In a staggering turn of events, the cybersecurity world has been shaken by the news of the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record. Cloudflare, a prominent web security company, recently revealed that malevolent actors exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol to launch an unprecedented DDoS attack, reaching a mind-boggling 398 million requests … [Read more…]
Google will now actively encourage users to set up passkeys for their Gmail, YouTube, and other first-party accounts, effectively killing passwords. Starting today, all Google account users will be asked to create passkeys for their accounts the next time they sign in to their Google accounts. This is a rather streamlined process – earlier, users … [Read more…]
Spotify is making a renewed attempt to increase the number of its paid users in India, and a rather aggressive one at that. Instead of rolling out new incentives and features to persuade users to empty their pockets, Spotify is introducing limitations on the features available to free-tier users in the world’s second-largest internet market. … [Read more…]
In a world where email continues to remain a cornerstone of digital communication, the battle against spam and malicious emails continues to be a top priority. Spam is (unfortunately) nothing new to Gmail users – after all, few things are as frustrating as struggling to unsubscribe from unwanted emails. And while the world’s most used … [Read more…]
Google has recently announced plans to phase out its Jamboard app, a collaborative whiteboarding tool, by late 2024. The tech giant has established a clear timeline for this transition to allow users ample time to adapt. According to the company, all Jamboard device license subscriptions, including those for educational institutions, will cease on September 30, … [Read more…]
In a significant move towards enhancing public safety, Google has joined forces with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the National Seismology Center (NSC) in order to introduce an Earthquake Alert System designed to provide early earthquake alerts for Android users in India. This team-up ensures that the system is finely tuned to the … [Read more…]
The HTML view within Gmail, that many users still use, and which presents your mail in a pretty basic, barebones format, will be dead by end of January next year. Google didn’t announce anything as such, but updated their support page to reflect the same. “You can display Gmail on your browser in Basic HTML … [Read more…]
In a development that could possibly result in further alienation of user, social media giant X will not be making audio and video calls available to all users. According to a report from TechCrunch, both the new features will only be made available to users who have purchased a membership to X Premium, the erstwhile … [Read more…]
Since the introduction of ChatGPT, generative AI has been hailed as a cornerstone of the AI sector, and its popularity has been rising by the day. It has also seen a host of AI chatbots being rolled out, and it is not just the likes of Microsoft and Google who have been working on this. … [Read more…]
If Sundar Pichai’s Google I/O keynote wasn’t enough of the “AI” dose for you, there’s more incoming, this time from YouTube. The video platform announced a slew of new features, almost all driven by AI or generative AI in some manner or the other, and mostly focused around making lives easier for creators. Additionally, YouTube … [Read more…]