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Instagram made the announcement yesterday

EXLOVER:
The most annoying people on earth, are the people that buy fairly used phone for 40 to 30k and will be using #200 charger to charge the phone.

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Instagram will restrict posts and ads about weight loss and cosmetic surgery to try and protect teen users.

Instagram is rolling out new rules around posts promoting weight-loss products and cosmetic surgery.

It will now restrict posts promoting such products so under-18s can’t see them, and remove anything that promises a “miracle” solution for weight-loss.

The new policy was formulated in conjunction with actress Jameela Jamil, a vocal opponent of the diet and detox industry.

SOURCE: https://wrnts.com/here-is-why-instagram-will-restrict-posts-and-ads-about-weight-loss-and-cosmetic-surgery/

A man in Russia staged a fake drug bust with ‘armed’ ex-military personnel to propose to his girlfriend — and it’s part of a rising trend of ‘extreme proposals‘

SOURCE: https://wrnts.com/the-rising-trend-of-extreme-marriage-proposals-in-russia/

Extreme marriage proposals, which include staging a drug bust and hiring fake armed forces, are on the rise in Russia.

Sergei Rodkin is the founder of “The SpezNas Show”, a “prank” company that hires ex-military personnel to act out pretend “raids” for events ranging from children’s birthdays, company parties and marriage proposals.

A BBC video of one such prank went viral last week, showing a young woman being proposed to after she had fake drugs put into her bag and was interrogated by a group of balaclava-wearing armed police.

While the young woman looked visibly shocked, she later revealed she wasn’t “angry”. She also said yes to the marriage proposal.

A psychologist explains that people are more likely to say yes to the proposal because they want the heightened and stressful situation to end as soon as possible.

sunnychibs:
Nice one,Singapore





I keep asking myself ''when will Nigeria be like these countries?"

Only God knows

While most 65-year-olds would be usually looking to ease up as they hit retirement, in Singapore workers are being encouraged to learn new skills to stay productive in the digital world.

Singapore has one of the highest life expectancies in the world at nearly 85 years. The government soon plans to raise the retirement age and businesses are investing more to upskill workers. Singtel, Singapore Telecommunications Limited, is one of these companies and it be spending $32.7 million over three years to train staff, according to Bloomberg.

Valerie Yeong-Tan has worked for 47 years at Singtel. She is an administrator in the human resources department with no prior programming knowledge, but was recently persuaded to take bot-building courses to improve her skills.

“Learning is a lifelong process, and I want to keep my mind active,” the 65-year-old said in an interview at a new Singtel office in Singapore, where it will conduct training. “I also hope to encourage and inspire the younger generation of workers, and show them that you can learn new skills no matter how far you are in your career.”

After attending a four-day Bot Maker Training course and a two-day Bot Maker Hackathon, both organized by Singtel, Yeong-Tan was introduced to basic programming terminology. Thanks to her newly-acquired skills, she can now automate work processes which saves her hours every day.

Both government agencies and businesses are helping workers reskill and find jobs. Workforce Singapore and SkillsFuture Singapore run a number of such programs. Last year, 431,000 Singaporeans made use of the SkillsFuture Credit — which subsidizes government-approved training courses — compared with 285,000 in 2017.

As for Singtel, it recently announced it will invest S$45 million ($32.7 million) over the next three years to boost its employees’ digital skills. It’s providing additional in-house training courses and programs in a variety of technology-related fields ranging from 5G capabilities to data analytics. Last year, German technology giant SAP SE partnered with government agencies and local educational institutions to offer courses in a program dubbed the SAP Skills University Singapore, targeted at mid-career professionals.

Chua Sock Koong, Singtel’s group chief executive officer said: “Work, as we know it today, is very different from 10 years ago. And 10 years from now, it will be very different from today. That is why we mustn’t stop evolving, as an employee, as a company.”

SOURCE: https://wrnts.com/65-year-old-workers-are-learning-how-to-code-in-singapore-because-its-never-too-late/

midolian:
it can't be .. with what I just saw on that site? my brother, run!

Lol

sunsewa16:
Good info,never know of this,this technological era eh,we go really see the good and the bad.

def

Timileyin1234:
But iPhone dey ask of password if u put cable when u wan do anything other than charging the phone na

I don't think this hackers need password

Protect your charging cables like you protect your passwords say cybersecurity experts.

We’ve all been there. Your smartphone or tablet getting low on power and you’ve left your charging cable at home. There’s no harm in borrowing someone else’s right?

In 2019, that would be a huge mistake, say cybersecurity experts.

“There are certain things in life that you just don’t borrow,” says Charles Henderson, Global Managing Partner and Head of X-Force Red at IBM Security. “If you were on a trip and realized you forgot to pack underwear, you wouldn’t ask all your co-travelers if you could borrow their underwear. You’d go to a store and buy new underwear.”

Henderson runs a team of hackers that clients hire to break into their computer systems in order to expose vulnerabilities. Since cyberhackers have figured out how to implant charging cables with malware that can remotely hijack devices and computers, his team sometimes uses a trick to teach clients to be less trusting of third-party charging cables. “We might send somebody a swag iPhone cable in the mail. Maybe we have it branded as something innocuous, like a vendor or a partner that they have listed on their website. We send off the cable and see if the person plugs it in,” he says.

Last week, at the annual DEF CON Hacking Conference in Las Vegas — “hacker summer camp,” says Henderson — a hacker who goes by “MG” demonstrated an iPhone lightning cable that he had modified. After using the cable to connect an iPod to a Mac computer, MG remotely accessed the cable’s IP address and took control of the Mac, as Vice reported in play-by-play fashion. MG noted that he could later remotely “kill” the implanted malware and wipe out all evidence of its existence. The enterprising hacker had a stash of so-called O.MG cables that he was selling for $200 apiece.

Malicious charging cables aren’t a widespread threat at this time, says Henderson, “Mainly because this kind of attack doesn’t scale real well, so if you saw it, it would be a very targeted attack.”

“But just because we haven’t yet seen a widespread attack doesn’t mean we won’t see it, because it certainly does work,” says Henderson. “The technology is really small and really cheap. It can get so small that it looks like an ordinary cable but has the capability and the intelligence to plant malware on its victim. These things are only going to get cheaper to produce and it’s not something your average consumer is going to be tracking to know when it becomes viable on a mass scale.”

For the moment, Henderson says, a bigger threat than malicious charging cables is USB charging stations you see in public places like airports. “We’ve seen a couple of instances where people modified charging stations. I’m not talking about an electrical outlet, I’m talking about when there’s a USB port on a charging station.”

“Being careful about what you plug into your devices is just good tech hygiene,” says Henderson. “Think of it in the same way that you think about opening mail attachments or sharing passwords. In a computing context, sharing cables is like sharing your password, because that’s the level of access you’re crucially conveying with these types of technology.”

Many travelers know that, in a pinch, the hotel front desk will often have a drawer of charging cables that were left behind by guests.

Don’t be tempted, says Henderson. “If the front desk had a drawerful of underwear, would you wear those?”

SOURCE: https://wrnts.com/here-is-why-you-should-never-try-borrowing-someone-elses-charging-cable/

franchasng:
Very interesting thread. I love this because I am picking some new sites from here, thanks op

you are welcome

iaamxavier:
So this what Travis Scott has been phucking?!!

Lol

So what are those buzz websites you visit when boredom hits you, or website you like visiting generally?

Hot

mehn..

Olufemiolaolu:
This is madness . Why must she go naked?

definitely for more publicity