2026-03-23 04:40:39
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galax…
Samsung rolls out Apple AirDrop support to Quick Share, starting with the Galaxy S26 series in South Korea, and plans to expand to more devices and regions (Mike Sorrentino/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/samsungs-galax…
🌮 TACO 🌮 seems to become the standard menu item in Davos.
Fediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
— by @…<…
Amazon MX Player rolls out Fatafat, a free, ad-supported, mobile-first platform offering serialized vertical videos, in India, as micro dramas gain momentum (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/amazon-mx-player-fatafat-microdrama-s…
Now that the FCC has banned foreign made routers...
I wonder if they realize that pretty much every mobile phone that can support tethering has routing capability?
And many cars similarly provide routing access/NAT/firewall function to support passengers inside the vehicle.
Pretty much any laptop - running Windoz or MacOS or Linux or Freebsd - can be quickly turned into a "router".
This FCC panic reminds me of the days when the Feds were induced to try to bl…
Moscow is in the throes of a major mobile internet blackout
as the Russian government tightens restrictions it has touted as
necessary to ensure the “security” of its citizens.
The Russian capital has been more or less spared from a wave of systematic mobile internet outages that have hit the country since May,
-- which authorities have said are necessary to counter the threat of Ukrainian drones.
But since the first week of March, Muscovites have also found t…
Millions Face Mobile Internet Outages in Moscow. 'Digital Crackdown' Feared - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/21/2135236/millions-face-mobile-internet-outages-in-moscow-digital-crackdown-feared
Are you in with the Inphone? It's sort of mobile!
#80s
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…
(Note: it’s using the T-Mobile network if that makes a coverage difference for you.)
About to go check out a mobile home nearby. Listed as a "fixer upper" for $15k. Most worrying is a lack of pics showcasing the 2nd bedroom or the bathroom. It is 768 sq ft, which is 3x the space our current RV "boasts". Yeah, we literally live in a box. Frankly, as long as the place isn't leaking or dry rotting hard anywhere and the 2 rooms not pictured aren't on fire, we'll likely offer on it and prob what they're asking. After all, home prices here are c…
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
> So, the system has been deliberately configured to transmit the location of the nearest tube station, where access can be arranged. That’s why sometimes you might check your smartphone map, and it will display the “wrong” location, because that’s the best one for a 999 call to use.
h…
Was #Autoholger nicht erwähnt ist, dass sich die Autofahrer quasi selbst abzocken. 🤷
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.
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…
Got a spam text? Copy spam text (careful not to click on links in it), forward contents of spam text to 7726 (SPAM), and it should walk you through the spam report for your carrier.
Use https://www.carrierlookup.com/ to see what company is carrier for sender/spammer, then internet search "[company n…
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…
Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Periodic reminder, in the US you can get flat-rate unlimited unthrottled mobile 4G/5G internet for $400/$500 a year from https://calyxinstitute.org, and they now have a bring-your-own-device option
Kagi launches an app to explore the small web on mobile phones. It may be somewhat superfluous, but it’s still a nice move.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/kagi-small-web-human-authored-indie-internet-mobile-ios-android-devices/…
The destruction of the United States, documented:
https://dogetrack.info/
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…
ICE hasn’t gone; they’re just finding ways to operate that are less visible, finding targets with fewer eyes watching:
https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/mobile-home-parks-immigration-enforcement-ice-minnesota/
Don’t forget the people ICE is targeting. Don’t let them become invisible.
Let me just start with Kharg Island.
We can put troops on there. We can air mobile them in. We could land them by boat.
I guess the comment I have about Kharg is, I’m not sure what the significance is of putting troops there.
It’s only about 20 miles off the coast of Iran. So you’re definitely under the threat of their weapon systems.
You’d be very, very vulnerable there.
And I don’t know that it would give us any particular tactical advantage that we don’t…
A #gongfarmer in the wild!
