Qualcomm has announced a trio of chipsets for gaming handhelds: the G3 Gen 3, G2 Gen 2, and G1 Gen 2. The G3 is the flagship, but sadly lacks the Oryon CPU or Adreno 830 GPU found in the smartphone Snapdragon 8 Elite. Perhaps there’s a G Elite on the way?
At least there’s plenty of hardware at launch, with five devices already announced using the new chipsets, including the Switch-meets-DS OneXSugar.
The Guardian reports Apple has a secret appeal hearing tomorrow against the UK government’s demand for a backdoor to encrypted iCloud backups. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal lists a private hearing in its schedule.
The Home Office had asked Apple to help it access encrypted files from users worldwide using an act that makes it illegal for Apple to even disclose the request. In response, the company disabled Advanced Data Protection in the UK entirely.
In 2006 the AT&T whistleblower exposed a secret room inside the company that routed network traffic to the NSA, leaking documents that showed how the agency’s mass surveillance was carried out.
His work led directly to two lawsuits against NSA spying, bolstered by later leaks from Edward Snowden. The government responded with retroactive immunity for AT&T, and the NSA successfully argued that plaintiffs couldn’t sue because any evidence they’d been spied on was itself secret.
After admitting that AI-powered upgrades to Siri are taking “longer than we thought,” Apple has added a disclaimer to its iPhone 16, 16E, and 16 Pro product pages warning that some features “will be available with a future software update.”
There was no disclaimer on the site last week, even though the features were just as unavailable then. Apple has also pulled an iPhone 16 ad focused on the unreleased upgrades.
Android Authority spotted a new beta feature to delete all your passwords, passkeys, and other data from the tool in one go, rather than removing them individually.
In October Google made it easier to use third-party password managers in Chrome on Android, and this change should help users move from Google’s option to another without leaving a load of data behind.
[androidauthority.com]
The app now lets you remove every photo uploaded to the cloud from a specific device, without deleting the images from local storage. It turns off backup too. That’s better than previous options, which only let you remove photos individually, or delete them from both the cloud and your device.
iOS and iPadOS users got the option in December 2024.
