In this guide, I will show you how to turn off the green light on Apple Watch. The green light on the back of the Apple Watch serves as a visual indicator for the wrist detection feature, which uses the green light to detect when the watch is on the wrist and when it is not. The green light will blink when the wrist detection feature is turned on. Secondly, when you are not wearing the watch, it indicates that the watch is in a dormant state....
Windows 10 has various built-in system sounds for events like notifications, errors, or device connections. While these audio cues can be helpful, they can also become distracting, primarily if you work in a quiet environment or prefer a silent computing experience. Fortunately, turning off system sounds in Windows 10 is straightforward. This guide will walk you through multiple methods to disable these sounds and customize your audio preferences effortlessly. Why Disable System Sounds in Windows 10?...
IKEA is suffering from a reply-chain attack, where its employees are being targeted with malicious links spread through internal emails. The furniture is thus asking its employees to be extra cautious, and report any such email to the IT team. Reply-chain attacks are hard to detect, as they are spread from trusted contacts within the company. Reply-Chain Attacks on IKEA IKEA, the popular furniture brand is having warehouse and customer outlets all over the world, is now under a reply-chain attack....
As revealed in November last year, Instagram is now testing a new monetization plan through subscriptions for its content creators. Instagram New Monetization Plan Just a week after Instagram trailing with vertically swipe-able stories , the Meta-owned platform is now testing yet another new feature. And this could bring more joy to users and more revenue to content creators. On Wednesday, Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri revealed a new monetization plan for the content creators – through a subscription stream....
Instagram new features leaks Earn money from your Posts and Stories! #Instagram continues to work on the Affiliate option ???? Here’s some information regarding this feature they are developing ???????? pic.twitter.com/PYxQeg03Th — Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) February 17, 2021
Marking the anniversary of Iran’s military general – Qasem Soleimani, a pro-Iranian gang has briefly hacked the websites of Jerusalem Post and Maariv. These two are popular Israeli newspapers, having reach into both English and Hebrew language readers. Hackers have laid an image illustrating a missile coming out of a ring, and blasting a Dimona nuclear facility of Israel. Hacking on the Death Eve This day, last year, the US has used drones to assassinate Qasem Soleimani – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander....
In a coordinated operation containing nations in Europe, Australia, the US, Ukraine, and Canada, the police have arrested 142 suspects belonging to “iSpoof,” – leading to its shutdown. iSpoof was used for making anonymous calls to anyone, sending recorded messages, and intercepting OTPs. It allowed users to pay through Bitcoin, this being anonymous and safeguarding their malicious operations. Ceasing iSpoof Services In an operation led by the British police and having Europol and Eurojust teams, the law enforcement has arrested about 142 suspects belonging to the iSpoof – a service that lets anyone make anonymous phone calls, intercept OTPs and send recorded messages....
Meta is testing support for playing Reels on its Quest headset , which displays content much similar to how we see on the phone. This was revealed by Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in a broadcast channel showcasing how users can scroll through Reels with their controllers. This ability comes days after Meta announced its Quest 3 with new games, while Apple came up with the Vision Pro headset. Instagram Reels on Quest Headset The competition for the best VR headset is as furious as the current AI inventions, with companies like Meta and Apple being the main players....
Microsoft has terminated RDCMan , a long served tool from its app list today. Remote-Desktop-ConnectionMan lets any desktop user control other desktops in a network via RDP. This tool rose to popularity in the late 2000s, but Microsoft introduced other default RDP tools to communicate better. And now, after finding an internal bug, the maker decided to discontinue it altogether. A well-known feature Completely disabling a popular service is always seen as an extreme step....
Microsoft has taken down, or say, gained control of 50 domains of a popular North Korean based cybercriminal group today. Based on a lawsuit filed in court earlier this month, the Microsoft was granted to act on taking down these alleged domains of a cybercriminal group called Thallium or APT37 . On 18th December this year, a company in the US filed a case against the Thallium group in District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, where the court has now enabled Microsoft to act upon this issues by taking down 50 of the Thallium’s domains that were said to be used for malicious activities....
