The “Leave this conversation” feature will allow you to untag your Twitter handle (@username) from the original tweet and all the replies, stop anyone in the Twitter thread from retagging you once you have left the conversation, and prevent you from receiving notifications from that Twitter thread. According to Jane Manchun Wong, the reputable reverse engineer who discovered the new feature “Leave this conversation”, this feature allows users who do not wish to be a part of a Twitter thread to untag themselves in which they have been tagged or mentioned....

“We have worked on this very issue for a long time. Whether it was the problems of having Huawei technology in your infrastructure we’ve gone all over the world and we’re making real progress getting that out. We declared ZTE a danger to American national security,” Pompeo told Fox News in the interview. “With respect to Chinese apps on people”s cell phones, I can assure you the US will get this one right too… I don’t want to get out in front of the President (Donald Trump), but it’s something we”re looking at....

The UEFI is a good security feature, but would create complications for alternative operating systems: if, you prefer compiling your own operating system, your boot files won’t include a signature that Secure Boot will recognize and authorize, and so you won’t be able to boot your PC. Microsoft’s rules for designed for Windows 8 logo included a solution to the problem this would cause: Microsoft mandated that every system would have a user-accessible switch to turn UEFI Secure Boot off, allowing computers to be compatible with other operating systems....

https://youtu.be/XjxkPcM8EMk In a symbolic message to the new government meant to show the political class that the Romanian nation is watching, the crowd of some 250,000 people gathered in front of the government building in Bucharest lit up the night sky with their smartphones. The Romanian demonstration on Sunday night was the largest protest in the country since the 1989 revolution. For those unfamiliar, people in Romania were protesting against an executive order that would have allowed many top politicians to dodge criminal investigations and even avoid prison time....

The documents are believed to be the first time the government has provided details of its so-called national security letters, which are used by the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance without the need for court approval. The filing made public was the result of a 11-year-old case brought to court by Nicholas Merrill, founder of ISP Calyx Internet Access, who took the FBI to court after he refused to comply with a national security letter (NSL) he received in 2004, which contained a request for a subscriber’s personal data, including complete Web browsing history, IP addresses of everyone they corresponded with, and records of online purchases....

Here is announcing the V SQUARED, a water-proof smartphone that doesn’t “play dumb with the bare minimum tech.” It features a 21-megapixel optical image stabilized camera that can record 4K videos. There is an adequate 13-megapixel selfie camera on the front side, which can record at minimum 2K videos as well. Saygus V SQUARED has 64GB of storage standby on the storage front. Further, there are two microSD card slots that would give up 200GB of extra storage space each, which makes it over 400GB in total....

The problem was first reported on outage tracking website, DownDetector, at 4:23 a.m. EDT (1.53 pm IST) on Sept. 21. Soon thereafter, harrangued users took to Twitter and Facebook to report the problems they were having with the service. — Alexandre Dreyfus (@alex_dreyfus) September 21, 2015 On its own Heartbeat service, which updates the status of Skype connectivity, the company said: “Some of you may experience problems with Skype presence and may not see online....

Despite Vine’s growing popularity and an extensive userbase of over 200 million active users, Twitter shut down Vine’s sharing feed in late 2016. Two years ago, one of Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann announced that he has started working on a successor of Vine. Well, after months of rigorous beta testing, Vine’s successor Byte has now been launched for both iOS and Android. Similar to other modern social media platforms, Byte consists of a feed, explore page, notifications, and profiles....

This move by Google, however, has not gone well with privacy advocates, as they claim that FLoC, which is the search giant’s better alternative to third-party cookies doesn’t take users’ consent before tracking them across websites. Instead of protecting users’ privacy, it will actually expose their data more than ever before, privacy advocates added. For those unaware, FLoC, in Google’s words, is a new approach to interest-based advertising that both improves privacy and gives publishers a tool they need for viable advertising business models....

