Huawei is going to be banned in Romania!

 

Romania last week approved a new law that would ban Huawei from building a FiveG network in the country. As it relates to the 2019 Washington Accords, any future partnership between Huawei and Romania will be banned.

Not all organizations participating in the creation of the country's FiveG network can be controlled by foreign governments. Everyone must have a transparent and own ownership structure. At the same time there must be legal validity to adhere to transparent corporate practices.

The bill is awaiting parliamentary approval, which is expected to be completed in the next few weeks.

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Timelapse feature has been added to Google Earth

 

Google Earth is showing video images of climate change, urbanization and deforestation. Has released a new feature - Timelaps. In Fordy View, users will be able to see how forests and rivers have been lost in any part of the world in the last four decades.

Timelaps have been used to create 40 million images, 800 archived videos and interactively guided images of artificial satellites over the past 37 years. The feature also uses data from the US space agency NASA, the US Geological Survey's Landsat program and the European Union's Copernicus program.

Reuters reports that Google Earth's timelapse tool highlights riverine areas, ever-growing urban areas and agricultural land changes. It also shows the depletion of glaciers, forests and rivers.

One such video shows Bolivia's nearby forests disappearing into villages and farms. In another, the main reason for the rise of the Amazon forest. The third one is seen melting again in the video

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Fitbit brings ‘luxury’ fitness tracker!

 

This is the first time that Fitbit is going to unveil a device after the acquisition process by Google, even though it is not a Wire OS smartwatch. According to a leaked information from WinFuture, it will be 'Fitbit Lux', which is basically a 'luxury' fitness tracker.

The device uses a stainless steel case. There is an LED screen. There will be GPS, heart rate monitor and swimming-friendly waterproof system. Its interchangeable straps are not commonly found on fitness trackers. Fitbit is building the device with the promise of controlled health with excellent design.

Although the release date is not yet known, it is expected that the device will be unveiled soon. But the biggest challenge will be the price. Surely Fitbit is bringing this device to the premium customers, which will make it harder to compete with the cheaper trackers.

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Google's shopping app is going to be closed in June

 

Google's shopping app will be closed from next June. According to Google, they are going to stop this service from next June.

However, it will only apply to mobile apps. Everyone can enjoy this facility on desktop or web version as now. Nothing is stopping there.

Even if you can't shop through the app, shopping from the desktop will not be a problem. In other words, shopping dot google dot com is the same as before. And you can buy anything you like from it.

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Fake job traps for hackers on LinkedIn

 

Job seekers are looking for jobs after falling victim to the Corona epidemic. And by taking advantage of this opportunity, hacker anagona has increased at an excessive rate on LinkedIn with fake job advertisements.

A recent Gizmodo report uncovered a fake job trap on LinkedIn.

Cybercriminals are using a sophisticated and realistic campaign on LinkedIn to hack into users' devices, according to a report by e-Centaur, a cybersecurity solutions service provider.

The company claims that a certain hacking group has been trying to trap job seekers in various fake jobs by trying to infect them through remote code execution.

With this remote code execution, hackers can gain remote access to the victim's device. As a result, hackers can send, receive, launch or even delete a file on the device without the victim's permission.

According to the report, these hackers are actually associated with many big cybercrime cycles. This group of cybercriminals is known as 'Golden Chicken'.

It is known that hackers send messages directly to the user with job offers. This job offer includes a zip file. And this file contains malware, which helps the hacker to get into the user's device.

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Verizon shuts down 3G It's network

 

Last January, Verizon spokesman Kevin King said the company apparently had no strong plans to shut down its 3G network. However, it has changed quickly. Verizon's 3G network will be shut down on December 31 next year. News Engadget.

Mike Heiberman, vice president of network engineering at Verizon, announced the closure of the 3G network on Wednesday. Currently, less than one percent of Verizon's total subscribers use 3G networks. The remaining 99 percent use 4G LTE or 5G, he said.

Verizon currently has about 9 million subscribers. As such, only nine lakh 40 thousand people are using 3G network.

For almost a year, Verizon has been campaigning to shut down their 3G CDMA services. In 2012, the company launched 4G LTE service. The company has been thinking of shutting down 3G services since 2014.

In 2016, plans were finally announced to shut down the 3G network within the next three years. It was later extended to 2020. Eventually it was extended to 2022. However, it has been informed that there is no plan to extend the term this time.

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Tesla cars can be bought with bitcoin, says Elon Musk

 

Tesla is now accepting bitcoin payments, as promised earlier this year. The information came from Tesla's website and CEO Elon Musk's tweet. News Engadget.

In a series of tweets, the head of Tesla said that Tesla will consider bitcoin payments as bitcoin. It will not be converted to ordinary currency. Tesla has used internal, open source software to launch the service, and Tesla will manage Bitcoin nodes directly.

This service is currently available for US customers only. However, Elon Musk added that Bitcoin payment facilities will be introduced in countries outside the United States later this year.

Apparently Tesla will not accept any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin. Customers have to pay the full amount through one transaction. This payment can be made by scanning the QR code or copying and pasting the bitcoin address.

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Apple is discontinuing the iMac Pro

 

If you want to buy an iMac Pro for an emergency, you should buy it quickly. Because Apple is going to put an end to this all-in-one workstation. Engadget quoted Apple as saying.

Only those who are interested can buy the limited edition of 10-core Zion configuration. But that too as long as the last supply exists in the market. It will be ordered in the next three to four weeks.

According to Apple, most Pro customers are satisfied with the high-end 2020 iMac. It has SSDS standard, modern graphics facility, RAM up to 128 GB and nano texture display. In addition, customers who demand more than the Mac Pro Tower can buy.

Note that the iMac Pro was unveiled at the end of 2017. The device has become quite popular among those who do photo and video editing. However, the future of the device is uncertain as there is no improvement from the base specification. Many people think that the popular PCT is going to end in this series.

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More than 20,000 organizations have been affected by Microsoft's email error

More than 20,000 organizations have been affected by Microsoft's email error. Reuters quoted a US government official as saying. The attackers are still under investigation. According to some experts, millions of customers have been affected by this cyber attack. And this number may increase further.

Cybersecurity reporter Brian Krebs said in a report on Friday that at least 30,000 Microsoft customers had been affected by the attack.

Microsoft, meanwhile, has blamed China for the hacking, claiming state support for the attack, which was carried out using email services.

In this case, the hackers have taken advantage of the weakness of Microsoft's exchange service. Exchange is the organization's mail and calendar server. Government and military contractors, starting with small businesses, use Microsoft's exchange services.

 

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Brazilian court orders investigation of Facebook ads

 

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court has ordered an investigation into the sale of a protected area in the Amazon Rainforest via Facebook.

Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso has called on the country's attorney general and the justice ministry to investigate, citing a BBC investigative report.

The BBC's investigation into the sale of plots as large as 1,000 football pitches in a Facebook classified ad in the Amazon Forest.

Expressing surprise at the advertisement for the sale of the forest, the court called on the government to take "appropriate civil and criminal action".

Facebook said it was "ready to work with local authorities". But they will not be able to take independent action to stop this trade.

The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and an important carbon store that slows global warming. It is home to about 3 million species of plants and animals, and 1 million indigenous peoples.

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