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02/08/2018

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1)YouTube follows Instagram and Facebook:

Google-owned video sharing portal YouTube is following the lead of other social networking platforms and is planning to launch the 24-hour ephemeral stories.
According to a report by androidworld.it, the company is testing the feature for a few select Android users. "At the moment it seems that there are very few users who can use this function and even those who can see the stories can not be published," said the report.As per the images shared by the website, Stories will appear on the top of the home page in circular Red ring.To recall, Google had announced Reels, YouTube’s spin on the popular “Stories” format, but designed specifically for YouTube creators. They were also announced to come with no expiry date option as well.

This move seems a bit interesting as Instagram, the company that the maximum number of daily active users of its Stories feature at clocked 400 million, a stand-alone app for user-generated videos called IGTV. The IGTV app aims to feature videos from rising internet celebrities, artists and pets, some of whom have tens of millions of social media followers and directly lock horns with Google-owned YouTube. With Reels coming in, Instagram and YouTube will lock horns on another frontier.

Earlier this week, YouTube launched unveiled its ‘dark theme’ for Android. This comes months after it was launched for iOS. The dark mode feature has begun to appear for Android and has been made available to some Google-powered devices. When accessing YouTube from your phone, you'll find this new setting in your Settings' General section. It's not been confirmed how soon this feature will become a permanent fixture but it may be some time before this feature is released for all.At its mid-year update, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki revealed that YouTube has over 1.9 billion monthly users on average with users watching over 180 million hours of YouTube on TV screens every day.

2)Can’t protect users’ data alone: Facebook:

Facing an intense public scrutiny over data leaks amid privacy concerns, Facebook has now called for the entire tech industry to come and protect people’s data.According to David Baser, Director of Product Management at Facebook, nearly every day, news comes out from a different company about personal data that got into the wrong hands.

“Even if we’re all taking steps to shore up our privacy protections, we won’t find the answers in a silo. Companies are connected and our technology ecosystem can’t be reversed. So we need to work together on standards and best practices to make data portability a reality while also prioritizing people’s privacy and security,” Baser said in a blog post late on Thursday.Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter last week announced that they will join the open source initiative called Data Transfer Project (DTP).In the early stages at the moment, the Data Transfer Project will help users of one service to use their data to sign up for another service with encryption. According to Facebook, some of the world’s most popular apps have been built on its platform and the flow of information has the potential for abuse.“Bad actors can gather information from people and use it in ways that they aren’t aware of and didn’t agree too, like selling personal data to marketers. Facebook has clear policies against this, but as we saw with the Cambridge Analytica situation, bad actors are more than willing to ignore these policies in pursuit of their own objectives,” Baser said.Some argue that the best response to Cambridge Analytica would be to lock Facebook down completely so apps can’t get access to this kind of information but according to Facebook, limiting people’s ability to share information would erase the conveniences they enjoy.“We need to find the right balance, giving people control over data sharing and preventing abuse without hampering people’s experiences or hindering innovation,” said Baser.Facing global backlash over data scandals, Facebook stock nosedived 20% -- wiping over $120 billion off the company’s market value in a single day -- after its revenue and user growth in the second quarter of 2018 fell short of investor expectations.

The social media giant reported 2.23 billion monthly active users -- an increase of 11% (year-over-year) which was its slowest growth in more than two years.

3)Chrome 68 feature improves browser's RAM usage:

 

We know that web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox love to suck up our system resources and RAM—a problem that is becoming more noticeable as websites get bigger—but Google and Mozilla are finally doing something about this annoying issue.With the launch of Chrome 68 last week came a new feature called Page Lifecycle Interface. It allows the browser to better optimize system resources by pausing websites that are inactive and restarting them when needed.Page Lifecycle is inspired by a similar function found on smartphones, one which involves operating systems pausing background apps and processes that aren’t being used in order to free up resources and extend battery life. But for Page

Lifecycle to work optimally, web developers will need to support it.The feature also supports progressive web apps (PWAs)—websites that use modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience on smartphones. This should mean the feature will integrate seamlessly with mobiles and bring improved performance.

When it comes to Firefox, Mozilla’s Fission Memshrink project aims to cut 7MB or more from what can be hundreds of processes the browser uses to render a website on a screen. The company writes that “the project is one of the most easily overlooked aspects of Project Fission (also known as Site Isolation), but is absolutely critical to its success. And will require a company- and community-wide effort to meet its goals.”

Memshrink is part of Mozilla’s Fission program, which is similar to Google’s Site Isolation. The security feature works by opening a new browser process for any domain the user loads in a tab.“In order for site isolation to work, we need to be able to run *at least* 100 content processes in an average Firefox session. Each of those processes has its own base memory overhead—memory we use just for creating the process, regardless of what's running in it. In the post-Fission world, that overhead needs to be less than 10MB per process in order to keep the extra overhead from Fission below 1GB. Right now, on our best-cast platform, Windows 10, is somewhere between 17 and 21MB. Linux and OS-X hover between 25 and 35MB. In other words, between 2 and 3.5GB for an ordinary session,” explains Mozilla.

“That means that, in the best case, we need to reduce the memory we use in content processes by *at least* 7MB. The problem, of course, is that there are only so many places we can cut memory without losing functionality, and even fewer places where we can make big wins. But, there are lots of places we can make small and medium-sized wins.”

4)Microsoft rolling out 'Your Phone' app in latest Windows 10 preview:

 

 Linking a phone to your PC isn’t the most natural of experiences. There are third-party apps for file swapping and notifications like the excellent Pushbullet, along with services such as Dropbox, but Microsoft says it is offering something better with its Your Phone app, which is "coming soon" to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring.

Microsoft unveiled the Your Phone app at its Build developer conference back in May. Essentially, it creates a link between your smartphone and PC, allowing desktop or laptop users to transfer photos/files, get notifications, and access texts. It also links web pages between the two devices, letting you continue browsing sessions on your PC straight from where you left off on mobile.

Now, Microsoft says it will soon start testing the Your Phone app in its latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build 17728 (Redstone 5). The company writes that in the coming weeks, Android users will see a link on their desktop taking them directly to the Your Phone app, allowing them to instantly access their phones' content. They’ll be able to simply drag and drop photos and files from a handset directly into a desktop app such as PowerPoint. Text message synchronizations and notifications are being added later.

The app is supported on handsets running Android 7.0 and higher. It will eventually arrive for iPhone users, but functionality will be limited to sharing web pages between mobile device and PC.

5)Hacker Deposits Rs 1 In TRAI Chairman's Account:

 

 

We all know how our Aadhaar data is safe and secure behind a 13 feet high, 5 feet thick wall, right?That's probably what prompted TRAI chairman RS Sharma to publish his Aadhaar number online on Saturday, challenging anyone to do any harm to him.What followed next is equal part shocking and embarrassing. In less than a day, ethical hackers went onto use that Aadhaar number to post 14 pieces of personal information linked to the TRAI chairman RS Sharma.

On Sunday, a bunch of "ethical hackers" were able to extract Sharma's mobile numbers, residential address, date of birth and PAN number. Not just that but also his voter ID number, telecom operator, phone model were made public on Twitter.

One Twitter user even managed to find out RS Sharma's Air India frequent flyer ID -- based on all the private information revealed after his "Aadhaar Challenge".

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