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AI fake-news detectors may look accurate but fail in real use, study finds

A dubious link from a friend. A headline too sensational to be true. A video that seems fake but you can't be sure. As online misinformation grows harder to detect, new artificial-intelligence tools promise to help us separate fact from fiction. But do they actually work?

Not really, according to Dorsaf Sallami. For her doctoral research at Université de Montréal's Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, she examined the limitations of AI systems designed to detect fake news.

Her conclusion: these tools have significant flaws that their technical performance often masks.

She detailed her findings in a paper published last fall in the proceedings of an international conference on AI, ethics and society, co-authored with her supervisor Esma Aïmeur and professor Gilles Brassard.

A mirror, not a fact-checker..."Current AI systems for detecting fake news are built on a fundamental misconception," Sallami said. "When AI flags content as false, it doesn't fact-check as a journalist would. It calculates probabilities based on its training data."

In other words, these systems don't check the facts against reality. They only reflect what they've been shown, like a mirror, complete with all the biases and gaps in their training data.

Sallami finds it paradoxical that tech giants are pouring resources into these tools. Meta is labeling content that passes existing fact-checkers, Google has launched a Gemini-based prototype, and X is using Grok to analyze information on its platform in real time.

"The arsenal is impressive, but what good is a system that boasts 95% accuracy in the lab but fails under real-life conditions, especially if it violates users' privacy, is biased against some media outlets, and can be weaponized to censor political opposition?" Sallami asked.

Effectiveness is typically measured against technical benchmarks under controlled conditions. It's a bit like judging a car by its top speed, without considering safety, affordability or emissions, she said.

Who decides what's true? Sallami points to another critical issue: the lack of consensus over what constitutes misinformation.

"To train a system to distinguish fact from fabrication, you have to feed it thousands of examples labeled true or false," she explained. "For simple tasks, like telling a cat from a dog, the labels aren't controversial. But when it comes to fake news, even experts disagree."

Sallami calls this the "ground truth problem."

"AI systems are trained using labels provided by fact-checking organizations, but their methods often lack transparency," she said. "Some are for-profit businesses, making the process even more opaque. The technological edifice is built on foundations that are shakier than they appear."

The rise of large language models—the technology behind ChatGPT and Gemini—also helps the creators of fake news mimic credible sources more easily than ever before. As a result, systems trained on misinformation strategies just a few months ago may be unable to detect the latest ruses.

Built-in bias...The biases embedded in AI fake-news detection systems are another major flaw, according to Sallami. She found that, when gendered language appears in texts, some models are more likely to consider women to be purveyors of disinformation. Others are prejudiced against non-Western sources or reproduce political and geographic biases. Sallami considers these biases particularly pernicious because they go largely unnoticed.

"While the industry fixates on improving accuracy, few researchers are examining the discrimination these systems can propagate," she said. "Equity shouldn't be an afterthought, secondary to performance; it must be an integral part of performance."

Her thesis proposes concrete methods for measuring and correcting bias, including CoALFake, a framework she developed that helps a detector trained in one area adapt to new domains—such as scientific or commercial disinformation—rather than starting from scratch.

To address all these issues, Sallami argues for a socially responsible evaluation framework.

"Instead of judging systems solely on accuracy, we must also consider equity, transparency, privacy and real-world usefulness for citizens," she said.

She also argues for giving user feedback greater weight, collaborating with journalists, social scientists and legal experts, and rejecting the false dichotomy between accuracy and social responsibility.

Aletheia: A new tool...In another paper based on her doctoral dissertation, Sallami noted that research has been focused on developing AI detection models, many of which are designed for people with technical expertise.

While these models are necessary, they aren't enough, she argues: we also need tools that are accessible to the end users.

Sallami wasn't content to simply point out the problem; she set out to solve it by designing Aletheia, a browser extension that lets users check online content themselves.

With a few clicks, users can verify the credibility of a news item, view fact-checks from trusted organizations and discuss with other users.

