The United States Federal Trade Commission, FTC has approved an amount of 5billion United States dollars facebook settlement over its investigation of the social media company’s handling of personal user data. The Federal Trade Commission for some months has been investigating facebook for allegations of inappropriately sharing information of about 87million users with defunct British political company Cambirdge Analytica.

The probe has been focused on whether sharing of user data to Cambridge Analytica violated a 2011consent  agreement between the social media giant and the regulator. Shares of facebook rose after the news was reported by the wall street journal early Friday 12th of July 2019 and closed up to 1.8%. Beginning of 2019, facebook explained it has set aside $3billion to pay off its penalty.

The settlement still needs to be finalized by the US department civil division and then final announcement could follow maybe next week

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Social media giant company facebook has unveiled plans to launch its new digital currency. The social media company will launch its new digital currency which will allow over 2billion of its customers to make payments online using the libra coin. This means users of facebook will now be able to make payments with the currency via its own apps. The company also explains that firms such as ebay, spotify, paypal, visa, uber etc. are all likely to accept it in the future.

The company revealed that from next year, users will be able to buy libra through its platforms which they will be able to store in their digital wallets called libra.

libra payments will also be available via whatsapp

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Today, Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Jose and threw a lot of newest technology on its devices including a Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR, iOS 13 with a dark mode, MacOS Catalina and an operating system for the iPad called iPadOS.
Here is everything you need to know
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current boss, Tim Cook

Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display XDR
The cheese grater is back for 2019 — and it’s modernized, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s based on a 28-core Intel Xeon workstation processor, six channels of ECC for up to 1TB of system memory, eight PCIe slots (four double wide) two 10GB Ethernet ports, support for dual AMD GPUs and more. Apple’s also introduced a custom video accelerator card, called Afterburner.
The rumored 32-inch HDR display (that Apple dubs “XDR”) is real, and Apple intends to replace reference monitors, with a matching cheese-grater back that’s also a huge heat sink. It’s got 6,016×3,384 resolution, a true 10-bit panel, a polarizer for better viewing angles, etched glass and a large array of blue LEDs with lenses and local dimming that supports 1,600 nits peak and 1,000 nits sustained and high contrast.
Apple also has a new card called Afterburner designed specifically for video-editing acceleration to support native ProRes and ProRes Raw in 8K.

iPad now runs iPadOS
Splitting the operating system lets Apple take better advantage of the bigger screen. It lets you pin widgets to the home screen, provides a better multitasking interface, and permits multiple windows in apps with split screen, App ExposeNow there’s a column view in Files, more metadata and quick actions. Also, folder sharing finally comes to iCloud Drive, and you’ll be able to attach to network servers. It adds support for USB thumb drives and the ability to import photos directly from a camera.
Safari on iPad will pull the desktop site resized for its display and optimized for touch input.There’s support for custom fonts from the big foundries, as well as better text selection. Apple Pencil has lower latency and is better for doing markup, and Apple has opened the programming interface to other software developers

MacOS Catalina
The new version of MacOS has an iTunes replacement dubbed Music, less-intrusive iPhone integration, a Podcast app with indexing for easy finding, and Apple TV with Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision support.
There’s a new app called Sidecar that lets you use the iPad as a second display which adds assistive voice control.
An Activation Lock and find my comes to MacOS for locking access to your MacBook from thieves.
Project Catalyst (formerly Marzipan), is only for iPad apps; it permits developers to now easily port their iPad apps to MacOS. For developers, RealityKit and Reality Composer updates to ARKit (with built-in motion capture) made Minecraft in the real world possible, and that’s just for starters.Swift programming language has a new framework to make programming easier.

Would Apple call its next phone the iPhone 11 as we do for ease and a general sense of chronology or would it make more sense to stick with the X theme, and if so, then how iPhone X2 and X2S or is that the iPhone XI Would that make 2020’s phone the iPhone XIS of course not.

Methodist girls’ senior high school, a high school in Ghana has won the 2019 robofest competition which was organized in the United States of America. The school, which is located at Mamfe Akuapem in the Eastern Region, participated in the 20th edition of the World robofest this year.
Before they made it to the world platform, Methodist girls’ senior high school topped the preliminary contests held in Ghana among all the top senior high schools in the country. The program serves as a platform to use robotics to solve everyday problems. It has also been speculated that, very soon, robots will take over lots of works from humans. In fact this has even started in dome parts of the world.

The competition was well organized in a way that, tasks were given to participating schools from all over the world to find ways to solve the challenges. Some of these tasks given comprised building a robot to arrange boxes according to a Binary Number. This Binary Number is unveiled when all robots are impounded.
Great nations took part in this competition. Some of the participating countries were Japan, China, Korea, South Africa, United States, and Mexico.

We are proud of our girls for winning this one and making us proud. Deputy communications minister has promised the girls for a special treat on their return. Earlier on, he spoke to the leader of the girls. “Congratulations to the girls for winning for coming out successful, please come to our office on your return from the United State of America” he reveals on JoyTv, the pulse this afternoon. check out pictures of some of our girls who competed above

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A security researcher named Sebastián Castro has uncovered a way of gaining admin rights and boot persistence on Windows PCs that is not only simple to execute but hard to stop as well.

RID Hijacking

This technique manipulates a parameter of Windows user accounts named Relative Identifier (RID). Account security identifiers (SIDs) that define a user’s permissions group, typically have a RID code appended at the end.

While there are several different RIDs available, the most commonly used ones are 500 for admin accounts and 501 for the standard guest account.

By manipulating the registry keys that store information about each Windows account, one can modify the RID associated each account.

This RID can be changed and assigned to another account group which would also modify the permissions associated with it. Hence the term ‘RID Hijacking.’

Even though this method cannot be used remotely to hack a computer (unless it’s unprotected with a password and left exposed on the internet), attackers can gain control of a system either by malware or brute force.

They can simply grant admin permissions to a compromised low-level account, and thus create a permanent backdoor on a Windows PC with full system access.

To make it worse, this attack can be deployed without triggering an alert to the victim and works on Windows versions XP to 10 and from Server 2003 to Server 2016.

No response from Microsoft

What’s even more troubling is the fact that this exploit was found way back in December 2017 and Microsoft was notified about the same. But the company never responded or patched the vulnerability.

Thankfully, this technique has gone unnoticed by malware authors or at least no such incidents involving RID hijacking have surfaced yet.

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