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Move over, TikTok, Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an even bigger target: search engines like Google and Bing and the role that they play in presenting self-injury, suicide and other harmful content at the click of a button, particularly to underage users. A report commissioned by Ofcom and produced by the Network Contagion Research Institute found that major search engines, including Google, Microsoft’s Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo and AOL become “one-click…

After using Figma to create user interfaces and experiences, developers are left with the hefty task of coding the designs in order to create functional websites or apps. Locofy, a Singapore-based frontend development platform backed by Accel, wants to save hours of work with a one-click tool that instantly turns Figma and AdobeXD prototypes into code. Locofy’s new tool is called Lightning and it’s built on top of the startup’s Large Design Models (LDMs). Locofy’s founders, Honey Mittal and Sohaib Muhammed, compare…

E-commerce and fintech company Bolt, which was at one time the subject of a federal probe, confirmed it laid off 29% of its staff, according to a company spokesperson. In an emailed statement, the Bolt spokesperson said the one-click checkout company made the cuts to get Bolt to “an operating model optimized for sustainable growth and efficiency.” “We made the difficult but important decision to reduce layers and roles across the company — setting ourselves up with the speed and agility required…

Listen, smartwatches are great and having lots of choices for bands is great too, but what isn’t great is having to deal with those awful little pins on the underside of the band to remove them and swap them out, a problem which Samsung seems to have solved with its new one-click band system for the Galaxy Watch 6. If you’re having trouble envisioning what the one-click band system looks like for the Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, it’s just like it sounds. A single button you press to pull the pins inward so…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain You'd probably guess that simplifying the checkout process at an online retailer will lead customers to buy more. The question is: How much more? New Cornell University research shows that after signing up for an online retailer's "one-click" checkout service, customers over time increased their…

When you think of podcast recording, you probably picture someone sitting in a studio with a Neumann microphone that costs more than your rent. Spotify wants to change that, making podcast creation something you can do in noisy environments and without expensive gear. The company's one-button voice isolation feature, Podcast Audio Enhancement, debuts today in Spotify's Anchor app for podcast creators. The feature requires a single button press in the Anchor app. Doing so drowns out background noise, bringing your voice to…

WhatsApp users will soon be able to invite up to 32 people to a group call. | Image: WhatsApp WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that allows users to share a direct link to a call, making it easier to stay in contact with your loved ones. The Call Links feature will start to appear on WhatsApp this week and can be accessed through a banner located at the top of the Calls tab. WhatsApp users who want to try the Call Link feature will need the latest version of the app. Mark Zuckerberg announced…

Image: Getty Images/iStockphotoMicrosoft has detailed a high-severity flaw in the TikTok Android app that could have allowed an attacker to hijack an account when users click on a link. Fortunately, developers at TikTok parent ByteDance quickly fixed the flaw after Microsoft researchers reported the issue to it in February through its bug bounty program, according to Dimitrios Valsamaras, a researcher with the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team. The bug has now been assigned the identifier CVE-2022-28799, and while…

A serious vulnerability found by Microsoft in the TikTok Android app could have allowed hackers to hijack millions of accounts. On Wednesday, the company’s detailed a one-click exploit it informed TikTok of in February. The good news is that the social media company promptly patched the vulnerability before today’s disclosure and Microsoft says it has no evidence of someone using it out in the wild. “We gave them information about the vulnerability and collaborated to help fix this issue,” Microsoft’s Tanmay Ganacharya…

A vulnerability in the TikTok app for Android could have let attackers take over any account that clicked on a malicious link, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of users of the platform. Details of the one-click exploit were revealed today in a blog post from researchers on Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team. The vulnerability was disclosed to TikTok by Microsoft, and has since been patched. The bug and its resulting attack, labelled a “high severity vulnerability,” could have been used to hijack the…