19 Jan, 2026

Microsoft is retiring the Lens scanner app for iOS, Android

Microsoft has started retiring the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices on Friday, January 9th, with plans to remove it from app stores next month. Microsoft Lens (previously known as Office Lens) can scan both printed and handwritten text and help users convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. […]

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Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million […]

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Apple fined €150 million over App Tracking Transparency issues

Autorité de la concurrence, France’s antitrust watchdog, has fined Apple €150 million ($162 million) for using the App Tracking Transparency privacy framework to abuse its dominant market position in mobile app advertising on its devices. App Tracking Transparency (ATT) requires apps to request users’ permission to collect their data for targeted advertising purposes before tracking them […]

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Apple backports zero-day patches to older iPhones and Macs

Apple has released security updates that backport fixes for actively exploited vulnerabilities that were exploited as zero-days to older versions of its operating systems. At the same time, the consumer tech giant released security updates for the latest stable iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, addressing numerous security flaws. Backporting zero-day fixes The first backport concerns CVE-2025-24200, a flaw […]

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Apple fixes WebKit zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks

Apple has released emergency security updates to patch a zero-day bug the company describes as exploited in “extremely sophisticated” attacks. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-24201 and was found in the WebKit cross-platform web browser engine used by Apple’s Safari web browser and many other apps and web browsers on macOS, iOS, Linux, and Windows. […]

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Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature in the UK

Apple will no longer offer iCloud end-to-end encryption in the United Kingdom after the government requested a backdoor to access Apple customers’ encrypted cloud data. As Apple told GeekFeed on Friday, the optional Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature introduced in December 2022 will no longer be available for new users in the U.K. starting today. This decision follows a secret […]

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Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks

Apple has released emergency security updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability that the company says was exploited in targeted and “extremely sophisticated” attacks. “A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device,” the company revealed in an advisory targeting iPhone and iPad users.  “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have […]

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Crypto-stealing apps found in Apple App Store for the first time

Android and iOS apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store contain a malicious software development kit (SDK) designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases using optical character recognition (OCR) stealers. The campaign is called “SparkCat” after the name (“Spark”) of one of the malicious SDK components in the infected apps, with developers likely […]

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First Apple-notarized porn app available to iPhone users in Europe

The first Apple-notarized porn app, “Hot Tub,” is now available to iPhone users in Europe through the alternative app marketplace, AltStore PAL. Apple does not allow pornographic or adult content apps on the official Apple App Store. However, to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple is now required as a “gatekeeper” to allow […]

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Windows 11’s Start menu is getting iPhone and Android integration

Windows 11’s Start menu is getting a big update with full-fledged Android and iPhone integration, allowing users improved access to users’ mobile texts and images from their computers. Previously, the feature was limited to Android phones, but now it works with iPhones too. According to Microsoft’s blog post, you’ll need Windows 11 Build 4805 or higher […]

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