Finding The Perfect Business Mentor In The Digital Age Techworm

Gone are the days when the means of acquiring information was limited to face-to-face communication or through the telephone. Now, there are many ways to do it, especially that the internet pretty much has everything. This leads us to the reality that guidance is an essential part of venturing into the business world. Thus, the need to have a business mentor rises. But now that the times have changed due to the digital revolution, it’s not as simple as asking a question and getting the answers right away....

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 537 words · Aaron Mena

Firefox Will Soon Warn Users When They Visit A Previously Hacked Website Techworm

For those unaware, HIPB is a popular data breach notification website that allows people to check if their login credentials such as email ID or passwords have been leaked by hackers. Similar to “this site may be hacked” warning that Google search shows for a compromised website, the new feature dubbed ‘Breach Alerts’ for Firefox will pop up notifications if a user’s credentials have been involved in a recent data breach....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 347 words · Willa Parra

First Look At The Redesigned Settings Of Google S Android N Operating System Techworm

Now, a new report from Android Police offers even more information on the update along with some new renders. The latest leak focuses entirely on Android N’s settings menu, which could see a few functional and visual changes. The top-level system settings in Android N will have a bar at the very top with a “Do Not Disturb” status and the apparent ability to switch modes from a drop down....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 279 words · Kimberly Fassett

Google Agrees To Pay 391M To Settle Android Location Tracking Lawsuit

The settlement, which was led by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and Nebraska AG Doug Peterson, is the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement ever in the U.S., states the announcement published by DoJ. The U.S. attorneys general opened the Google investigation following a 2018 Associated Press article that revealed the search giant violated state consumer protection laws by misleading users and tracking their locations since at least 2014 even when they chose privacy settings claiming to prevent the company from doing so....

December 12, 2022 · 4 min · 641 words · Gene Piper

Google Faces A Massive 3 Billion Fine From European Union Anti Trust Authorities Techworm

EU anti-trust body says that Google illegally promoted its own shopping results over those of competitors. Google has denied doing anything wrong and the matter is sure to land in a court. The Telegraph also noted that EU may impose the penalty within weeks and has fined the maximum it can on Google. According to rules, EU is allowed to fine Google up to a tenth of its annual sales, allowing for a maximum fine of 3....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 137 words · Erin Poole

Google Launches Android N Developer Preview 3 With Vr And Seamless Update Techworm

Nexus 5X Nexus 6 Nexus 6P Nexus 9 (Wi-Fi only and LTE models) Nexus Player Pixel C General Mobile 4G (Android One) According to Google, the DP3 should be stable enough to use as a daily driver. Major additions not only include VR Mode’, ‘Sustained Performance’, and ‘Keyboard Shortcuts’, among other development-centric things, smaller changes across the board, but also squashes several bugs and adds many new features for developers and users alike....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 272 words · Melissa Molinaro

Google Launches New Fun Fact And I Am Curious Feature To Keep You Entertained

To start enjoying Google’s new feature type “Fun facts” or “I’m feeling curious.” Google will pop up a random fact from the Internet. Examples produced during testing included “Do your eyes ever grow?”, “Is there any sugar in Tic Tacs?” and “Why do they add iodine to salt?” Google will keep on popping trivia if you keep hitting the button labelled “ask another question” to generate seemingly endless random facts....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 87 words · Lisa Jordan

Google Malaysia Hacked By 1337 Techworm

This is the message on the deface page: Websites: www.google.com.mywww.google.my Mirrors: https://www.zone-h.com/mirror/id/20957809https://www.zone-h.com/mirror/id/20957806

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 12 words · David Johnson

Google Maps Is Going To Redesign Its Interface Techworm

This could be seen at the company’s annual developers’ conference, next week, Google I/O. The blog also shows the pair of images, which shows how the new maps will look like. From the pictures, it is visible that what is shown in the sidebar of the maps as of know, will be shown on top of the map after the launch of a new interface. some new coloured icons are also visible....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 145 words · Jennifer Mcdaniels

Google Nexus 6 Battery Issues Cause It To Swell And Explode

One such Google Nexus 6 user had a harrowing time with her smartphone. She says that the Nexus 6 was lying unused and not charged and still it just swelled up and exploded. She took to Twitter to post her experience and share the images of exploded Nexus 6. — Monica Jasuja (@jasuja) May 1, 2015 The Nexus 6 battery in the case of this particular user not only swelled but actually exploded....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 169 words · Kitty Burton

Google Pixel Fold Rumored To Be Launched In March 2023

Now, according to a new piece of information coming from well-known display analyst, Ross Young, the foldable smartphone (rumored to be called ‘Google Pixel Fold’) is tipped to be launched in March 2023. Young, who is the CEO of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC), recently tweeted that since there are still four months remaining for the panel production of the foldable to start, the foldable could have a March 2023 release....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 250 words · Matthew Munson

Google Shortened Link Doing Rounds On Twitter Is Causing Havoc In United States Techworm

