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The streaming giant Amazon announced that Amazon Prime Video’s dedicated app for Windows 10 is now live in the Microsoft Store. It allows you to stream videos and download them for offline viewing. While it’s always been possible to stream Prime Video content through a browser...

The payments by Alphabet Inc’s Google to Apple Inc to be the default search engine on Apple’s Safari web browser create “a significant barrier to entry and expansion” for Google’s rivals in the search engine market, the UK markets regulator said in a report released...

Google is disabling the Google Photos app’s image and video backup for folders created by services like WhatsApp, Messages, and Kik. In essence, that means that by default, photos and videos from those services saved on your phone won’t be backed up by Google Photos going forward,...

Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump, in the latest surprise and high-profile suspension from the streaming service. Trump’s account was banned for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, and Twitch says the offending content has now been removed, theverge reported. One of the streams in...

The social media giant Facebook has confirmed that some users are now able to switch to dark mode in the mobile app, As first noted by SocialMedia Today. Users who already have the new dark mode on mobile tweeted screenshots of what it looks like: Facebook...

CryptoLockers, or ransomware, is a type of malware that encrypts your files upon infection. Ransomware makes all of your personal files inaccessible and can even turn the entire computer unusable.

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...