Mobile Newsletter - Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers

Thursday, May 18, 2023	View online

Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Industry News Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers Black Hat Asia Miscreants have infected millions of Androids worldwide with malicious firmware before the devices even shipped from their factories, according to Trend Micro researchers at Black Hat Asia. Read more The Register iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training Today, Apple previewed a bundle of new features designed for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility. That includes a new Personal Voice feature for people who may lose their ability to speak, allowing them to create "a synthesized voice that sounds like them" to talk with friends or family members. Read more The Verge Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams Rather than needing to buy a (sometimes pricey) dedicated gadget, you should soon be able to use your Pixel (and select other Android devices) as a dashcam for your car following an upcoming Personal Safety update. Read more 9to5Google Google Calendar starts playing nice with Microsoft Outlook Google Calendar is already a great way to keep your schedule organized, and it's still getting better. A recent report suggested that Google was working on a feature that would allow anyone to RSVP to a publicly-shared event, but what are you to do if you prefer a different scheduling app — like Microsoft Outlook? Today the walls between the two are thinner than ever, as Calendar and Outlook pick up some powerful new interoperability tools. Read more Android Police New WhatsApp feature further protects your chats from prying eyes WhatsApp already protects your conversations with end-to-end encryption. The app even has a feature that unlocks the app when you enter a password or use biometric security, but now it looks like WhatsApp is about to get even more secure and private with a new feature called Chat Lock. Read more Phandroid Huawei could be staging a massive chipset comeback this year The sanctions on Huawei have not been kind to the company. It basically prevented them from working with US companies and vice versa, which also meant that using technology made by US companies was out of the question, severely hindering the company's ability to produce components like custom chipsets. Read more Phandroid Google rolls out fix for Pixel battery drain issue If a Pixel phone is your daily driver, you may have noticed an issue with your phone's battery. An Engadget reader contacted us on Sunday to report that their Pixel 6 Pro had recently been overheating and excessively draining its battery. The culprit was a Google app update that began rolling out on May 12th. Read more Engadget New articles added Programming Languages Zero in on Level Zero   (1 votes) by Robert Mueller-Albrecht (updated 5 days ago) An Open, Backend Approach to Compute Anywhere Building Native Windows on Arm Apps with Python   (0 votes) by Dawid Borycki (updated 2 days ago) This article demonstrates the convenience of using native Arm Python 3.11 on Arm-powered devices to experience up to a threefold performance boost over using it in emulation mode. © 2023 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Mobile Development Newsletter click Unsubscribe. CodeProject 20 Bay Street, 11th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2N8 +1 (416) 849-8900 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com