Technology Archives - Page 29 of 43

Brave launches its privacy-focused no-tracking search engine

Today, Brave launched their non-tracking privacy-centric search engine to bring another alternative to finding the information you want on the web without giving up your data. […]

19 Jun

Tinder spam campaign hides “handwritten” links in profile images

A new trend has emerged on dating apps like Tinder with spammers sneaking in handwritten NSFW links within profile images. Multiple such Tinder spam profiles reviewed by BleepingComputer shared some common characteristics. […]

18 Jun

Three UK telco bug has customers receiving and making random calls

Customers of the Three UK telco company are panicking as they receive a series of random phone calls due to an ongoing issue. Likewise, outbound calls from customers are being routed to random strangers. […]

06 Jun

Amazon to share your Internet with neighbors on Tuesday – How to opt out

Amazon will be launching the Amazon Sidewalk service on Tuesday that automatically opts-in your Echo and Ring devices into a new feature that shares your Internet with your neighbors. Here’s more about this new feature and how to opt-out of sharing your bandwidth with other Amazon devices. […]

02 Jun

WhatsApp caves in: Won’t limit features if you reject privacy changes

WhatsApp says that it will no longer limit the app’s functionality for users who disagree with the new privacy policy requiring them to share their data with Facebook companies. […]

29 May

Mozilla: Update Firefox to avoid Netflix, Hulu streaming issues

Mozilla advises Firefox users to update to the latest released version to avoid experiencing video streaming issues after Google updates the Widevine digital rights management (DRM) on May 31. […]

20 May

Slack is down, massive outage blocks user logins and messages

Slack is experiencing a worldwide outage preventing users from posting messages, uploading images, or connecting to their servers. […]

19 May

Hetzner cloud server provider bans cryptocurrency mining

Popular German cloud hosting and dedicated server provider Hetzner has banned cryptomining on its servers after users have been using their large storage devices to mine Chia. […]

12 May

Tor Project auctions off the first Onion URL ever created as an NFT

The Tor Project is auctioning off the first Tor Onion domain ever created, duskgytldkxiuqc6.onion, as an NFT. […]

11 May

German watchdog bans Facebook from using WhatsApp users’ data

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) has banned Facebook today from processing WhatsApp user data for the next three months. […]

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