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Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls

Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. The new measures…

Former AT&T store worker jailed after moonlighting as a SIM-swap gang’s inside man

44-year-old Kenneth Carter from Portland, Oregon, used to work in an AT&T retail store. But now he has been sentenced to 16…

The US military just turned off ad tracking on its phones. Maybe you should too

Branches of the US military have reportedly disabled ad-tracking on government-issued phones and computers, following concerns that commercially-available location data has been…