How To Use Snapchat On Pc (Windows & Mac)

Snapchat is a famous social media platform worldwide. Many people use it to share snaps and chats. It is available for both Android and iOS devices. Sending snaps to different friends and making scorestreaks is fun. Snapchat also provides many filters and allows you to play some fun mini-games. Snapchat is mainly for Smartphones, but of course, there are times when you need to use it on a PC. Sometimes, you have no access to your smartphone, and you need to use it....

December 30, 2025 · 3 min · 630 words · Elizabeth Sinegal

Indonesia Banned Paypal, Yahoo And Steam Citing Compliance Issues

Citing the failure to comply with local law, Indonesia has been blocking its citizens from accessing several online platforms. These currently include PayPal, Steam, and Yahoo. And that concerning is the nation’s MR5 from 2020, which needs all the ‘private electronic system providers’ to register under its database. Else, they’d be banned from providing services here. Though many organizations and citizens criticized this law, the Indonesian government proceeded with the implementation....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 284 words · Eric Hartman

Influencers Promoting Shady Cryptocurrency Investments Can Be In Trouble

Based on a previous case, a US court has now ruled that soliciting people into investing in certain cryptocurrency investment schemes could attend attract legal charges. This is based on the BitConnect scam that happened in past, where people are lured into loaning their Bitcoins for higher returns. Plaintiffs who filed a class-action lawsuit against BitConnect promotors then has now resulted in a statement from an Appeals court that luring people into shady investments online is a crime....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 409 words · Mary Caron

Instagram Is Launching Its Paid Verification Program For Individuals

As expected, Instagram is launching its own subscription model for verified badges to eligible individuals – under the “ Meta Verified ” program. A Subscription for Verification Following the rumors that Meta is testing a Twitter Blue-style verification program for general users, Instagram is seen launching this scheme for some users today. As noted by Matt Navarra, Instagram’s paid scheme is called Meta Verified – and, hopefully, be implemented across its apps....

December 30, 2025 · 1 min · 121 words · Susan Boulet

Instagram Trailing With New Latest Posts Feature So No User Can Miss A Post

Instagram seems to craft new ways to let users check their network’s latest posts. The Facebook subsidiary has previously criticised for removing the post-lookup in reverse chronological order, which was loved by many. Now, a new feature as Latest Posts could be helping users to view all the new posts in reverse chronological order of their network. Screenshot of the new feature pop-up New feature to never miss anything Jane Manchun Wong is a reverse engineering specialist unearthing all such developments by tech giants....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 295 words · Roslyn Hernandez

Intel And Tsmc To Be Blocked From Making Advanced Chips In China

While it’s known that the US government declared a massive grant of $52 billion for the chip-making companies, the funding includes a significant clause that restricts the granted companies’ growth. As per the Chips and Science Act, where the funding is made to eligible companies, they’re barred from expanding any advanced chip production in China. Thus, companies like Intel and TSMC may be severely affected, considering their plants in China for advanced chip production....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · Billy Woods

Intel Xeon W9-3495X 56

Intel’s high-end server chip – the Xeon W9-3495X 56-Core “Sapphire Rapids” CPU was tested by a YouTuber – resulting in astonishing performance numbers at the end. With suitable hardware and cooling technology, the chip was able to clock 4.2GHz across all the cores and consume 1000W power at its peak! Well, this resulted in the CPU overshadowing the rival – AMD’s Threadripper Pro 5995WX count by 12%, scoring 53,817 points in the Geekbench 5 benchmark test....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 318 words · Denise Fryar

Mediatek To Bring First Wi

MediaTek today revealed that it’s working on the next generation of Wi-Fi standard – v7. And the company promised to bring its products having the new Wi-Fi 7 technology by next year, though it seemed unlikely. Wi-Fi 7 will come with added features like 4K quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) technology, and multi-user resource unit (MRU) features, all using the same regular bands of current Wi-Fi 6. Overall, the new Wi-Fi 7 is supposed to make the theoretical speed boost by 2....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 336 words · Ruby Gleason

Merged Ott Platform From Hbo Max And Discovery+ Is Coming In Q2 2023

The freshly merged entity – Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), had earlier said that a new streaming platform with combined content from Warner Bros and Discovery will come in the summer of next year. But now, as per their latest earnings call, the company could debut this new platform as soon as spring 2023. While the name and pricing of this upcoming OTT platform are yet to be known, the WBD is reportedly working on an ad tier too....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 282 words · Chad Troutman

Microsoft Officially Kills Cortana On Windows 11

Microsoft is officially killing Cortana on its Windows 11 devices by passing an update to remove the virtual assistant from the OS. Although Redmond says that Cortana will still be available in apps like Outlook and Teams, it shouldn’t be for too long, there too. It’s known that Microsoft is investing heavily in Bing Chat, powered by OpenAI’s GPT LLM, which may replace Cortana for virtual assistant jobs. Dumping Cortana on Windows OS We all know this day would come....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 260 words · Laurie Stemper

Modpipe: A Modular Malware Compromising Oracle Pos Systems In Wild

Researchers at ESET have documented a new malware named ModPipe , which is stealing the database passwords of Oracle’s Micros RES 3700 PoS systems . This malware’s specialty is to have a modular architecture, where it has almost seven modules, all having different purposes . While it’s still unknown how it’s compromising the systems, researchers described its mechanism. A New Modular Malware in Wild ModPipe Malware As per a report from ESET , a new modular malware named ModPipe targets the Oracle PoS systems....

