Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from Embridge, a China-backed cross-border digital currency project designed to enable direct transactions between central banks, according to the Financial Times. SAMA, the central bank of Saudi Arabia, has fully joined Embridge Participant in June 2024 and ended its participation after completing a proof of concept at the FT on May … Read more
Apple released iOS 27 to everyone last week, including new Siri and Apple Intelligence features. One of the biggest changes here is the addition of a new Siri app. This is the first time that Siri has been pre-installed as a standalone app for iPhone users… Siri app in iOS 27 After you update to … Read more
An old budget phone can serve as a smart home dashboard, but it shouldn’t run a media server. At least I thought so until I started wondering what else old Android could do. So I tried to run the Jellyfin server. The phone in question is the Realme C11 with 4GB of RAM running Android … Read more
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for violating the European Union’s strict data protection rules by improperly processing users’ location data, the bloc’s data protection regulator said on Monday. The Irish Data Protection Commission said its investigation found that Google did not lawfully or fairly process location data in users’ web and … Read more
Stablecoin issuer Circle has launched a bitcoin-backed borrowing service for institutional clients, allowing eligible Circle Mint customers to use BTC as collateral to borrow USDC via the onchain transaction market. D serviceCalled Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing, it allows customers to deposit Bitcoin, Mint Circle’s wrapped Bitcoin token ServiTC, and offer it as collateral in third-party loan … Read more
Microsoft warned that Windows’ built-in file history backup feature may stop working on some systems after installing the September 2026 security updates. File History (introduced under Windows 8 and replaced by Windows Backup, which backs up data to OneDrive) automatically saves copies that allow users to restore accidentally deleted or corrupted files with an older … Read more
I recently switched my phone service to EE as it has better coverage (and 5G) where I spend a lot of time. As a freelancer I had to get my phone on a business contract which started out weird and soon turned into a farce and now it’s impossible to manage my account online. In … Read more
Full implementation is expected by 2028 and Pontes will gradually expand its services and operating hours to accommodate more participants. The European Central Bank (ECB) launched Pontes, a system that allows financial institutions to settle wholesale tokenized asset transactions in central bank money, providing an alternative to private settlement assets such as stablecoins. ECB announcement … Read more
Anthropic researchers resigned this week, warning in a message on X that the company is “running straight to cognitive self-improvement and gambling with our lives”. Positioning of the company itself leads even Co-sign the message Instead of walking back. It is a kind of warning of the doomer AI industry has flirted with before, but … Read more
Brady Snyder / Android Authority Add Android Authority to Google: I’ve been walking the line between Google Health and Apple Health since I bought my first wearable. I ran with the Fitbit Charge HR for a few weeks before switching back to the Apple Watch Sport in 2015, and I’ve been wearing the Apple Watch … Read more