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The decision comes after a probe into the tech giant was ordered in December 2020 over its monopolistic practices and abusing its dominant market position for several years. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said it had found that Alibaba had been “abusing market dominance” since 2015 by preventing its merchants from selling products on rival e-commerce platforms — a practice known as “choosing one from two.” The practice, which the SAMR has previously pointed out as illegal, violates China’s antimonopoly law and suppresses competition in the country’s online retail market....

Chingari – a video sharing app that’s similar to TikTok – said it finally replaced Instagram at the top of the charts, thanks to a surge in interest that resulted from its recent moves to embrace cryptocurrency. The app’s creators – Sumit Ghosh, Deepak Salvi, Aditya Kothari and Biswatma Nayak – announced their digital currency push earlier this year with the launch of the platform’s $GARI token at a special event hosted by brand ambassador Khan....

As an employee at any job, you can’t help but feel sometimes that you are a victim of the unresolved issues of one boss or another – bullies. This leads to a lot of resentment in the employees, which in turn makes them take drastic steps knowingly or unknowingly. Such, is the case of a Dallas man who worked at Citibank Regents Campus in Irving, Texas, in 2012 and 2013....

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported yesterday that Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.) listed $1,302 worth of video games on a campaign finance disclosure form as a “personal expense — to be paid back,” but hasn’t yet done so. Federal election regulators are questioning a U.S. congressman over how the money was spent. The spokesman for Hunter said Hunter’s teenage son actually is the one responsible for the purchases, getting hold of his father’s credit card to buy one game....

An attacker could take advantage of Compromised websites, websites that accept or host user-provided content or advertisements, emails, or Social networks, to trick user to visit a specially crafted content that could exploit the vulnerability. the attacker then could gain the same user rights as the current user and take complete control of the affected system.Researchers at FireEye who had reported this vulnerability to Microsoft said that this zero-day bypasses both ASLR and DEP protections....

“The practice of leveraging worldwide events by basing malicious emails on current important topics has become common among cybercriminals. Such a strategy is able to trick more victims into clicking malicious links or opening malicious files, ultimately increasing the effectiveness of a malware campaign,” IBM Security said in its report. The first major malware campaign was detected by IBM’s X-Force targeted at Japan, mainly the major population centres of Gifu, Osaka and Tottori....

Automated trading is gaining in popularity because it takes the human out of trading decisions. Traders have another option—a forex trading plan. Most trading mistakes are caused by a lack of discipline. A trading plan will instil discipline in your trading by establishing rules for trading. What Is a Forex Trading Plan? A forex trading plan is your strategy for when and how to enter and exit trades. Imagine you are a basketball player with no strategy for setting up a winning shot....

The company revealed that the attack exposed email addresses and travel details of approximately nine million EasyJet customers, including 2,208 customers whose credit card details were also stolen. The airline said it has engaged leading forensic experts to investigate the incident and has also informed the National Cyber Security Centre and the ICO, the UK’s data protection watchdog. According to the BBC, EasyJet first learned of the attack in January but was only able to notify the affected 2,208 credit card customers in early April....

ESTI Inc., a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel has designed a case for iPhones called the ‘Eye’ that has built-in Android phone. In other words, ESTI has essentially attached an Android smartphone at the back of the iPhone with its case. The smartphone case will be compatible with the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus. The Eye case will come in both 4....

“Seeing too many photos of your uncle’s new cat? Is your friend tempting you with endless photos of ramen on her Japan trip? It turns out, you’re not alone,” Shruthi Muraleedharan, Facebook product manager said in an announcement blog post. “With Snooze, you don’t have to unfollow or unfriend permanently, rather just stop seeing someone’s posts for a short period of time. The people, Pages, and groups you snooze will not be notified....

A new report suggests that Meta is now tracking your browsing activity done using the custom in-app browser present on both Facebook and Instagram. Well, these browsers inject a javascript code into each website that you visit. This allows the parent company, Meta, to potentially track you across several websites. This issue was discovered by researcher Felix Krause. In an official blog post, he stated that, “The Instagram app injects their tracking code into every website shown, including when clicking on ads, enabling them [to] monitor all user interactions, like every button and link tapped, text selections, screenshots, as well as any form inputs, like passwords, addresses, and credit card numbers,” If your primary smartphone runs on iOS then you might know that Apple allows users to opt-out of the app tracking done by Instagram and Facebook....

The argument took place over a family dispute which was playing out on Facebook messenger. Both Mailand and Dominiguez were not known to Romero and somehow got involved in the dispute. Mailand had a heated exchange with Romero on the Messenger. “And the whole time, I know this sounds stupid, but I was joking about it,” Romero said. “Not joking, but making a joke of it.” Mailand turned up on Wednesday night at Romero’s doorstep....

However the outage seems to be so acute that even the Like Widget on websites and blogs including the one on Techworm is throwing up error message. The Facebook outage first occurred around 1.10 am ET and Instagram went down subsequently followed by Tinder. Luckily for users, the Facebook owned mobile instant messaging App, WhatsApp is operating normally as of now. — Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) January 27, 2015 Users took to Twitter to vent their fury about the outage...

The social media giant announced on Thursday that it would be rolling out TV commercial-style ad breaks in live videos, and would begin testing ad breaks in traditional News Feed videos as well. “Whether on Facebook or off, we’re committed to continuing to work with our partners to develop new monetization products and ad formats for digital video,” Facebook’s vice president of partnerships, Nick Grudin, said in a statement. “It’s early days, but today’s updates are a step towards this goal....

Sshhh!!! Even Facebook has ears and they want to hear what you have to say. Literally!!! According to an expert, Facebook is listening in on people’s conversations all of the time to gather data on what they are talking about. However, the social networking giant says that its app does listen to what’s happening around it, but only as a way of seeing what people are listening to or watching and suggesting that they post about it....

Last year, a similar measure was introduced by another social media giant Twitter on its platform, which prompts its users to read an article before they retweet it. This move has led to users opening articles 40% more often and also reduced the rate of inadequate awareness of the current news and events. On Monday, Facebook announced on the Facebook Newsroom Twitter account that it is testing the pop-up feature to promote more informed sharing of articles and curb misinformation....

The Like Box is a variant of the embeddable Like Button that allows you to Like a page from other sites. The embed would also show off some of the other people who liked a given Page. Facebook suggests you to instead use the newer Page Plugin, which functions similarly, but looks a little cleaner visually and is able to pull in content feeds from your Facebook Page if you want....

The root of this flaw resides in the way proxy authentication is performed. This kind of authentication is a backbone for organizations that deploy a strong firewall. An attacker, who is placed inside the network and can sniff the proxy traffic, can force the user(s) for unnecessary logins and thus collecting their credentials. How It Works: Suppose your organization has a security implementation that requires users to log in to a proxy server before they can access the internet....

However, the Tor Project, a non-profit that maintains a privacy-minded web browser that is responsible for maintaining the Tor anonymizing network in one of the most shocking blogs has claimed the FBI paid Carnegie Mellon University security researchers atleast $1 million to reveal the identities of Dark Web users. The Tor Project is best-known for Web browser software, which is widely used to cruise the Dark Web. The Tor Project wrote in a blog post that the academics made changes to some of the technical protocols used to obscure peoples’ locations and crafted an attack....

DX ham radio is not just about talking to each other. A huge part of being a ham include communication, sharing experience and helping other people who also want to become a part of this global community. For this reason, more and more special groups and memberships appear unite DX enthusiasts. The regularly gather together to share some of the latest ham radio news, operating experience, knowledge and some other useful things you will take the advantage in future....