Unilever Boycotts Advertisement On Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Unilever has become the latest company to boycott Facebook advertising. The CPG giant announced on Friday that it’s pausing all ads on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter throughout “at least” the end of the year. Unilever owns dozens of popular household brands like Hellmann’s mayonnaise and...
Coca-Cola Pauses Advertising On All Social Media Platforms Globally
The Coca-Cola Company is pausing all digital advertising on social media platforms globally for at least 30 days starting July 1st, the company announced on Friday. The company clarified it was not joining the official boycott, but said “we are pausing” advertising. “There is no...
Microsoft Is Closing All Physical Stores Permanently
Microsoft announced that all physical Microsoft Stores will be closed. The change is part of a “strategic change” and will see Microsoft push more effort and money into its digital storefronts. Microsoft announced the change in a new post today. Microsoft will “reimagine” some spaces, repurposing them...
Facebook To Warn Users Before They Share Old News Articles
The social media giant Facebook is rolling out a new feature globally that will warn users if they’re about to share an article that’s over 90 days old. The feature, which was announced in a blog post, is designed to give people more context about articles...
Cyber-Criminals Hide Credit Card Stealing Scripts In Favicon EXIF Data
Hackers are always evolving their tactics to stay one step ahead of security companies. A perfect example of this is the hiding of malicious credit card stealing scripts in the EXIF data of a favicon image to evade detection. According to Jérôme Segura, Malwarebytes Director...
Apple Shuts 10% of U.S. Stores Again On Virus With 14 in Florida
Apple Inc. is closing an additional 14 U.S. retail stores Friday because of recent increases in Covid-19 cases. Of the 18 Apple Store locations in Florida, only two currently remain open, one in Jacksonville and another in Sarasota, Bloomberg reported. The tally of closed US Apple...
Amazon to Pay More Than $1 Billion for Self-Driving Car Developer Zoox
Amazon is reportedly on the verge of announcing a deal to acquire self-driving startup Zoox for over $1 billion, Theinformation Reported The deal would give Amazon control of the nearly 1,000-person startup that has been developing an electric self-driving vehicle. The deal could be announced as...
Google To Auto-Delete Users’ Records By Default
The tech giant Google is changing the default settings to automatically delete the collected data of its users. Website search, page visited and location data including users’ web and app activity will now be automatically deleted from Google servers after 18 months. Currently this change...
Verizon Joins Ad Boycott Of Facebook
Verizon is joining an escalating movement to siphon advertising away from Facebook in an effort to pressure the company into doing more to prevent racist and violent information from being shared on its social networking service. The boycott, organized by the Anti-Defamation League, is in...
Sony Will Now Pay Researchers $50,000+ For Critical PS4 Bugs
Sony announced that it’s opening its bug bounty program to the public, and will pay for newly discovered bugs and exploits that impact either the PlayStation 4 or their online PlayStation Network. “We believe that through working with the security research community we can deliver...
WikiLeaks Founder Charged With Conspiring With Anonymous And LulzSec Hackers
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was hit with a new federal indictment on Wednesday accusing him of conspiring with hackers, including the group “Anonymous.” The US Department of Justice has filed today a superseding indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “The new indictment [PDF] does not...
Brazil’s Central Bank Suspends WhatsApp Payments
Brazil’s Central Bank has suspended Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, Bloomberg reports. The decision aims to “preserve an adequate competitive environment, that ensures the functioning of a payment system that’s interchangeable, fast, secure, transparent, open and cheap,” the monetary authority said in...
New iOS 14 Features That Android Already Has
Apple announced iOS 14. It is loaded with all new features and changes -including a few that should look pretty familiar to Android users who have had similar functionality for some time. While many of these iOS 14 features might feel new Apple iPhone users....
Google Opens The First Cloud Region In Indonesia
Google has opened its first cloud region in Indonesia, offering three cloud zones and its usual suite of services including Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Google Kubernetes Engine, and BigQuery, the tech giant announced in a blog post. “The launch of our new Jakarta region (asia-southeast2)...
Netflix Is Making It Easier For People To Remove Titles From Their ‘Continue Watching’ Row
After browsing for a new movie or TV show to watch on Netflix, people may throw something on before deciding 10 minutes in they’re just not that interested. Netflix’s new “remove from row” feature is designed to make it easier for people to remove those...
Twitter Bans DDoSecrets Account Over ‘BlueLeaks’ Police Data Dump
The micro blogging site Twitter has permanently suspended the @DDoSecrets Twitter account for violating its policy about the distribution of hacked data after the account shared links to hacked data stolen from US law enforcement agencies, ZDNet Reported. Prior to the ban, enforced earlier today,...
Amazon Launches $2 Billion Fund To Invest In Climate Change
Amazon on Tuesday announced it has set up a $2 billion fund dedicated to investing in technologies that help companies reduce their carbon footprint. The fund is part of Amazon’s “Climate Pledge,” which was first introduced by CEO Jeff Bezos last September, with the goal of getting...
Microsoft Releases First Public Preview Of Its Defender Antivirus On Android
The tech giant Microsoft is launching a preview version of its antivirus software for Android today. The product, named “Microsoft Defender ATP for Android,” was announced at the RSA security conference in February this year, and has reached a first public preview today. This new Android...
Japanese Supercomputer Is Now The Fastest In The World
A Japanese supercomputer called Fugaku, installed in the city of Kobe by the government-sponsored Riken institute, took first place in a twice-yearly speed ranking that was released on Monday. The Japanese machine carried out 2.8 times more calculations a second than an IBM system at...
These Are All The Devices That Can Run iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS Big Sur, And watchOS 7
At WWDC, Apple announced its latest software for all its devices: iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and macOS Big Sur. The new software updates for iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and Macs will available this fall, with public betas for those will begin in July. Apple unveiled iOS 14 with...