Commenting on the mission, Paul De Leon, NASA Flight Opportunities Program campaign manager said, “We had a great launch, all the payloads were exposed to the relevant environments that the researchers were seeking.” The 20-foot tall SpaceLoft-10 rocket from Colorado-based launch provider UP Aerospace was launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico on November 6, 2015. However, GoPro only released the footage this week. The mission was the company’s fourth mission for NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, which selects “promising new space technologies from industry, academia and government, and provides them access to relevant environments for flight testing....

Facebook is the owner of WhatsApp, as Zuckerberg and company had paid $19 billion to take over the startup more than a year back, suggesting that they now run three of the most predominant web applications. Facebook is used by more than 1.5 billion individuals across the globe, while Facebook’s Messenger, an instant messaging service spans 700 million. In such a scenario, the 900 million-user milestone is a huge achievement for WhatsApp, as it not a product of the powerful Facebook....

However yesterday, even the ever resilient of WhatsApp servers could not bear the load of New Year greeting from users and went down. Users across the world reported issues while connecting to WhatsApp on New Year’s Eve, with services impacted for several hours before normalcy was restored. “Earlier today, some people had trouble accessing WhatsApp. We investigated the problem and have restored access for everyone. We apologize for the inconvenience and wish everyone a happy new year,” a WhatsApp spokesperson said....

Here are a few reasons why Google chose Java for its Android operating systemAndroidSo why did Google choose Java over other programming languages Android’s source code is released by Google under open source licenses, although most Android devices ultimately ship with a combination of open source and proprietary software, including proprietary software required for accessing Google services. Android Android is based on the Linux kernel and designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets....

The answer is that it depends. If the software being installed affects an integral part of the operating system then a restart is required. For instance, a new kernel for the operating system. Sometimes, a piece of software will make a change that cannot come into effect while the computer is use. Other reasons might be – a file is in use, as a result, the change can only occur during boot up of the computer....

“The new indictment does not add additional counts to the prior 18-count superseding indictment returned against Assange in May 2019,” the DOJ said in a press release. However, it does broaden the scope of the conspiracy surrounding alleged computer intrusions with which Assange was previously charged. According to the superseding document dated June 24, 2020, Assange and others at WikiLeaks recruited the Anonymous and LulzSec hacking groups to commit computer intrusions to benefit WikiLeaks....

Microsoft has now instead announced the launch of a free ‘Windows DVD Player’. However, this DVD player has proved to be a buggy application. It only allows you to play DVDs on your PC and provides simple controls for disc navigation. Additionally, you cannot play DVDs from file backups nor Blu-ray Discs. Also it runs only optical discs. So, if you wish to have the Windows DVD player on your machine, all you need to do is pay $14....

However, it appears like that at least one customer took the fight to court and won a small judgment against Microsoft for how it installed its latest operating system. Teri Goldstein, of Sausalito, California, sued Microsoft after a failed Windows 10 upgrade left her system performing poorly, prone to crashing, and apparently unusable for multiple days, reports The Seattle Times. “I had never heard of Windows 10,” Goldstein said. “Nobody ever asked me if I wanted to update....

As you might know, torrenting sites rely on peer-to-peer connection file-sharing technology for redistributing content. The desired data is downloaded in bits and pieces from multiple locations on the internet. Some of these bits may download slowly as compared to the other portions of the file. This can be bothersome to most people. This is where torrent trackers come to the rescue. Torrent trackers increase the download speed of the file and reduce the total time taken for the download....

Dubbed as T-CUP, the new device is so quick that it literally makes it possible to freeze time to see phenomena such as light itself behave in extremely slow motion. To build their camera, the researchers looked at compressed ultra-fast photography (CUP), a technique that can capture images at a speed of around 100 billion frames per second. T-CUP’s system is based on a femtosecond (one quadrillionth of a second) streak camera that also involves a data acquisition type used in applications such as tomography....

Chip costs just $9 — although, of course, things like a monitor, an input device, and shipping are not included in that figure. Still, it’s a fully functioning computer that can be had for less than the price of McDonald burger. The device offers full support for the open source LibreOffice package, has a Wi-Fi connection so you can surf the web, and even allows for a Bluetooth controller to be connected so you can play some games....