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Soon after, users began to report that they were able to react to posts with a new airplane emoji. Apparently, the new plane emoji was only available on Facebook’s Android app and that too after clearing the app’s cache. According to some users, the new emoji appeared only if they updated the Android app and flushed the cache in the app. Then they had to hold down the ‘like’ button in the comments section of a post, which would then show two angry face reaction icons....

The company said that it was working with Kaspersky Lab to help a program put into effect with other online security firms including F-Secure, ESET and Trend Micro. Trevor Pottinger, a Facebook security engineer said “Thanks to the collaboration with these companies, in the past three months we have helped clean up more than two million people’s computers that we detected were infected with malware when they connected to Facebook....

The plaintiffs have alleged through the lawsuit that Facebook routinely scans private messages. While the company does that to scan for URLs for malware protection and industry-standard searches for child pornography, the lawsuit claims that Facebook also uses this data for advertising and other purposes. Campbell and his team also alleged that Facebook also saves the scanned results in a database which is stored in searchable form. Campbell claims that Facebook is violating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the California Invasion of Privacy Act by doing so....

Discovered and posted by Joshua Maddux on Twitter, the issue secretly activates users’ iPhone camera without their permission while they scroll through their Facebook feeds via the app. The bug keeps the camera active even if the users are not taking or looking at a photograph on the social network or doing some other task with any of the imaging sensors. — Joshua Maddux (@JoshuaMaddux) November 10, 2019 Similar unusual behavior was noticed by a number of users who posted videos online demonstrating it....

Here’s how you can send SMS from Facebook Messenger for Android smartphones and tablets1. Open Messenger. Then Click On The Profile Button On The Top Right2. Scroll Down To See If You Have A SMS Button Under Notifications & Sounds3. Go To The Google Play Store To Check For An Update4. Once You Are Able To Update, Go Back To Steps 1 And 2.5. Open Messenger And Text As Usual...

Facebook wants to develop its semiconductors to lower its dependence on chipmakers like Intel and Qualcomm and give the social network greater control over its product development, cited people familiar with the matter. Its processors could help the social media giant power AI (artificial intelligence) software, Oculus VR (virtual reality) headsets, and servers in its data centers, reports Bloomberg. The revelation comes as a result of one job posting on Facebook’s corporate website that calls for an ASIC Development Manager with the skill set to “Build and manage an end-to-end SoC/ASIC, firmware and driver development organization,” which would include “silicon architecture, micro-architecture, RTL development, Verification, FPGA emulation, co-simulation, simulation acceleration, synthesis, DFT, floor planning, physical design place and route, DRC, LVS and GDS II stream out, and post-silicon validation....

A little more information regarding Internet.org or Free web access for our readers : Basically people who are offline are very skeptical and not bothered about internet connectivity and Internet.org targets these people to make them aware of advanced technology in their lives. Internet.org basically helps people to get health, employment and local information services without data charges. In other words it an initiative taken by Facebook to make people more aware of the Internet usage because it helps users to get connected to Wikipedia, AccuWeather, BabyCenter, health sites, job opportunities and also to Facebook so that users who otherwise do not use the internet can get free access to these sites and realize the importance of internet in their day to day activities and hence they then can readily opt for the premium data packages....

Facebook has just unveiled a new ‘Legacy Contacts’ feature which lets you manage your profile page after you die. Facebook’s latest move to enable a legacy contact just highlights the fact that social networking has become a part and parcel of family and social life. Your facebook page may become a family heirloom in a distant future after you die, and Facebook has taken care of the fact that nobody other than the person can touch your Facebook page in case you decide to meet the maker....

Now Facebook is being accused of violating the privacy of its users by collecting their facial data, according to a class-action lawsuit filed last week. Facebook has been allegedly collecting facial recognition data from millions of FB users and creating “the largest privately held stash of biometric face-recognition data in the world,” according to Courthouse News Service. The class action lawsuit filed by Carlo Licata and associates alleges that this facial recognition program violates the privacy of its users....

The parents, referred to as “Mother” and “Father” in the complaint, said their 12-year-old son suffers from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome, a condition that gets severe by electromagnetic radiation. According to the suit, the condition that causes headaches, nosebleeds, nausea, and other symptoms, was frequently being experienced by the boy while sitting in the class, after the school had installed a new, more powerful wireless Internet system in 2013. However, the school in a statement said “Isotrope’s assessment was completed in January 2015 and found that the combined levels of access point emissions, broadcast radio and television signals, and other RFE emissions on campus ‘were substantially less than 1/10,000th of the applicable safety limits (federal and state)....

