Facebook is Now Fact-Checking Photos

Facebook is Now Fact-Checking Photos. Facebook is making it a priority these days to fight misinformation being spread on its social network, and the company has just announced that it’s now fact-checking photos and videos being shared by users.
27 third-party fact-checking partners in 17 countries around the world had already been tasked with reviewing articles over the past 2 years, but now their workload has been increased to verifying the truthfulness of visual content as well.
Facebook says that its first line of defense is artificial intelligence: machine learning is used to identify potentially false content using various “signals” — things like user feedback, text extraction (and comparison with news articles), and image manipulation detection.
Photos that have been flagged are then sent to the third-party fact-checkers.”
Many of our third-party fact-checking partners have expertise evaluating photos and videos and are trained in visual verification techniques, such as reverse image searching and analyzing image metadata, like when and where the photo or video was taken,” Facebook says. “Fact-checkers are able to assess the truth or falsity of a photo or video by combining these skills with other journalistic practices, like using research from experts, academics or government agencies.”
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The conclusions of the human fact-checkers are then fed back into the AI to help improve its accuracy.
Types of false photos Facebook is trying to fight against include ones that are manipulated or fabricated, out of context, and false captions.

If You Use Photoshop, Hackers Can Get Into Your Computer Right Now

If You Use Photoshop, Hackers Can Get Into Your Computer Right Now and this has being discovered by a security expert Kushal Arvind Shah of Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity and adobe classify it as type 3 vulnerabilities.

According to the company, these are vulnerabilities that “would allow malicious native-code to execute, potentially without a user being aware.” This kind of flaws leave your computer exposed, providing access by malicious third parties who could run code in your computer to gain control over it.
The problems, discovered by Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs cybersecurity expert Kushal Arvind Shah, affect both Windows and macOS versions of Photoshop 19.1.5 and earlier as well as 18.1.5 and earlier. The pixel-pushing company hasn’t released any particular details, except to say that the software has “memory corruption” issues that “allow remote code execution” — i.e., network-based attacks — without users noticing it.
Adobe claims that these are “type 3″ vulnerabilities. This means that these gaps have been discovered “in a product that has historically not been a target for attackers” as opposed to a vulnerability that is being actively exploited by attackers. In other words, most likely you are not at  immediate risk.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t update Photoshop as soon as possible. Adobe has already released an update that closes the opening, bringing Photoshop CC 2017 and CC 2018 to versions 18.1.6 and 19.1.6, respectively.
If you are legally using Photoshop, make sure to go the Adobe Cloud CC control panel and update it. If you are using a pirated copy of Photoshop, we can’t help you.

Modem Router and Access Point: What’s the Difference?

Modem, Router and Access Point: What’s the Difference? Do you know the difference between, say, a switch and a hub? Keeping straight the devices that help you access the internet is no small feat. This guide explains it all.

Connecting to the internet seems simple. You hop on your Wi-Fi, load up Facebook, and boom: you’re connected! But when something goes wrong—or it’s time to upgrade your equipment to something faster—you’ll need to understand what all those little black boxes actually do. Here’s a quick rundown of the basic networking gear that keeps your home connected.

A Modem Connects You to the Internet

A modem is your gateway to the internet—a cable, fiber optic, or telephone line comes through your neighborhood, to your house, and connects to your modem. The modem translates the digital 1s and 0s from your computer into analog information for the cable or telephone wire to carry out to the world, and translates incoming analog signals in the same way. This is called modulation and demodulation, respectively, and it’s where the “mo-dem” gets its name.
Typically, your internet service provider (ISP) will provide you with a modem for a small monthly fee. Depending on which ISP you use, however, you may be able to buy your own modem and save some money.

A Router Connects Your Devices to the Modem (and Each Other)

If you only had one computer in your house, you could plug it straight into the modem with an Ethernet cable and call it a day—you’d be connected to the internet and watching cat videos instantly.

