YouTube Kids features disturbing and inappropriate content, report

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

You never know who to trust nowadays, and that’s largely true for the kid-friendly version of YouTube. While it claims to host content that not…

Facebook admits it stored millions of passwords in plain text

By Faisal Saeed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has admitted on Thursday in a blog post, that it stored hundreds of millions of users’ passwords on their internal servers and due to…

Sending unwanted ‘good morning’ messages and stalking on social media is also harassment, Kashmala

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Kashmala Tariq has recently said that sending unnecessary, unwelcoming, and unwanted “good morning” and “best…

Instagram launches in-app buying feature for users

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Instagram has announced a new feature which lets the user to check-out products directly from the application’s interface. The new feature, which has been made…

Mosque Attack Livestream: New Zealand wants answers from tech giants

By Muneeb Ahmad ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Prime Minister of New Zealand mentioned that she was looking for answers from tech companies about how a mass attack like this could be…

Women marchers of Aurat March 2019 being threatened, DRF submits complaints to FIA

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Digital Rights Foundation — an NGO working for security and safety of people on social media, has recently submitted a collective report comprised of complaints…

Google’s boring messaging app Allo is shutting down today

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google’s messaging and social networking services have been ignored and avoided by the masses for quite a while now. Google+ effectively failed to gain user’s…

Facebook lost over 15 million users in just two years, report

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook is losing users like a drunk gambler loses excess cash. During the course of just last two years, Facebook has lost 15 million users in…

Facebook under fire for allowing anyone to look you up using your phone number without permission

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook has once again provoked a backlash from its users for potentially misusing user data, this time related to the phone numbers. Facebook is not…

Facebook Messenger’s newest ‘mode’ is so ‘dark’ and here’s how you can get it

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Hi Messenger! You are getting so dark, you sure you’re from the Facebook universe. Facebook Messenger users can now finally get access to the most-anticipated…

FIA is monitoring social media to restrict anti-national propaganda

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is keeping a close eye on social media and other digital platforms to curb hate speech, extremism and anti-national activism…

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Mountain Dew Gamers Arena gets its first Counter-Strike Winner from Lahore

By Press Release ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

If you’d walked into the Portal gaming center in Lahore this weekend, here’s what you’d have seen: teams of video gamers in dark rooms huddled…

Saudis one of the highest active users of Snapchat

By Aqsa Khunshan ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

According to Snapchat, in Saudi Arabia, there are around 9 million active daily users, 55% of them are women, out of Saudi Arabia’s 32 million…

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