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Are you suddenly getting a lot of alerts from your Malwarebytes app? Are Google-owned websites and services suddenly not working anymore, perhaps even including the browser, Google Chrome? It’s not just you. Many Malwarebytes users are currently experiencing these problems, and currently, there’s only one fix — disabling the software entirely. The question is, where does the problem lie? Is Google truly compromised or is Malwarebytes just broken right now? Update: Malwarebytes has announced that the issue is now…

Bose is no stranger to true wireless earbuds. The company’s first model debuted in 2017 and it has refined its take on the product segment multiple times in the years since. Bose made a big leap in 2020 with , bringing its active noise cancellation (ANC) expertise to an updated true wireless design. Now the company has made with a new look and a host of upgrades thanks in part to its CustomTune technology,With the (QCE II), Bose has massively improved its already great noise canceling abilities, blocking more than ever…

Three in four consumers say excessive convenience fees for digital payments are coming in the way of cashless India, a report showed.About 77% say they are being charged convenience fees for the majority of tickets/services procured online, according to the report by community social media platform LocalCircles.Read AlsoAbout 93% want government departments and services like IRCTC to stop charging convenience fees. They also want caps on convenience fees charged for online tickets/service transactions.IRCTC charges a…

The average person spends almost seven hours a day looking at a screen, whether it's your laptop, smartphone, or TV. Unfortunately, that means we are looking at a lot of blue light, affecting our eyes by making them tired, dry, and squinty. Blue light is a part of the light spectrum mainly given off by LED lights and electronic devices such as smartphones, computer screens, and televisions. Wearing blue light glasses can make those long hours we spend staring at our screens more bearable, especially at nighttime.…

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker in Tallahassee on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the “Stop Woke Act” championed by Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. The law likely runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of free speech, the judge said. Y-Vonne Hutchinson, chief executive of California-based consulting and strategy firm ReadySet, said she welcomed the decision.…

VideoLan, the developer of popular media player VLC, says Indian telecom operators have been blocking its website since February of this year in a move that is potentially impacting some users in one of the open source firm’s largest markets. “Most major ISPs are banning the site, with diverse techniques,” VideoLan president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf said of the blocking in India, in an email to TechCrunch. The telecom operators began blocking the VideoLan website on February 13 of…

Microsoft has claimed Sony pays for “blocking rights” to stop developers from adding their content to Xbox Game Pass. The explosive claims are part of documents (Word doc) filed with Brazil’s national competition regulator and part of a review of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. “Microsoft’s ability to continue expanding Game Pass has been hampered by Sony’s desire to inhibit such growth,” claims Microsoft in an August 9th filing to the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), as translated…

The team at WhatsApp is working on new ways to increase privacy and reduce awkwardness. Three new features will be rolling out to users soon that will help achieve those goals. First is the feature that lets you leave a group chat silently. This means that you can duck out of a group chat without awkward goodbyes. Note that while users in the group will not be notified, the group admins will get a notification. Next is something that has been brewing for a while – the option to control who can see when you are online.…

WhatsApp is introducing a small flurry of privacy-minded tweaks into the messaging app, the company announced on Tuesday. The Meta-owned globally ubiquitous messaging service says the changes aim to give users more control over their experience while introducing “added layers” to protect their private communications. WhatsApp will introduce an option for users to privately use the app without being visibly online, something it calls “online presence control.” The feature, which rolls out to everyone this month, will…

The government has issued 105 directions to social media platforms under the new IT rules that came into effect in February last year, Parliament was informed. According to information shared by minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, the directions were issued by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting under the new rules. The data shared by the minister shows that 94 directions to block content were issued to YouTube between December 2021 and April 2022,…