But most people have more than one computer in their house, not to mention smartphones, tablets, e-readers, and a host of other devices. Standalone modems aren’t able to send data to multiple devices simultaneously: they usually only have one Ethernet port, and only produce one IP address, which identifies your location to the internet (kind of like your street address does in the real world).
A router connects all your home’s devices to each other—through Ethernet cables or Wi-Fi—and then connects to the modem. It gives each device its own internal IP address, which it uses to route traffic between them. If your modem’s IP address is like the street address of a building, your router’s internal IP addresses are like apartment numbers. Your modem receives information from the internet, sends it to the router, and the router sends it to the computer that asked for it. (That way, your phone doesn’t receive the cat videos you asked for on your laptop.)
The network created by your router is known as a local area network, or LAN, and it connects you to a larger wide area network, or WAN. In most home cases, your WAN is, for all intents and purposes, the internet.
Not all routers include Wi-Fi—some merely connect computers with Ethernet cables. That’s where the next piece of equipment comes in.

An Access Point Adds Wireless Connectivity

Microsoft’s New Monthly Charge for Windows 10

Microsoft’s New Monthly Charge for Windows 10 has been reviewed but we feel is going to be targeted to business rather than everyone.

Ever since its creation, Microsoft MSFT -0.6% has described Windows 10 “as a service”. The fear has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed this is exactly what will happen…

In a new report, CNet’s well connected Microsoft specialist Mary Jo Foley reports the company will soon launch ‘Microsoft Managed Desktop’ which will charge a monthly fee to configure computers running Windows 10 and keep them running smoothly as new updates are released.
Foley also notes “Microsoft already has a number of the pieces in place to make this happen” such as a Windows Autopilot automatic device provisioning service, device financing programs like Surface Plus and a ‘Surface as a Service’ leasing program. Microsoft also has a subscription bundle including Windows 10 and Office 365 called Microsoft 365 and Windows 10 Enterprise subscription plans.
Furthermore, Foley states “One of my contacts said that Bill Karagounis – former Director of the Windows Insider Program & OS Fundamentals team, who last year joined the Enterprise Mobility and Management part of Windows and Devices – is in charge of the coming Microsoft Managed Desktop.”
With Microsoft also publicly hiring for this new division, managed subscriptions for Windows 10 appear to have the green light.
So what’s the good news? At this time, Foley believes Microsoft Managed Desktop will be targeted at businesses. But the obvious question, given the clear direction Microsoft is moving becomes: for how long?
Foley did ask Microsoft to go on the record about Microsoft Managed Desktop, but the company declined to comment.
All of which means those users who chose to stay on Windows 7 and Windows 8 are probably feeling pretty smug right now. As for everyone who upgraded for ‘free’ to Windows 10, the nagging question must be: will it prove too good to be true?

Cost of iPhone X Sales to Increase Prices of other Smartphones

Cost of iPhone X Sales to Increase Prices of other Smartphones when Apple rolled out the iPhone X at roughly $1,000 a pop, people balked at first. The smartphone market was entering maturity, are people really so enamored of their Apple devices that they’ll shell out that much, even as competitors get better at making alternatives at lower price points? It seems that increasingly, the answer is yes.

Indeed, by grooming consumers to spending upwards of $1,000 for a new phone, the iPhone X’s pricing strategy may have cemented these kinds of prices into the wider smartphone industry, Apple analyst Philip Elmer-DeWitt tells Inverse.

Initially, Elmer-DeWitt said he thought these kinds of prices were outlandish, but paradoxically Apple’s iPhone X strategy may have ended up doing its competitors a solid. Essentially, Apple raised the ceiling for what a luxury smartphone could cost, which allows companies like Samsung and Google to market their phones as somewhat oxymoronic “affordable luxury” devices.

“By selling configurations for a lot more than $1,000 they’ve done their competitors a favor,” says Elmer-DeWitt. “They’ve created a price umbrella under which their competitors can enter the high end of the market as a cheaper luxury device that’s nearly as good as Apple’s. Or so they’ll say.”