According to Sallami, what makes Aletheia different is its philosophy: instead of just labeling content "true" or "false," it explains why, presents evidence from available online sources, and lets users judge for themselves rather than blindly trusting the underlying model.

"The extension has three modules," Sallami explained. "VerifyIt, the core of the system, automatically consults external sources and delivers a verdict accompanied by plain-language explanations. Users can see the reasons why an item may be suspect and the sources on which the system is based."

In tests using claims verified by PolitiFact, an American non-profit operated by the Poynter Insitute, VerifyIt achieved about 85% reliability, outperforming many existing tools.

Aletheia also offers a live feed of recent fact checks and a forum where users can share their analyses and comment on those contributed by others.

"What we have presented here is only the tip of the iceberg," Sallami concluded. "AI must earn public trust, not just ace technical tests. Future efforts should resist the lure of fully automated fact-checking and instead develop systems that work with and for human judgment."

Provided by University of Montreal 

 

SAMSUNG

Samsung’s 2nm Exynos 2700 chip is rushing to production

Leaked production timelines reveal Samsung is fast-tracking its 2nm Exynos 2700 chip to aggressively challenge Qualcomm’s grip on the flagship smartphone market. Analysts project a massive 50% adoption rate for next year's Galaxy S27 lineup, but earlier benchmarks beg the question: can the hardware live up to the hype?

As early as January this year, a Geekbench listing from a prominent tipster implied that Samsung had already begun testing its new Exynos chip. Naturally, that leak was treated with skepticism, but fresh reports now seem to provide the claim with some degree of legitimacy.

According to Yonhap News Agency, the architecture for the Exynos 2700 was already fully designed by late 2025. Testing is currently underway at Samsung MX with production-ready samples expected between May and June, well ahead of the next Galaxy S series launch.

At this point, it is an open secret that Samsung intends to reclaim market share from Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors which power a dominant 75% of the Galaxy S26 lineup.

To achieve these cost savings estimated at over $7.8 billion (11 trillion won), the tech giant is betting on the second-gen Samsung Foundry 2nm process (SF2P) to deliver the sort of yield and efficiency that industry heavyweights like TSMC are known for. The Exynos 2700 is also likely to improve on the heat management technology used in its predecessor. Consequently, Kiwoom Securities analyst Park Yu-ak projects that dependence on Qualcomm chipsets will shrink to 50% in the Samsung Galaxy S27 series.

But those are just financial targets. The only physical evidence of this chip in the wild remains an ERD board on Geekbench showcasing an unusual 10-core prototype with unimpressive OpenCL scores. Granted, it may as well be a spoofed listing, but until a new wave of leaks emerges, showcasing the Exynos 2700 actually pushing competitive clock speeds, the burden of proof rests entirely on Samsung. For now, Qualcomm has no reason to sweat.

According to information revealed by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the first test units of the processor have already been sent from the chip division to the smartphone sector (Samsung MX).

Thus, the team working on the 2027 flagship phones can now begin testing the full processing power of the Exynos 2700, as well as adapting the body of the devices to improve cooling.

The same sources with access to Samsung's inner workings say that the company's forecast is to complete the development of the Exynos 2700 before June. In other words, something that would give plenty of time for mass production.

The new chipset will be manufactured using Samsung Foundry's own second-generation 2-nanometer lithography technology, known as SF2P.

Thus, the brand expects to provide significant leaps in terms of performance and, especially, energy efficiency.

Sources also guarantee that the Korean company should use HPB technology to enhance the cooling of heat generated by the CPU and RAM.

The real chances of the Galaxy S27 Ultra being presented in 2027 with the Exynos 2700 platform are high, since the current Exynos 2600 has proven quite competent in initial tests against the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy.

Of course, at the moment it is still too early to say with certainty that the Galaxy S27 line will be sold exclusively with Exynos.

