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Monumental anger: operators don’t like the latest from Apple and the iPhone
Manzana he has a habit of doing many things in his own way. That way, unfortunately, usually causes a multitude of problems with companies or state entities. Now, Apple has managed to piss off all the big European carriers by introducing Private Relay in iCloud.
Private Relay is an iCloud feature that was announced next to iOS 15, which encrypts your browsing data in Safari so that neither Apple nor a third party can review your browsing history. When we surf the Internet, there is a lot of information contained in our traffic. Among her we find the DNS records and our IP address, which can be seen by the operator and the websites we visit.
Private Relay: more privacy when browsing the Internet
Through all this information, it is possible to associate an identity with a person and create a profile with many data points, such as location, navigation time, etc. Private Relay blocks all of this from Safari, preventing it from knowing what the user is visiting, since all DNS records and browsing information are encrypted.
All of this is good for the user, but not so good for the operators. Apple acts as if it were a VPN, generating a temporary IP address, and finally connecting to the destination. With this, by default, operators can no longer know what the user is doing while browsing the Internet.
In August 2021, less than two months after Apple announced the feature, carriers such as Telefónica, Vodafone, Orange or T-Mobile they sent a letter to the European Commission expressing your concerns about the service. Although they recognize that user privacy is improved by encrypting and redirecting traffic, it also blocks access to networks and servers so that they know vital data to function properly, negatively affecting Europe’s digital independence.
The blocking of pirate websites, in danger
The operators have also asked the EU to identify Apple as a “digital gatekeeper” as established in the Digital Markets Law of the EU. If they did, Apple would not be able to introduce features such as Private Relay in Europe.
All the concern of operators comes from the fact that, with this system, an operator cannot know which web page a user is visiting. Among them, we find that operators can no longer block dangerous content with this system, as TalkTalk alerts in the United Kingdom. In addition, in principle, this acts as DNS over HTTPS, so that the block that operators currently use against pirated web pages would be disabled.
The system, although it works fast, can adversely affect the network performance, including the speed tests. Therefore, if you have performance problems, you will have to deactivate it, although to do normal Internet browsing you should not have problems.
The Private Relay feature in iCloud is currently available at beta phase for users of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey. We do not know what will happen after the beta, but so far the European Union has not responded to the letter from the operators.

Phones
Is this iPhone possessed by the devil? The girl took a picture of herself in front of the mirrors and discovered that the reflections in the mirrors did not match her pose.

Modern mobile photography is increasingly turning into computational photography every year. And sometimes this results in very interesting incidents, as in the photo below.
At first glance, it may seem that everything is in order with the picture. But if you look more closely, you can see that the girl who published this photo looks different in two neighboring mirrors, and besides, neither of the mirrors reflects the girl’s real pose.
Creating such an image in Photoshop or another editor is not difficult, but the caveat is that this photo was taken on an iPhone without any further processing.
The reason for this result is actually quite simple. For some reason, the iPhone algorithms mistook the girl’s reflections for other people, and since modern photos are taken by gluing together many instantly taken photographs, we see that from somewhere in this set of photos the iPhone took one girl, from somewhere else, and then I glued it all together.
The funny thing is that in the past, when there was no talk of any modern smartphones or cameras, such a photo could have been regarded as the work of the devil.
News
Xiaomi has finally announced pre-sales of the titanium Xiaomi 14 Pro

Despite the fact that the official premiere of the Xiaomi 14 Pro Titanium Special Edition with a titanium case took place on October 26, it has not yet reached real sales. But some progress has already been made: the company has announced a date for pre-orders in China.
They will begin to be accepted on the Xiaomi Mall branded marketplace and other large platforms from December 5. It has not yet been announced when open retail sales will start. And it’s unlikely that things will come to this soon: on the Weibo social network, a Xiaomi representative said that the device will be available “in small quantities.”
Let us remind you that in terms of characteristics, the Xiaomi 14 Pro Titanium Special Edition is no different from the regular Xiaomi 14 Pro, the availability of which has no problems. But it has a titanium frame (99% titanium alloy) and only one configuration with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of flash memory. They are asking $920 for the titanium flagship.
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Without 200 megapixels, but with flicker-free screens, new platforms and improved cameras. Honor 100 and Honor 100 Pro go on sale in China

Today, official sales of the Honor 100 and Honor 100 Pro smartphones started in China (their official premiere, we recall, took place a week ago).
The older model is offered in four configurations: 12/256 GB – $475, 16/256 GB – $525, 16/512 GB – $550, 16 GB/1 TB – $625.
The cost of the younger one is as follows: 12/256 GB – $350, 16/256 GB – $400, 16/512 GB – $450.
Honor 100 is built on the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC, equipped with a 6.7-inch OLED screen with a resolution of 1.5K and a frame rate of 120 Hz. The Honor 100 Pro SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and an OLED screen with a diagonal of 6.78 inches, a resolution of 1.5K and a frame rate of 120 Hz. The PWM control frequency of both models is 3840 Hz, so the displays do not flicker. The smartphones also received 5000 mAh batteries with support for 100-watt wired charging (the Pro version also supports wireless charging).
The Honor 100 Pro no longer has a 200-megapixel sensor in the main camera, but it has been replaced with a 50-megapixel Sony IMX906 of the top line. The camera of this model also has a 12-megapixel sensor (in the module with an ultra-wide-angle lens) and a 32-megapixel sensor (in the module with a telephoto lens). The younger model does not have a module with a 32-megapixel sensor.
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