Many of Apple’s rivals in the smartphone market have raised their prices considerably in the last two years, according to a Monday report from CNET, including Samsung, Huawei, and OnePlus. The biggest jump has been in the cost of the OnePlus, which has soared by almost a third.

How High Can Smartphone Prices Go?

During Apple’s second-quarter earnings call, CEO Tim Cook stated that the iPhone X was the “top-selling iPhone since the launch,” putting to rest “notions that” the pricing strategy was too aggressive. The company’s current flagship iPhone was released alongside the 8 and the 8 Plus, which were around $200 cheaper.

For more evidence that Apple’s smartphone strategy is sticking around, look no further than its rival Samsung.

The 2016 Galaxy S7 Edge, for example, was initially released for $779.99, while both the Galaxy S8 Plus and S9 Plus have been upped to $850. Rumors regarding the company’s upcoming Galaxy Note 9 allege that the company’s next-generation phone-tablet hybrid could start as high as $1,055.

However, this doesn’t mean that all Apple and Android phones will cost $1,000 in the future. The majority of iPhone rumors claim that Apple will release three new handsets priced at $699, $899, and $999. This would provide a top-of-the-line option while offering cost-conscious consumers an option that might be cheaper than the current iPhone 8.

Which is to say that it’s really access to the latest and the best smartphones that’s getting more expensive, as opposed to the actual smartphones themselves. And if you’re thinking of shelling out for a new Apple phone, here’s our guide to the best times of the year to buy.

The risks associated with global Internationalized Domain Names

The risks associated with global internationalized domain names is posing some security challenges as many feels it has a dark side even if some also feel is important for it. But before we move further to see the dark side has it is pointed out by Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsight Security, we need to find answer to the question below;

What is IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)?

This is concept that allow people in different country to access domain names in there own local languages and scripts. IDNs are formed using characters from different scripts, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic or Deuanagari. These are encoded by the unicode standard and used as allowed by the relevant IDN protocols.
This means that people will now be using domain or access domain in their own local languages.

This come as a result of people who are born and leaving in their own local communities wanting to have a domain in operated in their own languages of which this is meant to cut down security challenges but in other word, experts feels is a risk . Please watch the interview on “The risks associated with global Internationalized Domain Names” being addressed.

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WhatsApp bug that could be eating your data without your notice

WhatsApp bug that could be eating your data without your notice has being discovered and here are possible measures you have to take to manage the situation till a news of possible fixed is out. WhatsApp is leaking! Leaking your data, that is. Some users are reporting a problem with WhatsApp that is eating up their data. A few have complained that the messaging app has used up to 5GB of data in a matter of hours.
The issue is found in the chat backup function. WhatsApp allows you to automatically back up all WhatsApp items including conversations, photos, videos, and documents as regularly as every 24 hours. WhatsApp files are uploaded to Google Drive or iCloud so that you can then delete them from your mobile.
This latest WhatsApp bug interrupts the upload process and causes it to begin again. This means that a never-ending upload cycle is triggered, causing a constant consumption of user data. If this happens outside the house then that means mobile data is on the hook and WhatsApp will keep using it until there is nothing left.
Another version of the bug sees all data being backed up rather than just the data from the last 24 hours. This isn’t quite as bad as a continuous loop, but if you think about all the media you send and receive over WhatsApp, you know that this can still be bad enough.

Tech support scams a growing global problem

Social engineering attacks such as fake tech support calls are easy, effective and occur across all platforms.

Tech support scams by email, fake websites and error warnings, malware and unsolicited phone calls are an effective way to trick people into giving up personal information. And it’s only getting worse, ZDNet reports.

In 2017, Microsoft customer support services received 153,000 reports from customers in 183 countries who ran into or were victims of tech support scams. That’s up 24 percent from 2016, according to Microsoft Windows Defender Research Project Manager Erik Wahlstrom.

