In 2018, Google executive T. Jay Fowler confirmed on Twitter that the company planned to migrate Google Play Music subscriber catalogs, playlists, and preferences over to YouTube Music, which at the time it had just re-relaunched as its own paid streaming service with Fowler at the helm. A few months shy of two years later, 9to5Google reports that Google has developed an internal beta version of YouTube Music that may add at least some of this long-awaited functionality. Specifically, 9to5Google says the new version adds support for user-uploaded music — one of...

IntroductionIf youÂ’re just getting started with IRC development, the first thing to look at would be the IRC core specifications RFC1459 and RFC2812. One of our members has also been writing a new core protocol document here, which you may find useful to consult. After that, our specifications page contains the extensions the IRCv3 Working Group has developed.All of the IRCv3 extensions are backwards-compatible with older IRC clients, and older IRC servers. Our roadmap details the specifications we have in the pipeline, and our GitHub...

WhatsApp For Desktop Flaws Discovered Security researcher Gal Weizman from PerimeterX has discovered numerous security flaws in the WhatsApp Desktop Platform. As revealed in his report, these vulnerabilities could allow an adversary to gain access to the local file system. In brief, when he started testing WhatsApp, he found two vulnerabilities that affected all major WhatsApp platforms. That is, WhatsApp for Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, and web versions. These vulnerabilities were not difficult to exploit but certainly had a malicious impact. One of these was a simple alteration of text...

Scammers were found to have registered two websites that look similar to the original PayPal website. The targeted users are sent a message that contains links to one of these websites. Crooks are tricking users into sharing their personal details and login credentials in a new PayPal SMS scam. How does it happen? As reported by Naked Security, scammers have registered two websites that look similar to the original PayPal website. The targeted users are sent a message that contains links to one of these websites. These messages are designed in such a way that it...

  Like many of today’s browsers, Firefox has been making changes to try to answer its users’ call for more online privacy. This includes blocking third-party trackers by default as well as a VPN it calls the Firefox Private Network. Firefox provides a number of tools to help protect you against tracking by first-party cookies (which are usually used for things like remembering your login information) and third-party tracking cookies (which are often used by advertisers and others to collect information and track your online behavior). Below are step-by-step...

More than 41 million videos of child sexual abuse were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2019, partly because the videos have become easier for technology platforms like Facebook and Snapchat to detect, The New York Times reports. Just five years ago, the number of videos reported was less than 350,000. A record-breaking 70 million total images and videos were reported to the center last year; many of them were reported more than once across multiple platforms as users shared the illegal content. Facebook reported almost 60 million photos and...