Facebook in one of its blog post announced about the Hashtag feature to be implemented by this coming week. Hashtag is used to mark keyword or topic in a tweet or post, as in twitter and google plus and is very popular feature. you can know what is popular and hot by looking at trending Hashtags in these social networks. or can search for any topic you are interested in by searching the Hashtag related to it....

Slate’s Jennifer Golbeck reports that these discarded thoughts don’t completely disappear — rather, Facebook uses a code that keeps track of every time you delete a would-be message and sends metadata about that message back to its own data bases. Facebook calls these unposted thoughts “self-censorship.” Two Facebook users, Sauvik Das, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon and summer software engineer intern at Facebook, and Adam Kramer, a Facebook data scientist, have prepared an online article on self-censorship behavioral study....

On April, 25, 2015, the Himalayan nation was shaken by a powerful earthquake that measured 7.9 on Richter Scale leaving over 6,000 dead and injuring more than 10,000 people. According to a status posted by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said that “We gave people the option on Facebook to support local relief efforts. In two days, more than half a million people donated and raised more than $10 million to support the International Media Corps relief effort....

Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “Cryptoqueen”, who is believed to be in her 40s, was the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency called OneCoin launched in 2014. In order to execute the large-scale fraud scheme, Ignatova allegedly made false statements and representations to individuals in order to solicit investments in OneCoin. In order to purchase OneCoin packages, she apparently instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts, causing them to send wire transfers representing these investments....

According to the report, FBI investigators in Ohio used a third-party hacking device called GrayKey to extract data from a locked iPhone 11 Pro Max. The phone in question belonged to Baris Ali Koch, who was accused of helping his brother convicted of hate crime escape the country by using his passport and lying to the authorities. He is currently awaiting sentencing. As part of the investigation, FBI authorities acquired Koch’s iPhone 11 Pro Max on October 11, 2019, which according to his lawyer, Ameer Mabjis was locked and protected by a passcode....

Explaining in a blog post, Mozilla said: “We live in an age where too many users have lost trust and lack meaningful controls over their digital lives. “For some users, it seems as though your web activities can follow you everywhere – across devices, across accounts. To make matters worse, the web can often feel cluttered. That’s why we are introducing Firefox Focus.” It further added, “Firefox Focus is set by default to block many of the trackers that follow you around the Web....

Flaw in MacBook EFI allows attackers to boot ROM with malware using Thunderbolt PortsEvil Maid AttackPersistence Evil Maid Attack The attack is an “evil maid,” replacing the boot code on the computer. His research involves infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports. EFI ROMs are supposed to be cryptographically signed, but Hudson says that the Thunderbolt Option ROMs may be used to circumvent the signature checks in Apple’s EFI firmware update routines....

Based on the initial assessment conducted by the experts, the virus has not affected any important parts of the power plant and wouldn’t pose any major threat. The malware affected only the computer IT systems and not the ICS/SCADA equipment that interacts with the nuclear fuel. The audit revealed that, unlike Stuxnet, the virus wasn’t created to target power plants but was a more commonly seen variant. “After the discovery of malicious software on a computer in Gundremmingen emphasizes the operator, the control of sensitive areas was not affected....

For those unaware, back in 2015, Microsoft and Google had reportedly signed a non-aggression pact under which both the companies had agreed to settle outstanding patent lawsuits as well as financial agreements internally without complaining to the regulators or taking legal action against each other. However, the deal ended in April 2021 which neither of the company extended or renewed, suggesting increasing tensions between the two companies, reports The Finacial Times citing sources....

We had reported last October that a person named Sanmay Ved managed to own the world’s best known and popular website, Google.com for a brief one minute. But at that time we do not know how Google managed to get its domain back. The story has been finally revealed! Ved had purchased the website out of curiosity and had no intentions of actually keeping the domain name, but Google decided to offer a financial reward anyway....

The specification of both the Chromebooks are the same. Both Nexian Air Chromebook and Xolo Chromebook feature a 11.6-inch TFT display with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels. It comes with a 16GB in-built storage capacity that can be expanded via a SD card slot. It is powered by a 1.8GHz Cortex A17 Rockchip quad core processor coupled with 2GB DDR3 RAM.On the connectivity front, it has 2 USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port and Bluetooth 4....

“Orkut” started its journey in 2004, the same year when Facebook was founded. Orkut was able to gain quick popularity and get a good start but it could not maintain the growth momentum too long. The Google’s try at social Networking soon started to loose its relevance with majority of its fans moving on to Facebook. A small part of dedicated fans are now left in the Orkut Community. Facebook has now became the world’s largest Social networking website with more than 1....

The company is shutting down both its Los Angeles and Montreal game studios, which existed under the Stadia Games and Entertainment banner. In a blog post, Phil Harrison, Vice President and General Manager of Google Stadia, rolled the announcement as a move to expand Stadia’s technology and platform rather than create original content. “Creating best-in-class games from the ground up takes many years and significant investment, and the cost is going up exponentially....

In mid-September, Google learned that Symantec’s Thawte certificate authority (CA) issued an Extended Validation (EV) pre-certificate for google.com domains. The certificate, which had not been requested or authorized by Google, was discovered in Certificate Transparency logs, which Chrome requires for all EV certificates issued after January 1, 2015. When questioned about the same, Symantec said the certificates were only issued for testing purposes by its internal QA team and as such they did not constitute any risk to anybody....

Google is well-known for its high standards and bizzare set of head-scratching questions asked during interviews, which seems to have no answers. As a result, the candidate would apparently lose the race even before it use to start. Thankfully, these interview questions were ultimately banned from being asked completely. In 2009, Seattle job coach Lewis Lin compiled a list of 140 questions that his clients were asked by Google. In this article, we have listed the 17 roughest interview questions in no particular order asked by the search giant....

“Ironically, while the world-famous feline Grumpy Cat and her valuable brand are most often invoked in a tongue-and-cheek fashion, Defendants’ despicable misconduct here has actually given Grumpy Cat and her owners something to be grumpy about,” reads the original lawsuit. For those unfamiliar, Tardar Sauce (born April 4, 2012), is a cat and Internet celebrity known for her “grumpy” facial expression, and thus she got the common name Grumpy Cat....

Hackers bring down Toronto Police Service Website through DDoS attackOne of many targets One of many targets Besides the Toronto Police website, @AerithTOR also threatened to hack other websites including those of the Conservative Party of Canada and Parliament of Canada. However, both these websites were running perfectly fine so far. The Ottawa Police Service and Supreme Court of Canada websites went down. The hack resulted in the screen of the website of the police department going black and replaced with a message attributed to @AerithXOR....