2026-01-02 07:46:00
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.
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.
Ukraine enters EU's single mobile roaming zone: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/ukraine-enters-eus-single-mobile.html
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecast, regardless of subscription plan (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromecas…
Ugh. Casting/AirPlay is the only way I'd suggest using streaming apps with TVs you don't own (hotels, etc). Asking people to log in on random untrusted hardware is a bad pattern.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/01/netflix-kills-casting-from-mobile…
Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromeca…
Internet #Uckermark Style #project25
Why do we have a Toronto Police board with city councillors on it if disbanding the mobile crisis intervention team is kept secret?
Typical Toronto Police trying to hide things
https://www.the…
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…
#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.
I didn't think it was possible, but Google just managed to make the #YouTube mobile app *even worse*. Well done, incompetent engineers and asshole product managers. You have done it again.
#TIL "dystextie": "Dystextia refers to the difficulty in composing text messages using a mobile phone". 📱🧠🌩️
via https://www.stern.de/gesundhei…
Instead of a Happy one, I want to wish everybody a Stable New Year 2026, because we can all use one of those...
However, strive to find happiness within. Take care of yourselves and those around you! 🥰
I think that this could be a plot device for a modern day remake of Conan The Barbarian.
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
Yes the #FOSDEM app was absolutely great to find my path through all the devrooms, lectures and BOFs. This largest #opensource event was just amazing! It attracted 40% more attendees than last year and was enriched with a policy track on digital sovereignty. Now just reading a review about the event on…
Wilson's 2026 NFL mock draft 6.0: Senior Bowl standouts Caleb Banks, Lee Hunter change Round 1 conversation
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2
Apptopia: ChatGPT referrals to retailer mobile apps increased 28% YoY during the Black Friday weekend in 2025; Amazon's share of ChatGPT referrals grew to 54% (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/chatgpt…
While the desktop experience has some room for improvement, the Ente Photos app on mobile is totally competitive with privacy-invasive alternatives.
https://theprivacydad.com/ente-photos-a-privacy-first-photo-app/
@…
Ooh oooooo! So close, and yet nada. Booted out at the last second. BUT, I feel like i am on the cusp of making this work...
PS C:\Users\user> ssh user1@10.64.34.200
Use the password for your Office 365 or Microsoft online login.
(user1@10.64.34.200) Entra Id Password:
Open your Authenticator app, and enter the number '60' to sign in.
No push? Check your mobile device's internet connection.
Connection closed by 10.64.34.200 port 22
PS C:…
https://www.resetera.com/threads/newsis-consumer-gpus-to-increase-in-price-next-year-rtx-5090-to-increase-from-2000-to-5000.1394815/ I bought my ASRock AMD RX 9070 XT not long after it launched, for fea…
3 Senior Bowl Standouts The Cowboys Should Watch https://insidethestar.com/3-senior-bowl-standouts-the-cowboys-should-watch
Games with lots of lore really need a mobile app that allows me to read the 16 novels worth of documents and interviews when I’m NOT in front of my gaming device
These are the #Apps I keep on my #iPhone and use on a regular basis. I believe in #Minimalism and this is reflected with every app on my
🕶️ First Contact with Dark Patterns and Deceptive Designs in Chinese and Japanese Free-to-Play Mobile Games
#games
Indian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
The Trump Mobile phone is nowhere to be found after months of delay;
Trump Mobile has posted conflicting photos of the phone and scrubbed mention of its “Made in the USA” promise.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-mobile…
Trump lied again? #SHOCKED
"Made in the USA", my ass.
✅ Trump Family Dragged After Promise Of 'Trump Mobile' Phones 'Made In The USA' Goes Up In Flames
https://www.comicsands.com/trump-mo…
WebKit browsers see telephone numbers everywhere
#WebKit
3 players to watch in 2026 Senior Bowl https://www.raiders.com/news/3-players-to-watch-in-2026-senior-bowl-mobile-alabama-raiders-draft
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
❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…
People have complained for a LONG time about my blog's poor performance on mobile. Made a bunch of fixes tonight, hope it's better!
https://parentheticallyspeaking.org
For those of you tolerating Liquid Glass and the quite horrific Safari redesign on mobile/tablet: Kagi’s Orion browser actually seems to be an awesome full replacement. No complaints so far. Easy access to tab management, no weirdly hidden buttons or menus you need to tap multiple times to see fully. As a bonus, it has built-in filter support as well as several great Firefox and Chrome plug-ins. And Kagi’s search is optional. In fact you have more search options than in Safari.
