Video Games are Actually Helpful Contrary to the past studies claiming that playing video games can cause mental instability, a new report by Professor Andrew Przybylski, Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, says the opposite. His research made on more than 3,000 players in the over countries have positive results showing up. The research is being called one of a kind since it doesn’t take the base inputs like how much time is spent playing from the players....

Free, Ad-supported Content Started as a simple media player, Plex has grown gradually as an online streamer by procuring more and more movies and TV shows for free. It started ad-supported streaming service in December last year, and franchising media houses one by one. Starting with Warner Bros, it bought Lionsgate, Legendary, and MGM films. And now, it just onboarded Crackle, which is a partnership of Sony Pictures and Chicken Soup from Soul Entertainment....

Ransomware Groups Earnings Estimation in 2020 We’ve seen numerous reports from various researches that ransomware attacks have risen sharply last year, due to the pandemic lockdowns globally. While it’s clear that they have grown wide, an estimate about how much they earned from all their attacks wasn’t exactly known. But, Chainalysis, a blockchain analysis firm has estimated them to be at least $350 million, and definitely more than that. The firm said it’s the base value, and can’t determine the exact figure since many victims haven’t revealed being compromised....

While these panels are slated to come in 2025, they can put Samsung as the market leader for a new biometric authentication era. The new panels will let users authenticate with three fingerprints simultaneously on any part of the screen. All-In-One Sensing Technology As reported by SamMobile, Samsung is planning to launch its next-generation OLED 2.0 panels by 2025 – that’d have the All-In-One Sensing technology to let users authenticate with three fingerprints simultaneously!...

The leaked data consists of a wide range of information regarding the students and their parents. With the data being published, the school is informing all the people who were affected by this incident and providing a free credit monitoring service. LAUSD Data Leak Earlier this month, the Vice City Ransomware group claimed to have breached the network of the Los Angeles Unified School District – stealing some of its sensitive data and threatening to leak....

With less than a month to end this year, Spotify, the world’s biggest music streaming app is now offering a look back to one’s memories with their service. Starting in 2008, this Sweden based company has grown into a publicly-traded company in New York. A Year Long Statistics Started in 2005, Spotify has first termed this service as Year In Music, which it renamed as Wrapped in 2007. Ever since it’s been tracking and crafting personalized lists of user’s playlists and other categories to show them all at the end....

Over a Quarter Indians Decide to Leave WhatsApp WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy has confused everyone. The platform publicly revealed that it’s sharing the user interactions with WhatsApp businesses with Facebook for better services, users understood it in other way and suspected WhatsApp’s integrity in keeping their chats private. Though the platform announced extending the implementation date by three months, and even offered explanations to everyone asked, the community isn’t satisfied yet....

Telegram Voice Chat 2.0 Jumping into the hype of Clubhouse’s model lately is the Telegram, which has now updated its Voice Chat feature to v2.0. This revamped feature is aimed to replicate the Clubhouse model, by having similar functionalities. For example, it now gives the channel admins to make a virtual room and start a voice chat with their users. For this, admins have to tap on the three dots settings in the profile section, which will then open further options where the Start a Voice Chat is available....

The Full Self-Driving (FSD) is a premium service available for select Tesla owners and includes the standard autopilot plus additional smart features like automatic lane changing, Smart Summon, etc. Aside from the price increase, Musk said the new FSD Beta (v10.9) is coming this week. Tesla Premium Autopilot Costs Increased Apart from being one of the stylish cars today, Tesla is well-known for its smart driving features like semi autopilot modes and tracking....

Barring The Pirate Bay Co-founder The Pirate Bay is undoubtedly one of the most popular pirate sites, which lets people share files in a P2P system. As it grew to be a popular platform for sharing infringing content, the International Federation of Phonographic Industry, representing and the worldwide recording industry, has stepped in pressing charges against The Pirate Bay. It filed a case against the site back in 2011 in Helsinki District Court....

