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Facebook is often the primary way to connect with school and college friends and colleagues. However, as time passes, these connections can fade, and friendships on Facebook may end. Being unfriended by someone on Facebook can be a painful experience, as it may suggest the end of a relationship. But when it comes to knowing how to check friendship status on Facebook, we might consider what to do. Fortunately, finding out who has unfriended you on Facebook is easy....

Out of several features, one of the key features of Netflix’s premium plan is that it permits up to five different people to create profiles. Where they can watch its content. Not only this, but also Netflix allows you to customize these five profiles with avatars, including their feeds and watchlist. But unfortunately, Netflix won’t allow you to add a custom profile picture. If you are willing to add a custom picture, here’s the tutorial about how to set custom profile picture for Netflix to follow....

Apple is known for its security and privacy. It always tries to strike a balance between safety and security, convenience and privacy. In Apple’s devices, you’ll get many options to secure your data and privacy, such as Password lock, Pin lock, Biometric lock, Face ID Lock, etc. But sometimes, your data gets leaked. So, to secure your data on your iPhone, using a long and random passcode is the best choice....

While everyone’s thinking Huawei is out of the smartphone business, here it is, announcing new plans for reviving itself. The Chinese company has announced a €30,000 credit pool for aiding top 30 indie game developers on its AppGallery . It is also said to provide additional benefits to those submitting their games apps through Unity Distribution Portal. Huawei’s New Support For Indie Developers In the pursuit of developing its AppGallery community, Huawei has announced new plans to support them....

After severe social media platforms, Instagram is now testing a “Repost” button on its platform. This would allow users to share their favorite content from other Instagram users with their own followers with a click. Meta confirmed this feature coming to Instagram and said it’d be tested with a small group of users soon. Screenshots from several leakers show this feature – coming in a separate tab in the user’s Instagram profile, where it shows the reposted content from others....

A new report states that Meta is working on a paid verification system similar to Twitter’s Blue – for its Instagram and Facebook apps. References to this are spotted in the app’s code, as unearthed by a reverse engineer. Details on how much this verification system would be and what all features are available in this plan are still unknown. Paid Verification for Meta Apps Facebook and Instagram are two of the highly used social media platforms today – with both raking more than billions of active users monthly....

Weeks after India announced pumping funds into the formation of the semiconductor industry, the American chip-making giant Intel showed interest in setting up a plant. This was revealed on Twitter, to which the Indian IT minister welcomed their feat. The government of India has started investing about Rs.76,000 crores within the next five years to make India the global hub for semiconductor manufacturing and other technologies. Intel Coming to India As technology is rapidly sticking deeper into our lives, countries around the world are investing lump sum amounts to build their own technology wings, and stand competitive in the world market....

Everything about video games and gamers is perfect until gamers break their savings to buy game keys. Spending a good amount on games burn their saving. Therefore they are looking for something noteworthy to save their pocket. Gamers use every possible way to get discounts, including obtaining pirated games and using expiry codes, but none of these methods are effective. Therefore, websites like CDKeys come into the picture. In CDKeys, you can buy game keys at an astonishing price, actually at a very affordable price that you can’t imagine in the first place....

Kraken, the popular US-based cryptocurrency exchange, is withdrawing its operations from Japan later next month. This is due to the ongoing market conditions in the country, added to a weak cryptocurrency market globally – said Kraken. Customers are given time until January 31st, 2023, to withdraw all their funds, while deposits will be disabled on January 9th. Kraken Closed Doors in Japan This year’s crypto-winter is going worse than we expected, with major cryptocurrency platforms shutting down, new projects getting funds fried up, and some going insolvent!...

The latest stats from StatCounter reveal that Microsoft’s Edge browser has surpassed Apple’s Safari to become the world’s second most popular desktop browser. Last year, Safari used to dominate the position with a slightly bigger market share that Edge, while Google’s Chrome is still the No.1 browser for so many years. Although, these statistics change according to region. Edge is More Popular Than Safari Microsoft’s constant push of its new Chromium-based Edge browser in a number of intriguing ways seems to be working, as the browser is now the second most popular desktop browser....

