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  Microsoft in August 2020 began talks on the proposed acquisition but the deal collapsed by September. Microsoft Corp’s near-acquisition of social media app  TikTok  last year was the “strangest thing I’ve ever worked on,” Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said on Monday. TikTok had been ordered by then-U.S. President Donald Trump to separate its U.S. version from Chinese parent ByteDance because of national security concerns about the collection of U.S. users’ data. Microsoft in August 2020 began talks on the proposed acquisition but the deal collapsed by September. Trump’s divestment push ended by the time he left office in January and no potential suitor ending up acquiring TikTok. Speaking at the Code Conference in Beverly Hills, California, Nadella said he was looking forward to bringing  Microsoft ‘s security, child safety and cloud expertise to TikTok. “It’s unbelievable,” Nadella said of the experience during an on-stage interview. “I learned so many thi...

  Search engine giant Google has confirmed that the Locked Folder in Photos is set to arrive on all Android devices soon. Search engine giant Google has confirmed that the Locked Folder in Photos is set to arrive on all Android devices soon. The feature was released exclusively on newer Pixel phones in June.  Google  hasn’t provided an exact date for when the feature is releasing more widely, reports The Verge. The Photos Locked Folder will roll out soon to devices running Android 6.0 and newer. Once it is live, users will be able to set up this folder after they receive a notification from Google Photos. Google Photos Locked Folder hides selected pictures/videos from the application’s main grid, search, and “apps that access your device photos.” Additionally, these photos will not be backed up or shared and require a device screen lock to access. Even users will not be allowed to take screenshots when they are inside a secure space. “With Locked Folder in @ googlephotos ...

  Facebook Inc’s Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages by filtering offensive words, phrases and emojis on the photo-sharing app. The company said on Wednesday that along with the filter option for abusive direct messages, it will also make it harder for people blocked by users to circumvent and contact them through new accounts. Instagram has been pushing on its efforts to tackle hate speech and online abuse on its platform, which is more popular than Facebook’s main app among teens and young adults. The filter, which can be activated on  Instagram  in privacy settings, can be customized by users to include words, phrases and emojis that they wish to block or avoid receiving in their message requests. Users can use their discretio...

  Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online While people are yet to digest the huge Facebook data leak of 533 million users (including 6.1 million Indians), Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online. An archive with data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by people behind the hack. “The four leaked files contain information about the LinkedIn users whose data has been allegedly scraped by the threat actor, including their full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information, and more,” reports CyberNews. The leaked data up on sale includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links to LinkedIn pr...

  “Sham!” and “who the hell are you” scoldings dominated a Senate hearing where the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, and Google took heat in a talking match with US lawmakers over the idea of free speech “Baloney!”, “sham!” and “who the hell are you” scoldings dominated a Senate hearing on Wednesday where the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google took heat in a talking match with US lawmakers over the idea of free speech and alleged anti-conservative bias on the companies’ mighty platforms. The Congressional grilling quickly shifted into the realm of political circus around the social media content moderation dumpster fire. With less than a week to go for the US election, Republican lawmakers got an earful from critics for the timing of the “sham” hearing. At the heart of the heated arguments were 26 words tucked away in a 1996 US law – Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Section 230 states that “no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as th...