This is because Moon Sung-hoon(Executive Samsung, MX Division) himself made it clear that the company will continue working with partners - namely Qualcomm - to "adopt the ideal chip when necessary".

Still, there are analysts who believe in a "mixed launch" with the S27 Ultra having Exynos in some selected markets.

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DIGITAL LIFE

Microsoft Alert: fake AI extensions in Chrome and Edge Steal ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations

On March 5, 2026, Microsoft published a security alert about malicious browser extensions that masquerade as legitimate artificial intelligence tools to steal the chat history of ChatGPT and DeepSeek users.

The AI ​​extensions identified by the Microsoft Defender team reached approximately 900,000 installations and were detected in more than 20,000 enterprise organizations.

Microsoft Defender has been investigating reports of malicious Chromium‑based browser extensions that impersonate legitimate AI assistant tools to harvest LLM chat histories and browsing data. Reporting indicates these extensions have reached approximately 900,000 installs. Microsoft Defender telemetry also confirms activity across more than 20,000 enterprise tenants, where users frequently interact with AI tools using sensitive inputs.

The extensions collected full URLs and AI chat content from platforms such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, exposing organizations to potential leakage of proprietary code, internal workflows, strategic discussions, and other confidential data.

At scale, this activity turns a seemingly trusted productivity extension into a persistent data collection mechanism embedded in everyday enterprise browser usage, highlighting the growing risk browser extensions pose in corporate environments.

How malicious AI extensions work...The extensions were distributed through the Chrome Web Store with names and descriptions that mimicked legitimate AI assistant tools – including references to ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude. Because Microsoft Edge supports Chrome Web Store extensions, a single listing allowed simultaneous distribution across both browsers without additional infrastructure.

After installation, the extensions collected two types of data in the background:

-Complete URLs visited by the user, including internal company websites

-Content of conversations with AI – prompts sent and responses received on platforms such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek

The data was stored locally in encrypted format and periodically sent to servers controlled by the attackers through the domains deepaichats[.]com and chatsaigpt[.]com, using HTTPS connections to blend in with normal browser traffic.

The detail that makes the attack more dangerous...Microsoft identified a deliberately deceptive consent mechanism: even if the user disabled data collection, subsequent updates to the extension automatically reactivated telemetry without clear notification.

Microsoft also recorded cases where browsers with agentic features installed the extensions automatically, without explicit user approval – a reflection of how convincing the names and descriptions presented were.

Persistence was ensured by the normal behavior of browser extensions: the extension automatically reloaded each time the browser started, without the need for elevated privileges or additional actions.

What may have been exposed...For individual users, the risk includes the exposure of private conversations with AI assistants – which may contain personal, financial, or professional information shared during work sessions.

For companies, the potential impact is more serious: proprietary code, internal workflows, strategic discussions, and confidential data shared with AI tools by employees may have been captured and exfiltrated.

What to do now...Microsoft recommends the following immediate actions(below):

Review the extensions installed in Chrome and Edge and remove any unknown or unused extensions – in Chrome: chrome://extensions / in Edge: edge://extensions

Check if any installed extension uses the IDs fnmihdojmnkclgjpcoonokmkhjpjechg or inhcgfpbfdjbjogdfjbclgolkmhnooop and remove it immediately

Block traffic to the domains chatsaigpt.com, deepaichats.com, chataigpt.pro and chatgptsidebar.pro

Install only verified extensions from known publishers with a proven track record

Enable Microsoft Defender SmartScreen in an enterprise environment

AI extensions: a growing attack vector...This incident underscores an emerging pattern: as users adopt AI tools in their browsers as part of their work routine, AI assistant extensions become an increasingly attractive attack vector. The trust placed in these tools – and the sensitive data routinely shared with them – makes them a high-value target for attackers willing to invest in compelling and well-distributed extensions.

The full Microsoft alert, with technical indicators of compromise and detection queries for security teams, is available on the Microsoft Security Blog.