A new phishing campaign spotted by Ironscales revealed that fraudsters are actively sending emails to targets to steal their money, impersonating the MacKenzie Bezos-Scott Grant. The campaigned emails have different sender/return addresses and some grammatical mistakes that help spot the fraud. MacKenzie Bezos Fund Based Phishing Campaign According to Ironscales , the fraudsters have sent about 190,000 phishing emails to various targets, who generally have a reason to be falling into this trap....

With browsers of Firefox and Chrome about to reach a three-digit version number, Mozilla warns that some websites may break functionality due to parsing errors. This is because some websites aren’t made to parse a three-digit version number in user-agent strings, like running different libraries or unsupported UI issues. Yet, Mozilla and Chrome have been testing this for a while and addressed some of the bugs. Issues on Moving to v100 User-agent in a web browser is a string of information containing the browser’s name, its version number, and the various technologies it uses....

Nvidia has delayed the RTX 5070 to early March, citing supply chain issues. AMD’s RX 9070 series launch could disrupt Nvidia’s pricing strategy. Competition between Nvidia and AMD will intensify as both brands prepare for next-gen GPU releases. Nvidia has postponed the release of its highly anticipated RTX 5070 graphics card to early March, shifting from its previously expected February launch. However, the more powerful RTX 5070 Ti remains scheduled for a February release....

Once again, OnePlus has leaked hundreds of users data accidentally. The Chinese smartphone company OnePlus has exposed hundreds of users email addresses while sending the mass mailer for a research study. The company copied and pasted hundreds of email addresses in the “To” field, instead of putting the IDs in the “BBC” field. And this ended up in all the recipients of the research email in getting the email address of the customers....

OnePlus is adding Floating Window Support to Gaming Mode OxygenOS Product Lead, Gary C at OnePlus, wrote, “In gaming tools box, you can not only get WhatsApp & Instagram floating windows but also switch on mis-touch prevention, screen recorder, notification, and Fnatic Mode.” All the gamers and streamers will be able to use this feature. The Company will start testing the feature in the next open beta build for OnePlus 7, OnePlus 7 Pro, OnePlus 7T, and OnePlus 7T Pro if there are no issues with the implementation the company can roll out the feature for everyone in the coming updates....

Foxconn’s major plant in China is struggling to contain the workers’ protest, as over 20,000 new hires have reportedly left the company today. This comes from Reuters, who reported citing a source familiar with the matter, where he also noted that this massive resignation of new hires won’t affect the company, as they haven’t been trained yet. Yet, Foxconn continues to face a huge public backlash due to its worker policies....

Whenever there’s a widespread attack performed by hackers, there will be some guy or team understanding the attack and undoing it. Yet, black hats find a new way to sneak in. Here’s a new story of hackers exploiting the Intel CPUs in a clever way. This new attack was named PlunderVolt (CVE-2019-11157) and relies on the Bit Flipping mechanism to attack systems. As the new generation CPUs are able to adjust the voltage and frequency passing through, bit flipping attack operates by altering the amount of voltage that’s been supplied to the system....

Four major Manga publishers – Shueisha, Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Kadokawa are now planning to use Cloudflare in Japan since the platform is serving pirate sites that infringe their content. This comes after Cloudflare failed to act as desired by the above copyright holders, who filed DMCA requests earlier. Together, these four Manga houses are now demanding a sum of 400 million yen in compensation damages from Cloudflare. Lawsuit Against Cloudflare Cloudflare , one of the largest CDNs today serving millions of sites is in copyright turmoil almost every day....

Researchers at Emsisoft and Kaspersky have documented a new ransomware strain called RansomEXX , which has been creating a new trend in the community. The groups seem to be making a Linux variant of its ransomware malware, directed at core infrastructure components like the servers rather than compromising the workstations. Targeting Servers Rather Than Workstations It’s common that Ransomware groups, just like any other, shift to new strategies to make their work successful....

After Twitter receiving sudden attention for a socially engineered attack last month, now Reddit experiences a similar incident. Users reported last night that dozens of popular subreddits were hacked to share pro-Trump posts. While the incident was under investigation, Reddit is gradually recovering those accounts and removed to the alleged posts. Reddit Accounts Hacked to Support Trump With the presidential elections of 2020 nearing by, attacks on social media platforms have increased significantly....