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Microsoft advertises Edge right when you download Google Chrome

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Microsoft has taken a new step to promote its proprietary Edge browser. As users have noticed, Microsoft Edge for Windows is now showing some pretty aggressive ads on the Chrome download page to discourage defectors from switching to the competing browser.

Microsoft advertises Edge right when you download Google Chrome

This behavior was reported by users of the Microsoft Edge (Canary) test build for Windows. On the Chrome download page, users noticed the message “Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft.”

Microsoft advertises Edge right when you download Google Chrome

A full-width banner appears right below the address bar and looks like it’s part of a Google-generated page. There is also a tiny ad that appears when the Chrome page is initially loaded. Such innovations caused a negative reaction from users.

The stable version of Edge does not have such aggressive ads. It’s entirely possible that the backlash online will warn Microsoft against introducing such a feature into the stable release.

A week earlier, it became known that Microsoft had begun advertising Edge for Outlook users on iPhone.

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Elon Musk announced the availability of Twitter Blue around the world: what does a paid subscription give

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Paid verification of accounts on the social network Twitter, which is given using a subscription called Twitter Blue, has become available to users around the world.

This was announced by the head of Twitter, American billionaire Elon Musk, who also heads Tesla, SpaceX, The Boring Company and Neuralink.

A Twitter Blue subscription allows users of the social network to receive a blue check mark in their accounts, which indicates the authenticity of their accounts. You can subscribe for a price of $ 7 per month, which was confirmed by Elon Musk himself.

Elon Musk announced the availability of Twitter Blue around the world: what does a paid subscription give

Sign up today to get blue tick, conversation priority ranking, half ads, long tweets, bookmark folders, custom navigation, tweet editing, untweeting and more.

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Employees of Apple and Twitter are driven to the offices. You can get fired for working from home

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Employees of Apple and Twitter are driven to the offices

Zoe Schiffer, who was recently managing editor of Twitter and now holds the same position at Platformer, said that Apple strictly monitors how employees visit offices.

Apple tracks employee attendance (using electronic badge records) and alerts employees if they don’t show up to the office at least 3 times a week.

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Some at Apple, according to Schiffer, say that non-compliance could lead to dismissal, but she added that this does not seem like company policy.

Employees of Apple and Twitter are driven to the offices.  You can get fired for working from home

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In addition, she revealed that her former boss, Elon Musk, sent an email to Twitter employees at 2:30 a.m. stating that “office visits are no longer optional.” The billionaire noticed that the San Francisco office was half empty when he last visited.

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Scissors undercut: Windows 11 vulnerability reveals sensitive information from screenshots, including deleted parts

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Scissors undercut Windows 11 vulnerability reveals sensitive information from screenshots

A dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in one of the standard Windows 11 applications that could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information to the user. Moreover, at the moment the vulnerability is not closed and attackers can use it.

Scissors undercut: Windows 11 vulnerability reveals sensitive information from screenshots, including deleted parts

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We are talking about the application Snipping Tool (Scissors). The vulnerability, called aCropalypse, allows you to undo changes made by a user when editing a screenshot, including cropped or blurred parts that hide sensitive data.

When you edit a screenshot, you can save it with the same name as the original file by overwriting it. However, as it turns out, the Windows 11 Snipping Tool does not remove the original information from the file, but simply leaves it added at the end, which is usually invisible to users. With some trickery, a potential attacker can extract hidden information from a file and see what information has been edited.

As you can see, edited screenshots are usually much larger due to the inclusion of information from the original image.

Scissors undercut: Windows 11 vulnerability reveals sensitive information from screenshots, including deleted parts

This is a pretty serious vulnerability. For example, if you share a screenshot of an order confirmation page on Amazon, it may contain an address, the same goes for credit card numbers and other sensitive data.

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