TechyMag.com - is an online magazine where you can find news and updates on modern technologies


To hospital via "Dia" - medical data will appear in the app

The Cabinet of Ministers supported the resolution providing for the display of medical data of Ukrainians in the "Diia" application. According to Ministry of Digital Transformation, in the future, through "Diia", Ukrainians will be able to register ...

Read More

Apple Pay erroneously debits users without purchases - reaching dozens of payments and up to $1500 in losses

Several users in Hungary have reported that the Apple Pay service is experiencing malfunctions, charging thousands of dollars without any purchases. It seems that the issue remains relevant for a wide range of Apple Pay customers. One Apple Pay user ...

Read More

Meet CriticGPT, a ChatGPT "teacher" that will look for errors in the chatbot's responses

"I'm putting a 'B' for now by pencil!" OpenAI has developed a separate model called CriticGPT, which will look for errors in ChatGPT responses - initially the "teacher" will focus on code snippets and, as noted, will only be an auxiliary tool for hum...

Read More

Windows 11 update causes cyclic system restarts - Microsoft has suspended its rollout

Microsoft has received numerous reports of issues that started occurring after the installation of the June Windows 11 non-security update (KB5039302). So, after installing this update, some computers either do not boot up or get stuck in a boot loo...

Read More

South Korean telecom attacked 600,000 torrent users with malware - cloud company customers affected

The South Korean telecom company JTBC discovered that the corporation KT (Korea Telecom), one of the largest telecommunications providers in the country, intentionally infected over 600,000 users with malware due to their use of torrents. The issue a...

Read More

Awadhi, Marwadi and Cantonese - Google Translate has learned 110 more languages thanks to artificial intelligence

Google has added 110 new languages to its translator - previously it supported only 133 languages, so this is a great progress for the service. To train, Google specialists used the PaLM 2 AI language model, and it is noted that the process went espe...

Read More

Windows 11 now starts forcing OneDrive backups without asking the user for permission

Microsoft continues to expand the capabilities of the OneDrive service, but not all innovations are to the users' liking. The latest update may disappoint many, as automatic data backup is now activated by default in Windows 11 without user consent. ...

Read More

Much more than "30 engineers": Telegram commented on the fears of security experts

After the publication of the material "Durov boasts that Telegram serves "about 30 engineers" - security experts call this a "red flag" for users," the ITC.UA edition contacted a representative of Telegram and commented on the main points that caused...

Read More

Google has scheduled the unveiling of the Pixel 9 and Pixel Watch 3 for August 13th

Google has announced that its annual event dedicated to Pixel devices will take place on August 13. This is incredibly early for 2024, as Made by Google usually takes place in October. These are not the only changes. Instead of New York, Made by Goog...

Read More

Durov brags that Telegram is maintained by "about 30 engineers" ─ security experts call this a "red flag" for users

Over the weekend, a video from a recent interview with Telegram founder Pavel Durov appeared on X (formerly Twitter). In the video, Durov tells Tucker Carlson that he is the company's only product manager and that he has only "about 30 engineers" wor...

Read More

Federal Google Pixel owners must update smartphones within 10 days or stop using them - U.S. government requirement

The update for Google Pixel smartphones, which was released earlier this month, received a significant number of security fixes. Among them was the patch for the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2024-32896. Google labeled it as a "high severity" and warned...

Read More

Microsoft Defender antivirus marks a text file with the words "This content is no longer available" as a trojan

Microsoft Defender, the built-in antivirus for Windows, is considered reliable enough that an average user does not need a third-party application. An error, detected by Twitter user X yappy, demonstrates that sometimes Defender performs its function...

Read More

Ratel RAT ransomware attacks older Android smartphones, encrypting data and demanding ransoms

Cybercriminals have started attacking old Android devices using open-source malware called Ratel RAT. In fact, this is a type of ransomware program for Android that encrypts or deletes data, locks the device, and demands payment in Telegram. Research...

Read More

Pixel smartphones will get Adaptive Thermal feature to address overheating issues

Modern Android smartphones have built-in features designed to prevent overheating and the impact of high temperatures on the phone. Users receive warnings about heating issues, and Pixel smartphones slow down some functions, such as charging speed, a...

Read More

Perplexity's artificial intelligence started hallucinating about mushrooms instead of summarizing simple text

The artificial intelligence model Perplexity, which has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars from respected individuals like Jeff Bezos, is taking AI "hallucinations" to a new level. The search engine based on Perplexity, designed to compete wit...

Read More