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Google Fi suffers data breach, customer info compromised
San Francisco : Google has confirmed that its cell network provider Google Fi suffered a data breach, which is likely related to T-Mobile's recent security breach which exposed millions of customer records.
According to TechCrunch,…
Twitter shuts down its collaborative posting feature ‘CoTweets’
San Francisco : Twitter has announced that it has shut down its collaborative posting feature 'CoTweets', which the micro-blogging platform had been testing for the "last several months".
"For the last several months we've been testing a…
WhatsApp faces privacy setting issue globally on iOS
San Francisco : Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is facing a server-side issue, making it impossible to update the privacy setting "who can see when I'm online," globally on iOS.
This outage is not because of a broken update,…
Elon Musk plans WeChat-like payments system on Twitter that includes crypto
San Francisco : Twitter under Elon Musk is now working on a payments system that will support accepted currencies with crypto functionality embedded into it. According to a report in The Financial Times, citing sources, the payments feature…
Instagram expands ‘Notes’ feature to Europe, Japan
San Francisco : Social media platform Instagram has expanded its 'Notes' feature, a way for users to share their thoughts, to Europe and Japan. The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, made the announcement on the micro-blogging platform…
WhatsApp rolling out longer group subjects, descriptions on Android beta
San Francisco : Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly rolling out longer group subjects and descriptions on Android beta. These changes will help users to better describe groups, reports WABetainfo.
The characters of the…
Google terminates thousands of accounts pushing Chinese disinformation
San Francisco : Google's Threat Analysis Group has terminated thousands of accounts associated with a group known as "Dragonbridge" or "Spamouflage Dragon" that disseminated pro-Chinese disinformation on various platforms.
According to…
Google Meet users can now share access to presented content
San Francisco : Google is rolling out a new feature to its video-communication service 'Google Meet' which will allow users to share access to the content they are presenting in a meeting with attendees, including everyone on the Calendar…
Next Twitter update to make For You or Following choice persist : Elon Musk
San Francisco : Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Sunday said that the 'For You or Following' choice will be persistent with the upcoming update of the micro-blogging platform.
When a user tweeted, "I don't mind the way it's set up, just put the…
Twitter removes option to send direct message on Android, iOS
San Francisco : Micro-blogging platform Twitter has removed the option to send a direct message to another account directly from a profile page on Android and iOS applications, many users reported.
The "DM" button, which usually appears…