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Twitter last week started selling the coveted verification checkmark as part of the Blue subscription. Anyone could pay the company to get the blue tick, rather than having to get their account verified for it. The change was Elon Musk’s call as he looks to add new revenue streams to Twitter. But it backfired as people exploited the loophole to create fake accounts impersonating prominent personalities and organizations with the paid checkmark to make them look genuine....

The Galaxy Z Flip 3 is currently receiving the September SMR (Security Maintenance Release) on carrier-locked variants in the US. The update is already live for units on Comcast and Xfinity Mobile’s networks, with the new firmware version being F711USQS3DVHD. It should soon reach other carrier variants and gradually make its way into unlocked units too. As said earlier, the Galaxy Z Flip 3 recently received the One UI 4.1.1 update in the US....

This should come as no surprise to people keeping up with Google. During Google I/O this year, the company stated that it’s going to optimize more than 20 Google applications to run better on tablets. This is only going to complement the optimizations present in Android 12L and Android 13. Google has been issuing optimizations for its apps so far, and there are more to come. We can assume that most of the apps will be optimized by the time the Google Pixel Tablet launches next year....

This isn’t exactly a short-term thing and while Sony won’t make new PS4s forever, it currently doesn’t have a plan for when it will stop. The PS4 is one of Sony’s best-selling consoles to date. In addition to being one of the best-selling consoles period. So there’s no reason for Sony to stop making them while it can still turn a profit. Though, it will eventually transition to manufacturing PS5s only....

Stable Android 12 build could arrive on October 4 Stable Android 12 build could arrive on October 4 Google recently announced the very last Android 12 Beta build we’ll get, Android 12 Beta 5. The next update the company launches will be a stable build. Many of us expected it to arrive in September, but we may have to wait until early October. Mishaal Rahman got this information from an internal Google document....