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The social media giant is testing a new “Accounts Center” feature that will give users more control to manage their connected experiences across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger and also let people cross-post content on these platforms. “Switching apps to post the same content or entering your credit card information dozens of times is a pain. We want to make that easier while giving you better controls to manage your experience,” Oren Hod, Product Manager at Facebook wrote in a blog post....

New study reveals that Facebook tracks logged-out users in ‘violation’ of European Union lawTL;DR : New Study reveals that Facebook tracks people without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking. A study commissioned by the Belgian data protection agency and conducted by members of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT/Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (ICRI/CIR) of KU Leuven, the department of Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the department of Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) of KU Leuven has revealed....

The images give our first peek inside an interesting book which hasn’t been available on the internet before today. The book is full of tiny propaganda quotes about Facebook’s adventurous journey and rich culture. It only began being placed on each new employee’s desk after the company hits its first billion users in late 2012. Barry and Everett Katigbak, co-founder of The Facebook’s Analog Research Lab , a print studio which is very close to Facebook’s original Menlo Park building....

It looks like we were right. The Impact Team claimed in an Interview to Vice that they have 300GB of other data taken from Avid Life Media, Ashley Madison’s parent company. A lot of that consists of “tens of thousands of user pictures,” Impact Team says. A third of those are “NSFW pictures,” Impact Team says, but it won’t release those. The rest of that miscellaneous data includes employee e-mails and documents, but it won’t release those either (at least not below the executive level), Impact Team says....

Python 3 is currently being adopted by more and more GNU/Linux operating systems, as the world always tries to move forward and implement the newest of technologies. Additionally, support for Python 2 slowly starts to fade on some of the most popular OSes. Miro Hron?ok is a Fedora ambassador and packager working at Red Hat, focusing on the Python stack and 3D printing for the Fedora Linux operating system. Today, July 15, 2016, he has informed Softpedia that his team needs volunteers to help with the Python 3 porting of various packages from the Fedora Python 3 Porting Database....

In a report published by Vice’s Motherboard, the hackers have been selling 117 million LinkedIn credentials on a black market online called “The Real Deal” for around $2,200 (£1,500) in Bitcoin. A total of 167 million LinkedIn credentials were in the set — still with poorly hashed passwords — and this time, they included email addresses, allowing anyone who got their hands on them steal numerous accounts at other online services....

While Facebook can be a great way to keep yourself abreast about others life in this fast-paced world, it can at times be annoying too. Sometimes, may come across people on Facebook with whom you may not want to strike a conversation but cannot do so as you may not want to seem rude ignoring them while you are online. That’s because you may want to just have a conversation with your friends without being disturbed by unwanted Facebook friends or strangers....

The dimensions of the unfolded device are 186.9 x 145.2 x 4.8 mm while that of the folded device are 145.2 x 93.3 x 9.9 mm. Unlike the Galaxy Fold 2, there’s no external display on the Surface Duo. How To Pre-Order Microsoft Surface Duo? The Microsoft Surface Duo is available in Glacier color variants. The base variant of the smartphone with 128GB storage is priced at $1,399.99 or roughly Rs....

Marc Dugain is the former boss of Proteus Airlines and he claims he has spoken to the residents of the island nation of Maldives and they in turn claimed to have seen “red and blue stripes with a white background” on a plane heading towards Diego Garcia on the day of MH370’s disappearance. Dugain’s claims are going to raise new hassles for US. The Malaysian flight MH370 disappeared from the radars after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport....

If you really like a song, you could turn it into a ringtone and thus, make your phone sound like your idol. There are different programs which can help you convert videos from YouTube to MP3s Those who want to turn their favorite videos into MP3 files need to start looking for an online converter. You will find a lot of these tools available for free download. Also Read- 10 Incredible YouTube To Mp3 Converter With Lighting Fast Downloading Speed Since there are a lot of options, it’s hard to know which is the right one....

