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With this milestone, Brave Search is coming out of the beta phase and will set a default search engine in all the Brave browsers worldwide. Brave attributed this success to the extensive usage by the community, which is said to be 4x greater growth than DuckDuckGo. Brave Search’s Record Growth What started as an experiment is now a massive success within its first year of testing! Brave’s in-house developed search engine – Brave Search, had clocked a growth of 5000% since June 2021, when it first started....

Chinese Apps Collecting Unnecessary Data We’ve seen countries like India banning Chinese apps for collecting unnecessary personal data in the past. And now, we see a bunch of such apps noted by the Chinese government after being reported by their netizens. A brief notification put out by China’s Cyberspace Administration today lists out 33 apps from big tech companies like Tencent, QQ, Sogou, Baidu, and Zhejiang Jianxin Technology. The marked apps provide various services like online marketplaces, chat, ride-hailing, navigation, etc....

China’s Drafted a New Export Bill Against US Trump’s administration in recent times has made a significant effort to dent China’s economy. The US government levied sanctions and extra tariffs against Chinese goods and even added some companies like Huawei to entity list (blacklist). These actions led China to amend its own export bill to counterattack the countries like the US in critical times. According to Xinhua News Agency, China’s preparing a draft bill that aims at reciprocal actions against any region or a country that has “abused export control measures and damaged China’s national security and interests....

A New Platform? As the Playstore was banned in China, indigenous players like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Huawei have made up their own respective app stores, yet running on common versioned Android OS. This makes the app developers go under hefty works to design apps especially for Playstore and other separate Chinese app stores if they wanted to leverage the Chinese user base. This new platform will be developed under the Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA), where the developers outside China can upload their apps to relevant app stores all at once....

The Magellan 2.0 Vulnerability Termed as Magellan 2.0, this vulnerability, if exploited, can let an attacker execute malicious code remotely and can cause leaking program memory or program crashes. This check is surfaced by Tencent Blade Team from China, which was the same group that discovered its predecessor, Magellan 1.0. The team says the browsers based on chromium and services using SQLite databases can be attacked. SQLite stores various browser settings and user data within....

Initial Revelation On May 15th, Troy Hunt, a security expert has revealed in his blog post that Dehashed approached him in February about a massive database publicly exposed to major cloud providers, accessible via Elasticsearch. Initial RevelationFinding Data About SelfPublic Disclosure 103,150,616 records belong to around 22 million users, totaling up to 90GB! At first, he and all others he worked with have failed to identify this gathering source but later found out from public disclosure of an app....

Such apps are usually not accessible easily. Some require a specific key combination in the dialer pad to activate or lay hidden deep inside the settings app. Some manufacturers allow access by pressing particular keys (Vol down or Up) and the power button while the phone is off (similar to entering recovery mode). What is the CQATest App? Motorola also has a specific app for testing its phone named CQAtest....

Better Keep Waiting! Cyberpunk 2077, the upcoming action RPG game featuring Keanu Reeves, is on the hot list this month. No wonder if you’re getting this game as a gift from your mates this Christmas, but wonder if you’re getting it for free from someone unknown. As Kaspersky reported, a new Cyberpunk 2077 scam is luring players with free downloads for stealing data. There are several websites spotted offering free downloads of this game....

France Fines Microsoft for Violating Rules Around Cookies In the latest update from France, the country’s privacy watchdog National Commission for Technology and Freedoms (CNIL), has fined Microsoft Ireland worth 60 million euros or $64 million USD. CNIL said that Bing – Microsoft’s search engine, has not set up any mechanism letting users refuse cookies. CNIL mentioned that Microsoft stores cookies whenever it visits websites on its search engine, which is imminently used for advertising purposes....

Google Services Hit by Disruption, but now the Issue is Solved However, the issue has been solved, and the dashboard is updated. And now, none of the services is facing a problem. It looks like the issue has affected all the users globally. Most of the users on social media have reported the problem. While sending an email through Gmail, they experienced a problem even when the user was uploading files on Google Drive; they faced a problem....

