Facebook News Feed Getting Spammed With Public Posts On Celebrity Pages
The social media giant Facebook is experiencing a bug in their algorithm where users around the globe are seeing Facebook posts of random people that are tagging Rihanna, Ronaldo, or others. According to downdetector, nearly 3000 users(at this time of writing) are experiencing the issue...
YouTube Shorts Arriving Soon On Smart Android TVs
YouTube is set to launch its short-form video app Shorts on its smart TV app YouTube TV. The company has told its partners about the support for YouTube shorts to YouTube’s app for Android TV and Google TV, reports Protocol has learned. YouTube Shorts has...
Snap Agrees To Pay $35 Million Over Illegal User Data Collection In US
Snap has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat’s filters and lenses violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored “biometric data...
Apple Rolls Out iPadOS 16.1 Beta Before iOS 16 Release
Apple has started rolling out iPadOS 16.1 beta to enrolled developer devices. According to TechCrunch, it is a change from the usual release cycle, which has linked the tablet operating system with iOS, its mobile counterpart, since its initial release in 2019. “This is an...
Remembering ‘Windows 95’? It Is 27 Years Old Today
Microsoft’s Windows 95 release on August 24th, 1995 was a highly anticipated launch. Jay Leno helped launch the software alongside Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, with a lot of jokes and the appearance of the entire Windows 95 development team on stage.
A Comprehensive Cyberbullying Guide For Parents
Cyberbullying is when someone repeatedly makes fun of another person online or repeatedly picks on another person through email or text message or when someone posts something online about another person that they don’t like.
Meta Reaches $37.5 Million Settlement Of Facebook Location Tracking Lawsuit
Meta has reached a $37.5 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the parent of Facebook of violating users’ privacy by tracking their movements through their smartphones without permission. A preliminary settlement of the proposed class action was filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court,...
Google Wallet Is Now Available In 45 Countries
Tech giant Google has expanded Google Wallet‘s availability to six new regions. The company has updated the Google Wallet support page to reflect the inclusion of the following new countries: Azerbaijan Iceland Moldova Qatar Serbia South Africa You can use the Google Wallet app to...
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals ‘Incredible’ Jupiter Views
James Webb Space Telescope has revealed unprecedented views of Jupiter. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) took pictures of the Solar System’s biggest planet in July. The images show auroras, giant storms, moons, and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as “incredible”....
Netflix Ramps Up Hirings For Its Cloud Gaming Dream
Netflix has ramped up its dream to make it big in Cloud gaming, as the company hunts for professionals to take on Cloud gaming services like Sony PlayStation Now, Google Stadia, Apple Arcade, and Amazon Luna. According to Protocol, the streaming service is looking for...
Apple Expands Self Repair Programme To Mac Notebooks For Customers
Apple has expanded its self-service repair program to MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks with the M1 family of chips. The company said it will provide repair manuals and genuine Apple parts and tools through the Apple Self Service Repair Store, beginning in the US....
Apple Likely To Unveil M2-Powered New MacBook Pros Early Next Year
Apple’s much anticipated M2-powered 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are likely to be launched in the first half of 2023. According to prominent analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the upcoming MacBook Pro with new processors will enter mass production in the fourth quarter of this year. “New...
WhatsApp Plans To Bring Stories-Like Feature To Chat List For iOS
WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out the ability to watch Status directly from WhatsApp’s chat list for iOS users. According to WABetaInfo, the beta version 22.18.0.70 is bringing the ability to view Status updates within the chat list. It has been released to certain beta testers,...
Apple May Show Ads In Maps App From Next Year: Report
Apple is reportedly planning to show search ads in its Maps app on the iPhone starting next year. In his newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that he believes the engineering work is already underway, reports MacRumors. “I believe the engineering work is already underway to...
Google AI Flags Parents’ Accounts For Potential Abuse Over Kid’s Nude Photos
Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly flagged parents’ accounts for potential abuse over nude photos of their sick kids. The father said that after using his Android smartphone to take photos of an infection on his toddler’s groin, the tech giant flagged the images as...
Lazarus Hackers Targeting Apple Mac Users With Fake Job Posts
North Korea-based notorious Lazarus hacking group is targeting Apple Mac users with fake job emails that contain malicious files. Researchers at cyber-security firm ESET posted a screenshot on Twitter that showed fake job listings from leading crypto exchange Coinbase by Lazarus, famous for spreading the...
Apple CFO Luca Maestri Sells Stock Worth $16.9 Million
Apple‘s Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri has sold shares worth $16.9 million as part of an arranged trading plan. According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the transactions were executed in two tranches. One transaction was for 66,390 shares, sold...
Bug Blocked Reels Users From Sharing Videos On Other Platforms: Instagram
Instagram has clarified that it is not blocking creators from sharing their Reels videos on other short-form video platforms like TikTok. According to earlier reports, when trying to download an edited clip to an iPhone in Instagram Reels, the audio from the clip just disappeared....
Twitter To Cut Annual Bonuses For Employees To 50% Amid Downturn
Twitter has warned employees that they are set to get only half of their annual bonuses, as the economic meltdown gets deeper. Twitter’s chief financial officer Ned Segal told employees that global market conditions would affect the annual bonuses they receive, with the “bonus pool...
US Agency Hits 5 Crypto Firms With Cease And Desist Over ‘False’ Claims
The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has issued cease-and-desist letters to five crypto companies, including leading cryptocurrency exchange FTX, over “false and misleading statements”. Apart from FTX, Cryptonews.com, Cryptosec.info, SmartAsset.com, and FDICCrypto.com also received cease and desist letters on Friday, with the agency giving...
