Threads leak teases a trending topics feature

It looks as though Threads might finally get a trending topics feature, strengthening the siren call of Meta’s Twitter/X rival. As reported by 9to5Mac, an accidentally leaked screenshot from a Meta employee has revealed what appears to be a trending topics interface for Threads. Seemingly running on an internal version of the platform, the list … Read more

A Baltic Sea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia is shut down over a suspected leak

HELSINKI — Finland and Estonia said Sunday that the undersea Balticconnector gas pipeline running between the two countries across the Baltic Sea was temporarily taken out of service due to a suspected leak. Gasgrid Finland and Elering, the Finnish and Estonian gas system operators, said they noted an unusual drop in pressure in the pipeline … Read more

Swedish Academy Confirms Chemistry Nobel Winners After Leak

The laureates of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry have been officially announced, hours after their names were leaked in what appeared to be an inadvertently sent email. The winners, for achievements in the field of nanotechnology, are Moungi G. Bawendi from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Louis E. Brus from Columbia University and Alexei … Read more

Samsung Galaxy S24 Leak Shows 360-Degree View of New Flat-Edge Design

A new leak of the Samsung Galaxy S24 purportedly shows the upcoming phone in full 360-degree renders, suggesting Samsung’s next handset will ditch the rounded edges of its predecessors for a flat-edged look when it arrives in its expected release window in early 2024. The first of a series of leaks released by leaker Steve … Read more

The Pixel Watch 2 leak shows Fitbit Sense 2 features

One of the leaked Pixel Watch 2 images shows support for Fitbit Sense 2’s “Body responses” feature, which is supposed to tell when you’re feeling stressed. While the current Pixel Watch doesn’t have the electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor that’s required to enable this feature, it looks like the Pixel Watch 2 will come with it. … Read more

Samsung Galaxy S24 leak shows a familiar design ahead of early 2024 launch

If you were hoping for a revolutionary design for next year’s Samsung Galaxy S24 you might be disappointed. Unofficial renders of the upcoming phone published by SmartPrix in collaboration with leaker OnLeaks show a very similar looking phone to this year’s Galaxy S23 including a squared off design, and no defined camera bump around its … Read more

Google Pixel 8 Pro Leak Suggests Free Pixel Watch 2 With Preorders

Google’s answer to the iPhone 15 is coming: The tech giant abruptly updated its Google Store site earlier this month with details on its upcoming flagship smartphones, the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, as well as promo videos leaked online this week that show details on the new phones. And even better: a promo photo leaked Monday also … Read more

The Google Pixel 8’s latest leak shows off big AI camera updates

Pixel 8 camera specs and a new AI promo video for the phone were posted by 91Mobiles, courtesy of leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, giving us our first real look at how Google will integrate more AI into its flagship smartphones (via 9to5Google). Magic Editor, which the company said earlier this year would come to “select” Pixel … Read more

OceanGate fires a whistleblower, hackers threaten to leak Reddit information, and Marvel embraces AI artwork

Hi there, lovelies, and welcome to Week in Evaluate (WiR), TechCrunch’s common e-newsletter that recaps the week in tech. For a lot of people, this workweek was a day shorter, due to the Juneteenth observance on Monday. However lots occurred. We’ve obtained protection on the OceanGate tragedy, and we’ve continued to intently observe the Reddit … Read more

A Huge Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Tens of millions of Indians | WIRED

On the night of June 11, a journalist from the Kerala-based information portal The Fourth reported {that a} Telegram bot in a channel referred to as “hak4learn” was providing entry to the personal knowledge of tens of millions of Indians. All a person needed to do was put in a cellphone quantity or Aadhaar (India’s nationwide … Read more