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The Buzzfeed report has not been confirmed by Twitter as of yet. Also no other media has reported the story apart from Buzzfeed so there is no confirmation whether this will actually happen but the Twitter users have take umbrage at the news. What better method than to protest against Twitter than using Twitter itself. Furious twitterati have been trending #RIPtwitter, ever since the report became public. Here are some of the best tweets from the upset users...

To that effect, even Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei had recently made a statement that “Huawei’s HarmonyOS Will Compete With Apple’s IOS In 2 Years”. In other words, it means that the company requires another 2 years to become a possible iOS competitor. However, a recent video uploaded by the YouTube channel TechZG suggests that Huawei’s upcoming P40 series (P40 and P40 Pro) coming out in March 2020 could probably be the world’s first smartphones to run two operating systems, Google’s Android 10 (without Google apps) and HarmonyOS, side-by-side....

Steve Huffman, a Reddit co-founder, is taking over as CEO, the San Francisco-based company said Friday. Huffman, chief technology officer at the travel startup Hipmunk Inc., has had no official role for several years at Reddit. “First, I’m super excited. Second I am terrified,” Huffman said in an interview. A decade ago, Mr. Huffman and Alexis Ohanian started Reddit in a two-bedroom apartment in a Boston suburb. Users go to the site to discuss a wide variety of topics, including viral memes, current events and gifs....

Now, Intel has showed off its prototype of ‘Volocopter 2X’ – a drone made by German company Volocopter in partnership with the chipmaker – at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 in Las Vegas, which the former claims is big enough to carry two passengers (up to a weight of 180 kilograms). Demonstrated live behind a cage as a safety precaution, the drone briefly flew on stage at the Park Theater, the huge concert hall at the Monte Carlo Park Theater in Las Vegas....

For those unaware, DigiLocker is an online service provided by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Government of India under its Digital India initiative. DigiLocker provides an account in the cloud to every Aadhaar holder to access authentic documents/certificates such as driving license, vehicle registration, academic mark sheet in digital format from the original issuers of these certificates. It also provides 1GB storage space to each account to upload scanned copies of legacy documents....

The Warsaw Stock Exchange hacked by Jehadi outfitsISIS cyber criminals behind the attack? Though nothing more is known about the hack or why the exchange website was down in middle of trading hours, a Paste made on paste sharing website Pastebin states that The paste has been made by one Mr. JAN_URBANOWICZ claims to have some 30,000 login and password records of the Warsaw investors and brokers. A Polish website niebezpiecznik....

This has raised questions over their long term viability, and whether they will be targeted by new legislation which aims to limit or regulate them (given their moral/ethical questionability). Here are some considerations on whether Europe will create legislation to limit them in 2018. How do ICOs Work? ICOs work very similar to the likes of crowdfunding platforms and IPOs (Initial Public Offerings). Instead of dealing with investors, however, ICOs usually involve supporters of the startup buying its distributed cryptocurrency units for real money in order to provide it with the funds it needs to operate....

The vulnerability, which was first reported by The Financial Times, has named Israel’s cyber surveillance company, NSO Group that sells to security companies and governments to fight terrorism, behind the spyware. According to WhatsApp, the spyware allowed attackers to inject the surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android devices using a single WhatsApp call. In other words, the code developed by NSO could be transmitted even if users did not answer their WhatsApp call....

There have been rumours circulating that Samsung is set to release three variants of the S10 series next year, each with different size configurations. The suggestion here is that the S-series is likely to be merged with the Note series. This makes all the sense in the world after all, especially when you take a look at the Galaxy S8+ and its 6.2 inch screen and compare it with the Note 8 with its 6....

How to stop Windows 10 from using your PC’s bandwidth to update other Windows 10 users’ systemsHere’s how you can disable P2P updates in Windows 10: It seems that WUDO feature utilizes a sufficiently great portion of the upload internet bandwidth to share Windows 10 updates to other computers. Hence, to conserve bandwidth, the feature should be manually turned off. One of the more fascinating changes in Windows is the new Peer-To-Peer (P2P) delivery update mechanism....

