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World first: Google and Facebook to pay for content

Australia would force Google and Facebook to pay the content producers for their news. This would be a world premiere, that should protect independent journalism. Of course, there were lots of threats that came from the two giants, since the authorities started talking…
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Hackers put the COVID-19 vaccine integrity at risk

The COVID-19 vaccine storage and shipment became the new target of hackers, according to the IBM researchers. This happens just after the UK became the first country to authorise the Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine and the first people will take it next week. COVID-19…
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Trump announced he fired a US cybersecurity official

Trump fired Chris Kerbs, one of the senior US cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government. Kerbs was the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), since November 2018. But Donald Trump removed him from this position. US cybersecurity…
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Google Drive - Ready to pay for the storage space?

Users could store their photos, videos or documents on Google Drive, for free, if these do not exceed 15GB. Starting June 1st 2021, Google will ask users to pay if they go over this limit. Otherwise, it will delete their excess data. No fear for what is on Google Drive…
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ByteDance tries to save TikTok in the United States

ByteDance tries to save TikTok in the US and came with a new filing. The company is asking the federal appeals court to abandon the government‘s order which forces it to sell the American operations of the app. Ex-president Donald Trump required ByteDance to sell…
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Google under attack: Hackers targeted Chrome and Drive

Hackers put Google under attack in the last few days. Thus, they decided to send malicious links to hundreds of thousands of users. So, scammers used one of the Drive features to determine users click on malicious links. Also, they exploited a zero-day vulnerability, which…
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Windows apps are better thanks to Chromium support

Windows apps become better with the help of Chromium Support. In fact, Microsoft announced that the WebView2 technology for Win32 C/C++ applications has become available for all developers. Microsoft released the information and after that Thurrott mentioned that WebView2…