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DIGITAL LIFE

Iranians have been isolated and without internet access for a week; national lockdown imposed by the dictatorial regime

Iran remains under a near-total internet blackout, data monitoring site NetBlocks said Saturday. "A whole week has passed since #Iran plunged into digital darkness under a national internet blackout imposed by the regime," NetBlocks said in a social media post.

"The measure remains in effect after 168 hours, leaving the public isolated, without vital updates and alerts, while authorities and state media maintain access," NetBlocks said. According to the publication, internet traffic is at about 1% of normal levels.

US and Israeli airstrikes against Iran continued on Saturday, a week after the launch of their joint campaign to dismantle Tehran's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, while also pressing for regime change.

Iran has implemented internet blackouts during periods of social unrest in the past. A near-blackout similar to the one imposed for several weeks in January, amid widespread protests in the country, CNBC recalls.

However, some analysts said that additional factors may be contributing to the internet disruption.

"While the exact cause is still unclear, it's almost certainly a combination of state-ordered repression and external cyber interference," Kathryn Raines, team leader for cyber threat intelligence at the Flashpoint intelligence platform, told CNBC earlier this week.

Iran has not officially commented on the disruption.

Analysts say the lack of internet connectivity in Iran will likely increase confusion, with citizens on the ground unable to communicate with their families, document events, or get real-time updates on the conflict.

Cybersecurity firms have warned that Iran is likely to respond with cyberattacks, carried out directly by the government or by allied groups.

In a statement shared with CNBC, Adam Meyers, head of counterattack operations at CrowdStrike, stated that the company was already "observing activity consistent with threat actors and hacktivist groups aligned with Iran conducting reconnaissance and initiating denial-of-service (DoS) attacks."

Iranian authorities have implemented severe, near-total internet shutdowns to crush protests and conceal violent crackdowns, plunging the country into digital darkness. Beginning in early January 2026, these measures severed connections to the outside world, restricting users to a state-controlled, domestic "Intranet" while disabling foreign sites, mobile data, and international messaging apps.

Key details on the internet situation in Iran(below):

Purpose: The shutdowns are used as a, "Orwellian" tool of repression, to prevent the documentation of violence, halt organization of protests, and isolate citizens.

Scope: The shutdown includes mobile data and international broadband, leaving users with only local services, according to reports from the Guardian and Al Jazeera.

Duration: A major shutdown began on January 8, 2026, lasting nearly three weeks, with subsequent, repeated blackouts following, including during early March 2026, notes The Conversation and Al Jazeera.

Impact: The blackout has caused widespread panic, cut off families from each other, halted economic activity for online businesses, and created a "fog of war" during conflicts, according to CNBC and Iran International.

Workarounds: Users are forced to rely on, expensive, often unreliable VPNs to bypass censorship, or seek access to satellite internet, notes Al Jazeera.

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TECH

Tiny thermometers offer on-chip temperature monitoring for processors

The semiconductor chips driving modern-day computer processors are covered in billions of individual transistors, each of which can overheat under stress, causing steep drops in performance. To address this, a team led by researchers at Penn State has developed a microscopic thermometer, smaller than an ant's antenna, that can be integrated onto a chip to accurately track temperatures.

Ultra-fast temperature tracking on chips...Using an advanced class of materials that are just a few atoms thick, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, the team built sensors capable of differentiating subtle temperature changes in just 100 nanoseconds—millions of times faster than the blink of an eye.

The sensors' extremely compact structure allows many of them to be integrated directly onto a single computer chip, offering what the researchers called incredibly efficient temperature monitoring. The team detailed their work in a paper published in Nature Sensors.

According to Saptarshi Das, Ackley Professor of Engineering Science, professor of engineering science and mechanics at Penn State and corresponding author on the paper, accurately monitoring the temperature of transistors—tiny devices that control the flow of electricity in a circuit—is currently one of the most challenging aspects of developing computer chips or high-performance integrated circuits.

