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Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine

15Nov By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]irefox Quantum is here. Mozilla took some time to come up with something like that, something which is better, faster and lighter. The last couple of years have not been great for Firefox. Chrome browser, that took it back in the late 2011 now dominates the market with more than 60 percent, figures as suggested by StatCounter. With this release, Mozilla has set aside his deal with Yahoo that he made in 2014, to make it the default search engine provider for users in US, with others as options. With this not being the only noticeable change, Firefox has now started to keep in mind user's interests, which it seemed to have forgotten long ago about. “We looked at real world hardware to make Firefox look great on any display, and we made sure that Firefox looks an...

Indonesia Drops Threat to Block WhatsApp Messenger: Official

7Nov By reutersNo Comments

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Indonesia Drops Threat to Block WhatsApp Messenger: Official

Indonesia has dropped a threat to block Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp Messenger because the service had responded to concerns over obscene content, an official at the communications ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry vowed on Monday to block WhatsApp Messenger within 48 hours if the service did not ensure that obscene Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images were removed. “We see now that they have done what we asked. Therefore, we won’t block them because they have responded to us,” said Semuel Pangerapan, a director general at Indonesia’s communication and informatics ministry. Indonesia said on Tuesday it will summon executives of messaging services and search engines, including Google, to demand they remove obscene content, but dropped a threat to block WhatsApp Messenger after “GIF” ...

Whatsapp Down: Users Report Outrages Worldwide

3Nov By RishabhNo Comments

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Whatsapp Down: Users Report Outrages Worldwide

Whatsapp is down for a millions of users reported worldwide, with reports of increase in the number of people coming in from India, US, UK, Sri Lanka, Italy, Spain and Saudi Arabia. According to the resources, the problem came first in notice around 3:10 EDT in the morning and then grew over to hundreds of people reporting the issue. Predictably, people have taken to Twitter in panic to express their dismay over what will undoubtedly be a temporary outage. Switching between WiFi and 4G trying to get WhatsApp messages to send #whatsappdown pic.twitter.com/rGCaS0NdML — Kam (@Kamil_LFC94) November 3, 2017 Similar event occurred in early May, when it took hours rectify the problem and put it online back again. Also Read These Russian Ads Deceived Users on Facebook and Ins...

These Russian Ads Deceived Users on Facebook and Instagram- Leaked

2Nov By RishabhNo Comments

USA

These Russian Ads Deceived Users on Facebook and Instagram- Leaked

The Russian ads that influenced the Americans came under many disguised faces. They ran all across Facebook and Instagram attempting to influence the public's opinion through social media in a manner we hardly can imagine! The content that went along with it could hardly be traced now, but we managed to get some of the screenies of those social media ads. It's clear from the testimony of internet companies that these ads aimed at "election interference". Go through the examples in the below images of how they planned to discredit a candidate (Clinton being the reliable target), and foment division on existing issues. The Russian ads targeted the far left and the far right, seeking to manipulate black activists, Muslims, Christians, LGBTQ people, gun owners and even fans of Ivanka ...

U.S. Senators Hammer Facebook For Power Over Elections

1Nov By reutersNo Comments

USA

U.S. Senators Hammer Facebook For Power Over Elections

U.S. senators on Tuesday pressed Facebook Inc’s chief lawyer on why the company did not catch 2016 election ads bought using Russian rubles, why its investigation of them took so long and how much it knows about its 5 million advertisers. Democrats and Republicans at the Senate crime subcommittee hearing fired questions for much of two hours at Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch, who said that in retrospect the company should have done more. “In hindsight, we should have had a broader lens. There are signals we missed,” Stretch said under questioning from Democratic Senator Al Franken about how the company missed political ads bought with Russian money. Stretch called the Russia-based ads “reprehensible” for their political divisiveness. The hearing marked the first time tech exec...

Russian Groups Made 43 Hrs Of YouTube Video During U.S. Elections

31Oct By RishabhNo Comments

USA

Russian Groups Made 43 Hrs Of YouTube Video During U.S. Elections

Google has recently revealed reports about Kremlin-linked groups spending around $4,700 on advertising platforms, during the 2016 U.S. elections. These ads were although not targeted to any specific group of users or no evidence of targeting by geography were found. It was also revealed by Google, that its YouTube, which strictly prohibit things like hate speech, violent or graphic content; found 18 channels closely associated with this campaign that made videos, which were in English-language, public, with the political content in them. There were 1,108 such videos uploaded, representing- 43 hours of content and totaling 309,000 U.S. views from June 2015 to November 2016. The report also said that these “videos were not targeted to the U.S.” and th...

