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Apple has released its annual list of the most downloaded apps and games for 2025. This year’s list reveals a significant shift in US consumer habits as AI applications gain massive popularity under the free apps category. For the US market, OpenAI’s ChatGPT topped the rankings for free iPhone apps (excluding games), securing the most…
As digital banking and mobile apps become more common, scammers are using increasingly sophisticated methods to steal sensitive information. A rising threat involves exploiting screen sharing during phone calls, where fraudsters pose as banks or trusted institutions to trick users into revealing passwords, account details, or authorising unauthorised transactions. To tackle this issue, Android has…
Zerodha’s CEO apologized for a Cloudflare outage that hit its trading platform and others globally. The 12-minute disruption highlighted reliance on single providers. Zerodha is now diversifying infrastructure, while its WhatsApp backup offered a limited lifeline. This incident renews concerns about the internet’s fragile backbone. Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath issued a public apology following a…
European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) for violating the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA), saying the platform’s practices could expose users to scams, manipulation and opaque advertising, according to an ET report.The European Commission announced the penalty after completing an investigation it launched two…
The Union government has issued new directives requiring messaging apps to enforce SIM card verification and automatically log out web-based sessions every six hours. This means that users will be barred from accessing their services if they do not have a physical SIM card originally used to register for the app present in their device….
Users attempting to login to the Indian domain for the popular AI chatbot Perplexity are being unexpectedly rerouted, not to Perplexity’s service, but to a direct competitor. If you type Perplexity.in and hit enter, you will be directed to Google Gemini. Generally, this situation arises when a company fails to secure a country-specific domain (for…
Google Meet, Google’s video conferencing platform is experiencing widespread outage. Thousands of Google Meet users in India were not able to join meetings. According to outage tracking website, DownDetector, 65% users were not able to access the website for Google Meet. Around 33% users complained of server connection issue and 2% had issues with the…
FILE – Chat GPT app icon is seen on a smartphone screen, Aug. 4, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, file) OpenAI has expanded group chats in ChatGPT to all logged-in users globally, just a week after piloting the feature in select regions including Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. The rollout is happening…
Millions of Spotify users across the globe are facing widespread disruitpns and service malfunctions. According to outage tracking website DownDetector, the issues started around 5.30 PM on November 18, affecting multiple functionalities across desktop, mobile, and web players. As per Downdetector, around 93% users complained of app related issue, while 6% had problems with streaming…
NEW DELHI: The new digital personal data protection law, that becomes operational after the passage of supporting rules, mandates companies handling digital data to immediately inform users and the newly-constituted data protection board about any breaches to drive transparency in data handling processes.As soon as the entity involved in the processing of personal data learns…
