No one likes unnecessary friction. And technology has been the primary driving force in reducing friction, replacing long lines at the airport counter with self-service kiosks, long call wait times ...

Researchers at Wandera, a mobile security company, have alerted Apple to a potential security vulnerability in iOS that could be used by attackers to fool users into giving up their credit card data ...

Frequently (if not "always"), captive portals are per-IP address. So, if you connect a laptop/phone/tablet to the network the Nest uses, you should be able to hit the captive portal page from it and ...

Chinese state hackers have been hijacking captive portal checks to deliver malware couched as Adobe software. Google researchers have attributed the activity to an espionage group associated with ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

[Jackson Studner] wrote in to let us know about his ESP32-based media server: Jcorp Nomad. This project uses a ESP32-S3 to create a WiFi hotspot you can connect to from your devices. The hotspot is a ...