Facebook To Shut Live Shopping Feature From Oct 1
Facebook has announced to shut down its live shopping feature from October 1 and focus on the short-form video platform Reels on its main app and Instagram. The users will still be able to use Facebook Live to broadcast live events, but they won’t be...
EPFO Pension Scheme Holders’ Data Exposed Online, Claims Security Researcher
A Ukraine-based cybersecurity researcher and journalist has claimed that about 288 million personal records, containing the full name, bank account number, and nominee information of the Employees’ Pension Scheme (EPS) holders in the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), were exposed online before being taken off...
Twitter Drags Elon Musk’s Billionaire Buddies Into Legal Battle
The microblogging site Twitter has now dragged tech investors and entrepreneur friends connected to Elon Musk in the $44 billion takeover deal that has been terminated by the Tesla CEO and a legal trial is set to begin on October 17. According to The Washington...
Microsoft Unveils New Solutions For Threat Intelligence, Attack Surface Management
Microsoft has announced two new security products that will provide deeper context into threat actor activity and help organizations lock down their infrastructure and reduce their overall attack surface. The new products are Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender External Attack Surface Management. “Microsoft...
Apple Sued By French Developers Over App Store Fees: Report
Apple is facing an antitrust lawsuit over its App Store fees that is filed by a group of French iOS app developers. The plaintiffs are accusing Apple of anti-competitive practices in allowing only one App Store for iOS devices, which gives it a monopoly in...
Indian Govt Blocked 348 Apps For Collecting Users’ Info
Amid rising complaints against mobile apps, the Centre has identified and blocked 348 apps developed by various countries, including China, for allegedly collecting user information for profiling citizens and transmitting it overseas in an unauthorized manner, the Parliament was told on Wednesday. “The Ministry of...
Webb Telescope Images Colourful Cartwheel Galaxy
The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope has captured colourful images of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located about 500 million light-years away. Using its powerful infrared cameras, Webb produced a detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other...
US Man Made $25 Million By Unlocking Smartphones With Stolen Passwords
A former owner of a T-Mobile store in the US, guilty of using stolen credentials to unlock “hundreds of thousands of cellphones”, made around $25 million from the illegal scheme. According to the US Department of Justice, Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, has been found guilty by...
Discord Plans To Overhaul Its Android App For Better User Experience
In a bid to improve its experience for Android users, chat platform Discord has announced that it will overhaul its Android app so that new features and upgrades come simultaneously on iOS and desktop. The company mentioned switching to React Native for the Android app...
Uber Reports $2.6 Billion Loss In Q2, Gross Bookings At All-time High
Uber Technologies on Tuesday said that gross bookings reached an all-time high of $29.1 billion in the second quarter (Q2) this year, up 33 percent (year-over-year), with reporting a net loss of $2.6 billion. The net loss included a $1.7 billion net headwind (pre-tax) relating...
Meta Sued For Using Tracking Tool To Access Patients’ Data For Ads
Meta has been sued for violating patient privacy with a data tracking tool in the US. Two proposed class-action lawsuits alleged that Meta and major US hospitals used a Meta Pixel tracking tool that sends health information to Facebook, reports The Verge. In June, an...
‘Monkeypox Becoming Endemic In US Can Be Worst Public Health Failure’
Monkeypox becoming endemic in the US would be the “worst public health failure in modern times” because it could have been prevented, says former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) director Scott Gottlieb. Writing in the op-ed, Gottlieb said should the disease become endemic, it would...
Twitter To Let Users Know If An Embedded Tweet Has Been Edited
Twitter will soon let users know if an embedded tweet has been edited, or whether there is a new version of the tweet. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong discovered that Twitter is working on a new feature that may be part of its broad upcoming...
Visa ‘Intended’ To Help Pornhub Monetise Child Porn, Alleges Lawsuit
A US court has allowed a lawsuit against Visa to go ahead that alleged that the financial services company helped monetize sexual videos involving children on Pornhub, owned by porn site operator MindGeek. Judge Cormac Carney in California issued the ruling, rejecting Visa’s attempts to...
Twitter May Soon Let You See ‘Tweets Per Month’
Twitter is testing a new feature that will let users see how many times someone tweets per month. Reverse engineers spotted this in development about a month ago, but as of this morning, some Twitter users have shared that they have gained access to this...
James Webb Telescope Likely Spots First Supernova
The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope may have likely spotted its first supernova, according to astronomers. According to Mike Engesser of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the object is extremely bright compared to the rest of the galaxy. And Webb observed the galaxy,...
Strawberries May Help Fight Alzheimer’s: Study
Adding strawberries to your cereal, salad or smoothie can likely help protect your brain from Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a study. The researchers from RUSH University in the US found that a bioactive compound found in strawberries called pelargonidin may be associated with fewer neurofibrillary tau...
Boundaries In Relationships: What They Are And How To Set Them
When people think about boundaries, often they think of them in physical terms—structures that enforce separation and impose distance. But, paradoxically, knowing how to set boundaries in a relationship may, in fact, bring you closer to someone you care about.
Twitter May Actually Become Accurate, Relevant News Source: Musk
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said that the micro-blogging platform Twitter may actually disseminate accurate and relevant news in these depressing times. He earlier termed the media as a “click-seeking machine dressed up as a truth-seeking machine”. Musk, who is now in...
Google Denies Shutting Down Its Cloud Gaming Service Stadia
Google has refuted a claim that it will shut down its cloud gaming platform Stadia, stating that it is still “working on bringing more great games to the platform”. The company stated after a rumor began circulating earlier this week that suggested it would sunset...