For those unaware, cell phones with activated FM chips can easily be used as radios, allowing people access to potentially life-saving information when stuck in emergency such as a major storm or black out. FM radios are an important communication channel between people affected and agencies trying to get information to them. Pai said in a statement, “In recent years, I have repeatedly called on the wireless industry to activate the FM chips that are already installed in almost all smartphones sold in the United States....

5 Ways To Enhance Your Programming Interview Skills1. Learn how to implement linked lists, doubly linked lists, binary search trees, tries, heaps, and hash trees. Learn the fundamental data structures.2. Learn class design and fundamental data organization. Be able to design data structures and classes to work as nodes in trees and tries; to summarize details about people, including addresses and phone numbers; to exhibit polymorphism and subclassing, such as ‘shape’ specific to ’2d’ and ’3d’ and further dedicated to various kinds of shapes, with overridable functions to implement width, height, area, and so on....

The girl, Edith Fuller out-spelled more than 50 other older contestants to win the 2017 Scripps Green Country Regional Spelling Bee in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “The Scripps National Spelling Bee is very proud of all of its spellers who advance and win their regional bee to qualify for the national final,” a Scripps spokesman told ABC News. “We certainly look forward to welcoming Edith Fuller and all of our more than 280 national spellers who will come to National Harbor in May to compete and enjoy a memorable Bee week....

@ Ivoidwarrantie defaced the electronic parking sign so that instead of the usual information about the number of free spaces in the city’s public car parks, the sign contained the words “bite” (dk), “couille” (ball, or tele), chatte (py), and cul (ae). The Register has reported that he hacked the parking sign after a French court found that Strauss-Kahn, as head of the International Monetary Fund, neither instigated nor presided over the group-sex sessions he attended with friends....

Optane is based on 3D Xpoint rather than NAND based flash storage, and according to both Intel and Micron, who jointly developed this, it is 10 times denser than DRAM, and 1,000 times faster and more durable than flash storage. Additionally, the upcoming 3D Xpoint SSDs will be compatible with NVMe, a protocol that is already being used in Apple’s MacBooks. Not only with this compatibility improve speeds across the board, but will also improve durability....

According to Epic, the players modified the game’s code by using the site ‘Addicted Cheats’ to obtain “aimbots” that would give them a competitive edge in the game, which involves building forts, scavenging gear and fighting waves of monsters. Using the cheat codes which aren’t free (usually need to pay between $5-$15 for the service), players could then kill weaker characters for fun, especially those “streamers” who create video recordings of their own games....

The swath of these intercepted communications, were sometimes simple mass-PR emails sent to dozens of journalists but also included correspondence between reporters and editors discussing stories. These transmissions were retained by GCHQ and were available to all cleared staff on the agency intranet. It is not known if any journalists were intentionally targeted. New evidence revealed by Snowden, from the UK intelligence documents, shows that a GCHQ information security assessment listed “investigative journalists” as a threat in a hierarchy alongside terrorists or hackers....

While the takeover was completed about two months ago, both the companies chose not to officially announce it, reported TechCrunch on Thursday citing an unnamed source familiar with the matter. However, last week, Google confirmed the purchase but declined to comment on the financial terms of the deal. Recently, Jonathan Slimak, Chief Co-Founder and Operating Officer at Alter, too confirmed the development by changing his LinkedIn profile. He took to LinkedIn to share that he was starting a new position at Google by adding the comment, “building Avatars at Google,” to his profile without acknowledging the acquisition....

Looking at the impact of full disk encryption on access for law enforcement, the document points out that phones and tablets running Android software released prior to Android 5.0 are vulnerable to resetting. Even though this doesn’t apply to all Android devices, it still encompasses a large portion – affecting all devices running anything lower than Android 5.0 (roughly 74%). “Forensic examiners are able to bypass passcodes on some of those devices using a variety of forensic techniques....

Chrome, Google’s web browser is said to have problems in incognito mode in its Android version and some of user’s online behavior is stored in history as a consequence. Google’s Chrome web browser,right from its debut has faced criticism because it uses the WebKit Engine which uses lot of RAM and slows down the machine. Now a bug has been reported in Chrome browser in Android version in its Incognito mode....