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Instagram Web to Get Add Post Support The Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform, Instagram, is a popular social media among youngsters. As they demand more and more new and interesting features, the makers didn’t disappoint them at any stage. Following the trend, Instagram has brought Stories from Snapchat, Reels from TikTok, and others. But, it’s missing most of these features in its desktop mode, where some users often use Instagram on the browser....

These include setting the new kids’ accounts to private by default, not allowing advertisers to show target ads, and blocking the suspicious adult accounts from reaching the kids’ accounts. All these will be coming to Instagram. Instagram’s New Tool For Kids Accounts For a long, Instagram has been criticized for being a platform for reaching vulnerable kids by predating adults. But, unfortunately, no safety measures are being in place to prevent that from happening....

Intel Capital Invests In Jio For 0.39% Stake On 3rd July 2020, Reliance Jio and Intel Capital announced another investment deal that would take Jio platforms to Rs.5.17 lakh crores enterprise value. With this latest induction, the total investments Jio pooled in since April this year, totals to Rs.117,588.45 crores. The Intel Capital has a record of aiding tech companies that focus on cloud computing, 5G, and AI. Thus, Jio has something to take here other than just money....

Developers too mind all these personal and mental factors while crafting a device wallpaper. iPhone wallpaper designers are no strange, as they’ve crafted simple yet glowing static wallpapers for the new iPhone 13 series. Here are they; iPhone 13 Wallpapers If you’re regularly tracking, you must have observed that wallpaper designers at Apple are just making weird wallpapers lately, which are not exciting as before. Though they’re losing charm, trying new official wallpapers is always exciting....

These include an illegal collection of Italian citizens’ data and processing it for several purposes without letting them know. The agency has asked Clearview AI to stop processing its business in Italy, and delete all the data it holds on its citizens. Italy Penalizes Clearview AI Clearview AI, the Manhattan-based company that has gone controversial for the last couple of years for its facial recognition technology, is now hit with a hefty fine of €20 million from Italy’s data regulator – Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali....

Mega, Resembles Its Name Since its inception in 2013, Mega has grown into one of the prominent cloud storage providers with the company currently housing billions of user files. It serves its users via Mega app or web-based applications that are supported for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, etc. Hailing from New Zealand, Mega is the only cloud provider that’s offering free storage of 50GB! It’s premium plans as Pro Series starts from as low as €5 offering 400GB to all the way up to €30 for 16TB....

Source Code of Microsoft Products Viewed Microsoft is one of the first companies that detected the malicious campaign of Solorigate, a malicious software update that’s being passed to all SolarWinds customers via a fake update. Researchers have warned about illegal snooping activities and more that can be done with that. And there are several notable agencies who were reportedly impacted by this, including the US government agencies. Though researchers have noted IOCs and other compromise detectors to avoid this infection, there are some companies who already affected, including Microsoft itself!...

Microsoft’s New Plan For Attracting Game Developers As Apple and Google are being pushed by mobile game developers to reduce their exorbitant store fees, Microsoft makes that happen for the PC community without being asked. In the latest move, the Redmond company announced to increase the developers’ share of game revenue from its Microsoft Store to 88%. Previously, it was 70% for the game developers as Microsoft takes 30% of it....

Retiring IE 11 and Removing Eco Mode After 25 years of service, Microsoft officially retired the grand Internet Explorer browser for good. As the maker isn’t much from it since running on the old engine, it has now decided to replace it with the new Chromium-based Edge browser. While it’s announced to be dumped as per roadmap, the IE v11 is still accessible through Edge browser as a window until next year....

The SMB vulnerability Remote Code executions can hit hard. Malicious code dumped by remote attackers can worm across the network to steal or encrypt for ransom. Preventing such attacks is possible only when nodes (computers in the network) are updated to the latest security measures. Thus, Microsoft released a Windows cumulative update called KB4551762, addressing a key vulnerability found in Windows 10’s Server Message Block (SMB) v 3.1.1. Server Message Block is a communication protocol widely used by nodes in a Windows network....

