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Consequently, Huawei was banned from using Google’s services, including Android on their smartphone. The move left the leading smartphone makers in high and dry. Huawei is making a Comeback The ban on using Google services was a significant setback for the major smartphone manufacturers which prompted Huawei to push their products with massive discounts, especially on their flagship products. Huawei is making a ComebackWhat is HarmonyOS? Moreover, the launch date is being predicted on 10th September for the HarmonyOS 2....

Monish Karam’s story is somewhat a fairy tale. Hailing from the remote state of Manipur in India, Karam has been successful in getting funding from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook for his App. Apparently, Karam’s App has found favour with the Facebook top honchos who have granted $40,000 funding to a Karam who is based in Singapore to develop a mobile application which he created in 2015. Jobsenz was chosen by FbStart initiative, Facebook’s worldwide program that assists in mobile startups, for its remarkable development....

Cut to now, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing application has now rolled out an extended set of features under the ‘Parental Supervision’ category that will allow parents to have more control over their children’s app usage. Instagram’s Parental Supervision Feature Instagram has added this advanced parental supervision feature under Family Center. The feature will allow parents to see exactly how much time their kids spend on Instagram on a daily basis. In fact, parents can add a limit beyond which, the kids won’t be able to use the app unless the timer resets....

For those unfamiliar, California had passed a law ruling in September that “a commercial online entertainment employment service provider” would have to remove the age of any actor held on the database if requested by the actor. While considered to be a positive move in fighting age discrimination in the film industry, IMDb has taken up the issue and decided to sue California. “IMDb shares the worthy goal of preventing age discrimination,” the complaint reads....

The emails sent are part of a new campaign called Get It Right, which cautions subscribers that they have 20 days to stop downloading copyrighted material using peer-to-peer websites. However, if another copyright infringement activity occurs and is detected during the 20 day grace period, another educational email from the Get It Right campaign will be sent. A similar campaign has also been started in the United States wherein torrent site users only have seven-days to comply....

‘Baidu’ Folder Backdoor in Sony’s Xperia smartphone and tabletsMyXperia auto connects to China and the user cannot stop itSony’s ResponseWorkaround This folder is apparently created automatically and without the owners permission. Once the Baidu folder is created it can relay the entire content as well as your communications, chats, video chats etc. to somebody in China. Elbird says that, through Baidu folder, the Chinese Governement can Read status and identity of your device Make pictures and videos without your knowledge Get your exact location Read the contents of your USB memory Read or edit accounts Change security settings Completely manage your network access Couple with bluetooth devices Know what apps you are using Prevent your device from entering sleep mode Change audio settings Change system settings...

There are many functions in Wondershare PDFelement but let’s see some of the key ones that would make your work so easy. Edit: The essence of editing PDF files is to manipulate it in such a way that it gives you what you want. The edit function will do just that. With this, you have the power to edit text, images, and paragraphs to suit your demands. Also : you can read: How to edit PDF text here....

Vengeance against Jennifer LawrenceWikipedia ResponseSock Puppet An unknown individual today defaced Jennifer Lawrence’s Wikipedia page by uploading one of the ‘NSFW’ pics that had been previously leaked during the now famous iCloud Hacks. As per news reports, an unknown individual who may be one of the iCloud hackers uploaded a NSFW pic on Wikipedia at 21:52 UTC on Tuesday. Wikipedia Response The said Wikipedia page showed the inappropriate content for about 20 minutes before the Wiki admin noticed something was amiss and the page was brought back to its original state with the original photo uploaded by Gage Skidmore from an appearance Lawrence made at Comic Con in 2013....

Bradley Ireland, 64, suffered severe injuries in the early morning fire that took place at his Colonial Heights apartment on February 22, 2017. The victim died later that day in a local hospital, says the lawsuit filed by Bradley’s daughter Julia Ireland Meo and son Benjamin Ireland. “The fire was caused by a defect in the subject tablet, specifically affecting the tablet’s battery pack,” the lawsuit said. The fire started near an “electrical appliance” in the kitchen....

Currently, the Ubuntu 16.10 is powered by the same kernel packages as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). However, it looks like Ubuntu 16.10 has been swapped to a universal local DNS (Domain Name System) resolver service. However, the other day, the Ubuntu Kernel Team published a new installation of their weekly newsletter updating the community that Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) will soon be rebased on the latest stable Linux 4....

