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Nowadays, we often prefer comfort more than privacy (Not sure if you’d agree or not, but this is the case nowadays). You often share your Gmail account with other sites without analyzing the risks at stake. From social media profiles to newsletters, we often give away our Gmail addresses...

How to Remove your Gmail Account from Unwanted Websites?

Did the messaging service Telegram announce that Apple might be deleting the Telegram app from devices in August 2024? No, that's not true: No such announcement has ever been made by Telegram. A false social media hoax from 2021 resurfaced after Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France on August 24, 2024. It was debunked in 2021, and it's still false in 2024.

Fact Check: Telegram Did NOT Announce In August 2024 That Apple Might Delete App Without Notice

Apple is rolling out iOS 18 beta 8 to developers today. The update comes just two weeks ahead of Apple’s expected September event, as we continue inching closer to the iPhone 16 and iOS 18’s release to everyone. iOS 18 beta 8 now available. The build number for...

iOS 18 beta 8 now available ahead of public release next month

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In this day and age of what feels like numerous hacking attempts at every turn, it helps to become familiar with your phone’s privacy settings and to select those that you should turn off in order to keep your data as private as possible. There’s no ...

4 Privacy Settings You Should Have Turned Off In 2024: Background App Refresh & More

Best known for their network attached solutions (like my beloved DS920+), Synology have recently launched a new product in their lineup, called the Synology BeeStation. The BeeStation aims to simplify the idea of a home NAS, offering a local network backup option as an alternative to cloud solutions like iCloud and Dropbox. Here’s how it works.

Review: Synology BeeStation offers a local network alternative to iCloud and Dropbox cloud storage

As time goes by, you may find yourself wanting to clean up your online presence by deleting old or irrelevant Facebook posts. While Facebook doesn't offer a native tool to bulk delete posts directly through its standard interface, there are efficient ways to manage and remove multiple posts at once using various methods.

How to Delete All Facebook Posts at Once

When you create a new account online, you’ll have the option to sign up with Google, Facebook, or another service. As tempting as that is, you should probably avoid it and create an account based on your own email address or username instead. To explain why, let’s take a look at something called SSO.

Why You Shouldn't Sign In With Google or Facebook

A new scam is hitting US bank accounts by starting with an unusual target – people’s photos on social media. In a warning to consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says the scam begins with unsolicited messages on social media from someone who says they like a photo you took, and are willing to pay thousands of dollars to use it in a painting.

New Bank Scam Boosts Account Balances, Tempts Targets Into Giving Their Money Away: FTC Warning

T-Mobile has been in the news lately but for all the bad reasons. Last month, there were reports about some T-Mobile stores selling used phones as new. Also, several consumers of the telco filed lawsuits over price hikes on some plans in the same month. Most recently, a report suggested that the company was forcing customers to buy accessories. Now, a rep fired from T-Mobile’s authorized retailer has reported some scammers-type activities.

A Fired T-Mobile rep blew the whistle on illegal activities

Who: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States fined T-Mobile $60 million over a data breach the agency says occurred between August 2020 and June 2021. Why: The agency says T-Mobile’s failure to take appropriate measures to prevent unauthorized access to certain sensitive data during the incident violated a national security agreement it entered into in 2018 as part of its merger with Sprint.

T-Mobile fined $60M following data breach

Reddit experienced a widespread outage that impacting the entire site and subreddits earlier today. Millions of Reddit users were met with a “Server error. Try again later” message in a red banner at the top of the site for around 45 minutes today. The same outage error was displayed on subreddits and individual posts, too.

Reddit is back online after a brief outage

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

A train company has warned customers about a scam attempting to trick them into giving over their personal details. Great Western Railway (GWR) said accounts had been created on X, formerly Twitter, falsely claiming to belong to GWR managers. It said the people running the accounts contacted GWR customers requesting...

Scammers use fake accounts to trick GWR customers

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L.A. TACO has identified the police officer seen in a viral video sucker-punching a detained man named Alexander Mitchell in Watts over the weekend as Los Angeles Police Department Officer (LAPD) Joshua Sportiello.

LAPD Officer Identified After Punching Detained Man In Face In Watts On Video

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A mystery blonde “crypto coach” who was traveling with Telegram CEO Pavel Durov cannot be located by her family following the secretive tech billionaire’s arrest in France this weekend. 

Juli Vavilova, 24, who is also a video game streamer, is at the center of online speculation after she shared a series of glam pics while apparently traveling with Durov to Azerbaijan last week, according to matching social media posts highlighted by French privacy data researcher Baptiste Robert and others.

Online observers suggest those posts may have given away details about the exiled Russian mogul’s movements prior to his arrest. He was...

Mystery blond traveling with secretive Telegram CEO was posting trip on social media before he was arrested — and now she’s missing

Scams and cybercrimes have continued their upward trajectory in Singapore, with scammers opting to reach their victims through messaging and social media platforms. Meta's trinity of platforms -- Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp -- are of particular concern, alongside Telegram, the latter of which is used in 45% of scam cases, according to the latest stats from Singapore Police Force (SPF).

Scammers are increasingly using messaging and social media apps to attack

Ten Apple services were yesterday affected by a mix of outages, performance hits, and other issues – more than initially reported by the company …. Apple’s status page yesterday reported that both Apple Books and the Mac App Store were down. If you’ve been experiencing problems when trying...

Ten Apple services affected by outages and performance hits – now resolved

While Apple is expected to announce AirPods 4 at its special event next month, the company is also working on new AirPods Pro. A new rumor today suggests that AirPods Pro 3 will offer “much better” active noise cancellation, with a release coming “soon.”. Today’s rumor comes...

Rumor: AirPods Pro 3 coming ‘soon’ with ‘much better’ noise cancellation

If you’ve been experiencing problems when trying to use Apple Books and the Mac App Store today, it’s not just you. Apple has just confirmed that these online services are currently down due to an ongoing outage. Outage affecting Apple Books and Mac App Store. Apple confirmed the...

Apple Books and Mac App Store outage currently affecting users around the world

The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called “unlawful practices,” which include misleading both the job seekers and job posters who use the site.

Care.com to refund $8.5M to customers for its ‘deceptive’ practices, FTC says

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How an iPhone replacement led to a Snapchat ban due to prior owner’s activity

Refurbished iPhones can be bought from various sellers, and they’re also used for AppleCare device replacements. In normal circumstances, a device’s prior owner should have no...

How an iPhone replacement led to a Snapchat ban due to prior owner’s activity

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