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What you need to knowGoogle is reportedly testing a “Controls” toggle for the Phone app to alleviate an auto-rotating issue.It was discovered that a “keep portrait mode on calls” toggle was spotted in the Display settings for Android after users noticed the app was adhering to their auto-rotating requests across the system.A recent Phone app beta highlights the chance for users to mark their calls as “urgent” when dialing.Google is in the process of testing (what will likely be) a major QoL update for its Phone app on Android.As with any Google app beta, early previewers get a glimpse of…

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In reading Joe Dolson’s recent piece on the intersection of AI and accessibility, I absolutely appreciated the skepticism that he has for AI in general as well as for the ways that many have been using it. In fact, I’m very skeptical of AI myself, despite my role at Microsoft as an accessibility innovation strategist who helps run the AI for Accessibility grant program. As with any tool, AI can be used in very constructive, inclusive, and accessible ways; and it can also be used in destructive, exclusive, and harmful ones. And there are a ton of uses somewhere in…

Encrypted traffic has come to dominate network flows, which makes it difficult for traditional flow monitoring tools to maintain visibility. This is particularly true when the process to enable encryption occurs after an initial data exchange, causing the encryption attributes to be missed. In this blog post we take a closer look at a new feature added to CERT’s Yet Another Flowmeter tool (YAF) to capture the attributes of encryption when it occurs after the start of the session. We call this mid-encryption. We explore what mid-encryption means, why it matters, how it works within YAF, and what benefits this…

Due to the ongoing lawsuit, the Ho-Chunk Nation has moved to block Kalshi from offering sports contracts for the duration of the legal battle. According to legal documents shared by gaming lawyer Daniel Wallach, the Ho-Chunk Nation has moved for a preliminary injunction to prevent Kalshi from offering sports event contracts on the Tribe’s lands for the duration of the lawsuit, arguing that it’s in violation of its State-Tribal Compact. The lawsuit in question has been filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. It’s centered around the argument that Kalshi’s sports event contracts are not…

Another draw is that the app is built on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) privacy in which the private keys used to secure messages are stored on the device itself. This should make it impossible to eavesdrop on private messages without either having physical access to the device or remotely infecting it with malware. GhostPairing demonstrates that a social engineering attack can bypass this. Interestingly, although still possible, the attack is less practical when asking users to pair via QR codes. That offers some reassurance for users of messaging apps such as Signal, which only allows pairing requests via QR Codes. Defending…

A new brain implant could significantly reshape how people interact with computers while offering new treatment possibilities for conditions such as epilepsy, spinal cord injury, ALS, stroke, and blindness. By creating a minimally invasive, high-throughput communication path to the brain, it has the potential to support seizure control and help restore motor, speech, and visual abilities. The promise of this technology comes from its extremely small size paired with its ability to transmit data at very high speeds. Developed through a collaboration between Columbia University, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania, the device is a brain-computer interface…

If you’re in the market for insurance right now, keep an eye out for scammers in the mix. They’re out in full force once again this open enrollment season. As people across the U.S. sign up for, renew, or change their health insurance plans, scammers want to cash in as people rush to get their coverage set. And scammers have several factors working in their favor. For starters, many people find the insurance marketplace confusing, frustrating, and even intimidating, all feelings that scammers can take advantage of. Moreover, concerns about getting the right level of coverage at an affordable price…

Sales executives at Atlassian noticed a steady increase in the number of strategic customers requesting information about its emissions reduction and climate goals throughout 2025. Those questions prompted deeper conversations between the software company’s business and sustainability leaders as it strategizes about how to win those deals, especially as investments in artificial intelligence accelerate. Now, Atlassian’s net-zero aspirations are factored into strategic sales conversations.  “It’s never going to be 90 percent of our revenue, so I want to be really pragmatic,” said Jessica Hyman, chief sustainability officer at Atlassian. “But what I position it as is a signal. This is…

SwiftUI’s .task modifier inherits its actor context from the surrounding function. If you call .task inside a view’s body property, the async operation will run on the main actor because View.body is (semi-secretly) annotated with @MainActor. However, if you call .task from a helper property or function that isn’t @MainActor-annotated, the async operation will run in the cooperative thread pool. Here’s an example. Notice the two .task modifiers in body and helperView. The code is identical in both, yet only one of them compiles — in helperView, the call to a main-actor-isolated function fails because we’re not on the main…