"Two years later, the same BYTE Magazine asked on its January 1997 cover: “Can Java Replace Windows?” (Spoiler alert 2: it did not, and… seriously?) Reflecting the myopic insanity of the warlords commanding troops from the comfort of their bunkers, Scott McNealy’s interview on page 40 is just a puzzling diatribe against Microsoft PowerPoint instead of an actual argument in favor of Java."
Die größte Lücke im Fediverse existiert derzeit beim Thema Videos.
Ich meine echte Videos, nicht Sekundenschnipsel.
Hier gibt es eigentlich nur PeerTube und dessen Usability ist grausam.
Der mobile Client auf iOS ist praktisch unbenutzbar und die Webseite ist nicht besser.
Es scheitert schon bei simplen Dingen wie einer funktionierenden Suche.
Die Bewertung mit 2.8 Sternen im AppStore ist entsprechend schlecht, eigentlich noch zu gut.
Einzig die Desktop-Webs…
The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…
This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…
The Letter — Stop Hacklore!
https://www.hacklore.org/letter
Please read. It is good advice.
**Todo : **
1. Make sure webmentions and syndication data is displayed on all post types
2. Do more testing of indieweb interactions on mobile/desktop
3. Audit security of indiekit fork & developed extensions
4. Fix the issues with pictures not displaying on photo post type
5. Fix the access to profile metadata for indieauth/indielogin
6. Add rel-me for mastodon/blueksy
7. Keep improving indiekit-microsub
8. update PR with new indiekit-mic…
If you don't see the real reason for IPv6, I guess we don't have much else to say to one another?
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KB1ATJ5J7S74K8PEGPP2PNYS
Osmo Mobile 8: Gimbal mit Apples DockKit von DJI
DJI hat die nächste Generation seines Smartphone-Gimbals vorgestellt. Er kommt nun mit Support für Apples DockKit und kann Motive besser tracken.
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Simian Mobile Disco:
🎵 I Got This Down
#SimianMobileDisco
https://smdisco.bandcamp.com/track/i-got-this-down
https://open.spotify.com/track/7jOdpBTrFU3m81FB7SZ4v3
Your EV could soon power your home—and help stabilize the entire grid.
Hyundai and Kia are rolling out Vehicle-to-Grid and Vehicle-to-Home tech across Korea, Europe, and the U.S., turning electric cars into mobile power banks. The systems let EVs store renewable energy, cut electricity costs, and provide backup power during outages or peak demand.
Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn #environment
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/29fc1e75-7bec-4011-acc3-603e51cf9fe2
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…
"Clicks" keyboard for phones. Also a "work phone" with nice specs.📱
Now, how do I convince my wife that I need the keyboard and the phone? 🤔🤓
#technology #gadgets #phone #keyboard #Blackberry #Clicks
3 players to watch in 2026 Senior Bowl https://www.raiders.com/news/3-players-to-watch-in-2026-senior-bowl-mobile-alabama-raiders-draft
"Unifying our mobile and desktop domains" -wikimedia
#Wikipedia
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2025/11/21/unifying-mobile-and-desktop-domains/<…
5 #PositiveDinge gestern
- ein Urlaubstag, zwar wg. Handwerkerarbeiten an der Elektrik und dadurch keinem Strom für das "mobile" Heimarbeiten, aber doch nicht schlecht, so Mitte der Woche mal frei zu nehmen
- #Fingersatz für die rechte Hand ausgedacht, für eine schwierige P…
The BBC news mobile app's breaking news alerts thing is wild.
It could be anything from "the Queen/King is dead" through to the one just now "there will be an extra tax on instant lattes".
I've spent the past year learning Morse code, and it's ended up being a great deal of fun. I've had a lot of questions. I've tried to share what I've learned with others as I've gone along.
To celebrate the end of the year, I wrote a combination of information, story, and advice. How to get started, mobile apps and websites, books, getting on the air, learning to send, POTA, SST, keys and keyers. I'm not fluent or expert yet, but that means that I still remember what's hard!
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…
I am thrilled to be back at FOSDEM. It is a fantastic opportunity to meet with the open source community and connect with fellow developers at such a great conference!
Please join me this Saturday in the FOSS on Mobile devroom. I will be presenting the technical evolution of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, demonstrating how we achieved full mainline support—from power management to the Adreno GPU—running on actual product hardware.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Saturday, 18:30…
Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new smartphone app with facial recognition technology.
The app is named #Mobile #Fortify.
Simply pointing a phone’s camera at their intended target and scanning the person’s face
allows Mobile Fortify to pull data on an individual…
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/
Wrote a webpage in HTML. Like 10 lines.
