Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

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...

The tech giant Apple today announced it will transition the Mac to its world-class custom silicon to deliver industry-leading performance and powerful new technologies. Developers can now get started updating their apps to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of Apple silicon in the Mac....

The Cyber-Criminals published nearly 269 GB of data they claim have been stolen from US law enforcement agencies and fusion centers. The files, dubbed BlueLeaks, have been published by Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets), a group that describes itself as a “transparency collective.” According to the...

Samsung Blu-ray players appear to be malfunctioning for hundreds of users, and no one is sure what the issue is, ZDNet reported Some users report their Blu-ray players get stuck in an endless reboot loop when they’re switched on, others reported hearing a buzzing noise as if...

The tech giant Google has introduced its newest experiment from its startup incubator Space 120 and Other people and AI Analysis workforce referred to as Prepared, a internet and Android app that permits customers to curate content material from the internet and percentage the gathering...

The micro-blogging site Twitter is testing a new feature that will allow users to create tweets using their voice, announced on a blog post. The feature will be available to a limited number of users on Apple’s iOS platform for now and be rolled out for more iOS users...

Zoom’s CEO Eric S. Yuan today announced that end-to-end encryption (E2EE) will be provided to all users (paid and free) after verifying their accounts by providing additional identification info such as their phone number. “We are also pleased to share that we have identified a path forward...

Qualcomm is launching its next 5G chipset today, the Snapdragon 690, the first product in its 6-series chips to get support for the next-generation networking standard — although it’ll only support the slower sub-6GHz versions of 5G, not the faster mmWave standard. According to Qualcomm,...

The tech giant Apple today announced the App Store ecosystem supported $519 billion in billings and sales globally in 2019 alone. The new study, conducted by independent economists at Analysis Group, found that the highest value categories were mobile commerce (m-commerce) apps, digital goods and services apps, and in-app...

WhatsApp has launched in-app payments in Brazil, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The payments are enabled through Facebook Pay, which parent company Facebook said last year it would be rolling out to Instagram, Messenger, Facebook, and eventually WhatsApp. “Payments on WhatsApp...

US based jewelry and accessory giant Claire’s, and its subsidiary Icing, were compromised in April and have allowed hackers to gain access to customer’s credit cards, Sansec reports. In a new report by cybersecurity firm Sansec, Claire’s website was compromised by attackers who attempted to steal customer’s...

Microsoft is rolling out the new custom background effects in Teams, the tech giant announced in a blog post. Custom images and other background effects are only available for scheduled Teams meetings, Microsoft says. According to a blog post, “When joining a Teams meeting, you...