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YouTube confirms that it will display ads when you pause videos
Many users had been complaining that they had seen videos play when they had paused YouTube videos. Well, it is official now. Google has confirmed that YouTube will display ads when users pause videos, and the company has no plans to stop it. The company believes these ads are less interruptive. YouTube says that such ads have seen positive responses from advertisers and viewers.
Users will either need to pay for a YouTube premium subscription, or use an ad-blocker for an ad-free experience. YouTube has been battling ad-blockers rather aggressively over the past year, and even introduced server-side ads, which are injected directly in videos. These caused some minor hurdles for ad blockers, but they have been able to thwart Google’s attempts to prevent them from blocking ads. The bigger problem is that Chrome has ended support for Manifest V2 extensions, which has stopped uBlock Origin and similar content blocker add-ons to work in the browser.
macOS Sequoia 15 released with Window Tiling, Passwords app
Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15, and it comes with a number of improvements. One of the best features in the update is Window Tiling, which allows you to snap app windows onto specific areas of the screen, such as the sides or corners. There are a number of ways to auto arrange windows using the mouse, keyboard shortcuts and a menu, these in turn allow you to multitask with apps easily. Apple Safari has a handful of new features including the Video Viewer that lets you watch videos on a web page in a distraction free mode, a Reader view to read a web page without clutter, and options to hide distractions such as cookie banners on a web page. Safari’s highlights feature can generate AI summaries on pages with long articles, display useful information such as locations, details about landmarks, movies, TV Shows, actors, etc.
macOS 15 comes with a new app called Passwords, which is a password manager app that you can use to create secure passwords, passkeys, and 2FA verification codes. The app is meant to replace iCloud Keychain. The Passwords app is not exclusive to macOS, it is also available for iOS 18, iPadOS 8, Vision Pro, and even for Windows PCs via the iCloud for Windows app. iPhone Mirroring is a new feature in macOS Sequoia that allows you to access your iPhone directly from your Mac. Once you have set it up, the app lets you control your phone with the mouse and keyboard. The convenience to open/interact with any app without picking up your iPhone is just brilliant. And, it also adds the ability to access iPhone notifications from your Mac.
iOS 18 brings several options to personalize your iPhone
The iOS 18 update is now available for iPhones. The new iteration of the software adds many customization options for the home screen, lock screen and even the Control Center. You can lock apps with Face ID to prevent unauthorized access, and even hide them from others.
The Phone app displays a T9 Dialer to key in numbers phonetically, and the app now supports Call Recording. iMessage now supports RCS, to allow high resolution video and images to be shared from Android phones to iOS. The Messages app has gained an option to Send Later to schedule messages to be sent at a specific time and date.
Apple ID is now called Apple Account. The biggest feature, Apple Intelligence, is not available yet. Apple says it will release it soon in a future update. While it won’t bring Apple Intelligence to the EU region, the Cupertino company has announced the list of Countries that will receive the AI features. Apple Intelligence will be available first in the U.S., followed by other English language regions such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom, and India. It will also be available for the following languages: Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.
Photos app could be the reason why your Windows 11 PC is slow
Is your PC running slower than usual? The culprit could be the Photos app. Users say that the app has been autostarting with Windows 11, though this is yet to be proven. The reports claim that the app slows down the system, when it starts, and is not even needed by the user. The Photos app has gained several AI features over the past year, and is now slower to launch. The new version of the app, which moved from UWP to Windows SDK, was released in June. It is expected to ship with Windows 11 24H2, but is also coming to Windows 10 PCs.
Windows 11 24H2 feature update release date revealed
The Windows 11 24H2 feature update has been a hotly discussed topic for a variety of reasons. But when is it releasing? The answer is sooner than you think. Microsoft plans to release Windows 11 24H2 in late September, for users as an optional non-security preview release. It will be released for all other users in the first half of October.
Windows 11 24H2 brings support for Wi-Fi 7, sudo support for Windows, energy saving improvements, and of course AI features. The update will remove three legacy apps: Cortana, Tips, and WordPad. It is possible that Microsoft could introduce Windows Recall, the controversial AI app, which captures the contents of your screen every 5 seconds, and converts the data into a searchable format to assist you in finding them.
Is Tor no longer secure?
The anonymous network service Tor, which is widely used across the world, is reportedly not safe to use. Reports say that officials in Germany have been monitoring Tor servers for many months to track and identify users, using Timing Analysis. This is a method that is used to monitor several Tor nodes to identify users.
The law agencies were successful in their attempt to identify a server that had been used by a ransomware group called Vanir Locker. The officials then took over the Tor address and prevented the cybercriminals from releasing the stolen data. However, this incident has raised concern over the safety of Tor, and how it could be used by other Governments to track activists.