Found a bug in mobile Safari’s default stylesheet.
Computers.
Can’t live with them, can’t live… what’s that? You can live without them?
Boy I should give that a try.
suggested SIM providers for low usage?? I'm currently on RWG but I've started having problems sending SMS - only about 1 in 3 sends work; other dirt cheap but working suggestions? At the moment I'm thinking 1p/mobile?
Senior Bowl Day 2 takeaways: If your team needs offensive playmakers, you won't love what's in Mobile
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-d…
Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
La Suite Docs 3.10.0: Kollaborations-Tool erhält ODT-Export
Das Open-Source-Tool La Suite Docs unterstützt nun ODT-Export und verbessert Mobile-UX sowie Barrierefreiheit deutlich.
https://www.
#COP30 has been, unsurprisingly, another testament to human stupidity.
Every single politician who actively sabotaged human survival (again) should stand in fron…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Klaxons:
🎵 Magick ((Simian Mobile Disco Mix))
#Klaxons
https://open.spotify.com/track/32tHv7fpzpbw8p5xMP9nSG
Aksyonov: Mobile internet restrictions in Crimea to remain in place until war ends: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/23/aksyonov-mobile-internet-restrictions-in.html
The problem I have with the Telegraph's "China hacked the mobile phones of senior officials in Downing Street" is that it implies that mobile phone handsets had been compromised, but only gives statements about the networks. In terms of compromise, those pose two different sets of risk.
https://w…
Senior Bowl 2026 practice standouts: Top performers at every position in NFL Draft showcase
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/senior-bowl-standouts-20…
Cyber troubles never end for KT in Korea.
An internet installation technician working as a subcontractor for KT has been accused of leaking customer personal information to another mobile phone retailer.
https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/1…
Ukraine-Krieg: Internetbeschränkungen in Russland mit immer heftigeren Folgen
Um Drohnen aus der Ukraine zu blockieren, schränkt Russland immer öfter das mobile Internet ein. Die Folgen sind immens – und teils wohl unvorhergesehen.
Media Day from Senior Bowl in Mobile | The Draft Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxW3q1RyXcw
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch
🌮 TACO 🌮 seems to become the standard menu item in Davos.
Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming "still-evolving and complex business terms" (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/setapp-mobile-eu-app…
While X still dominates Threads on the web,
the Threads mobile app for iOS and Android has seen an increase in daily active users over the past several months.
Similarweb’s data shows that
Threads had 141.5 million daily active users on iOS and Android as of January 7, 2026, after months of growth,
while X has 125 million daily active users on mobile devices.
This appears to be the result of longer-term trends,
rather than a reaction to the recent X contro…
Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mo…
Senior Bowl practice takeaways: Who helped (or hurt) their 2026 NFL Draft stock on Day 1
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/senior-bowl-practice-…
Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/cons…
Wo ist die gesellschaftliche Relevanz? Threads auf Mobilgeräten deutlich vor X
Wenn es um die mobile Nutzung geht, hat Threads X längst hinter sich gelassen – im Web noch lange nicht. Gesellschaftlich scheint aber sogar Bluesky relevanter.
I am delighted that we now have a short summary video of our research lab (#ArsElectronica2025 online:
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/yahoo-scout-ai-search-launch
Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
Meta prompt engineering - using GenAI to optimize prompts for GenAI - is the homeopathy of computer science.
Both promise better results by diluting the real essence to the point of nonexistence. What is left is pure noise.
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
Political fixer Bradley Tusk's nonprofit releases VoteSecure, an open-source cryptographic protocol for mobile voting, amid skepticism from cryptographers (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/bradley-tusk-mobile-voting-protocol/
Chinese government data: shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, primarily iPhones, rose 128.4% YoY in November 2025 to 6.93M units (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/foreign-bran…
Poland's antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an edge (Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mo…
Samsung names mobile chief TM Roh as co-CEO and DX division head; Roh was serving as consumer business acting head since April after co-CEO Han Jong-Hee's death (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/samsung-el…
CloudX, which uses Anthropic's Claude to automate mobile ad pricing and inventory optimization for publishers, raised a $30M Series A led by Addition (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/adtech-founders-raise-30-million…
Chinese humanoid robot startup Galbot raised over $300M led by China Mobile's industry investment fund at a $3B valuation, bringing its total funding to $800M (Eudora Wang/DealStreetAsia)
https://www.dealstreetasia.com/stories/galbot-raises-over-300m-467245
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…
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
A federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/849752/texas-app-store-accounta…
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