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Huge hotel hack, iPhone 14 issues, how TikTok changes our culture


October 4, 2022

A new study says social media makes children rude and anti-social, how TikTok is changing the way we speak, watch out for this huge hotel hack, Queen Elizabeth II’s golden Wii console, how to record your computer screen for free and iPhone 14 issues. Plus, how to see live bird migration maps in your area and what to do when you get a text with a verification code you didn’t request.

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October 3, 2022

Police can access your home security cameras, Tesla’s cybertruck delays, Starlink bypasses government controls, signs a keylogger is on your phone and find out how long it will take to beat a video game. Plus, search through your old Facebook posts for something specific, 3 Google Maps tricks and how to hear your TV at whatever volume you want.

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TikTok is a Chinese ‘piece of malware’ corrupting American youth: Douglas Murray


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Fox News contributor Douglas Murray called TikTok “a piece of malware from China” as young Americans use it to express their gender identity Friday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”

DOUGLAS MURRAY: I feel very sorry for friends who are satirists these days because you just can’t write satire because real life has overtaken it. But the second thing that needs to be said, and you know this, is this is a TikTok problem. 

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TikTok is a Chinese company. And there is no difference in major companies like TikTok in China and the Chinese Communist Party. It is, in my view, a piece of malware from China. It is distorting the brains of young Americans, young people across the West who are using it for this self-absorbed nonsense. And frankly, it has an enormously corrupting effect on our society. And I think that’s what the Chinese Communist Party intends. 

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TikTok denies security breach after hackers claim to have records of more than a billion users


TikTok has denied a security breach after posts on hacking forums claimed to have compromised the app’s source code, as well as account details of potentially billions of people. In a statement posted to Twitter, the company said it “found no evidence of a breach,” following an investigation of the claims. The company also told Bloomberg UK that the alleged source code posted by the hackers “is completely unrelated to TikTok’s backend source code.”

Claims of a potential breach had been circulating among the security community after a post on a hacking forum to be in possession of a database with more than two billion entries related to TikTok and WeChat accounts. The hacking group claimed to have obtained the TikTok records from an insecure cloud server.

The supposed hackers published a sample of the TikTok data but, as security researcher Troy Hunt , it contained data that was already publicly accessible and thus “could have been constructed without breach.” Hunt, who runs the “haveibeenpwned” service, the data was overall “pretty inconclusive.”

While TikTok has strongly denied a breach, the info in the database could have come from other means. As Bleeping Computer , it could be the result of a data broker or some other third-party that scraped publicly-available data from the service.

Claims of a security breach come just days after Microsoft researchers that they had found a “high-severity vulnerability” in TikTok’s Android app that put millions of accounts at risk. Microsoft said the vulnerability was fixed less than a month after it alerted TikTok to the issue in February of 2022. TikTok has long faced questions about its and what user data is shared with parent company ByteDance. The company said last month that Oracle would review its algorithms and content moderation systems in an effort to assuage concerns.

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Tech Bytes: Meta is fined, Tiktok denies hacking, new Apple Watch Pro


Meta’s big fine. Facebook’s parent company has been hit with a 400-million dollar penalty, for breaking European Union data privacy rules, because of its treatment of children’s data on Instagram. Meta says it plans to appeal the fine, setting up what could be a lengthy legal battle.

Tiktok is denying reports that it’s been hacked. A hacking group claims it breached the platform and accessed more than two billion records, including user data. But Tiktok says it found no evidence of a security breach.

Images of what may be the new Apple Watch Pro are making their way around the internet, and they appear to show the reports about a new button on the device are true. However it’s purpose isn’t known. The pictures also appear to show both a larger display and casing.

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