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Chrome 88 released, goodbye to Flash Player and FTP support: here are the news

The new version has been released Chrome, which eliminates not only Flash Player, but also support for the FTP protocol due to the low use of Nino Grasso published on 20 January 2021 , at 16: 41 in the web channel Chrome Google Google released Chrome 88 for all desktop users, which introduces security enhancements… Read more

DNSpooq is the new series of DNS vulnerabilities: beware of phishing, credential theft, DDoS attacks

7 software vulnerabilities identified DNS widely used by connected device manufacturers and which threatens to jeopardize millions of devices di Andrea Bai published on 20 January 2021 , at 15: 41 in the channel Security JSOF, an Israeli company operating in the field of cyber security, today revealed the existence of seven vulnerabilities, known together… Read more

Panasonic 4K HDR TV choices compared: JZ2000, HZ2000, HZ1500, HZ1000 OLEDs, plus HX LED TVs

(Pocket-lint) – Panasonic has announced its first new TV for 2021 – the Panasonic JZ2000 OLED TV. However, it won’t be available until early summer, so you might want to snap up a bargain on 2020’s models instead. They are still available and often at a discount. Here then are the Panasonic TV highlights for… Read more

Netflix confirms Shuffle Play feature will officially launch this year

Netflix’s Shuffle Play feature, which the company was spotted testing last year, is getting a widespread launch in the first half of 2021. Variety reports the company made the announcement as part of its latest financial results. In its testing phase, Shuffle Play has worked by picking content based on your viewing history, helping you… Read more

More Honor V40 specs surface, a 3D ToF camera to be on the front

The Honor V40 is going to be the company’s debut as an independent entity and the phone shapes up to be a feature-packed beast. The latest report from the so-called “Digital Chat Station” (Google translated) on Weibo gives us a little bit more insight into the front-facing camera and the battery. Honor V30 Pro He… Read more

Chrome 88 is here: Without Flash and FTP support

With Chrome 88 Google has finally banned Flash from its browser. This means that even corporate customers are no longer able to access or offer Flash content – Google has been advising them to switch since 2017. Adobe itself has ended support for Flash. In addition, FTP support is to end. According to Google, usage… Read more

Road load balancing

Should you stay in a traffic jam on the motorway or should you leave? It feels, however you do it, wrong. Classic navigation systems are not of great help here. If you recommend a detour, it will soon be congested as well – while the motorway may have long been clear again. “The traffic jam… Read more

Google’s new Chrome 88 release improves dark mode, removes FTP and Adobe Flash

Google is releasing a new version of Chrome this week that will improve its dark mode support, alongside removing FTP and Adobe Flash support. The dark mode improvements can be found on both Windows and Chrome OS. There are refinements to both the light and dark modes in Chrome OS, with the themes updated for… Read more

Google is investigating another top AI ethicist

Google is investigating artificial intelligence researcher Margaret Mitchell, who co-leads the company’s Ethical AI team, and has locked her corporate account, Axios reports. The news comes a little over a month after another prominent AI ethicist, Timnit Gebru, said she was fired by the company. Mitchell’s account has now reportedly been locked for “at least… Read more

Google closes a critical gap in Chrome and finally throws Flash out

In Google’s Chrome web browser 88. 0. 4324. 96 the developers have closed 36 security holes. Most of the vulnerabilities are classified as ” high “. A gap (CVE – 2021 – 21117) is considered to be “critical”. It affects the Cryptohome component. The warning message hardly contains any further details about this and the… Read more

DNSpooQ: Vulnerabilities discovered in DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq

Security researchers from JSOF have found seven vulnerabilities in the DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq. Attackers could attack devices equipped with them and manipulate DNS entries, for example, in order to redirect victims to websites they control. 2008 the computer scientist Dan Kaminsky presented such a DNS attack for the first time. The execution of… Read more

Indian government asks WhatsApp to withdraw new Privacy Policy

WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook, started pushing a new Privacy Policy earlier this month. It stated that some user data will be shared with other Facebook companies but due to the backlash, the changes were postponed from February 18 to May 15, and now the company is facing legal challenges. One of them… Read more

heise offer: Online intensive course: Deep learning with TensorFlow and Keras

In this online course, you will learn with many practical exercises to program machine learning models with deep neural networks. In addition to the basics of deep learning, special emphasis is placed on convolutional neural networks (CNN) for processing images and recurrent neural networks (RNN) for processing sequential data such as texts. The course focuses… Read more

The Honor V40 will reportedly be the first to arrive with Google Play Services since Huawei ban

Honor was expected to announce its new V40 5G flagship on January 18, but the announcement date was pushed back to January 22. The company claimed that it had venue scheduling and equipment issues for as cause of the delay, but some speculation leads to believe that Honor could have postponed the event so it… Read more

Storytelling incubator Wattpad is getting bought for over half a billion dollars

Last week, we told you how Wattpad has become a place where budding authors can sometimes turn their work into Hollywood film and TV, with Hulu, Netflix and others adapting Wattpad writers’ labors into titles like The Kissing Booth, Light as a Feather and After We Collided. But it looks like Wattpad may no longer… Read more