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OTTAWA, CANADA: Canada on Monday announced a ban on Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from government -issued devices , saying it presents an "unacceptable" level of risk to privacy and security , adding to the growing rift between the two countries. The move underscores the growing lobby against TikTok, owned by Chinese firm ByteDance Ltd, over concerns of its proximity to Beijing and hold over user data across the world. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters that his government was looking carefully at how to ensure Canadians' online safety. "This may be a first step, it may be the only step we need to take," he said referring to the action against TikTok. As government bans TikTok on work phones, "many Canadians, businesses and private individuals will reflect on the security of their own data and perhaps make choices in consequence," he said. The ban would go into effect from Tuesday and federal employees would also be blocked f...

Australians looking to make some extra cash selling unwanted or used items online are being urged to watch out for a new scam. The new PayID impersonation scam is targeting people selling their goods on Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree and other online websites. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Red flags to watch out for when avoiding phone and social media scams. The scammers respond to online ads, posing as prospective buyers. After offering to pay using PayID, the scammers trick sellers into transferring cash to activate or upgrade their account. Amber lost $500 to the scam when she advertised a secondhand bed online. The scammer seemed like a genuine buyer, she said, and before she knew it she’d lost a chunk of her savings . “I kept thinking I’ve gone through Commonwealth Bank to set it up, it should be safe,” Amber said. Australians lost $260,000 to PayID impersonation scams last year, according to Scamwatch. A new PayID scam is catching Australians trying to sell items online unaware. Cred...

In the coming years, half of all iPhone production might take place in India by 2027 as Apple continues to shift production out of China, according to reports Previously, Apple's plant, which is the world's biggest phone manufacturing point, had to go through massive losses due to the pandemic in China. To ensure a better strategy for the coming years, Apple is now spreading the production of its products in other regions, such as India. It is believed that India will be making 25% of the 2025 iPhone production. This will be followed by making almost half of all iPhones by 2027. As of now, India is contributing around 2.27% to the total Apple production, making it 8th on the list of all suppliers. Considering how Apple has worked extensively in China for all these years, the company will have to work more on ensuring similar quality in the new region. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/india-might-produce-half-of-all-iphones-by-2027-TheFOXposts-10339.html?utm_source=blo...

Former US President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that his campaign was in talks with Meta Platforms about a possible return to Facebook and Instagram, two years after the company banned him for inciting violence. "We are talking to them, and we'll see how it all works out," Trump said, according to the report. "If they took us back, it would help them greatly, and that's okay with me," he said. "But they need us more than we need them." Meta declined to comment to Reuters. Trump launched his bid to regain the presidency in 2024 in November. Meta, the world's biggest social media company, is set to make a controversial decision on the future of Trump's accounts this month. While Trump has shunned Twitter since its decision in November to restore his account, saying he preferred his own Truth Social platform, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital on Wednesday th...

Keen to buttress margins and appease investor concerns at a time of slowing sales growth, big US  Technology firms are expected to whittle away at their bloated workforce and costs through the next few months, reversing pandemic-era excesses, analysts said. Each of America's five largest tech companies, though, are expected to report a fall in profits for the October-December period, as they try to recalibrate in a high-interest environment. Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc and Amazon.com Inc are expected to report the biggest declines. Analysts have cut their total revenue projection for the five companies - Meta, Amazon, Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc and Microsoft Corp - by 5% to $561.4 billion as of January from October. Big tech companies are expected to be among the biggest drags to S&P 500's eleven sectors, with the information Technology sector projected to report an earnings decline of 9.5%, according to FactSet data. Reuters Graphics ...

Former tennis star and TV commentator Jelena Dokic has called out an online troll who said “don’t believe everything you read” about her story of surviving family violence. Dokic described as “disgusting” a comment left on Instagram saying she should be “grateful” that her father “pushed” her “otherwise she wouldn’t be where she is today.” WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Jelena Dokic provides a mental health update Stream the world's best reality, entertainment and true crime shows for free on 7Bravo on 7plus >> Dokic chronicled her own experience of abuse in the book Unbreakable, exposing the violent treatment she said she endured at the hands of her father Damir. After reading the hurtful message on Instagram, she wrote a lengthy missive “calling out” its writer. Jelena Dokic has called out a troll on social media. Credit: Instagram/Jelena Dokic “Everyone has been through s*** and most a lot worse than her,” the person had written about Dokic. “Don’t believe everything you read ei...