#DCCRPG https://piefed.soci…
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…
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…
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
Greek police arrest scammers using fake cell tower hidden in car trunk https://therecord.media/greek-police-arrest-scammers-using-hidden-cell-towers
From @… on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/lflegal.bsky.social/post/3mhecx4f2wk2c):
Important! Threat to the
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…
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
PANIC IN MOSCOW: MOBILE INTERNET DOWN FOR A WEEK Vlog 1346: War in #Ukraine
Mobile #internet has been shut down in
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Wo ist die gesellschaftliche Relevanz? Threads auf Mobilgeräten deutlich vor X
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…
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…
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…
Nein, Solarenergie und Windenergie sind keine „alternativen Energien“. Solar und Wind sind ganz banal Methoden zur Energieerzeugung¹, genauso wie diese umständlichen Arten wie Sachen verbrennen, um damit Wasser zu verdampfen und damit Dynamos anzutreiben (aka „fossile Energien“).
„Alternative Energien“ schwingen in irgendwelchen esoterischen Heilsteinen, fließen durch spirituelle Astralkörper oder fließen in hübschen Mustern aus einem Perpetuum Mobile zweiter Art, aka existieren schlic…
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 Russian internet domain whitelist
Only 57 domains for a single country
https://github.com/hxehex/russia-mobile-internet-whitelist
Grumbling yet again at t-mobile 5G having a weird nonstandard MTU that breaks things unpredictably
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
2 Cowboys defensive assistants to coach in 2026 Senior Bowl https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/19/cowboys-defensive-assistants-david-overstreet-ii-tanzel-…
Trump announced on Saturday via social media that the United States will send a hospital ship to Greenland to provide medical care,
posting alongside an illustration of the USNS Mercy that
“we are going to send a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care of there. It’s on the way!!!”
As of late January, the 1,000-bed hospital ship was firmly in drydock at Alabama Shipyard in Mobile, where it has been undergoing s…
"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."
I donated to the Navajo Hopi Health Foundation
https://navajohopihealthfoundation.org
...provides comprehensive primary care, dental, behavioral health, and ancillary services through its hospital in Tuba City, Arizona as well as a Federally Qualified Health Center Mobile Health program.
Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds "almost exclusively mobile", letting it better compete with Roblox (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/881647/meta-vr-mobile-metaverse-ho…
NYT launches Crossplay, its first two-player competitive word game, as a standalone iOS and Android app, as it seeks a bigger share of the mobile gaming market (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
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…
“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…
Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/898282/gemini-task-automation-uber…
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…
Vurt, a mobile-first vertical streaming platform designed for indie filmmakers to upload their micro series or feature films, launches with 100 episodes (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/17/vurt-mobile-first-v…
How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/ai-trainers-identity…
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.
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.
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…
Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/netflix-is-rolling-out-a-live-voting-feature/
Mastodon, a decentralized, open source social media platform and alternative to centralized social media apps like X and Threads,
announced on Wednesday its plans to make its platform more approachable for newcomers
while also targeting creators with the launch of new features.
The changes follow the expansion of Mastodon’s core development team over the past 18 months
to include people with experience across web and mobile and back end,
as well as the hiring o…
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…
Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
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.<…
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
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?
Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/netflix-is-rolling-out-a-live-voting-feature/
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.
The United States is deploying roughly 2,500 Marines aboard up to three amphibious warships from the Indo-Pacific toward the Middle East
as fighting with Iran enters a more uncertain phase.
The move adds a mobile expeditionary force to the more than 50,000 U.S. troops already in the region
while Washington evaluates Iran’s response to nearly two weeks of joint U.S. and Israeli air and long-range strike operations.
What's Trump expecting them to do?
Capture …
#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.
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…
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…
Emergent, which offers an AI-powered software development service, says it is generating annual run-rate revenue of $100M , just eight months after launch (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/emergent-hits-100m-arr-eight-mont…
Indian studio Applause Entertainment partners with microdrama platform Story TV to co-produce and distribute short-form content for mobile audiences (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/applause-entertainment-story-…
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.…
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…
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.
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…
Sources: Apple stops vibe coding apps from pushing updates, citing rules on running code; Replit thinks Apple may approve opening AI-generated apps in a browser (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-cracks-vibe-coding-apps
SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO (Anthony Hughes/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Meta says Quest users will lose access to Meta Horizon Worlds on the headsets on June 15; access will continue on the Meta Horizon mobile app (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-17/meta-to-disc…
An Argentine court ruled Polymarket lacked approval to operate and directed ISPs and app stores to restrict it; Polymarket is now unavailable in 30 countries (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/17
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
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
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-…
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…
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
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-…
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
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