US Adds Chinese OFILM to Entity List Trump’s administration has been stamping down several Chinese companies since last year. The list includes Huawei, Chinese Telecom, and other technology companies, which were repeatedly targeted for being Chinese spies. Thus, these were blocked from making free transactions with American companies as before and requires a special export license to leverage their technologies. And now, the list has a new name – OFILM, a Shenzhen based company that’s known from making micro camera modules like OV lens, touch tech, display modules, fingerprint scanners, etc....

White House Offical Suggests a Workaround for TikTok Ban TikTok in past was accused of numerous allegations including security, origin, and privacy. Though the company claims to be pure, revelations by third-party apps and researchers caught TikTok being insecure. This is when a duo researchers proved the app’s insecure about communications and sending traffic over HTTP, which can be intercepted. Further, Apple’s new iOS 14 has blown TikTok by revealing the app’s clipboard content-copying operation....

The US Bans Transactions to ByteDance and Tencent Making the arguments more deep between the US and China, the US President, Donald Trump has yesterday sighed a new executive order, which intends to ban transactions to Chinese companies – ByteDance and Tencent. More specifically, he mentioned the apps to be TikTok (owned by ByteDance) and WeChat (owned by Tencent), as they’re capturing sensitive data. He explained this with an example of a report from a researcher who discovered a database which contained billions of messages of not just Chinese, but also Americans and other nationalities....

This is to make both the streamer and the viewer use Spotify and tune in to the same song playing simultaneously. This avoids any copyright infringement and still lets viewers follow the streamer’s intent. Avoiding DMCA Notices in Twitch Music Streaming Distributing copyrighted material to anyone without authorization is illegal. And this is known to everyone. But, for long, Twitch streamers who’re playing games have done it without fearing the consequences....

This latest accusation and feedback by a Microsoft Edge user will surely keep you on the edge of the seat. Anguished User On Fishy Microsoft Edge Functioning Microsoft Edge is spamming Windows 7, and it does steal data,” one of the users claimed recently. He shared his personal experience with the browser. His wife’s Windows 7 desktop got an update that ended up with a full-screen welcome page for Edge Chromium....

Post the Tron acquisition, uTorrent and BitTorrent’s channels are mostly oriented to favour cryptocurrency owners. Millions will be affected as most depend on these two portals for downloads of massive files. Notable among these is the Windows Defender, which marks it as a severe threat among labelling it as “Potentially Unwanted Software.” Even Microsoft had flagged the torrent in the past, after which they updated their software and the security protocols....

Hackers can Attack the Mobile with Just a Phone Call A call is enough to get into a phone. The hackers will call a particular mobile number and even though the user didn’t pick the call, his/her mobile is attacked. They can steal the entire data present in phone with ease. This is a common case in software development. The mobile apps having small bugs which attackers find before the company releases a patch for it is a repeated process....

Lenovo Laptop Users Complain About Windows 10 August Update Continuing the legacy of this year’s faulty updates passed by Microsoft, Lenovo laptop users take the stage to express their anger over issues caused after updating to Windows 10 version 2004 in August update. Especially the Lenovo ThinkPad users say they face Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) when they’re booting their laptops. Further, BSOD occurs when they run a system scan with Windows Defender, BSOD while starting Lenovo Vantage, IR Camera errors in Device Manager and similar issue with Intel Management Engine....

This would now increase the gap between every failed NTLM authentication, making the attack slow and unattractive to the hacker. System admins need to execute a PowerShell command to enable this protection. Protecting Windows 11 SMB The Server Message Block (SMB) of Windows OS is one of the many elements that are frequently targeted by hackers – as it gives them deep access to the target’s machine. So to limit it, Microsoft has an authentication rate limiter in place – which restricts the number of times an authentication is made to the system per second....

This auditing support is good for people who care about privacy and are doubtful of malicious apps accessing their sensitive data illegally. Although, there’s no support to view any drivers accessing these features. Window 11 New Security Features With Windows 11, Microsoft started focusing more on design and security-related features to make the community believe that it cares about users’ privacy and experience. In this pursuit, we’ve seen the maker rolling out a number of updates to revamp the legacy sections of Windows OS and now issuing several security-related features....