"These chips rapidly heat up during usage, but the sensors that monitor their temperatures are not embedded within the chip," Das said. "One of the major questions researchers have had is whether it's possible to integrate temperature sensing directly into the chips, which would offer faster, more accurate readings."

A temperature sensor would have to be incredibly small to achieve this, as traditional sensors are too large and bulky to fit onto a chip directly, explained Das.

Miniaturizing sensors with new 2D materials...To shrink their sensors into thermometers only one square micrometer across, or a tile several thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, the team used a new class of 2D material—known as bimetallic thiophosphates—that had previously not been used in thermal sensors.

According to Das, this material's distinctive properties, specifically how ions can continue to move effectively even when exposed to electrical currents, enable the sensors to demonstrate strong temperature dependence, even at extremely small sizes. This means that the material's physical properties can adjust dynamically as temperatures rise or fall.

"My research group works extensively with 2D materials, as Penn State is considered a leader in this research area," Das said.

"We found that using this class of material, we could develop thermal sensors that are very fast, low power and really miniaturized so that you can place many of them on a single chip."

A team including Anirban Chowdhury (left) and Dipanjan Sen (right) developed an incredibly tiny thermometer that can be integrated directly onto computer chips. Credit: Jaydyn Isiminger/Penn State

Coupling ions and electrons for sensing...According to Dipanjan Sen, engineering science doctoral candidate and first author on the paper, this 2D material can "couple" together the transport of both ions and electrons—subatomic particles that both play different roles in energy transfer.

Although improving the flow of electrons can lead to more powerful devices, better ion regulation in a system can lead to improved thermal management and monitoring, as these particles are notably sensitive to heat.

This coupling allows the tiny sensors to operate using the same electrical currents that power the overall chip, meaning they can provide extremely sensitive temperature readings, while not having a notable impact on chip performance. Das explained how recognizing this relationship was key to integrating the sensors directly on a chip.

"What is generally unwanted by industry in transistors is actually great for thermal sensing, so we really tried to exploit that in our design," Das said. "Rather than try to remove these ions from this system, we use them to our advantage. Coupling these ions for temperature sensing and electrons for reading that thermal data allows us to have an extremely accurate but compact device."

Manufacturing thousands of sensors per chip...The team used advanced instruments in the Materials Research Institute's Nanofabrication Laboratory to manufacture the sensors and place thousands on a single computer chip. Not only is the sensor more than 100 times smaller than other leading sensor designs, it is also up to 80 times more power efficient than traditional silicon-based systems since it doesn't need extra circuitry or signal converters.

Das said he believes that the team's sensors could be integrated alongside existing technology to improve computer efficiency and stability. Going forward, the team plans to continue development and explore new opportunities to apply 2D materials in sensor design.

According to Das, this research could be used as a framework to develop future sensors capable of measuring chemical, optical or physical information in an incredibly compact format.

"This is a proof of concept that shows this design can work—it can be miniaturized, it is low power and could be the next step in terms of integrating temperature monitoring directly into chips," Das said.

Provided by Pennsylvania State University

DIGITAL LIFE

Women are more skeptical about artificial intelligence and use the technology less at work, says research

The expansion of artificial intelligence in the corporate environment is not happening uniformly between men and women. A CNBC survey, in partnership with SurveyMonkey, released this Friday (6), indicates that women adopt AI tools less at work and tend to view them with more skepticism than men. The survey interviewed 6,330 people between February 10 and 16, 2026.

The numbers show that 64% of women said they never use AI at work, compared to 55% of men. On the other hand, among so-called "intensive users," those who resort to technology several times a day, men lead: 14% of them fall into this category, compared to only 9% of women.

The difference is not only in frequency, but also in perception. Only 61% of women consider AI a useful and collaborative tool in the professional environment. Among men, this figure rises to 69%. Moreover, half of the women interviewed associate the use of artificial intelligence at work with a form of dishonesty. Among men, this sentiment is shared by 43%.