Approximately 15 percent of these customers lost on average between $200 and $400 in the scams, Wahlstrom said. Last December, scammers tricked people into paying $25 for fake security software. In the same month, Microsoft received a report of a tech-support scam in the Netherlands that resulted in the emptying of 89,000 euros (about $109,000, £78,000 and AU$143,000) from a bank account.
The problem isn’t limited to Windows’ users, with scammers attacking Mac OS, iOS and Android users as well. To that end, Microsoft has made partnerships in all areas — law enforcement, telecom, web hosting and financial networks — to take on the problem. But customer education remains key, Wahlstrom said.
News content gotten from https://www.cnet.com

Why entrepreneurs start companies rather than join them

If we were asked why we will want to startup our company rather than work with a large company, we will have a countless reasons at some point in time like:

It never crossed our mind that we started our own company because we thought more of our abilities than the value a large company would put on them. At least not consciously. But that’s the conclusion of a provocative research paper, Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship, that explains a new theory of why some people choose to be entrepreneurs. The authors’ conclusion: Entrepreneurs think they are better than their resumes show and realize they can be more successful by going it alone. And in most cases, they are right.
We will summarize the paper’s conclusions, then share a few thoughts about what they might mean – for companies, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial education. (By the way, as you read the conclusions keep in mind the authors are not talking just about high-tech entrepreneurs. They are talking about everyone who chooses to be self-employed – from a corner food vendor without a high school diploma to a high-tech founder with a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.)
The authors’ research came from following 12,686 people over 30+ years. They found:

WHAT IS WEB HOSTING?

I know a lot of you will be wondering why I am asking this simple question but the fact remains that lots of people don’t really understand what a web hosting is and will love to know exactly what it is.

In writing this article the first thing I did was to ask Google the same question am asking here and honestly I did not get the required answer I needed to know about WHAT  IS WEB HOSTING but when I run a keyword search I found out that, 100 of persons have been searching daily on  WHAT IS WEB HOSTING? meaning they don’t understand what it is so I decided to write about this topic this week.

In other to properly answer the question “WHAT IS WEB HOSTING”, let first of all understand what a HOST is then we will now use the knowledge to answer the question in context.

Being one of the most multi-sided terms on the Internet, ‘host’ can be used in a variety of contexts. When it comes to the computer world, the word host could mean a lot and can be seen from the network perspective as a network host and can also be seen from the web angle as a web host or other uses of host but in all it means something has more than enough for others to tap from.

HOST IN THE NETWORK PERSPECTIVE

From a networking point of view, a ‘host’ refers to any computer (server) that is interlinked with another machine(s) through an Internet connection. Each host has its unique IP address, formed by the computer’s local number and the particular number of the network it belongs to.

The Internet host, in this case, is responsible for storing data that will be transmitted to other machines, usually users’ computers, called remote terminals.

Another networking use of ‘host’ is when the Point-to-Point Protocol (aka PPP) is adapted for executing a connection between a user’s computer and his/her Internet provider.

In this case, the user is assigned a unique IP address for the time the Internet connection is being carried out, where the user’s computer acts as a host for that connection, which is actually a networking node.

The network host is now part of the internet connection between your internet service provider who is the host and you who is the subscriber.

HOST IN THE WEB PERSPECTIVE

In the language of web hosting, a ‘host’ refers to a web server that stores website files, as well as various programs and applications. In this light, a ‘host’ refers to the bundle of hardware, software and communication lines required for the hosting service to run smoothly.

To take advantage of this commercial use of ‘host’, website owners, individuals or companies need to sign up with a web hosting provider (the owners)  and choose a plan that corresponds to their particular demands.

They will be able to connect to their particular host to make various file manipulation actions either via an in-built File Manager provided by the hosting company or via FTP access provided by the hosting provider, whereby the client’s FTP software connects to the provider’s FTP host server using an FTP connection. Very often, you could find the web hosting company itself to be referred to as a ‘host’ for the sake of brevity.

After seeing the meaning of a host, we can now conclude by providing an answer to the question “What is web hosting”.

Web hosting can be described as a huge server with software application in it that can be able to run the website we have created and if we want people to have access to our website, we can subscribe to the server then upload our website files to it then people can now have  to access to the website we have created.

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