Third-party Twitter apps including Tweetbot and Twitterrific are offline, but why?

Oliver Haslam writing for iMore The issue, which is affecting Twitter apps on all platforms including iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows, hasn’t yet been confirmed by Twitter, and, worryingly, it isn’t yet known whether the problem is a glitch or the result of a decision made by Twitter itself. Still no word from Twitter. My guess is this is intentional, but we’ll see.

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Took a few tries, but got it done in the end. 💥

Pixel 7 owners report ‘spontaneously’ shattering camera glass

Jon Porter writing for The Verge (Apple News) Pixel 7 owners are taking to Twitter and Reddit to report that the glass covering the phone’s rear camera is shattering, despite the phone apparently not being knocked or dropped. PhoneArena and Android Police have pulled together photos from numerous owners showing the damage to their handsets, with reports stretching back at least as far as November — just a month after the phone went on general sale.

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Apple says it will allow iCloud backups to be fully encrypted

Joseph Menn writing for The Washington Post The step is likely to draw protests from multiple governments, some of which could take legislative or court action or deny Apple access to their markets. Top law enforcement officials in the United States, Britain and other democracies have railed against strong encryption, and some have passed laws they could use to try to force companies to cooperate against their customers. There are plenty of ways “the bad guys” can encrypt/hide their communications. Forcing companies to make their products less secure/private isn’t what democratic governments should be doing.

Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT

Jonas Degrave writing on Engraved Today, Frederic Besse told me that he managed to do something different. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT? This is crazy! None of these commands are actually running, the output is just what the AI thinks should be the output. Thing is, it’s almost always right.

Vendor certificate leak could give malware full control over Android phones

Manuel Vonau writing for Android Police Spotted by Google malware reverse engineering expert Łukasz Siewierski (via Mishaal Rahman), the certificates in question are platform certificates meant to verify the authenticity of the “android” application that’s part of every phone, but are also used to sign individual apps from manufacturers. The problem is that this core android application has the highest level of access to the system, allowing it almost unrestricted access to user data. Since the android application is basically what makes your phone run in the first place, this makes sense for it. That’s why it’s a big issue when malware gets its hands on the platform certificate used by the android application. Bad actors can gain the same far-reaching permissions as this core service.

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First off-grid solar-powered EV charger deployed in Puerto Rico in wake of rising natural disasters

Peter Johnson writing for electrek Beam’s EV ARC chargers can generate and store their own electricity by harnessing renewable energy from the sun. The charging infrastructure is designed to handle extreme weather with flood-proof capabilities up to 9.5 feet and wind resistance of 125 mph. I wonder how long this takes to charge. I assume it charges up a portable battery over time and then uses that to charge a vehicle. So how long does it take to charge up the battery from the solar panels? I imagine it must take a long time.