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Apple Breaks Silence on UK Probe, Removes Data Protection Tool From UK Users
In response to a U.K. government inquiry about access to data sequestered on Apple devices, Cupertino has removed access to the Advanced Data Protection encryption feature from U.K.-held devices. “We have never built a backdoor or master key to any of our products or services and we never will,” an anonymous Apple representative wrote in a statement emailed to TechRepublic.…
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You Can Now Write Reviews in Plex (and Silence Critic Reviews)
You can now write reviews for movies, shows, seasons, and individual episodes in Plex. However, review visibility is currently limited to friends and mutuals. Community reviews show up alongside critic reviews on movie and show landing pages. They also appear on user profiles and in the activity feed. Reviews that contain spoilers can be marked as such by the reviewer,…
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Android 15 Will Silence Old and Irrelevant Notifications
Android 15 will soon start silencing alerts older than two weeks to help prevent notification hell, especially when booting a device you haven’t used in a while. I don’t like it when old notifications pile up, increasing my anxiety levels and making it more difficult than necessary to separate the wheat from the chaff. That’s about to change in an…
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