KANE'S TECH TIPS:
SUNDAY 12TH JANUARY 2025
Welcome to another low down on all the latest Tech news, Tips and Tricks to help you keep up to date with the latest from the Tech world!
You can hear the feature On Air on a Sunday with Mark, and throughout the week.
Devon's "High Risk" Road Ai Cameras
A notorious stretch of road in Devon will have £1m spent on artificial intelligence (AI) and speed cameras to cut offences by drivers and prevent other incidents.
The A361 between Ilfracombe and Barnstaple has been identified as a "high risk" road by the Department for Transport (DfT), with three deaths and 30 serious injuries between 2018 and 2022.
AI cameras can detect offences such as not wearing a seatbelt or drivers being distracted by mobile phones, backers of the proposals said.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j943l7lk4o
Source: BBC News
App To Help Children With Anxiety Released
An app designed to help children with anxiety to face their fears has been launched in Lincolnshire.
Lumi Nova combines cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with gaming to help ease childhood anxiety.
Users will be able to play personalised quests which will gradually expose them to their fears and help to overcome them.
The free app, designed for children between the ages of seven and 12, is now available to be downloaded.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8qldd8xvyo
Source: BBC News
Meta Abandoning Independent Fact Checkers On Facebook and Instagram
Meta is abandoning the use of independent fact checkers on Facebook and Instagram, replacing them with X-style "community notes" where commenting on the accuracy of posts is left to users.
In a video posted alongside a blog post by the company on Tuesday last week, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said third-party moderators were "too politically biased" and it was "time to get back to our roots around free expression".
Meta's current fact checking programme, introduced in 2016, refers posts that appear to be false or misleading to independent organisations to assess their credibility.
Posts flagged as inaccurate can have labels attached to them offering viewers more information, and be moved lower in users' feeds.
That will now be replaced "in the US first" by community notes.
Meta says it has "no immediate plans" to get rid of its third-party fact checkers in the UK or the EU.
Read More: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo
Source: BBC News
App Of The Week
This weeks app of the week is called Talking Alarm Clock Beyond
This is an alarm clock app that allows you to customise it. The user interface is easy which also allows you to choose any ringtone thats on your phone plus any Radio Stream or even an entire playlist.
You can even get the app to speak out the label of the alarm.
This app is free to download on Android devices only.
App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sentryapplications.alarmclock
🛡️ Security Corner 🛡️
A data breach occurs when information held by an organisation is stolen or accessed without authorisation.
Criminals can then use this information when creating phishing messages (such as emails and texts) so that they appear legitimate.
The message has been designed to make it sound like you're being individually targeted, when in reality the criminals are sending out millions of these scam messages.
Criminals may even send messages pretending to be from an organisation that has suffered a recent data breach.
Even if your details are not stolen in the data breach, the criminals will exploit high profile breaches (whilst they are still fresh in people's minds) to try and trick people into clicking on scam messages.
