PinnedPirouz Saadat RuppertGoogle’s Secret Plan to Crown Android the King of PrivacyEver since the launch of the first iPhone, it’s been a common joke that Androids are slower, buggy, and less secure. Google claims to have…Jul 10Jul 10
Pirouz Saadat RuppertElon Musk Scared Away Advertisers, Now He Wants to Force Them BackToday (August 6th) Elon Musk announced that X would be filing an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Reasonable Media for…Aug 6Aug 6
Pirouz Saadat RuppertApple Intelligence vs Google AIBoth Google and Apple recently unveiled their planned implementations of LLMs in their respective operating systems. Apple calls it Apple…Aug 2Aug 2
Pirouz Saadat RuppertAI Poses an Existential Threat to the Internet as We Know ItFor over a century now, doomsayers have been prophesying the rise of technology, the downfall of humanity, etc. Many modern activists pose…Jul 30Jul 30
Pirouz Saadat RuppertSamsung Goes All-in on RCSFor many years, Samsung has been peddling its own Samsung Messages as the default messaging app on their phones (instead of Google…Jul 29Jul 29
Pirouz Saadat RuppertWhy No One Can Reverse Engineer FaceTimeWith apps like Beeper and Sunbird, which managed to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol last year and bring it to Android phones, many…Jul 27Jul 27
Pirouz Saadat RuppertIt’s Not Just RCS, iPhone-Android Messaging is Undergoing a RevolutionEver since Apple decided to expand RCS to iPhones, iPhone-Android communication has received unprecedented attention and many new ideas of…Jul 25Jul 25
Pirouz Saadat RuppertProtecting Your Data’s as easy as 3–2–1Everyone has data that they can’t afford to lose. Whether it be precious family photos, work documents, CAD files, or increasingly rare…Jul 25Jul 25
Pirouz Saadat RuppertHere’s the Secret to Buying Good SpeakersSpeakers have always been a notoriously expensive luxury. Everyone owns earbuds, and some dish out for headphones, but good-quality…Jul 21Jul 21
Pirouz Saadat Ruppert2Checkout’s Unethical Verification Process is a Privacy NightmareEarlier today I purchased a Bitdefender antivirus subscription (to sadly replace Kaspersky) and was forwarded by Bitdefender’s official…Jul 19Jul 19