December 30, 2025 · 3 min · 495 words · Brooke Bowen

Netflix And Disney+ Fake Sites Are Rising Due To Lockdowns

The ongoing pandemic is a never-before opportunity for cybercriminals. A report from Mimecast says it found over 700 websites impersonating the popular streaming service, Netflix. Further, there also few sites mimicking the latest Disney+ too. Hackers here would craft a similarly looking website to steal users’ sensitive information like credit card data and other identifiable personal data. 700+ Fake Netflix and Disney+ Sites in just a week! Mimecast is an email security firm, handling cloud-based security solutions for many companies....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 273 words · Fred Fay

Nobel Foundation Disclosed A Ddos Attack On Its Virtual Ceremony

Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute, have disclosed a cyberattack on their infrastructure, aimed at disrupting the live stream of the award ceremony held last month. This is specifically a DDoS attack, as noted by the Nobel community, and the ones behind this incident are not known as of now. But, there’s speculation that state-backed hackers can possibly be the perpetrators, considering the allegations against the Nobel team for biased decisions since the past....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 299 words · Margaret Boesen

Openai’S Gpt

OpenAI plans to test its GPT-4 LLM for content moderation to aid digital platforms that often work on user-generated content. OpenAI says anyone with a GPT-4 plug-in can start testing it for content moderation, which is scalable, consistent and customisable easily. The model can quickly adapt to the new policies crafted by governments and even be modified to platform-specific rules. Helping Social Media Platforms For a long time, content moderation has been the most bothering part of the internet, where some user-generated content is objectionable to the public....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 388 words · Kristina Saleado

Scnotification Has Stopped Working

SCNotification is a Microsoft system notification. SCNotification stands for System Center Notification, and the .exe extension is mainly used to indicate an executable file. This kind of file, in most cases, harms your computer. This SCNotification.exe is a system file implemented by Microsoft. It belongs to the System Center Configuration Manager, also known as SCCM. SCCM uses the SCNotification.exe file to install and deploy updates. It can also manage Windows systems using this file....

December 30, 2025 · 3 min · 628 words · Mary Garcia

Snapdragon Chips Can Be Used To Spy On Users And Steal Data

A new report by Check Point Research reveals that about 40% of smartphones in existence are vulnerable to remote spying attacks. The issues are found in one of the components of Snapdragon chips, which was used more than one billion smartphones today. These vulnerabilities can let hackers spy, execute malware and steal data from targeted phones. Snapdragon Chips Are Vulnerable to Several Attacks Qualcomm has been the largest supplier of mobile chips to more than a billion Android OEMs....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 319 words · Dion Updike

Sony Pictures Is Accidentally Accused For Hosting Pirated Spiderman Movie

Copyright holders often use DMCA notices as their major weapon for taking down infringing content. But they should do it with care, since some may unknowingly point to legitimate URLs too. In one case seen recently, Columbia Pictures has pointed at several news websites that wrote a story on leaked Spiderman: No Way Home movie, even though they’re not infringing any content. As if this isn’t enough, the list included a Sony Pictures site blaming the same!...

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 338 words · Sandra Briggs

The Pirate Bay Proxy List (2025)

The Pirate Bay is one of the most popular torrent sites worldwide. It uses Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing technology, and users can easily download digital content, including movies, software, games, and more. However, the Pirate Bay is blocked in several countries due to copyright infringement. However, torrent sites are a superb choice for sharing and handling extensive files over the Internet. Pirate Bay is banned and blocked in several countries since torrent sites are illegal due to the copyright movement....

December 30, 2025 · 5 min · 995 words · Stephanie Jackson

Tiktok Vs Youtube: What This Internet War Is All About?

While the entire world is fighting to contain the COVID-19 , Indian youth has something else to care about. Since last week, supporters of both YouTube and TikTok are fighting against each other on with whatever they can, online. And this doesn’t seem to be settling anytime soon. So better know what exactly happened, and decide if you should care about this or not! We’re always like this! It seems harsh, but it’s true....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 413 words · Wade Brock

Try2Cry Ransomware Targets Windows Pcs Via Usb Flash Drives

Researcher Karsten Hahn has found a new Windows ransomware strain called Try2Cry . This new malware is wormable and spreads through USB and Windows Shortcut files. It’s said to be a variant of Stupid Ransomware and having both wormable and non-wormable types. It scans for various file types and infects them, and also places a copy of itself in USB flash drives, thus trying to infect others systems if connected....

December 30, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · William Mitchell