26 at #LeuphanaUniversität We enjoyed a nicely curated program, amp…

“Honoring Mobile OS Text Size”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/honoring-mobile-os-text-size.html
Looks at the new HTML thing proposed from CSSWG (yeah, not confusing) and tries to merge Safari’s propriety hack with Google’s CSSWG proposal and Canary impl…

Honoring Mobile OS Text Size
If your users scale the text size in Android or iDeviceOS, that doesn’t always affect the size of text on a web page. It’s a function of browser and authored code, as opposed to a standardized approach. That may be changing. Support The current state of affairs in the three…

heise | MacBook Pro mit M5 Max im Test: Apples neue mobile Boliden
Apple hat bei seinen MacBook Pros im März die Prozessorvarianten M5 Pro und Max eingeführt. Im Test untersuchen wir Performance, SSD und mehr.
h…

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/app-…

App downloads declined again in 2025, but consumer spending soared to nearly $156B | TechCrunch
Global app downloads were down, but consumer spending was up to nearly $156B in 2025.

Headed home today. Setting up the Mobile Passport Control app since Global Entry is currently not operating. The MPC app is remarkably good! Clear instructions, easy usability, it's very nice. It basically just collects your immigration info and customs declarations, replaces a paper form, but they did it nicely.

Ukraine enters EU's single mobile roaming zone: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/ukraine-enters-eus-single-mobile.html

"Study Shows Vaporizing E-Waste Makes it Easy to Recover Precious Metals at 13-Times Lower Costs"
#EWaste #Technology

Study Shows Vaporizing E-Waste Makes it Easy to Recover Precious Metals at 13-Times Lower Costs
One 2008 study calculated that one ton of mobile phones without batteries contains about 130kg of copper, 3.5kg of silver, 340 grams of gold.

anyone having issues with the last mobile #vivaldi app update?
* very very slow
* unable to load my hundreds of sleeping tabs
* when I do manage to wait enough time I can’t scroll up or down due to memory overload
https://

Ricardo Mendes
8 February 2026 Tech anyone having issues with the last mobile #vivaldi app update? very very slow unable to load my hundreds of sleeping tabs when I do manage to wait enough time I can’t scroll up or...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Post Analog Disorder:
🎵 I Need Time
#PostAnalogDisorder
https://postanalogdisorder.bandcamp.com/track/i-need-time-the-mobile-homes-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3YGWJ9LA9Q4UZCLv3kx7HC

What the heck is wrong with :matrix: #matrix? We're looking for a platform for communication during a larger measurement campaign and from the featureset concluded with either #Mattermost or Matrix (subgroups, archivable, mobile/desktop/web clients, etc.).
But the

Der neue Innovationsbericht von #Amprion bündelt 32 Projekte für ein stabiles und klimaneutrales #Stromnetz.
Mobile #STATCOM-Anlagen erhöhen die Flexibilität im Netz. Pilotprojekte wie

Innovationsbericht von Amprion zeigt Lösungen für die Energiewende | Windkraft-Journal
Amprion baut seine Aktivitäten in Forschung und Entwicklung aus, um den Herausforderungen der Energiewende mit neuen Lösungen zu begegnen. (WK-intern) - Die Innovationen stärken Versorgungssicherheit, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Umweltverträglichkeit – für ein zukunftsfähiges Stromnetz. Der Innovationsbericht greift die Entwicklung und Dynamik laufender Innovationsaktivitäten des Unternehmens auf. Die insgesamt 32 vorgestellten innovativen Themen und Projekte stehen für

World War Optimism

#Java UI in 2026: The Complete Guide
https://robintegg.com/2026/02/08/java-ui-in-2026-the-complete-guide.html

Internetsperre hält an - Russen kaufen Landkarten, Pager und MP3-Player #News #Nachrichten

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ugandan officials turn off internet on eve of national elections https://therecord.media/uganda-internet-shutdown-elections

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/policy/859902/apple-google-run-by-cowards
> Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?

Japan: Entwickler kritisieren Apples neue Gebühren
Nach Einführung des Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA) in Japan gibt es massive Kritik. Entwickler fordern ein Einschreiten gegen Apple und Google.
https://www.

NCSC roept organisaties op zich te melden bij gebruik van Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile.
https://www.ncsc.nl/waarschuwing/ncsc-roept-organisaties-op-zich-te-melden-bij-gebruik-van-ivanti-endpoint-manager

Demonstrators have continued to take to the streets of #Iran,
defying an escalating crackdown by authorities against the growing #protest movement.
An #internet

T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature supporting 50 languages, coming "this spring" in beta and available on 5G and 4G LTE (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/877008/t-mobile-live-translation…

T-Mobile will live translate regular phone calls without an app
T-Mobile is preparing to test a new AI feature that translates live phone calls, without needing specific devices or apps.