Sadly soon after the discontinuation of Windows 7, a new bug has emerged that prevents users from shutting down or rebooting their computers. When a Windows 7 user attempts to shut down or restart their PC, a popup message that reads “You don’t have permission to shut down this computer” emerges. As of now, Microsoft hasn’t released any fixes for this problem. However, Windows 7 users have been scratching their heads to find solutions and workarounds to fix this issue....

During the December 2013 results, Windows Defender managed to finish dead last, so in a time span of less than three years, it is fairly impressive that the software is able to do well. However, there is still room for improvement for the program. The tests conducted on Windows 8.1 for the December 2015 results show that Microsoft’s in-built software had finished 11th out of 19 programs tested and the surprising thing is that it was able to come out on top against software such as F-Secure, ESET, Panda Software, and Comodo, which is quite impressive for a freeware....

Windows Phone Internals allows Lumia owners to unlock their bootloaders, gain root access and even flash custom ROMs. Considering that Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows 10 mobile are the most closed of all mobile operating systems, this is quite an achievement. However, Windows Phone users may have to wait until the WP developer community develops good quality ROMs like the Android community does. The creator of the rooting tool, Windows Phone Internals, Healthcliff74 has opened full fledged website to help the Windows Phone users get familiar with his rooting tool....

For those unaware, source code is a text file version of a computer program or software that contains instructions that the computer follows to execute. It is written in a programming language which a human can read and change. According to the leaker, the source code files that is 43GB in size was compiled and collected over the past two months. The contents of the leaked file include MS DOS 3....

Fixing another coder’s bugs If you work for a company, more often than not you will have to fix someone else’s code. If you’re among the lucky ones who have never been asked to do this, bless your stars. For those who have, it can be a horrible experience. Its rarely easy to understand a code someone else has written, even more so when there isn’t proper documentation or comments in that code....

The group of researchers from the European University of Madrid had disclosed this vulnerability in May 2015 along with a few more other security vulnerabilities include privilege escalation, CSRF, XSS, DOS, authentication bypasses in other devices. According to an alert issued Tuesday by the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie Mellon University, the affected device models are: ASUS DSL-N12E, DIGICOM DG-5524T, Observa Telecom RTA01N, Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT) SpeedSurf 504AN and ZTE ZXV10 W300....

Recently, the owner, James Johnson placed an ad “for sale” on Craigslist to sell his town. The advertisement for Cabin Creek says the nearly 5-acre property is about 45 minutes from Denver. It comes with an old gas station, an 8-room motel, a roadside restaurant cafe, an eight-space RV park, two houses and a private shooting range. The 3,300 square feet gas station still has pumps outside and the building was once a gas station repair shop and a movie theatre....

Unfortunately, even though it is now available on Playstore and the Appstore, it appears to be unavailable for some US users at this time. Only users in Australia and New Zealand can access the app on both Android and iOS. The current version requires approximately 60MB for Android users and 100MB for iOS users. According to the Google Play store, the app requires Android version 4.4 and up, while iOS 8....

The online hacker collective Anonymous dealt a huge blow to the terror group ISIS, whose attacks in Paris had left 129 dead and dozens more injured. Following the attacks, the Anonymous group had declared cyber-war on ISIS members last weekend. It also asked hackers around the world to join its #OpParis operation. In its declaration of cyber-war, they had vowed to hunt down the social media accounts Daesh members used to coordinate attacks, promote Jihadism, or recruit new members....

Ever since work from home culture has become mainstream, many companies are using it as a primary source of communication. Many people like to change their voices while talking on discord. The reason can be anything ranging from privacy concerns or just for fun and entertainment. The aim is to change the voice to an extent that is unrecognizable or sound like other people or gender. Note: Voice Changer Apps on discord are also being misused by many users nowadays to troll or harass people online....