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David Marcus, the vice president of Facebook has announced on the social media site that the company is testing a new feature for its mobile instant messaging platform, Facebook Messenger, that will automatically convert voice messages into text format. In a Facebook post, Marcus stated that, Say if you want to send a message to your friend, just tap the microphone icon, record the message and send. The purpose of this new feature is to allow users to simply read the voice messages sent to them rather than listen to them....

To celebrate the new arrival of their new daughter, Max, he and his wife Priscilla Chan, have decided to give away 99 percent of his Facebook Inc (FB.O) shares, currently worth more than $60 billion, over the course of the rest of their lives. They said they are doing this to “further the mission of advancing human potential” and to promote “equality by means of philanthropic, public advocacy, and other activities for the public good”....

To make Instant Articles a interesting and an earning proposition for the publishers, Facebook is also offering to let publishers keep all the revenue from certain ads. Facebook hopes that the publishers will then use FB to distribute content through the social network. Another scheme that is being considered is that publications will keep all ad revenue from articles posted on Facebook if the sites themselves sell the ads. However if Facebook puts up the ads, it will keep 30 percent of the revenue for itself....

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....

FBI Director James Comey was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on ‘The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy.’ After about two hours of gruesome questioning, Comey dropped the literal H-bomb at the hearing. The hearing is being held to ascertain whether FBI needs Apple to provide a back door into the iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook. It comes on the back of huge controversy over the court judgement which asked Apple to hack the shooter’s iPhone and provide FBI with a backdoor....

This organization is named Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and is America’s primary law enforcement organisation. A 19 year old hacker, Charlton Floate, brought down FBI and Home Office websites from his bedroom. Speaking to BBC 5 Live Daily, Floate said that hacking FBI and US Home Office websites wasn’t much of a challenge. “It was surprisingly easy to be honest....

So, in this article we will show you a video editing software which is easy to use yet provides some powerful features allows you to be more creative with it: Wondershare Filmora9 Video Editor. Why I Use Filmora9 to Edit Videos? Mastering professional video editing software products like Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere Pro can take years of hard work, which is the reason why a lot of people are reluctant to even try to learn the basic video editing techniques....

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....

While companies around the world are still trying to recuperate from ‘WannaCry ransomware’ attack, a newly installed Chinese malware is now targeting browsers and then turning them into zombies. The malware dubbed ‘Firewall’ has affected more than 250 million computers around the world. Check Point, a data security firm, who was the first one to discover the new threat, said that the malevolent software is designed to hijack browsers to change the default search engine and home pages and track their web traffic on behalf of Beijing-based digital marketing firm called Rafotech and boost the ad network for them, reported WIRED on Friday....

Auckland High Court Judge Murray Gilbert upheld a District Court ruling that there was enough evidence to send Dotcom and his three co-accused, Mathias Ortmann, Bran van der Kolk and Finn Botato for trial in the U.S. Since 2012, the U.S. has been seeking Dotcom’s extradition on 13 counts including conspiracy to commit racketeering, copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering. He also carries a maximum of 20 years in jail....

For those unaware, Mandiant provides incident response and general security consulting along with incident management products to major global organizations, governments, and Fortune 100 companies. The most prominent investigation of the cybersecurity firm was the largest SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack ever recorded in the U.S. in December 2020. Further, in May 2021, Mandiant was also brought in to investigate a ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, a fuel pipeline operator that supplies close to half of the gasoline, diesel, and other fuels to the East Coast....

Well, Google Glass might not be one product any more. Business Insider, who spotted a number of job postings at Google hinted that Glass is about to make a comeback with a family of devices focused on augmented reality. This family may include the commercial device, alongside professional, gaming and other sub-devices. In other words, this may end up giving Google more room to experiment on the design of Google Glass, working on a sleek commercial option, alongside more heavy options for professionals or gamers that do not need to worry about the design so much....

All the above domains were country code top level domains (ccTLD) are parked domains acquired by the tech biggies to protect the domain names from misused by cyber criminals. The Moroccan hackers dook over the over domain.ma, google.co.ma, google.ma, microsoft.ma and Kaspersky.ma domain names and left following message on all four hacked websites publicising their skills. A full preview of the deface page is available below: The Google.ma and Microsoft....

Now, Google has announced that starting in September 2020 in New Zealand and South Africa — and in October for all other global markets — users will no longer be able to stream from or use the Google Play Music app. All users will be notified ahead of their subscriptions being cancelled. Users will have a minimum of 30 days after losing access to Google Play Music to transfer their music libraries to YouTube Music....

However, the 273,328 shares will vest in quarterly phases through 2019 if he remains on the job, which means that he won’t be able to cash these shares all in at once. Google may see the award as fair value for the work Pichai has done for the company over the years, as he took charge of its Android, Chrome and search business arms over the years, bringing Google nothing but success....

According to the complaint (PDF), Heath was denied work by Google in 2011, inspite of him having “highly-pertinent qualifications and experience,” with a Google recruiter calling him a “great candidate”. Heath was 60 years old at that time. The dispute claims that the median age of Google employees is 29 years old, which is below the median age of all US workers. According to US Department of Labor, the median age is 42....

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....

According to an Associated Press report released Monday, Google services is storing users’ location data on Android devices and iPhones even if you have privacy settings explicitly set to not do it. These findings were confirmed by computer-science researchers at Princeton on AP’s request. In fact, Google’s own support page encourages user autonomy to decide what information to share. “You can turn off Location History at any time. With Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored,” reads the company’s privacy page....

Google has maintained such bug bounty programs for a number of their platforms such as Chrome and Chrome OS among others. This program’s scope for now is restricted to RCE (remote-code-execution) vulnerabilities and corresponding POCs (Proof of concepts) that work on Android 4.4 devices and higher. How it Works Within the bug bounty program, a researcher needs to find a vulnerability among the apps covered. Once found, they will have to report it to the app developer via their current reporting process....