“Facebook’s response comes after video makers and distributors have grown increasingly vocal about pirated videos, which by one estimate accounted for more than 70 percent of Facebook’s most popular videos. In May, Jukin Media, a video licensing agency best known for “Fail” clips, described Facebook’s copyright problems as “massive.” In June, Fullscreen CEO George Strompolos, who runs one of the biggest YouTube video networks,tweeted that he was “getting very tired of seeing our videos ripped there with no way to monitor or monetize,” the news report reads....

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....

According to the lawsuit, Facebook violated an Illinois state law by incorrectly using photo-scanning and face recognition technologies on users’ uploaded photographs and gathered biometric information without their explicit consent. The case dates back to 2015, where three Illinois residents, Nimesh Patel, Adam Pezen, and Carlo Licata had sued Facebook for violating a state privacy law on protecting biometric privacy. U.S. Judge James Donato in his ruling on Monday said the claims by the three plaintiffs were “sufficiently cohesive to allow for a fair and efficient resolution on a class basis....

Not just this, cybercriminals also used the fear of coronavirus outbreak to launch email campaigns to infect users’ systems with malware. Exploiting this situation further, a malicious Android app is now doing the rounds that claim to help track cases of the coronavirus but instead installs ransomware and locks users out of their device. Discovered by DNS threat intelligence company DomainTools, the newly discovered ransomware dubbed as “CovidLock” uses techniques to deny the victim access to their phone by forcing a change in the password used to unlock the phone....

United States has in place a legislation called Privacy Act which makes it incumbent upon the federal agencies to give people access to the records that have been collected concerning them “allowing them to verify and correct them if needed.”. The Department of Justice wants to bypass this very act. According to a new proposal being floated in early by the Department of Justice, FBI seeks to exempt the biometric database from public disclosure....

The data leaked are provided in a paste, and are in plain text. The data leaked contains the Personal contact details of The Higher Ranked government Officials. The Data leaked can be seen from below:

All those flip phone fans out their who fondly remember the popular Motorola RAZR in its heydays, now have a chance to get their hands on another flip phone. But this one is from house of Samsung. While there were rumours about Samsung working on a flip phone codenamed “Veyron,” new leaks indicated that the South Korean smartphone giant is working on a separate mid-range Android clamshell smartphone. As usual, the leak popped up on the Chinese Twitter equivalent Weibo which shows a super slim Samsung Galaxy Folder 2....

An aviation expert has claimed that the shocking Germanwings Airbus A320 crash in the Alps may have been caused by hackers. In a letter to the Financial Times Matt Andersson warned of the complexities of aircraft accidents and highlighted the possibilities of secondary contributing factors – including external electronic hacking. Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany, operated by Germanwings, subsidiary of Lufthansa....

According to the report, global average internet connection speed has increased 12 percent to 7.0 Mbps in the fourth quarter of 2016 — a 26 percent increase year-over-year. The quarterly report includes data collected from across the Akamai Intelligent Platform about attack traffic, broadband adoption, mobile connectivity and other relevant topics regarding the internet and its usage, as well as trends over time. “Internet connection speeds continued to show positive long-term trends around the world, with particularly strong year-over-year increases across all broadband adoption metrics,” David Belson, editor of the State of the Internet Report, comments....

The company has contracts in more than 115 countries, of which many are with governments. The company came to limelight in March when it was reported that the FBI used its technology to crack the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Since then, there have been reports that Cellebrite was not involved, and the company also refuses to comment. Nevertheless, it is known as one of the world’s leaders in such technology....

With the release of latest Android 5.1, the official code forum filled up with users complaining about downfall in performance after they updated to the latest version. The forum users stated that the reason the slowdown in performance was due to a old Memory leak bug which havent been patched yet. Following the comments from Android users, finally, Google has acknowledge the bug and said that they have internally resolved the same....

However, a newly discovered second data leak has now forced Google to shut down much before it has planned. According to the company, a bug in the Google+ API has exposed the data of 52.5 million users, which has compelled the search giant to kill off Google+ in April 2019. The company also added that the bug was fixed within a week of it being introduced. “We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API....

It looks like everyone wants to have their own “speed tests” these days. After, Netflix’s fast.com and Microsoft’s Bing speed test widget, it’s now the turn of Google to launch its own speed test. The search giant is reported to be trying out a way for people to allow them to check their internet speed by simply typing “check internet speed” into search. Pete Meyers posted a screenshot on Twitter showing the Google speed test tool in their search results....

According to Tech Crunch, the search giant’s chairman Eric Schmidt said that Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.” With this new cloud service, Google will make it easier for developers to employ some of the machine learning tech, the company already uses to power features like Smart Reply in Inbox. “Major Google applications use Cloud Machine Learning, including Photos (image search), the Google app (voice search), Translate and Inbox (Smart Reply),” the company says....

However, one thing is for sure, taking into consideration Google’s strong liking for naming their operating system after a candy or dessert, there are many possibilities for what Android M will eventually stand for. Each one comes with a new dessert-themed name for it. For instance, Android 2.2 was Froyo, Android 4.0 was Ice Cream Sandwich, and Android 5.0 was Lollipop. Google is majorly teasing Android M, with a new video posted to YouTube on Friday....

Google said in the blog post that the new Google Contacts comes with a fresh look which will help you to keep track of the people you know, Circles from Google+ or the people you mail/talk to in Gmail. Its not only the looks, Google is also working on to bring new improved features that will make it easier for the users to use Google Contacts. So today we’re releasing a preview of the new Google Contacts that makes it easier to keep track of the people you know and get the info you need, fast....

Google has a voice search feature “OK Google” in Google Search page; Yes, just by enabling “OK Google” and “voicing your search” i.e speaking it aloud, you can easily get it on Google. This is a hands free feature and can be used for lot more things than only searching which includes getting reminders and also directions. User would need microphone attached to their gadgets. The feature is easily activated on all the smart phones, desktop, laptops....

In an effort to “motivate” competitors like Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. to fix their buggy software before the real cyber criminals take advantage of the flaws in their unpatched code. Of course, both Microsoft and Apple are not keen on this. Opponents of Google’s Project Zero’s practice say it puts online security at risk by revealing gaps before they can be plugged. Of course, hackers in the know work fast to purposefully exploit software flaws when they become known....

The feature apparently not only allows Google to enhance its language recognition tools, as it lets people search with their voice, but also improve the results that it provides to the people. Also, it offers a simple way to listen and delete all of the information that it gathers. This is done through a special page that brings together the information that Google has on you. You need to go to the history page and look at the long list of recordings....