Geico Data Breach Exposed Customers’ Driver’s License Numbers For More Than A Month
Insurance company Geico has suffered a data breach that exposed customers’ driver’s license for more than a month, according to a data breach notice filed with the attorney general of California.
You Can Now Transfer Your Facebook Posts And Notes To Google Docs, Blogger And WordPress
Social media giant Facebook announced a new feature that will allow users to export their Facebook posts and notes to popular services like Google Docs, Blogger, or WordPress.com.
Adobe Co-Founder Dr Geschke Passes At 81
Dr. Geschke co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. John Warnock, a colleague from Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, a pivotal technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution. Dr. Geschke was chief operating officer of Adobe from December 1986 to July 1994 and president...
Chrome 90 Will Let You Share Links To Highlighted Text
Google has started rolling out a feature for Chrome 90, which will allow you to create a link that takes people straight to the part of a page you highlighted.
Apple To Close Its Stores In US As COVID-19 Precautionary Measure
Apple has taken a step back in its efforts to reopen its stores around the world, with all six of its retail outlets in the US' Michigan closed as a preventative measure
Twitter Is Suffering From Another Outage, Users Unable To Send DMs
The micro-blogging site Twitter went down in the US and the company said it was working on fixing an issue with its servers.
Swinburne University Data Breach Exposes Details Of 5000 Individuals
Swinburne University has confirmed that details of more than 5,000 staff and students were inadvertently made available on the Internet. The information made available was name, email address, and in some cases, a contact phone number.
SpaceX Wins $2.9bn NASA Contract To Build Moon Lander
The contract is worth $2.9 billion and is part of NASA's Artemis programme, which aims to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as a stepping stone to the first human mission to Mars.
Facebook Testing Dedicated News Feed For Businesses In US
Social media giant Facebook announced this morning it will begin testing a new experience for discovering businesses in its News Feed in the U.S.
Russian Hackers Are Actively Exploiting Five Publicly Known Vulnerabilities: NSA
The National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) jointly released a Cybersecurity Advisory, “Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks,” today to expose ongoing Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) exploitation of five publicly known...
Microsoft Edge’s New ‘Kids Mode’ Is Rolling Globally
Kids Mode is a convenient browsing mode inside Microsoft Edge that’s designed for kids. With its kid-friendly features and safety guardrails in place, Kids Mode is a great place for children to safely explore the web.
Apple Launches $200 Million Fund For Climate Change
Apple announced a first-of-its-kind carbon removal initiative — called the Restore Fund — that will make investments in forestry projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere while generating a financial return for investors.
What Is Sextortion? And How Can You Avoid It?
Sextortion is an emerging online scam in which an attacker attempts to extort money or get victims to do something against their will by threatening to release embarrassing, personal images or their most intimate moments to their contacts, friends, and family.
Google Tests Responsive Design For Search Results On Desktop Web
Google is making a tweak to Search on desktop web that sees the results page adopt a more responsive design.
Google Assistant Can Now Help You Find Your Lost iPhone
The alert is triggered when asking "Hey Google, find my phone" through a Google smart home devices. Following the trigger, the Google Home app will send an iOS critical alert on the iPhone.
You Can Now Hide ‘Likes’ On Instagram
Instagram is now testing a new feature that will give users more controls in the form of three options — select not to see like counts on anyone’s posts, turn them off for their own posts, or keep the original experience.
PS5 April Update Brings New Storage Options And Social Features
Sony is rolling out the first major software update for PlayStation 5 console, which comes with new features and improvements. The first major PS5 console update lets you store PS5 games on USB extended storage, share gameplay across PS5 and PS4 consoles, and more.
Facebook Testing Video Speed Dating App ‘Sparked’
Facebook is testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked that will first allow 4-minute dates to help users find if they are compatible with each other.
Netflix Gives Its Kids Profiles A New Look
The streaming giant Netflix is redesigning its kids’ profiles to make them more visually appealing and more prominently display popular characters from kids’ shows.
Apple’s ‘Spring Loaded’ Event Will Be Held On April 20
Apple has officially announced its next event “Spring Loaded” for April 20.The official confirmation came just hours after the company’s voice assistant revealed the date early when asked “When is the next Apple event?”