As per a confidential document leak from Apple vs. Epic Games case, Microsoft has decided to lower its Xbox store cut to 12% from 30% and let developers rest. This is on par with its Microsoft Store fees announced earlier this week. While it’s supposedly doing it for better revenues and popularity, there’s a clause asking for game streaming rights on Xbox. Microsoft is Shaking the Gaming Community Earlier this week, Microsoft announced to reduce its Microsoft Store fees to just 12% and let developers keep the rest 88% of all the subscriptions and in-app purchases they generate....
Microsoft Teams is one of those remote working softwares that saw unprecedented growth of userbase due to Coronavirus lockdowns. Thus, it’s one of the special targets like Zoom to be attacked for exploiting millions of users. But even before adversaries find anything in Teams, CyberArk , a cybersecurity firm found a way to fool users by sending images and stealing authentication token and finally take over the account to spam someone else....
New Design of OneNote App One of the classic mistakes any OEM can do is to make two products of similar purposes and treat them differently. This may anger the community using them, who put similar resources and time into those products and get different results. Microsoft’s story about the OneNote app is a similar story, where it offers a UWP version and a Win32 app of the OneNote app currently....
As Microsoft is hardening the efforts to make its Edge browser as default in Windows 11, a new tool is surfaced to block that from happening. Named as MSEdgeRedirect, it can be installed and set Windows 11 to direct all clickable URLs to open in the user’s default browser, instead of Microsoft Edge. This is available for free, and the maker says it cannot be blocked by Microsoft that easily....
A new phishing campaign is actively spreading in Russia that’s promising a fake presidential decree to give citizens a lump sum for starting their own business. But for that, they’d be asked to pay the application fee of $5 (in rubles), which was stolen along with the sensitive card credentials in the phishing site . Fake campaigns and greedy citizens New Russian Phishing Attack is Using Instagram to Spread its Fake Campaign...
Nvidia has released a patched update to its new GeForce client GFE . This additional software was found to have a security vulnerability discovered recently, that can let hackers gain system access and launch DDoS attacks. Nvidia is a pioneer in producing high-end graphics cards for computers. The company’s hit series, GeForce variants are responsible for smoothening the heavy-graphic games and functioning of certain computer activities. These graphic processors, when purchased, comes along with an additional software client named GFE....
Nvidia has rolled out patches for several security vulnerabilities existing in its GPU display of Windows and Linux devices. Also, rolled out fixes for flaws in virtual GPU software. It’s reported that exploiting any of the said vulnerabilities could lead to privilege escalation, DDoS attacks, and leaking data. Critical Vulnerabilities in Nvidia GPU Nvidia is a popular GPU maker, where it’s products are used in various machines to process tasks. The America GPU vendor has today released patches to address various issues in several of its products....
There are just a few days left for the official unveiling of the OnePlus 8 series and we still are getting some last batch leaks of the smartphone series. Now a full spec leak of the OnePlus 8 series has been outed. Let’s take a look at the details. OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro Full Spec List Outed Ahead Of April 16 Launch OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro Full Spec List Outed!...
To make your work among multiple devices easier, OnePlus has developed a new app called Clipt, a seamless and secure way to transfer your files between devices. This service has both the mobile app and a browser extension, which acts as a link for passing your recently copied images, text, URLs, etc., among devices. Clipt is said to be using Google’s Drive for storing the content. OnePlus New App For Content Sharing If you’re one of those handling two devices to process your daily work, you may often require sharing content among them....
With techniques like watermarking partially preventing unauthorised image manipulations, an MIT researcher has invented a tool called “ PhotoGuard ” – that will prevent the AI tools from manipulating images without permission – and value an artist’s life. Blocking Unauthorised Image Manipulation With Generative AI creating endless possibilities, researchers and artists are worried that their work is taken for granted. And this is more concerning to designers, whose work is exploited by AI for nothing in return....
