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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Three years later, AT&T still won’t say how 70 million customers’ data got leaked.

TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker has been pushing the company for answers, now that the massive cache of customer data is circulating once again. But although a known hacker claimed responsibility in 2021, AT&T still claims its systems weren’t breached at all — and yet it wouldn’t give Whittaker any other explanation for where the data came from.

Confirmed: the S Pen smells kind of badConfirmed: the S Pen smells kind of bad
Allison Johnson
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Apple’s plans for AI in China could involve Baidu.

WSJ reports Apple’s held talks with Baidu to power AI technology for iPhones in China. That’s not surprising, given China’s strict rules for AI bots covering their output, data used for training, and storage of user data.

So instead of ChatGPT or Google Gemini (like Apple reportedly discussed using everywhere else), Samsung similarly partnered with Baidu to bring its AI chatbot Ernie to the Galaxy S24 in China earlier this year.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Proton’s password manager now supports passkeys.

After rolling out its end-to-end encrypted password manager last year, Proton has announced that it will now let you manage passkeys across mobile and desktop devices, allowing you to log into sites without a password.

Image: Proton
Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Oh snap, another midrange smartphone chip just dropped.

Qualcomm just announced the Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 3, sitting just below the also recently announced 8S Gen 3. It can run Llama 2 and Gemini Nano on-device and supports Wi-Fi 7. It’ll start appearing in phones in the next few months, and OnePlus says it will use the chipset in a device — my money’s on this guy.

Rendering of the Snapdragon 7 Plus mobile chipset.
Image: Qualcomm
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
Here’s what Epic’s mobile app store might look like.

Epic reiterated its plans to launch the Epic Games Store on both iOS and Android this year. And as part of that, the company released a concept image that looks a lot like, well, the Epic Games Store. Only mobile.

A concept image for the Epic Game Store on mobile.
Image: Epic Games