This comes after WeChat banned the Australian Prime Minister’s account and Facebook delisted Trump’s account after the Capitol riots incident. If this bill is passed, it will the body of the Australian communication to levy fines upto $1.1 million on violating social media platforms. Hardening the Social Media Censorship Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have grown big enough to let people share sensitive topics, discuss, and even manipulate others’ opinions....

America’s Ban Has a Larger Impact than Expected Trump’s administration has imposed a ban on all American companies to not supply products to Huawei. As almost all the software and hardware supplying brands are based out of America, it has become a lot tougher for Huawei. The company has prepared its own Operating System as Google has stopped dealing with it. Likewise, there are so many such situations that have become a hurdle for Huawei....

An Uninformed Hold Pirate sites are often hit with several infringement causes. While this site, BTDB.io may not be so popular as RARBG or The Pirate Bay, it’s accessed by over seven million people every month, which is a fair score. And now, the takedown of this site without any warning has shocked the operators. And when examined in WHOIS checkup, the Domain Status section of its record showed something like server hold....

C-Data Intentionally Set Backdoors in OLT Devices? To begin with, FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Home) and OLT (Optical Line Termination) are two important technologies that help ISPs provide internet connections to home consumers. The optical cable lines drawn from ISP to users home are converted to ethernet connections by FTTH OLT devices, like C-Data’s. And here’s the catch. Security researchers Pierre Kim and Alexandre Torres have disclosed several vulnerabilities in 27 firmware models of a popular Chinese OLT vendor, C-Data....

While some of the features are available in Android clients, some are available on desktop only. Since in beta, the below reported features aren’t available on the surface yet and need to be enabled from the chrome://flags. Here are a few important features available in Chrome v88. New Features in Chrome v88 Beta Searching Tabs If you’re one of those avid Chrome users who use the browser for every little query, chances are you might be flooding your browser with numerous tabs....

Cloudflare Held Responsible For Pirate Content Hosting Cloudflare has made its mark in the internet space for being the best CDN (content delivery network). While it tries to be a neutral service provider by acting just as a middle man, it’s always blamed for some actions of its customers. This happens widely in the entertainment industry, where some clients host infringing content. And since Cloudflare is made to anonymize them, it masks such pirates’ identity....

Zatko revealed how Twitter is rewarding those who achieved increasing user growth but not those who reduced the bot spam. Further, he said half of Twitter’s infrastructure is outdated and also violated the terms it promised to FTC in a past privacy settlement. Weak Security and Terms Violations Aside from the legal battle with Elon Musk over its acquisition deal, Twitter is in fresh turmoil from a whistleblower activity. The company’s former security officer Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, has filed a complaint with the SEC, FTC, and the Department of Justice regarding various issues at Twitter....

The Android application is not, at this point accessible on the Google Play Store, and clients who attempt to open the application will see that it no longer shows climate information. Be that as it may, a developer on XDA wasn’t happy with any of the elective climate applications on Android, so they set out to figure out the last form of the Dark Sky application to check whether they could get it ready for action once more....

Why You Need an Antivirus Software and Why You Shouldn’t? Microsoft provides us with Windows Defender, which is basic antivirus software that is effective for surface level threat scanning. And we hope that’s more than enough for an average user who does nothing but surfing the web and playing games. But, if you’re a power user and trailing your systems with apps from unknown sources, you should have something that scrutinized the system deeply for threats....

Emotet Malware is Now Officially Dead For years in the cybersecurity space, Emotet is a resounding name since it empowered over 70% of the world’s malware campaigns. The botnet malware is spread through phishing emails and acted as an initial vector for many ransomware actors, and infected hundreds of thousands of computers. Once the target infected his system by installing the Emotet malware, it makes a backdoor and invites the second-stage payload in the form of Qbot or TrickBot, which in return procures ransomware malware like ProLock, Ryuk, or Conti....

Facebook last month has polished its Desktop site with new features, and now, it’s set to make similar changes to its Android app too. 9to5google was able to find some new features on the upcoming version of Facebook’s Android app. And it reveals to be bringing the much wanted Dark Mode and other features. Checkout; Facebook for Android Dark Mode Dark Mode is requested but demanded by any community these days....

However, apart from that, if we talk about Microsoft Teams, it is a proprietary business communication platform that was founded back in 2017 by Microsoft itself. Moreover, it comes with the Microsoft 365 bundles; therefore, you do not need to download or purchase it separately. This application is pretty much similar to its competitors, such as Zoom, Slack, etc. This is because it also offers the same feature that this platform serves you, like video chat, application integration, workspace, etc....

If the user has faulty drivers or files in their system, they face the Reference by pointer BSOD error in their Windows 11. The Error Reference By Pointer is also known as the 0x00000018 error, which indicates the problems related to the system files or device driver. Whenever the error warning is displayed, Windows detects an irregular reference count for a running object. If they update their Drivers manually or automatically, the error may get fixed....

The connectivity of FireStick depends upon WiFi. To set up WiFi for the first time on the FireStick TV, the concerned FireStick remote controller is used. Sometimes, it may happen that you are traveling somewhere and taking your FireStick with you. Unfortunately, you forget to grab the remote. Then you cannot even connect the FireStick streamer to WiFi. In another possible situation, it may also happen that you are at your home but the FireStick TV remote is malfunctioning....

Google’s Improper Privacy Settings Google is not new to privacy allegations, as the company has been dealing with a lot of them like Facebook recently. And in latest, Google was accused by Arizona’s attorney general last year of hiding the important privacy controls of the device through its Android OS. This was revealed in the unredacted documents obtained from this lawsuit. As per them, Google employees admitted that it’s hard for users to stop Google from tracking them, like differentiating their homes and workplaces....

Better Have Good Memories in Photos Have a live wallpaper with images cycling from a specified folder is a wish for many. Sadly, any OEM didn’t bring such support yet. But, Google may soon get a feature like that to all Androids. As reported by Android Police, the latest version of Google Photos has a feature of such. It’s reported that users setting the live wallpaper in their Android handset can now see a special pack to select....

While this is for better usage, it’s often limiting the experience. Thus, understanding the community, Google is introducing a toggle setting in the upcoming Android 13 for switching this killer feature off. Android 12 Phantom Processes For the uninitiated, Google added a new background process killer in Android 12 named the “Phantom Processes”, where the forked child processes of any background apps are killed if they’re extensively using the CPU’s power....

Meanwhile, we know that new products come with some great new features, then how Mircosoft gets behind in this trend. Mircosoft already announced that this would be one of the most outstanding updates in the history of Windows. However, they added a feature in this new version, especially for parents, to protect their children from harmful content. So, there’s a way to filter out explicit content from your browser’s searches?...

But, if you are in a situation and need to get work done on Windows 11, it is more important to know how to get rid of these distracting notifications. However, if you are using Windows 11 on your PC, you might already be familiar with its new notification panel. This time Microsoft totally revamped this feature on their eleventh version of the operating system. Well, I really Like using this feature on my Windows 11 PC, that’s why I highly recommend you to use this once on your system....

So in this article, let’s see what is Fast startup, how it works, and ultimately know how to enable or disable it in Windows 10. What is Windows 10 Fast Startup? Fast startup is a feature available way back from Windows 8 to reduce boot time. This feature is available in Windows 10 as well. Normal Boot To understand this, lets first know how windows itself boots. Upon boot, Windows loads the Kernel, all necessary services, drivers, and programs in your Startup menu....