Google Scraps Dragonfly After Halting Chinese Data Collection

Google is one of the foremost technological giants in the world, but it seems like even they can’t crack China’s seemingly impenetrable digital fortress. China is well known for being a censorship heavy nation, which means that Google in its current shape and form simply can’t function as well as...

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Twitter Accidentally Exposes Partial User Phone Numbers

This year has involved data breach after data breach, so much so that Google has decided to finally lay its foray into social media, Google+, to rest. One name that seemed pleasantly absent from this list is Twitter. However, it seems that Twitter making it to 2019 without a huge data breach...

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New Malware Spreads on Twitter Using Memes

One of the most common forms of malware is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The purpose of RAT is rather simple. They enter a system, take screenshots and pull data and send all of this back to a source. This can result in a lot of damage as well as vast amounts of data getting stolen. It seems like...

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Facebook Yet to Release Long Promised Security Features

It’s safe to say that this year has been pretty bad for Facebook so far. The Cambridge Analytica scandal had the whole world reevaluating the social media platform and figuring out how Facebook could potentially not be as trustworthy as they once thought it was. What makes it worse is that the...

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Private/Unlisted YouTube Videos Included in Google Web Crawl Without User Consent

Google’s optical character recognition software is a key element of what makes the search engine giant so good at discovering and listing newly published web pages and offering said web pages in their search results. However, YouTube videos that are unlisted or private should ideally not be...

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Facebook Messenger Gets Boomerang Support and Selfie Mode

Facebook Messenger was initially a rather confusing addition to the app store. No one really know why Facebook was separating this feature because the general trend in technology has always been to incorporate all features into a single platform. However, over the years Facebook’s move started to...

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GitHub Announces Fastest Growing Programming Languages of 2018

If you are a programmer or a coder, you probably know what GitHub is and probably use it on a frequent basis. The web hosting service has just released a list of the fastest growing programming languages based on how many people actually used these languages over the past year. It seems like ease...

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