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“We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform,” Facebook front-end engineer Daniel Baulig wrote in a blog post, “but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.” The company explained that switching to a HTML5 video player made “development easier” and improves “the video experience for people on Facebook,” including videos playing faster and reports of fewer bugs....

This platform makes it easy for the students to find and start conversations within their college community. “This year, students across the country are facing new challenges as some campuses shift to partial or full-time remote learning, so it’s more important than ever to find a way to stay connected to college life. College is a time for making new friends, finding people who share similar interests, and discovering new opportunities to connect – from clubs to study groups, sports, and more....

Apparently, Facebook is pushing its users to download and install a Facebook-owned VPN client called “Onavo Protect” on their devices under the pretext of protecting their account. VPN (short for virtual private network) is used to safeguard users’ online privacy and keep their IP address anonymous particularly when using public Wi-Fi networks by creating a secure connection to another network over the Internet. However, Onavo Protect is just doing exactly the opposite....

The message on the Facebook page with the Dodge Charger 1970 giveaway is placed at the top and has over 300,000 likes, with the post dated April 15. The scam attempts to fool Facebook users into commenting on, liking and sharing the page, in order to have a chance to win one of the cars. By liking, sharing and commenting on the fake prize post, Facebook users inadvertently promote the Page across the network and expose all of their friends to the scam....

While FBI’s attempt at creating the video game should be lauded for the reason behind it, the game really sucks. The video game invloves a goat dodging objects is made by the FBI to help educate kids about “the slippery slope to violent extremism.” Gizmodo wrote about the “Don’t Be A Puppet” website yesterday, comparing it to an “awful, out-of-touch 90s educational game.” I’m right there with them. FBI however has a different view of the game and describes it thus on its website: Kotaku’s Patrick Klepek says that the game is just plain ugly....

Python 3 is currently being adopted by more and more GNU/Linux operating systems, as the world always tries to move forward and implement the newest of technologies. Additionally, support for Python 2 slowly starts to fade on some of the most popular OSes. Miro Hron?ok is a Fedora ambassador and packager working at Red Hat, focusing on the Python stack and 3D printing for the Fedora Linux operating system. Today, July 15, 2016, he has informed Softpedia that his team needs volunteers to help with the Python 3 porting of various packages from the Fedora Python 3 Porting Database....

Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 29, of Moscow was arrested on October 5 by officials in Prague in response to an Interpol warrant issued at the request of the United States, where he remains in custody. He now faces a Czech extradition hearing, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. However, the Russian Embassy in Prague told that Moscow will be seeking his return to Russia. Moscow, an embassy source said, rejects “the U....

While there are no standout features in this release, it however notably does have support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) content, a high-end gaming experience thanks to the implementation of WebGL 2 support, and the ability to view passwords before saving them in the built-in password manager. The users can now also save passwords for forms that don’t have “submit” events. They have also enabled Skia 2D graphics library for content rendering by default in the Linux build too....

Airtel Zero will allow customers to access certain apps and websites without paying data charges as long as the makers of those apps and services pay certain revenue to Airtel for this free access. Experts argue that this is going against the concept of net neutrality, which demands that all data on the internet is equal and should not be discriminated against. Flipkart has announced its decision after a widespread backlash against the firm on social media and users voting down its app on the Android and Apple stores after its CEO, Sachin Bansal, tweeted in support of Airtel Zero....

Fortinet Makes Sandbox Available as Virtual Appliance – FortiSandbox-VMFeatures Features A Sandbox is a developer term which stands for an environment that resembles a sandbox for kids. The kid, once placed inside a sandbox, can do whatever he wants with all toys that are already available. He cannot go out and is therefore secure inside. A sandbox in computer terms works pretty much the same way. Once an application or a website is put inside a sandbox, it can only use resources available inside the sandbox environment....

The CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés) said that following investigations on websites facebook.com, google.fr, and youtube.com, they found that these sites offer a button allowing the user to immediately accept cookies. However, they do not provide an equivalent solution (button or other) that allows the Internet user to easily refuse the deposit of these cookies. In fact, the user is required to click several times to refuse all cookies, as opposed to a single click to accept them....

Unlike earlier Zeus variants, GameOver has a decentralized, peer-to-peer command and control infrastructure rather than centralized points of origin, which means that instructions to the infected computers can come from any of the infected computers, making a takedown of the botnet more difficult because even though the main server is shut down the ancillary botnets can be used assume control and send the commands.Officials said that in addition to the filing a criminal case, the U....

It’s raining DMCAs as Google is getting stricter with torrent movie download links as well as movie streaming websites. One such casualty of Google DMCAs is the popular movie streaming site GoMovies (123movies). However, the admin of GoMoviews has decided to play smart and change the URL as well as the domain to evade further action by Google. GoMovies which was earlier known as 123movies had changed its URL to GoMovies after a similar copyright related issue....

Jurczyk while performing some analysis found three different vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-8680, CVE-2017-8684, and CVE-2017-8685, which only affected Windows 7 and 8.1 and not Windows 10. He was able to find these because Microsoft patched it on the newest OS, but not on older versions. Jurczyk used a technique called ‘binary diffing’ where he found examples of patches that had been applied to Windows 10, but not to Windows 7 or 8....

Ruling in the case, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected infringement claims from the Authors Guild and several individual writers, and found that the project provides a public service without violating intellectual property law. The group of authors had sued Google in 2005, a year after Google’s book scanning project. Google counter argued that its book scanning project would actually increase book sales by making it easier for readers to find works, while introducing them to books they might not otherwise have seen....

Clang is a well-known open source compiler that is often used alongside GCC on Linux. It can be used to compile many C family programming languages, including C, C ++, Objective C, and Objective C ++. According to Google, the major advantage of Clang is that it is compatible with parts of Microsoft Visual C ++ (MSVC). Microsoft’s Visual C++ compiler is the most widely used and best supported compiler for Windows and is most compatible with debugging and diagnostic tools for the operating system....

Called the COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation Open Fund, this initiative is intended to support journalistic efforts to effectively fact-check misinformation about the COVID-19 immunization process that specifically seek to support audiences that are underserved by fact-checking or targeted by misinformation. “The uncertainty and developing nature of the coronavirus pandemic continues to generate related misinformation. The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is exacerbating a perennial problem of misinformation about immunization,” Alexios Mantzarlis, News and Information Credibility Lead at Google News Lab wrote in a blog post....

Dubbed as ‘Tangi’, the video app name is inspired by the words TeAch aNd GIve and “tangible” – things you can make, according to the Google blog. With a home screen that looks strangely similar to Pinterest, the app will allow users to record and upload short video content with a maximum duration of 60 seconds. “It’s an experimental social video sharing app with quick DIY videos that help people learn new things every day....

— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) November 9, 2015 The engine has been used by the Google to improve speech recognition in the official Google app as well as forming the image search now available in Google Photos. The Google Blog explains, The engine is available as a standalone library and associated tools, tutorials, as well as examples are under Apache 2.0 license. For more information on TensorFlow, kindly check out the official website....