References to this device were spotted in the code of Android 13 Beta 1 – released to select Pixel devices last month. While no other details of this Pixel Pro Tablet are known, it’s seen to be aiming at productivity causes rather than the regular tablet uses that most OEMs make for. Google Pixel Pro Tablet At the I/O event this year, Google announced that it’s making a Pixel branded tablet – that’ll be coming next year....

This will make the users concentrate better on the call, especially by making it clear by playing the audio on left or right speakers, based on the person’s position on the screen. Further, there are links for moving Meet calls to cloud encryption and banners in Duo for rebranding it as Google Meet. Also Read- Xiaomi Shared a Teaser of its Premium Smartwatch Mi Band 7 Pro Stereo Separation in Google Meet Google Meet is one of the best video conferencing apps today, rising mostly during the COVID-19 period, alongside Cisco’s WebEx and Microsoft Teams....

Coming from 91Mobiles, the display of Pixel Fold is said to have a resolution of 1840×2208 while being a 7.58″ panel with a maximum refresh rate of 60Hz. Well, we may see it coming at 120Hz, too, if Google wants to. Pixel Fold Display Features After the Pixel 7 series and a brand new Pixel Watch, Google is aiming to launch a new line-up of foldable devices. While a timeline regarding this is unknown, most leaks point to the end of Q1 next year....

Chrome web store is more like Playstore or Appstore but in the web version of the browser. No one would think that even the tiny extensions could spy on users. Here’s a story of four browser extensions collecting more than data than needed and being delisted from stores. Adblock Plus creator Wladimir Palant Research This news was initially surfaced by Adblock Plus extension founder, Wladimir Palant. He, in his blog, detailing how the extensions from Avast and AVG are spying on their customers and stealing data that’s more than sufficient for their businesses....

The rollout is so silent that, users won’t feel a bit of change until they check the internals. Fuchsia OS is built on the Zircon kernel and runs Android apps natively. It was first made available for select devices in May this year, as a preview update. Fuchsia OS Update to First-Gen Nest Hub Devices Google’s first-generation Nest Hub devices – known as Google Home Hub – received a major firmware update from Google recently....

Teenage hackers tend to break into government or private company servers and cause data loss worth thousands of dollars. This, they do for fun, but the outcomes are severe. To cultivate this problem, the Hack_Right officials came up with a plan to guide these teens on ethical hacking, which could later get them jobs in security firms across the globe. Hack_Right Plans To Conduct Hackathons To Recruit Many MNCs conduct hackathons in Universities and schools to search for coding talents....

Attackers are mass scanning the web for sites with this plugin, so they can exploit a known vulnerability and takeover vulnerable sites. Researchers said that attackers with successful exploits of this plug-in could upload malicious JavaScript files and infect the victim site’s visitors. An Abandoned WordPress Plugin Hackers exploiting old software that was dumped by authors is common since they contain vulnerabilities that won’t get any patches. The same thing happens with WordPress sites too, where threat actors target vulnerable plug-ins in WordPress sites to exploit....

“Deeply Involved” In Phone Hacks – WhatsApp The Israel based NSO group has long been claiming its software; Pegasus is used by government authorities for tracking down terrorists, criminals, and saving lives. And it doesn’t control its software on behalf of its clients. But, WhatsApp firmly claims the NSO group is maintaining a network of systems that would help the firm to update and monitor its software continuously. In its lawsuit, WhatsApp mentioned that the malicious software named Pegasus was spread through a WhatsApp phone call, which infects the device even if the user doesn’t pick the call....

If your kid has an iPhone, you do not need to worry as we have some good news for you. In this guide, we have mentioned some easy and simple ways that you can use to block some websites on your kid’s iPhone. So, make sure to read and apply these tricks carefully. Also Read- How Old is My iPhone? Find Out Your iPhone Age Steps to Block Websites on iPhone So, if you want to block a bunch of websites on your iPhone, then you must perform these steps:...

Talking about the Edge browser features, you can easily view, manage and delete browser history and other data like clearing Cookies, Passwords, Temporary Internet Files, and other Cache. These features make users browsing experience much better. Anyway, in this guide, you will learn to clear your Bing Browsing History Data from Edge Browser if you don’t want to leave any trace or evidence of your browsing history and passwords. So, let’s get started with this....