Clicking on this link on Chrome desktop version makes Chrome open up multiple tabs and hang while opening it opening it on Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox make them try to open Chrome tabs while these also browsers hang. The Firefox browser pops up LOLOLOLOL message before hanging up. The link also causes multiple instances of File Picker UI Host to run in Windows 10. According to reports, the link has been circulating on Twitter and clicking it on your smartphones causes the Twitter App/browser to crash while the link makes incessant calls to 911....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 407 words · Henrietta Overstreet

Google Surrenders Wikileaks Staff Emails To Fbi Through Warrant And Gag Order Of 3 Year Silence

Because of the conditions of the gag order, Google claimed they had been unable to say anything about the warrants earlier and was only just now allowed to reveal to WikiLeaks on Christmas Eve 2014, that it had responded to a Justice Department order to hand over a catch-all dragnet of digital data including all emails and IP addresses relating to the three wikileaks staffers. It was also revealed that the FBI also demanded all records relating to the internet accounts used by the three, including telephone numbers and IP addresses, details of the time and duration of their online activities, and alternative email addresses....

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 488 words · Kristin Azar

Google Trying To Cut Windows Phone Developers Ad Revenue To Strangle Competition

It seems it has already started doing it through ambush marketing. Though there is nothing in black and white, it seems Google is trying to throttle competition by cutting the Windows Phone developers ad revenues. Windows Phone developers earn money through Google’s AdMob advertising service and many developers attending the BUILD 2015 conference have noted the same as per WMPU. The situation is so bad that according to many developers, their fill rates and ad revenues plunged from 99% to only 7%, and 99% to 50% respectively, in just one day....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 288 words · Ray Wilson

Gta 6 Must Exceed Players Expectations Says Rockstar

In a recent blog post, Rockstar stated that GTA 6 needs to be “the best it can possibly be“. The developers also claimed that over the past few years they had been steadily moving more development resources towards the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series. After the underwhelming launch of GTA Trilogy, Rockstar wants GTA 6 to be the best it can possibly be. At the time of writing this article, GTA V is almost a decade old....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 236 words · Adele Wilson

Hacker Faces 10 Years In Prison For Hacking Highway Sign With Drive Crazy Yall Techworm

Eltgroth a 26 year-old hacker from Texas was arrested on Sunday for reprogramming an electronic highway sign to read “DRIVE CRAZY YALL.” As we have reported over the years, hacking highway signs, billboards, advertising boards are pretty commonplace in US but Eltgroth seems to have hacked and defaced the highway sign at a wrong time and wrong place. Texas police has charged Eltgroth with an unlikely penalty: charges of felony criminal mischief, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 307 words · John Hylton

Hacker Stole And Leaked Amd S Navi Arden Graphics Source Code

Last weekend, a user on GitHub claimed to have obtained the source for AMD’s Navi 10, Navi 21 and Arden GPU devices, where the latter is slated to be used in the upcoming Xbox Series X video game console. AMD has filed at least two DMCA notices against GitHub repos that contained the stolen source code and have forced the development platform to remove the files for violating the chip maker’s copyrights....

December 12, 2022 · 3 min · 493 words · Kay Schermerhorn

Hackers Can Take Over Your Pc By Hacking Wireless Keyboards And Mice From 100 Meters Techworm

Bastille says that a flaw in the way these wireless mouse transmit data could leave thousands of computers at risk from hackers. Bastille says that a hacker standing within 100 yards of the victim’s computer and using a $30 long-range radio dongle and a few lines of code can intercept the radio signal between the victim’s mouse and the dongle plugged into the victim’s computer. Once he/she has intercepted the legitimate signals between the mouse and computer, this hacker the signal with her own and gain control over the victim’s PC....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 399 words · William Burgess

Hackers Deface Jnu Website To Protest Against Anti India Slogans Techworm

Yesterday a group of hackers defaced the JNU website’s central library home page as a mark of protest against “anti-India” sloganeering by one of the university’s student bodies. On opening the link lib.jnu.ac.in (currently it gives a 503 error), one was greeted with a picture of the Indian flag’. It is accompanied with a song from Lata Mangeshkar’s evergreen patriotic hit “Aye Mere Watan Ke Logon” playing in the background....

December 12, 2022 · 2 min · 385 words · Walter Nixon

Hackers Hack Indiana Radio Station And Broadcast Zombie Apocalypse Messages Techworm

Around 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, an Indiana-based radio station WZZY, 98.3, was releasing emergency bulletins relating to a health emergency surrounding a disease outbreak, diseased bodies, and zombies, according to the Randolph County Sheriff’s Department. The radio station was apparently hacked by some unknown hackers who went on to run the Zombie Apocalypse tapes. The matter was immediately reported to the local Sherriff. “It was confirmed that the radio station firewall was breached and a hack of the stations broadcasting system occurred,” the sheriff’s department said in a prepared statement, adding that WZZY’s sister station was also issuing similar alerts....

December 12, 2022 · 1 min · 175 words · Howard Daniel