From the time it was exposed last month, looks like the Ashley Madison has come to a halt. The hackers had last month leaked the names of two Ashley Madison users along with a number of links claiming to have thousands of Ashley Madison user names. This misleading information only made people get directed to old porn user email lists or surveys or something similar to that. However, the most recent viral reports on the Ashley Madison hacking that includes the 87-page report explains in detail as to how the site for fraudsters were able to get so many users in the first place, exposing themselves to hacking....

The M2 Note, a worthy successor to the M1 Note that was launched at the end of last year falls in a mid-range category, while the Meizu MX5 is the company’s new flagship offering. Having said that, the company has already started sending out invites to a new event that Meizu is going to hold on July 29, where it plans to announce the Meizu M2 smartphone. In case, you have not seen the invites, you can click here to check it out....

No less than three SDKs have been provided by Metal Pay, including two for its wallet component: ProtonSwift and ProtonKotlin. ProtonSwift is a drop in library for handling account management and storage, signing and pushing transactions on ProtonChain, while ProtonKotlin controls account and key management, signing and pushing transactions on ProtonChain. SDKs and an API for Developers to Delve Into At the same time as releasing its native wallet SDKs, Metal Pay has opened its Proton API, enabling developers to access functionality including the ability to manage accounts on ProtonChain....

The exploit depends on an attacker inserting a link to an SMB resource (network share) inside an email or a Web page that gets noticed via Outlook. Inside the image tags, the attacker can camouflage the link to his network share. Further, they can put the link to a network share hosted on his own network instead of the proper image link. When a user tries to use the link via Internet Explorer, Edge, or Outlook, their computer even via the Internet will automatically send their login credentials to validate on the criminal’s domain....

For those unaware, a digital identity is the body of information about an individual, organization or electronic device that exists online. Digital identities of customers are usually the key to accessing enterprise applications and services and interacting across the Internet. Phillip Misner, Microsoft’s Principal Security Group Manager, in a blog post noted that the company has heavily invested in the “creation, implementation, and improvement of identity-related specifications that foster strong authentication, secure sign-on, sessions, API security, and other critical infrastructure tasks, as part of the community of standards experts within official standards bodies such as IETF, W3C, or the OpenID Foundation....

For those unaware, earlier, on Sunday morning, the LAPSUS$ gang had posted a file holding nearly 37GB of data stolen from Microsoft’s Azure DevOps Server and claimed that it contained partial source code for Bing, Cortana, and other projects. “No customer code or data was involved in the observed activities. Our investigation has found a single account had been compromised, granting limited access. Our cybersecurity response teams quickly engaged to remediate the compromised account and prevent further activity,” explained Microsoft in a blog post....

For those unaware, Microsoft had unveiled Windows 10X in October 2019 that was targeted squarely at dual-screen devices like Surface Neo. However, in May last year, the company announced that Windows 10X would no longer be exclusive to dual-screen devices and will instead launch on single-screen PCs like laptops in the first half of 2021. According to Windows Central’s Zac Bowden citing internal sources, Microsoft is now looking to launch Windows 10X in the second half of 2021 to “ensure that the product is ready and robust for a smooth release....

“Today, we are pleased to share the next step in our journey to support our business and education customers with the introduction of Surface Pro 7+ for Business,” Microsoft said in its announcement. “From small and medium size businesses to the largest organizations, Surface Pro 7+ is purpose-built with the needs of our business and education customers in mind. This next generation of Surface Pro stays true to its ethos – delivering on top customer requested updates while maintaining the same iconic design so customers can continue to leverage their existing investments....

Microsoft patches 2 decade old bug which is present on all Windows machines since Win95Patch Released Patch Released Luckily, the day the researcher revealed that this was a zero day bug i.e. no one has known about this bug before today has been patched by Microsoft. Which also means that no one has managed to utilize this bug and infect machines. The researcher credited with this discovery is IBM’s Robert Freeman....

Windows Defender Security Center will bring all of the security protections provided by Windows 10 into one place making it easier for users to view and control the security protection options available in their machines. The new Windows Defender Security Center will feature five new different sections, which will provide the following features: • Virus and threat protection: Whether Windows Defender or a third-party antivirus utility is used, it will show up in this section....