Facebook Says 126M Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts

31Oct By reutersNo Comments

USA

Facebook Says 126M Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts

Facebook Inc said on Monday that Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts on the social network over a two-year period in an effort to sway U.S. politics and that about 126 million Americans may have seen the posts during that time. Facebook’s latest data on the Russia-linked posts - possibly reaching around half of the U.S. population of voting age - far exceeds the company’s previous disclosures. It was included in written testimony provided to U.S. lawmakers, and seen by Reuters, ahead of key hearings with social media and technology companies about Russian meddling in elections on Capitol Hill this week. Twitter Inc separately has found 2,752 accounts linked to Russian operatives, a source familiar with the company’s written testimony said. That estimate is up from a ...

Tech Firms Must Do More On Extremism: World Economic Forum

30Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Tech Firms Must Do More On Extremism: World Economic Forum

U.S. tech firms such as Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc should be more aggressive in tackling extremism and political misinformation if they want to avoid government action, a report from the World Economic Forum said on Monday. The study from the Swiss nonprofit organization adds to a chorus of calls for Silicon Valley to stem the spread of violent material from Islamic State militants and the use of their services by alleged Russian propagandists. Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc’s Google will go under the microscope of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday when their general counsels will testify before three U.S. congressional committees on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The report from the World Economic Forum’s human rights council warn...

Twitter Overstated Its Monthly Users Figures For 3 Years

27Oct By PriyankaNo Comments

USA

Twitter Overstated Its Monthly Users Figures For 3 Years

Twitter said on Thursday that it overstated its monthly user numbers since 2014 after accidentally including third-party application's data in its count. The revelation came when the company reported that its net loss had slowed in the third quarter and that the number of daily active users had risen by 14 per cent. The disclosure, however, could further damage Twitter's reputation as the company criticizes Russia's role in its efforts to interfere in the presidential election and complains about what critics have called scattershot efforts to prevent abuse and harassment on its platform, and skepticism among some investors, who are concerned that global growth in users is falling. At least initially investors were not particularly worried about the excessive number of users. Twit...

Now Manage Your Business Better With These New Gmail Add-ons

25Oct By RishabhNo Comments

Tech

Now Manage Your Business Better With These New Gmail Add-ons

Google announced on Tuesday about the launch of its Gmail add-ons that will allow third-party developers to integrate their services with Gmail directly. With these add-ons, users can now save time from switching to different apps/websites for their basic to-dos. Now from their Gmail inbox itself, users can control different business operations such as generating an invoice, prepare a presentation or follow-up on a sales. "With so many to-dos, imagine if you could complete these tasks directly from your inbox without interrupting your workflow", said Google in a blog-post. "Rather than toggling between your inbox and other apps, use add-ons to complete actions right from Gmail. With Gmail Add-ons, your inbox can contextually surface your go-to app based on messages you receive t...

How China is Blocking the World’s Most Popular Websites

21Oct By RishabhNo Comments

ANALYSIS

How China is Blocking the World’s Most Popular Websites

You might be visiting China and already know that you cannot access your Facebook account and post pictures of your tour, but there are a lot more popular websites that are blocked in China. An army of Chinese government blocks and filters some of the most popular websites in the world. Besides the world's most popular American-video sharing website YouTube and Alphabet Inc's Google, even Twitter and Instagram are blocked in China. This operation of filter is world's biggest operation of online censorship aka The Great Firewall of China. China has 731 million internet users which have really tight restrictions around them. During the Communist party in October, China cramped up its online crackdown, blocking American service- Whatsapp and pornographic websites like hdtubemovies in...

Google Offers Bug Bounty To Clean Up Mobile Apps

20Oct By reutersNo Comments

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Google Offers Bug Bounty To Clean Up Mobile Apps

Google is offering security experts a bounty to identify Android app flaws as the Alphabet Inc unit seeks to wipe out bugs from its Google Play store. Each flaw will score at least $1,000 under the programme announced on Thursday to back up automated checks that have failed to block malware and other problems that security experts say infect the 8-year-old app store far more than Apple Inc’s rival App Store. Google will partner with HackerOne, a bug bounty programme management website, to target a list of apps and flaws such as those that allow a hacker to redirect a user to a phishing website or infect a gadget with a virus. Software scans cannot match a person’s ability to discover “a truly creative hack,” Vineet Buch, director of product management for Google Play Apps and Game...