TikTok has launched a revamped creator's fund called Creativity Program, which is in beta testing US, France, and Brazil. TikTok creator's fund is open by invitation only. It will expand for other users with time. To be eligible for the fund, the creator needs to be above 18, have video view benchmarks and make high-quality videos that are longer than a minute. The fund was revamped after the creators' constant backlash as they weren't making enough money. However, the platform still needs to specify the earning opportunities. On the other hand, the demand for long videos shows that the short video platform TikTok is now focusing on long-form content. Those who have already been part of the creator's fund can now switch to the beta version. However, they can not switch back. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/tiktok-launches-revamped-creativity-program-in-beta-TheFOXposts-13653.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=bl...

Google Meet launched a 360-degree virtual background for its video calls on mobile using the its gyroscope to move with the user. The background will change according to your device position, and as users will change their position, so will the background . Google announced that there were several new 360-degree backgrounds during video calls available for use. The feature, though quite cool, can become distracting during a video call for users. Just last month, Google Meet rolled out emoji reactions like the heart, thumbs-up, party popper, clap, joy, astonished, thinking, cry, and thumbs-down emoji. The features, however, will have to go much further to meet the standard set by Zoom. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/google-meet-to-roll-out-360-degree-virtual-backgrounds-TheFOXposts-13574.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: Technology Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

When Rachel* received an alert on her phone that an AirTag was tracking her location, she immediately panicked. The 19-year-old Melbourne woman said she was running errands on February 10 when she received the unusual message. “I got a notification that an AirTag was tracking my location,” she told 7NEWS.com.au. “I was doing some shopping throughout the day and I continued to get the notifications, but I had no idea where they were coming from.” Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Rachel said she felt “sick to her stomach” and tore her car apart trying to find the AirTag, a bluetooth tracking device developed by Apple that’s about the size of a 20c piece. “It was so frustrating I kept looking and looking and I couldn’t find it anywhere,” she added. “Then I thought the only person that had been in or near my car was my boyfriend.” Confronting her boyfriend of six months, Rachel said she was shaking and upset. But he denied planting any device in her ...

A former employee of Twitter claims that Twitter engineers still have access to an internal program called "privilege mode" that lets them tweet from any account . It was previously known as "GodMode." Read US targets Google's online ad Business monopoly in latest Big Tech lawsuit The program is always accessible on a production laptop. A simple change from "FALSE" to "TRUE" is required from the engineer's end, claimed the employee. Considering the sensitivity of this code, there is always a warning that says, "THINK BEFORE YOU DO THIS" There has already been a complaint filed against Twitter with the FTC over this matter. FTC is reportedly investigating this matter and interviewing former Twitter employees Source: https://thefoxposts.com/twitter-engineers-can-still-use-godmode-to-tweet-as-any-account-TheFOXposts-11462.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Cate...

A British expat has shared the six things that she wished she knew ahead of moving to Australia. Taking to TikTok under the handle @Charleedownunder, Londoner Charlee Longden, 25, revealed that she was having trouble with everything from Aussie slang to door locks and traffic lights. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Expat shares 6 surprising things about Australia For more Lifestyle related news and videos check out Lifestyle >> “If you’re thinking about moving to Australia, here’s some things you definitely need to know before moving,” she began her video. “Because I can assure you, I traipsed every single website, blog, TikTok account about moving to Australia and living your best life in 2023, and guess what, not one of them mentioned any of this f****** stuff.” 1. ‘How ya goin’?’ “I do now understand what this means, it means ‘how are you doing?’,” Charlee said about the classic Aussie greeting. “But just say, ‘how are you doing,’ because I think you’re asking me where I’m going. “W...

Scammers are using sophisticated calls and texts to fleece Australians out of their hard-earned savings but one big bank is fighting back and getting good results. Scam reports from National Australia Bank customer s soared 38 per cent last year and “spoofing” cons were one of the two biggest issues. But since rolling out new defence measures in December, the bank has recorded a 50 per cent drop in spoofing scams and a subsequent 70 per cent reduction in customer losses . Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The lender now wants to join forces with government, industry and telcos in a united effort to fight back. Spoofing involves scammers obscuring phone numbers to masquerade as legitimate businesses and organisations on calls and through text messages, with the latter sometimes appearing in existing message threads. Bank customers have lost tens of thousands of dollars to the scams, with criminals prompting them to phone a number and then transfe...

TikTok is continuing to make the platform attractive for creators as it is reportedly working on paywalled video s and a creator fund. As per the reports, the new paywall update will allow creators to set a price on their content. The producers can charge $1 or any other amount of choice to enable the audience to watch their videos. As of now, it is still being determined how the system will work, but TikTok is trying to target the older audience in the US amid the growing restrictions. The short video platform is also working on revamping its Creator Fund. TikTok had previously launched a Creator Fund in 2020, with a $1 billion pool of money that pays creators for popular video s for three years. After receiving some backlash, the revamped model will try to reach out to more content creators. It now plans to allow users with 100,000 followers and those who make longer video s to be eligible for the funds. The revamped model is expected to launch in the US by next month. ...

