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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone In April 2025, Ronald Deibert left all electronic devices at home in Toronto and boarded a plane. When he landed in Illinois, he bought a new laptop and iPhone. He wanted to reduce the risk of having his personal devices confiscated, because he knew his work made him a prime target for surveillance. “I’m traveling under the assumption that I am being watched, right down to exactly where I…

Container nodes in Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) 2.9 complement virtual machines, offering greater flexibility and efficiency. Engineers benefit from having lightweight, programmable, and rapidly deployable options within their simulation environments. While virtual machines (VMs) dominate with network operating systems, containers add flexibility, enabling tools, traffic injectors, automation, and full applications to run smoothly with your CML topology. Traditional virtual machines are still effective, but custom containers introduce a transformative agility. Building images that behave predictably and integrate cleanly with simulated networks is much easier with containers. As anyone who has tried to drop a stock Docker image into CML quickly…

Posted by Eric Lynch, Senior Product Manager, Android Security, and Sherif Hanna, Group Product Manager, Google C2PA Core At Made by Google 2025, we announced that the new Google Pixel 10 phones will support C2PA Content Credentials in Pixel Camera and Google Photos. This announcement represents a series of steps towards greater digital media transparency: The Pixel 10 lineup is the first to have Content Credentials built in across every photo created by Pixel Camera. The Pixel Camera app achieved Assurance Level 2, the highest security rating currently defined by the C2PA Conformance Program. Assurance Level 2 for a mobile…

Support CleanTechnica’s work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Eavor is a next-generation geothermal energy company that set out to solve one of the long-standing limits of geothermal power. Conventional geothermal electrical generation only works where naturally permeable, water bearing hot rock exists close enough to the surface. Eavor’s idea was different. Instead of relying on naturally flowing hot fluids, it proposed drilling deep, sealed loops of pipe through hot rock, circulating a working fluid through them, extracting heat by conduction, and bringing that heat to the surface for electricity generation or industrial and district heat. In late 2025,…

9/25/18 2:20 PM · 1 min read The facade design pattern is a simplified interface over a complex subsystem. Let me show you a real quick example using Swift. What is a facade?The name of the facade pattern comes from real life building architecture.one exterior side of a building, usually the frontIn software development this definition can be translated to something like everything that’s outside, hiding all the internal parts. So the main purpose of a facade is to provide a beautiful API over some more complex ugly ones. 😅Usually the facade design pattern comes handy if you have two or…

Technical and marketing teams working on internet of things (IoT) programs, sooner or later, manage a project that requires data flow between a fleet of devices and the cloud. This data is critical because marketing wants to provide more features to the users, business teams require data driven decisions, and technical teams work to optimize connectivity to an existing device fleet. All these reasons align around improving the customer experience. This blog post discusses the initial stages of an IoT project and some of the options that are available to communicate between the device and the cloud. It also provides…

What you need to knowRecent leaks regarding a previously rumored Advanced Protection feature surface again, showing Google’s work toward “Intrusion Logging.”This feature, within Google’s code, states that users can enable it and will be can be connected to a “trusted” expert if suspicious activity is found with their device.Google recently rolled out Android 16 QPR3 Beta 2 to enrolled Pixel users, providing an extensive list of fixes for crashes, notifications, and more.There’s an Android protection feature that’s been in the works for a while now, and a new report seems to have discovered the fruits of Google’s labor.A recent Google…

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs), also known as colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), are zero-dimensional nanoscale semiconductor particles (typically 2–10 nm in size) whose electronic and optical properties are size-dependent due to their quantum confinement [1]. Their size-dependent optical properties have been the focus of significant research over the past two decades [2]. Each QD consists of between a few hundred to a few thousand atoms [3], and surrounded by an outer layer of functional groups such as amino, carbonyl, aldehyde, hydroxyl, and carboxylic acid groups [4]. In a system when the particle radius becomes smaller than the exciton Bohr radius, quantum confinement…

AI is revolutionizing how teams develop products. In this blog we’ll introduce a set of prompts you can use to understand your users, prepare to interview real users, generate a product backlog, add acceptance criteria, and evaluate your own user stories. Throughout this blog, I’ll use a consistent example so you can see how results from one prompt feed into the next. For our example, let’s imagine our team is developing a new product for valet-attended parking garages. We’ll validate our product by selling initially to independent parking garages such as at boutique hotels. For the examples here, I will…

Recently, embryo scoring has evolved. Labs can pinch off a couple of cells from an embryo, look at its DNA, and screen for some genetic diseases. That list of diseases is increasing. And now some companies are taking things even further, offering prospective parents the opportunity to select embryos for features like height, eye color, and even IQ. This is controversial for lots of reasons. For a start, there are many, many factors that contribute to complex traits like IQ (a score that doesn’t capture all aspects of intelligence at any rate). We don’t have a perfect understanding of those factors, or…