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--The European Commission's mobile device platform was hacked, likely via Ivanti flaws,
--All four Singapore major telcos were hacked via China-nexus threat actor,
--Poland's most egregious database leaker has been busted,
--Romanian pipeline operator hit by a cyberattack,
--Germany warns of state-sponsored phishing attacks via mes…

The European Commission's mobile device platform was hacked
All four Singapore major telcos were hacked via China-nexus threat actor, Poland's most egregious database leaker has been busted, Romanian pipeline operator hit by a cyberattack, Germany warns of state-sponsored phishing attacks via messaging apps, much more

#heiseshow: Anthropic vs. Pentagon, Mobile World Congress, Intimsourcing
In der #heiseshow: Anthropic liegt mit der US-Regierung im Clinch, der MWC 2026 zeigt viel KI, und Schlafzimmeraufnahmen von Metas Brillen landen in Afrika.

from my link log —
Mobile carriers can get your GPS location.
https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
saved 2026-02-04 https://dotat.at/:/PXPC3.html…

New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App https://www.404media.co/new-legislation-would-rein-in-ices-facial-recognition-app/

heise | Mobile Ladegeräte fürs iPhone im Test: Schnell mehr Saft
Neue iPhones ziehen bis zu 40 Watt aus dem Netzteil, sofern dieses das schafft. Da Apple kein Ladegerät mehr beilegt, braucht es Alternativen. Unser Test.

Germany to deliver 33 mobile combined heat-and-power plants to Ukraine, ambassador says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/29/germany-to-deliver-mobile-combined.html

Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/tv/disney-plus-vertical-video-verts-explained/

Disney+ Rolls Out Its Vertical Video Offering 'Verts' This Week in the US
Users will be able to swipe through a stream of scenes from movies and shows on Disney+

Mobile internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens control; Roskomnadzor data shows daily traffic down ~20% since March 5 vs. the previous month (Anastasia Stognei/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9584377-f63f-48c1-ac16-f46450d8c783

RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud/115864346659649751
"Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism is a case in point. The ministry recently completed a migration of 1,200 employees to the European open-source collaboration platform…

Iran’s internet shutdown,
now in place for 36 hours
as the authorities seek to quell escalating anti-government protests,
represents a “new high-water mark” in terms of its sophistication and severity, say experts
– and could last a long time.
As the blackout kicked in, 90% of internet traffic to Iran evaporated.
International calls to the country appeared blocked and domestic mobile phones had no service,
said Amir Rashidi, an Iranian digital right…

A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/mobile-fortify-face-scan-dhs-kristi-noem-database-technology/

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

Ahead of trade meetings with China, the US has suspended its bans on China Telecom's US operations, domestic sales of routers made by TP-Link, the US internet business of China Unicom and China Mobile, and the sales of Chinese electric trucks and buses in the US.
https://www.…

Dutch mobile phone giant Odido announces data breach https://therecord.media/dutch-telecom-giant-announces-data-breach

Mobile World Congress: Telekom will KI-Assistenten und smarte Brille vorstellen
Die Deutsche Telekom will einen KI-Assistenten für Telefonate aus dem Telekom-Netz einführen. Außerdem soll eine eigene KI-Brille in Planung sein.

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mrbeasts-beast-industries-buy-ge…

MrBeast’s Beast Industries to Buy Gen Z–Focused Banking App
Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial ...

Disney is rolling out Verts, its new short-form video feed, to US users on its mobile app, featuring clips from movies and TV shows on Disney (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/12/disney-is-rolling-out-its-tiktok-lik…

Disney+ is rolling out its TikTok-like 'Verts' short-form video feed | TechCrunch
Following the success of TikTok and Instagram Reels, Verts is designed to boost daily engagement and reach mobile-first viewers, all while increasing discovery across Disney+'s catalog.

Trump Mobile: T1-Smartphone verpasst Startdatum
Ursprünglich sollte es im Sommer kommen, dann bis Ende 2025: Die Trump Organisation hat den Release-Termin des goldfarbenen T1-Smartphones gerissen.
https://www.

A new Master thesis by Maximilian Arthofer as part of our #Digidow project (https://digidow.eu) focusing on how to get remote integrity attestation of embedded sensing devices is now online:

Digidow

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

CaPow und Hyundai: batterielose Energieversorgung für Roboterflotten
CaPow stellt auf der CES 2026 ein kabelloses Energiesystem vor, das mobile Roboter während der Bewegung versorgt und Ladezonen überflüssig machen soll.

Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/857404/spotify-listening-activity-mobile

Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile
Spotify is adding Listening Activity and Request to Jam to its mobile app.

Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann says the company's new podcast division saw high mobile engagement in Q1, and video podcasts overindex on mobile vs. shows and film (Tess Patton/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/streami…

Netflix CFO Says Video Podcasts 'Overindex on Mobile' Compared to Scripted Programming
Spencer Neumann adds that Netflix subscribers consume video podcasts during the day more than the streamer's TV and film offerings

Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-…

Ant Builds a Mobile Payment Network as an Alternative to Visa, Mastercard
Five years after the Chinese government quashed Ant Group’s plans for what would have been the world’s largest initial public offering, the Chinese fintech giant has built a fast-growing international business. That offshoot runs a global payment network for digital wallets that could one day be ...

I admit that, through 2025, I have become an #AI #doomer. Not that I believe the LLM-becoming-sentient-and-killing-humanity self-serving hype bullshit for a second. There are much more concrete impact points that may lead to or greatly accelerate several crises, each of which will actively harm humanity…

iPad Air (M4) review: powerful M4 chip, good multitasking with iPadOS 26, and robust hardware, but its screen could be better, no Face ID, and can get pricey (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tablets/ip

iPad Air M4 review: Still Apple's best overall tablet, with a few caveats
Aside from chip updates, the iPad Air hasn't changed much in the last few years. But it's still a great tablet for those who want more than the basic model.

Before you leave for a likely well-deserved weekend break, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you should know, including
--Claude Opus 4.6 found 500 severe flaws in open source repos without much prompting,
--Asian cyberespionage group broke into sensitive systems in 37 countries,
--ICE's Mobile Fortify does not reliably ID people,
--CISA tells agencies to stop using edge devices past EOS,
--764 member busted a…

Claude Opus 4.6 found 500+ severe flaws in open source repos without much prompting
Asian cyberespionage group broke into sensitive systems in 37+ countries, ICE's Mobile Fortify does not reliably ID people, CISA tells agencies to stop using edge devices past EOS, 764 member busted and charged with receiving CSAM, French cops bust four with spying on Starlink for China, much more

Weiße Flecken: Telekom kooperiert mit Starlink
Mit Starlink Mobile will die Telekom künftig die Lücken in der Mobilfunkabdeckung in zehn europäischen Ländern schließen – auch in Deutschland.
https://www.

Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by MrBeast and last valued at $5.2B, acquires Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mrbeasts-beast-industries-buy-ge…

MrBeast’s Beast Industries to Buy Gen Z–Focused Banking App
Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial ...

China: Bilder sollen elektromagnetische Drohnenkatapulte auf LKW zeigen
Im chinesischen Internet kursieren Bilder, die mobile Drohnenkatapulte zeigen sollen. Entsprechende Pläne wurden bereits vorgestellt.

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plans-launch-sora-vide…

OpenAI Plans to Launch Sora Video AI in ChatGPT in Strategy Shift
OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort. The strategy shift could increase the chatbot’s usage as well as its costs. The move comes about five months after OpenAI released a Sora mobile app, which lets ...

Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through "final assembly" in Miami and full assembly in the US is a "goal" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/875190/tr

This is the Trump Phone
I spoke to Trump Mobile executives Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas for an exclusive first look at what they say is the T1 Phone.

DHS reveals that NEC is the vendor that sold Mobile Fortify, a facial recognition app used by federal immigration agents to identify people in the field, to CBP (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/mobile-fortify-face-recognition-nec-ice-cbp/

Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App
Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100 cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply (Cody Combs/The National)
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/01/08/iran-internet-blocked-ip…

Iran in 'digital blackout' as Tehran throttles mobile internet access
Cloudflare Radar says country’s IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities

Ubisoft closes its mobile-focused Halifax studio weeks after majority of the workers voted to unionize, as CWA Canada says it is "demanding information" (Chris Kerr/Game Developer)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ubis…

Ubisoft closes Halifax studio weeks after devs vote to unionize
Workers at the Canadian studio voted to unionize in December in search of security in an era of 'studio closures, layoffs, and increasing instability.

Samsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini-powered AI features to ~400M mobile devices by 2025, and aims to boost the figure to 800M in 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsun

Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it was "open to strategic co-operation" with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3752d058-d3ee-41a4-b702-d49ae7f61b5c

Samsung seeks AI deals to challenge Apple’s smartphone lead
Korean giant’s device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools

A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more (Eric Jang/Evjang.com)
https://evjang.com/2026/02/04/rocks.html