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck is set to whip past earth in one of the close st such encounters ever recorded. NASA insists it will be a near miss on Friday, with no chance of the asteroid hitting earth. The US space agency said the newly discovered asteroid will zoom 3600km above the southern tip of South America, with its closest approach to occur at 11.27am AEDT on Friday. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> The asteroid’s proximity at that time will be 10 times closer than the bevy of communication satellites circling overhead. Even if the space rock came a lot closer, scientists said most of it would burn up in the atmosphere, with some of the bigger pieces possibly falling as meteorites. NASA’s impact hazard assessment system, called Scout, quickly ruled out a strike, said its developer Davide Farnocchia, an engineer at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. An asteroid will come closer to earth than the orbit of geosynchronous s...

PayPal Holdings Inc is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and a key partner on the project faces a probe by the New York State Department of Financial Services, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. PayPal had hoped to debut the stablecoin, which will be backed one for one by the dollar, in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. "We are exploring a stablecoin ; if and when we seek to move forward, we will of course, work closely with relevant regulators," a spokesperson for the payments firm said in an emailed statement. The Cryptocurrency market is going through a turbulent period as the collapse of some of its biggest players, including FTX, has shaken the faith of investors in what was seen as the next big thing in the world of finance. "We are exploring a stablecoin ; if and when we seek to move forward, we will of course, work closely with relevant regulators," a s...

Footage of a mammoth wasp nest found in a Victorian home has gone viral online, with the pest control company tasked to deal with the nest describing the discovery as “terrifying”. Pest management company DAP Pest Control posted the original footage of the nest on its social media pages in March 2022. In the video, pest controller Dale Armel shows an abandoned house in Healesville infested with European wasps. Walking through the house, he makes his way to a bathroom which has become home to a giant nest hanging from the ceiling. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> “Oh my god,” he says in the video. “It’s like an alien. If you could see this with your own eyes, it’s actually terrifying. “This is something I’ve never seen before.” The nest had grown inside an abandoned house’s bathroom. Credit: TikTok According to pest controller Dale Armel, up to a thousand wasps may have been living inside the nest. Credit: Facebook The footage captured by the company has...

Days out from the biggest UFC fight of Alexander Volkanovski’s career, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has released a video of them fight ing together in the Metaverse. On Friday, the Facebook founder posted a collaboration video with Aussie Volkanovski to Instagram showing off some light sparring skills when the two trained together recently. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Zuckerberg and Volkanovski in VR bout. Watch the latest sport on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> “Last year @ufc #1 pound-for-pound fight er @alexvolkanovski stopped by Meta HQ to train with me and for fun we tested the limits of our performance avatars with motion capture in our @engage gear,” the tech billionaire captioned the post. The video starts with the two covered in VR animation gear before someone yells out “action” and the two begin light sparring. The background in the metaverse changes several times as the two battle it in an animated desert environment and dojo. Volkanovski preparing for to spar Zuck...

OpenAI, the creator of the popular chatbot ChatGTP, has released a software tool to identify text generated by artificial intelligence, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. ChatGPT is a free program that generates text in response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes and even poetry, which has gained wide popularity since its debut in November, while raising concerns about copyright and plagiarism. The AI classifier, a language model trained on the dataset of pairs of human-written and AI-written text on the same topic, aims to distinguish text that is written by AI. It uses a variety of providers to address issues such as automated misinformation campaigns and academic dishonesty, the company said. In its public beta mode, OpenAI acknowledges the detection tool is very unreliable on texts under 1,000 characters, and AI-written text can be edited to trick the classifier. "We’re making this classifier publicly available to get feedback on whe...

An American businesswoman has called out a group of men who accidentally shared a screen where they made explicit comments about her looks during a Zoom meeting. Whitney Sharpe, a 28-year-old recruiting and staffing professional from Boston, was talking to potential clients when they began using a Microsoft Teams channel to discuss her looks. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Woman’s response to ‘locker room talk’ goes viral For more Lifestyle related news and videos check out Lifestyle >> Sharpe told BuzzFeed she was not comfortable sharing all the men’s comments, but in one she was described as a “f****** bombshell”. At the end of the meeting, Sharpe revealed to the potential clients that she had seen the “nasty” messages and wanted to speak to a female representative from then on. She then posted the exchange to TikTok with the caption: “It’s rough being a woman in a male-dominated field” - and it immediately went viral. Whitney Sharpe’s TikTok has gone viral . Credit: TikTok/@whitney...