Brute Force Attacks on Microsoft SQL Servers Hackers have never left an opportunity that lets them into other systems. One of the common types of penetrating into one’s systems is brute-forcing the login page. This includes targetting an account that’s having weak or easily guessable credentials with a set of old and relatable credentials to gain access. An incident if such is discovered by Tencent’s cybersecurity wing, and reported earlier this month....

All these accused companies have a specific OS running on mobiles and PCs, which indirectly forces users to use their native browsers – making it hard for alternatives like Firefox. Calling them gatekeepers of consumer access to products, Mozilla appealed to regulators and policymakers to act before it’s too late. Gatekeepers of User’s Browser Choices Back in the day, there used to be a close competition between Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft in the desktop browser market – with all three being almost at the same level....

Firefox Needs Rosetta to Run Recently, Apple users who’re streaming content from various popular OTTs like Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+ on Firefox have reported issues in their MacBook playback. This is because of the incompatibility issues, clarifies Mozilla now. It said users who’re using Firefox v84 and later versions on MacBooks with M1 chips may see errors as below, classified based on OTT; These encounters are caused due to unsupportive Firefox browser for running these OTTs....

Fake campaigns and greedy citizens Unknown attackers are crafting legitimately looking websites along with several advertising accounts and pretending to be from the government to lure greedy citizens. Dr.Web, an antivirus company from Russia unearthed this news first and have collected adequate information of this campaign. It has identified two sites that are claiming to be official resources of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development. This fraud campaign has been significantly promoted in Instagram, where over 200,000 users have watched it till now....

OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro Full Spec List Outed! OnePlus 8 Complete Smartphone Specs: The upcoming OnePlus 8 smartphone is going to be the successor of the OnePlus 7T smartphone that launched last year. It will have some upgrades and design changes over the 7T smartphone. OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro Full Spec List Outed!OnePlus 8 Complete Smartphone Specs:OnePlus 8 Pro Complete Smartphone Specs: Display 6.55-inch Hole-punch display with FHD+ resolution It will be a Fluid AMOLED panel with a 90Hz refresh rate....

He said the current Indian Bitcoin status is in the grey market and needs clear regulation from the government. The nation’s apex bank has long been advocating for a blanket ban on cryptocurrencies, but they’re still being traded legally in India. Bitcoin Offerings From PayTM PayTM is a pioneer in India’s recent shift to the digital payments landscape, as it drove everyone to use online money after demonetization in 2016....

The group’s malicious campaigns are so sophisticated that, they used over 40 fake websites – all hosted on their own server. Further, they used online marketing and advertising services to promote their phishing sites in search results rankings. A Sophisticated Phishing Gang A phishing campaign is one of the common vectors of breaching someone’s online accounts. Many threat actors use this method to steal a target’s social media or a bank account, for stealing identity or money....

He revealed in a blog post, that he’d still be staying on the Signal’s board committee and working for the company’s vision. Also, he named WhatsApp’s co-founder Brian Acton as the interim CEO of Signal. Acton has co-founded Signal, funded, and is on the Signal’s board committee. A New Signal CEO Signal, the privacy-focused instant messenger is now going to have a new CEO apart from its founders. This comes after the current co-founder and CEO, Moxie Marlinspike decided to step down from his position....

While Schafernaker was discussing snowstorm in Minneapolis, he was interrupted by Siri, Apple’s digital voice assistant he was wearing on. Siri, as listening to what his boss was speaking of, had cut his explanation in between and disagreed with his thoughts. As Schafernaker was telling about snow falling symptoms in the area. Siri immediately interrupted the talk and said claimed there’s now snow in the forecast at all! This situation turned into a hilarious moment that’s further carried by the host....

These include exclusive backgrounds to Bitmoji avatars, custom icons for the Snapchat app, putting Snapchat+ users’ replies over the regular users’ in the stories of Snap Stars, and custom setting an emoji to be viewed by friends after they have seen your status. Snapchat+ New Features Snapchat has set a new record by gaining over one million subscribers to a paid service – Snapchat+, which it launched in June this year....