Twitter will not allow the US National Archives to republish former President Donald Trump’s archived tweets on the microblogging platform, news site Politico reports. Trump has had a Twitter ban since his supporters stormed the Capitol in January, and his page has since been taken offline. Twitter announced to […]
ABN AMRO Will Offer Google Pay
ABN AMRO will offer Google Pay via its own app in the second quarter. According to the bank, there is a great demand among customers for mobile payment options that work on the Android operating system. “With Google Pay, customers will soon be able to quickly and easily make […]
Parent Company TikTok Now More Valuable Than Coca-Cola
Chinese technology company ByteDance, best known for its popular movie app TikTok, is currently valued at more than $ 250 billion by stock market traders. The company is said to have plans for an IPO in Hong Kong. ByteDance, aided by the worldwide popularity of TikTok and the Chinese […]
Facebook Blocks Chinese From Hacking Uyghurs
Facebook has blocked Chinese hackers from attacking members of the Uyghur minority abroad. The group of hackers in China abused the social platform to spy on Uyghurs elsewhere. It involved hundreds of Uyghur activists, dissidents and journalists in the United States, Australia, Canada and other countries. But others would […]
Facebook Signs Deal With Australian Media
Facebook has grasped an agreement with Australian media corporations on using their news and media in the country statement Tuesday. News Corp, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, struck a three-year deal with the social media company that will pay to distribute news from the group’s Australian media through […]
Facebook Restrictions Hit Australian Emergency Services
Facebook’s restrictions on news sharing in Australia are also affecting Australian emergency services. Facebook pages warning of corona outbreaks, forest fires, and typhoons no longer work properly. Facebook imposed the restrictions in response to an Australian bill that should require the social media giant to compensate media companies for […]
Right-Wing Twitter Variant Parler Back Online With Russian Help
Parler, a social media website and app popular among the American far-right, has been back online after being offline for a short while with a Russian technology company’s help. Parler recently disappeared after the attack on the US parliament building by supporters of outgoing President Donald Trump, as web […]
Twitter is Scrapping 70,000 QAnon Accounts
Twitter has permanently suspended 70,000 accounts affiliated with QAnon, a controversial pro-Trump movement, as of Friday. By scrapping the accounts, Twitter wants to prevent them from being used to incite violence, as happened last week in the Capitol’s storming in Washington. On Friday, Twitter also permanently banned US President […]
Cyberattack on the US Discovered by Hacked Cybersecurity Company
The major cyber attack on the US government’s computer networks was discovered when cybersecurity company FireEye started investigating a hacking attack on its own network. FireEye found a problem with the software of supplier SolarWinds, of which the American government is also a customer. Russian hackers are said to […]
SpaceX Successfully Launches Four Astronauts
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company, successfully launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on the night from Sunday to Monday at the scheduled time (7:27 p.m. local time). Onboard are three Americans and a Japanese, who will be living on the ISS for the next […]