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February 18, 2019 Trolled, Prateik Babbar Deletes Risque Pic With Wife Sanya Sagar
Actor Prateik Babbar reportedly posted a risque picture featuring himself with wife Sanya Sagar on Valentine’s Day, which he recently deleted following heavily trolling on social media, several websites, including India.com and DNA, reported. Prateik married Sanya Sagar last month in Lucknow, her hometown. As per a DNA report, the Internet users called Prateik out […]
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February 1, 2019 Twitter cuts off API access to follow/unfollow spam dealers
Notification spam ruins social networks, diluting the real human interaction. Desperate to gain an audience, users pay services to rapidly follow and unfollow tons of people in hopes that some will follow them back. The services can either automate this process or provide tools for users to generate this spam themselves, Earlier this month, a TechCrunch […]
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January 19, 2019 YouTube to Stop Automatic Sharing of Activity to Twitter, Google+
Video-sharing giant YouTube has announced that it will kill the feature that allows users to automatically share their YouTube Activity on micro-blogging site Twitter and its own social network Google+ after January 31. Twitter currently allows users to share their YouTube activity via options such as going to YouTube Settings, then to Connected apps and choosing “Share your […]
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January 11, 2019 US Man Gets 10 Years in Prison for Cyber-Attack on Children’s Hospital
A Massachusetts man was sentenced on Thursday to more than 10 years in prison for carrying out a cyber-attack on a hospital on behalf of the hacking activist group Anonymous to protest the treatment of a teenager in a high-profile custody dispute. Martin Gottesfeld, 34, was sentenced by US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton in Boston nearly […]
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January 11, 2019 Google Search Bug Allows People to Hack Results to Spread Misinformation
An innocuous-looking Google bug has been revealed that has the potential for spreading misinformation. The bug was documented by a London-based researcher, who discovered that Google’s Knowledge Panel can be tricked to show up with unrelated queries, thus allowing a malicious actor to use them for disseminating false information or propaganda. With the world already […]
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January 11, 2019 Google Can Limit Right to Be Forgotten to EU, Says EU Court Adviser
An EU rule forcing search engines to comply with requests to remove links should be limited to Europe, the senior legal advisor to the bloc’s top court said Thursday in a boost for Web giant Google. The legal clash pits Google against France over the “right to be forgotten” rule, which the US firm would like to […]
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January 11, 2019 Kaspersky Lab Helped NSA Catch an Alleged Data Thief
The National Security Agency discovered what has been called the largest breach of classified data in its history after a tip from a Russian cyber-security firm that the US government has banned from its networks as a spy threat, according to people familiar with the matter. Federal prosecutors in August 2016 arrested a former NSA contractor, […]
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January 11, 2019 Microsoft Teams Gets Smart Camera, Location Sharing; Integration APIs and ‘Praise’ to Arrive Soon
In its bid to outclass Slack as the better team collaboration service, Microsoft has added a host of new features to Microsoft Teams aimed at ‘firstline workers’. The new features introduced by Microsoft include location sharing, smart camera, and the ability to record and share audio messages. Microsoft also plans to add a new ‘Praise’ […]
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January 11, 2019 Google Chrome Native Ad Blocking to Become Available Worldwide on July 9
Google announced native ad-filtering on Chrome for mobile and desktop back in 2017 to ensure that users are not pestered by spammy ads which ruin their Web browsing experience. The initiative was put to action after Google joined the Coalition for Better Ads to improve the online ads, however, these changes were so far limited […]
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January 11, 2019 Google’s New Activity Cards Aim to Help You Find Past Searches
Google has started rolling out a new feature called activity cards to make it easier for users to pick up the threads to past searches and continue exploring a topic. “Activity cards will roll out today on mobile web and the Google app in English in the US,” Andrew Moore, Google’s Product Manager for Search wrote in a […]