This data suggests that, for a significant portion of female professionals, resorting to AI still carries a moral weight that does not appear with the same intensity among their male colleagues.

Even those who use it want more training...Men recognize their own shortcomings in relation to technology. Among the male respondents, 59% said they need more training to use AI at work, a significant percentage, showing that greater adoption does not mean complete mastery of the tool. Furthermore, 39% of men reported feeling the so-called "fear of falling behind" if they do not adopt the technology, compared to 35% among women.

On the other hand, 42% of women strongly disagreed with the idea that failing to use AI would result in a professional disadvantage, compared to 36% of men in the same position. In other words: women not only use it less, but they also worry less about the consequences of not using it.

Sheryl Sandberg, founder of the NGO LeanIn.Org and former COO of Meta, addressed the topic in an interview with CNBC in December. "We know that AI is going to be challenging for the job market, and it's going to be especially challenging for those who don't know how to use these tools," she said.

For Sandberg, if men advance more quickly in the adoption of AI, especially at the beginning of their careers, this could deepen existing disparities, particularly at a time when women face more obstacles to reaching their first management position. "We're going to see disproportionate impacts," she stated, "and that would be very bad for our companies and for the economy."

AI on the agenda of large corporations...The topic has gained prominence in discussions among the world's leading corporate executives. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, described AI as "critical to the future of the company" and revealed, at the bank's 2026 investor day, that almost two-thirds of employees already use an internal language model. Dimon also stated that AI will eliminate jobs and that, therefore, companies should invest in professional retraining.

This scenario is part of a transformation that has accelerated since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT at the end of 2022. Since then, text, image, video, and code generation tools have multiplied, and Wall Street has begun to bet that AI will replace much of traditional corporate software, which helps explain the fall in software company stocks in the last year.

The combination of lower usage, greater distrust, and a lower perception of urgency among women creates a scenario that could deepen existing imbalances in the labor market. The research does not pinpoint causes for this difference in behavior, but the data indicate that the adoption of AI in the corporate environment is far from gender-neutral.

Recent research from 2024 and 2025 confirms that there is a "gender gap in AI," with women demonstrating greater skepticism and a lower rate of adoption of the technology in the workplace. While about 50% of men claim to use generative AI tools, this number drops to approximately 37% among women.

The main factors explaining this behavior include (below):

Aversion to uncertainty and risk: Studies from Northeastern University indicate that women perceive AI as 11% riskier than men, especially when the economic and employment effects are uncertain.

Occupational exposure: Women predominantly occupy administrative and service roles, areas with a higher risk of replacement or automation by AI (approximately 9.6% of female jobs vs. 3.5% of male jobs).

Lack of incentive and training: Only 21% of women at the beginning of their careers are encouraged by their managers to use AI tools, compared to 33% of men.

Knowledge barriers: The self-reported level of knowledge about AI is cited as the most important factor for lower adoption, explaining almost 75% of the gender gap.

Ethical concerns and bias: Women tend to question the ethics of tools more and fear that AI systems will perpetuate existing gender biases.

This disparity can exacerbate wage and promotion inequalities, creating a "broken rung" early in a career where women miss out on leadership opportunities because they do not master technologies that are becoming central to productivity.

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TECH

iFixit: the internet hero that has saved millions of gadgets from the trash

Have you ever felt that stomach-churning feeling when your cell phone slips from your hands and lands face down on the cement floor? Or when your laptop, which cost you an arm and a leg, decides its battery won't last more than twenty minutes away from the power outlet? The first reaction of almost all of us is to panic and think about the astronomical bill the official brand will present for the repair, or worse, consider throwing the equipment in the trash and buying a new one. It is precisely to avoid this waste and this huge hole in your wallet that iFixit exists.

