Freepik Says That Hackers Stole Emails And Password Hashes For 8.3 Million Users Via SQL Injection In A Major Data Breach

Today, Freepik, one of the most popular photo and illustration hub in the world, disclosed that attackers stole emails and password hashes for 8.3 million Flaticon and Freepik users in an SQL injection hack. Freepik is the company behind Flaticon which is an icon database platform and the Freepik...

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A New Feature In Google Maps Will Now Display Boundaries Of Active Wildfires

One of the best things about Google is that the company is always trying to improve its services, and it seems that it wants to make sure that people are having the best experience. Now, the tech giant has introduced a new wildfire boundary map in Google Search and Google Maps in the United States....

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New Google Translate Update Will Let You Save Real Time Transcripts

Google Translate has been an app that has been seen as hit or miss in the past. While it can manage to translate some languages fairly well, its attempts at translating others is nothing short of laughable. Still, Google Translate is an important service that is improving quite a bit as time goes...

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Google Play’s News Category Requirements Leads to Thousands of Apps Being Removed

Tech companies have gotten a bit of a bad reputation in recent times. This has a lot to do with how they disseminate information, especially how they contribute to the spreading of misinformation. Since 2020 is an election year, tech companies are working really hard to prevent any misinformation...

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TikTok begins content policing, reports taking down hate content from its platform including 380 Videos, 64K Comments and 1.3K Accounts

Content policing and content moderation are things that TikTok previously did not take much care of. After a lot of criticism, TikTok added policies related to hate speech in the company’s guidelines in January 2020. Now, as per the recent announcement, TikTok has claimed to have taken down over...

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Report: Only 16% of Health Misinformation on Facebook Had Warning Labels, Medical Misinformation Generated Nearly 3.8 Billion Views on the Platform

Facebook has been announcing measures to tackle the spread of misleading information on its platform during the coronavirus pandemic. While the social media giant may be doing its best to stop the spread of fake news, a new report suggests that only 16% of posts containing medical misinformation...

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Google Has Fixed A Security Bug Affecting G Suite And Gmail That Could Allow Attackers To Send Spoofed Emails

On Wednesday, while several users were struggling to use the services of Gmail, Google dispatched a critical security bug impacting Gmail and G Suite. This security bug could have allowed attackers to send spoofed emails mimicking any G Suite or Gmail user. A security researcher Allison Husain...

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