Author: Rudra Sharma

Microsoft is reportedly engaged on much-awaited enhancements to reinforce the Home windows PC expertise for customers. From management over default app settings to a brand new publicly accessible API and a brand new Settings deep hyperlink URI, Microsoft will begin rolling out the brand new options within the coming months. These new options will likely be first made accessible in a Home windows Insider Dev Channel flight. The brand new options will carry a typical supported approach for builders to supply the flexibility to set their app because the default software or pin their app to the taskbar.Microsoft in its…

Twitter is ready to start charging customers to obtain SMS codes for two-factor authentication (2FA) on Monday. The corporate, which was acquired by Elon Musk in October 2022, introduced final month that solely customers who had paid to subscribe to Twitter Blue would be capable to request login codes through SMS, with a view to safe their account. The service continues to permit customers to guard their accounts with a second authentication technique, which is required after their password is entered.Final month, Twitter introduced that as of March 20 — that is right now — solely Twitter Blue subscribers would be capable to use SMS…

After america, the UK and New Zealand turned the newest western international locations to ban the Chinese language-owned video-sharing platform TikTok on “authorities gadgets” citing safety fears, The New York Instances reported. The UK, on Thursday, introduced the ban of TikTok with instant impact citing safety fears linked to the video-sharing app’s possession by a Chinese language firm.Talking within the parliament, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden described the ban as “precautionary,” though america, the European Union’s govt arm, Canada and India had already taken comparable steps. Dowden mentioned social media apps accumulate and retailer big quantities of person knowledge…

Former US President Donald Trump wrote his first Fb publish on Friday after being banned from social media platforms for 2 years.”I’M BACK,” Trump posted together with a 12-second video which appears to be his victory speech after profitable the 2016 election and in addition tried to place out his marketing campaign for the 2024 election in that video.After the 2016 video, Trump put his well-known slogan “Make America Nice Once more” or MAGA, which got here to be fashionable throughout his final profitable presidential marketing campaign.Earlier, in February, Meta restored Trump’s Fb and Instagram accounts. Andy Stone, coverage communications…

Tech giants will possible problem a brand new European Union legislation geared toward reining of their energy with the primary instances in a possible wave of litigation anticipated by year-end, one of many EU’s high judges stated on Friday.The Digital Markets Act (DMA), which got here into pressure in November, will classify on-line platforms with greater than 45 million customers as gatekeepers, amongst different standards.The gatekeepers — corporations that management information and platform entry — are topic to an inventory of do’s, resembling making their messaging companies interoperable, and don’ts, together with not favouring their services on their platforms.The record of…

Meta Platforms on Friday launched its subscription service within the US, which might permit Fb and Instagram customers pay for verification in the identical vein as Elon Musk-owned Twitter.The Meta Verified service will give customers a blue badge after they confirm their accounts utilizing a authorities ID and can price $11.99 (practically Rs. 990) monthly on the net or $14.99 (practically Rs. 1,240) a month on Apple’s iOS system and Google-owned Android, Meta mentioned in a press release.The service, which Meta mentioned it was testing in February, follows within the footsteps of Snap-owned Snapchat in addition to messaging app Telegram and marks…

Alphabet-owned YouTube stated on Tuesday it lifted restrictions on former US President Donald Trump’s channel, following a greater than two-year suspension after the lethal Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021.Meta Platforms had reinstated Trump’s Fb and Instagram accounts earlier this yr, whereas his Twitter account was restored in November by new proprietor Elon Musk.”We fastidiously evaluated the continued danger of real-world violence, whereas balancing the possibility for voters to listen to equally from main nationwide candidates within the run as much as an election.” YouTube stated in a tweet, referring to the transfer.The video streaming platform banned Trump in 2021 for…

YouTube Music has reportedly launched one other characteristic on its platform to boost its comfort quotient for the 80 million world customers it claims to cater to. In a recent replace, YouTube Music is quietly starting to indicate the credit of albums and songs. The music-streaming platform is attempting to ascertain itself as largely as its opponents, together with Spotify, round completely different components of the world. With the inclusion of the brand new characteristic as noticed, listeners will be capable of see particulars in regards to the performer, lyricist, in addition to the producer on the YouTube Music participant…

The union authorities has knowledgeable the Excessive Courtroom of Karnataka that being a major middleman, micro running a blog web site Twitter has further duty, and it was its obligation “to offer particulars of account holders”.Extra Solicitor Common R Sankaranarayanan who appeared for the central authorities, gave the examples of “harmful” tweets that “goes to have an effect on the integrity, sovereignty of India or goes to create a public (dis) order; then naturally we’ll step in and both we’ll problem a takedown discover, or we’ll say block the account.” The ASG cited “any person offers a tweet underneath the…

The Enforcement Directorate Friday stated it has filed a cost sheet in opposition to cost gateway Razorpay, three fintech firms managed by Chinese language nationals and as many NBFCs and a few others in a cash laundering probe linked to Chinese language mortgage apps which allegedly cheated quite a few folks.The federal probe company stated in an announcement that the particular Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA) court docket based mostly in Bengaluru has taken cognisance of the prosecution grievance (chargesheet).A complete of seven entities and 5 people have been named as accused within the cost sheet.The accused entities embrace…