If you usually follow the news in the world of technology, it's very likely that you've already come across this name. Whenever a cutting-edge smartphone is launched on the market, the iFixit team is one of the first to disassemble it piece by piece under the cameras, revealing its internal secrets and giving it the famous repairability score. However, the true value of this platform goes far beyond these media and viral teardowns.

Born back in 2003, iFixit emerged with a very clear and slightly rebellious mission: to teach ordinary people what big brands and manufacturers avoid showing at all costs. Today, the platform has become the largest collaborative library for repairing electronic devices on the planet. We're talking about a monumental collection with over 130,000 completely free guides. And don't think they're limited to cell phones and laptops; there you'll find step-by-step tutorials for tablets, video game consoles, cameras, household appliances, and even electric bicycles.

The format of these guides is incredibly didactic and was designed for those who have never opened a gadget in their lives. Each tutorial is illustrated with very high-resolution photographs for each specific step. They provide detailed notes on the location and size of all the screws (so you don't mix anything up when you close it again) and, more importantly, include red alerts for the most delicate moments of the process, preventing you from accidentally cutting a flexible cable. Before you start, the site immediately indicates the difficulty level of that arrangement, the estimated time it will take you, and the exact list of tools you will need.

iFixit published teardowns of new Apple products, which provided publicity for the company's parts and equipment sales. These teardowns were featured in articles in the now-defunct PC World, Mac Observer, NetworkWorld, and other publications.

Co-founder Kyle Wiens stated his intention to reduce electronic waste by teaching people how to repair their own electronics and by offering tools, parts, and a forum to discuss repairs. In 2011, he traveled to Africa with a documentary crew.

iFixit provides a software-as-a-service platform known as Dozuki, allowing others to use iFixit's documentation framework to produce their own documentation. Make and Craft magazines, both from O'Reilly Media, use Dozuki.

In September 2015, Apple removed the iFixit app from the App Store in response to the company publishing a teardown of a developer pre-release version of the Apple TV (4th generation) obtained under the Apple Developer Program, violating a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement, and thus its developer account was suspended. In response, iFixit says it has worked on improving its mobile website so that users can access its services through a mobile browser.

Active community and professional tool store...As a recognized collaborative project, the magic happens because you and any other member of the community can actively contribute. Users correct small errors, suggest easier shortcuts, and continuously improve the guides. This ensures that the information is always up-to-date, even for those cell phones or computers that are several years old and that the original brands have already chosen to forget about.

But iFixit knows that theory is not enough if you don't have the practical means to work. That's why the integrated store is the other great pillar of this huge sustainability project. That's where you can buy the replacement parts you need, whether they're original or high-quality equivalents — from fresh batteries to pristine screens, volume buttons, and charging connectors.

In addition to parts, they've designed and sell their own catalog of tools that have become true legends in the industry. You'll find magnetic precision screwdrivers, high-suction suction cups, delicate spatulas, and anti-static tweezers. These famous tool kits are so robust and durable that they're used by professional repair technicians worldwide, far surpassing the durability of generic kits you find in other online stores. And the best part for us? They ship directly from the store to Portugal with quite reasonable delivery times and at highly competitive prices.

The political fight for your right to repair...Besides providing perfectly digestible knowledge and physical tools, iFixit has established itself as one of the biggest and loudest global advocates for your "Right to Repair". The team has not been afraid to confront the Silicon Valley giants in tough legislative battles, making their presence felt and lobbying in courts and committees in both the United States and Europe. They fight hard to compel manufacturers to make open technical manuals available and to sell replacement parts at fair prices to the general public.

This is a long and often frustrating bureaucratic battle, but thankfully it's starting to bear very real and tangible fruit. With the new European "ecodesign" regulations finally coming into effect, brands are being forced to change the way they build their devices so you can fix them more easily. The next time your electronic device breaks, don't immediately consider it a lost cause. Grab a suitable screwdriver, open the iFixit website and discover the immense pleasure of giving your own technology a new life.

https://in.ifixit.com/

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