CVE-2015-0235 Ghost Vulnerability in Glibc poses serious risks for Linux distributionThe Ghost Flaw Researchers at Qualys disclosed the flaw on Tuesday after many of the Linux distributions had released a patch for the flaw. The flaw has been assigned vulnerability id CVE-2015-0235. The Ghost Flaw The Ghost vulnerability is present in the GNU C Library known as glibc. Glibc is the C library that defines system calls in Linux. The bug was first discovered to appear in in glibc in 2000....

The global repository is facing a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from alleged Chinese attackers and has been facing intermittent outage since Wednesday well into today. The top coding site said on Sunday that it was deflecting most of the traffic from a days-long cyber attack that had caused intermittent outages for the social coding site. Yesterday GitHub tweeted : — GitHub Status (@githubstatus) March 29, 2015 The fresh update made today at 6:46 UTC on its status pages states that “The DDoS attack has evolved and we are working to mitigate” while another one made at 0:38 UTC says that “All systems reporting at 100%....

For those unaware, GitHub, which is used by more than 28 million developers and 1.5 million companies across the world, has been free to students and teachers for classroom use for years now. By using GitHub, students, teachers, and schools can access the tools and events needed for school projects and collaborate with others and build a portfolio that showcases real-world experience. Many schools have been using GitHub products like the Student Developer Pack (launched in 2012 to help students) and GitHub Classroom (launched in 2015 for teachers) to help teach students how to work and how to work on group products involving code....

Now, the search giant has officially admitted in a letter to US lawmakers that it allows third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts, even though Google itself has stopped the practice for the purpose of ad targeting last year. “Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data,” wrote Susan Molinari, Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs for the Americas at Google in the letter sent to the US Senators in July, which was made public on Tuesday....

According to Pichai, although technology brings positive benefits to companies and law enforcement agencies, it also has “negative consequences.” “Now there is no question in my mind that artificial intelligence needs to be regulated. It is too important not to. The only question is how to approach it,” Pichai said while speaking at the event hosted by European think-tank Bruegel on Monday. “Sensible regulation must also take a proportionate approach, balancing potential harms, especially in high-risk areas, with social opportunities,” he added....

Not many will have the courage to open so many tabs on their smartphones but one Redditor, Hamsna, tried just that and guess what Google Chrome threw up when he opened the 100th tab. It threw up a laughing smiley Hamsna made his finding public on Reddit much to the amusement of other reddittors. This is a novel Chrome Easter Egg built in by the engineers. Perhaps this is Google’s way of saying you are doing way too much experimenting....

That said the thought of limiting apps like Google Messages might have never crossed your mind. Well after reading this news article your might think otherwise. If you are a regular user of Google Messages then you might have used the app for clicking photos and instantly attaching the photos to your messages for sending them to a friend. While doing so there’s a live feed from your camera. This live feed can be used to either take an immediate snapshot from the small thumbnail preview or you can expand it for a better high-quality photo....

Google has now published an extension for its Chrome browser that fixes this serious WebRTC security hole in Google Chrome. The WebRTC flaw was exploited by placing a few lines of code on a website and using a STUN server it became possible to reveal not only users’ true IP addresses, but also their local network address too. At that time, VPN users could install the WebRTC block extension or ScriptSafe which should block the vulnerability....

The service is currently available in all twenty-two countries where Stadia is offered. According to the Korean company, native support of Stadia gameplay on LG Smart TVs helps deliver instant access to high-end games with support for exceptional graphics and frame rates on cutting-edge displays. The Stadia store features over 200 popular games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil Village, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Hitman 3, Baldur’s Gate 3 as well as access to a growing list of free games and demos, which are all playable with just a compatible controller, no downloading required....

Google said on Monday that it has struck a deal with mobile phone payment firm Softcard that will help help it to bring Google wallet app pre-installed with smartphones sold by three of the major US carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The carriers will begin shipping the Google Wallet app later this year on mobiles running Android 4.0 “KitKat” or higher, according to a Monday blog post by Google’s Ariel Bardin....