10 Times Faster Than A Bullet, Supersonic Asteroid To Pass Earth: Nasa
A small supersonic asteroid, traveling at ten times the speed of a bullet, will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, media reports said. The asteroid has been given the designation 2022 QC7 and it is not too big, with a width ranging from just 16...
Instagram Takes Down Pornhub’s Official Account
Instagram has taken down the official account for adult entertainment website PornHub amid pressure from civil rights groups. The company, however, did not reveal the reason behind the move. Before the Instagram account was removed, Pornhub had 13.1 million followers and more than 6,200 posts,...
Irish Regulator Fines Instagram $402 Million Over Kids’ Privacy Violation
Instagram has been fined 405 million euros ($402 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation. The fine, the second-highest under the GDPR after a 746 million euros penalty against Amazon, is the third for a Meta-owned company...
Google Warns Users To Quickly Update Chrome To Avoid Hacking Risk
Google has advised its users to immediately install a security update in its Chrome browser to safeguard themselves against a serious bug being actively exploited by hackers. The tech giant said it is aware of reports that an exploit for ‘CVE-2022-3075’ exists in the wild,...
Tiktok Denies Security Breach After Hackers Leak User Data And Source Code
A hacking group known as ‘AgainstTheWest’ created a topic on a hacking forum claiming to have breached both TikTok and WeChat, Bleepingcomputer reports. The user shared screenshots of an alleged database belonging to the companies, which they say was accessed on an Alibaba cloud instance...
75% Increase In Ransomware Attacks Targeting Linux Systems In 2022
Cyber-security researchers have discovered a 75 percent increase in ransomware attacks targeting Linux operating systems in the first half of 2022 compared to the first half of last year. The team from Trend Micro observed the emergence of new Linux ransomware families for the first...
Apple May Bring Back Battery Percentage Indicator With iPhone 14 Pro
As Apple is preparing to unveil its next-generation iPhones, a new report has indicated that the tech giant’s iPhone 14 Pro may revive the battery percentage indicator. The iPhone 14 Pro’s status bar will purportedly see changes due to the increased amount of usable space...
Apple Watch Series 3 To Be Discontinued Soon
The Apple Watch Series 3 models, which are currently being sold out globally on the tech giant’s online store, are expected to be discontinued soon. Three out of four Series 3 configurations listed on Apple’s website are currently out of stock in the UK and...
Cloudflare Blocks Internet Forum Kiwi Farms Over ‘Imminent Threats To Human Life’
Cloudflare announced that it has blocked US-based Internet forum Kiwi Farms over “imminent threats to human life”. The platform said that visitors to any of the Kiwi Farms sites that use any of Cloudflare’s services will see a block page and a link to this...
Apple Set To Unveil 2nd Gen Airpods Pro This Week
Apple is set to showcase the second generation of its AirPods Pro this week that will offer several upgrades, including the next generation H1 processor. The company, which will unveil the latest iPhones and other devices at its event on September 7, will update a...
Hacker Steals $185k From Actor Bill Murray’s NFT Digital Auction
A hacker has siphoned off $185,000 from Hollywood star Bill Murray’s digital wallet after he successfully completed the charity auction of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). CoinDesk reports that as soon as Murray’s NFT action that raised 119.2 Ethereum (around $185,000) for charity got closed, a hacker...
Elon Musk Throws A Solution For Ailing Nasa’s Artemis 1 Mission
As NASA scrubbed the Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the Moon once again, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday came up with a suggestion for the ailing mission that will finally land astronauts on the lunar surface after decades. NASA engineers could not...
Social Media App Parler Returns To Google’s Play Store
Parler is returning to Google’s app store more than 1-1/2 years after the company removed it following the U.S. Capitol riots in January 2021. The app was launched in 2018 and styled itself as a free-speech space for those seeking an alternative to platforms such...
OfferUp Scams To Watch Out For
OfferUp is a mobile-focused market centered on the buying and selling of goods online or in person. It works by encouraging you to search its large catalog of goods until you find what you’re looking for.
Zoom Allows Customers Their Own Encryption Keys To Protect Data
Zoom on Friday announced a new offering that will allow users to protect certain data stored at rest within the Zoom Cloud infrastructure using their own encryption keys. The platform said its newest advanced security offering — Customer Managed Key (CMK) — is designed to...
YouTube Showing Election-Fraud Videos To Users Skeptical About 2020 US Polls
YouTube is showing more election-fraud videos to users already skeptical about the legitimacy of the 2020 US presidential election, a study has revealed, showing how its algorithms perpetuate existing misperceptions. The study, published in the Journal of Online Trust and Safety, found that those most...
NASA Captures 1st Direct Image Of Exoplanet Outside Our Solar System
For the first time, astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The exoplanet called ‘HIP 65426 b’ is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable....
Twitter Confirms Edit Tweet Test, To Arrive For Blue Users First
The microblogging site Twitter announced it has finally rolled out a small test for its much-awaited Edit Tweet feature, which will be available for Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks. Edit Tweet is currently being tested by the Twitter team internally, amid the ongoing...
Apple Settles Lawsuit With App Developer Over ‘Unfair Rejection’
Apple has settled a lawsuit with app developer Kosta Eleftheriou who claimed that the tech giant unfairly rejected his app from App Store which resulted in heavy monetary losses. The lawsuit, filed in March last year, alleged that Apple made it difficult for him to...
Facebook To Shut Down Neighborhoods Feature On Oct 1
Facebook has announced to shut down a new hyperlocal feature called Neighborhoods that was to provide a dedicated space to help people connect with neighbors, participate in the local community and discover new places nearby. Facebook said it will end its test of Neighborhoods on...
