Day: October 25, 2016

GitLab Brings Multiple Issue Boards for Each Project GitLab, which describes itself as ‘tools for modern developers’ released an update to its Issue Boards tool, which is a visual interface for teams to track the status of their projects. The new update brings more flexibility and the ability to create multiple issue boards for each project. #development Google Begins to Censor Content Insulting Thai King King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand passed away on the 13th of October, and the Thai government asked Google to ban insults to royal figures. Strangely, Google has begun to remove content with royal insults, something that may tantamount to suppressing free speech. However, Google has repeatedly complied with such requests in China and elsewhere in the past too. #Internet Is Reliance Jio the Slowest in India? Reliance Jio, which has been making rounds in news sections because of its cheap 4G tariffs may not be all that great. Among the top 5 telecom operators in India, Jio offers the slowest download speeds, according to TRAI data. Strangely, Reliance blamed the results on ‘inherent bias against Jio data usage’. #telecom New App Lets You Name and Shame Air Pollution Enablers The air isn’t getting any cleaner and some people behind ‘Hawa Badlo’ app seem to be taking action, or rather encouraging people to take action. The app comes with a public platform through which you can report events or people that is causing air pollution. Certainly, naming and shaming has taken a completely new meaning. #app RBI to Tighten Cyber Security Norms If you thought banking institutions weren’t too careful about credit card data and other financial information, the Reserve Bank of India seems to be thinking so too. The regulatory authority is likely to tighten cyber security norms in order to safeguard the interests of banking customers. #privacy #security

  Connected Devices Could Be to Blame for the Recent DDoS Attack A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which the Internet recently. A large portion of the Internet was affected and raised legitimate questions about cyber security and safety. Dyn reported that our connected devices could take a share of the blame, especially when it comes to security attacks. #privacy #security Go Insta Brings Live Videos to Instagram To play catch up with Snapchat, Instagram is bringing a live video service called ‘Go Insta’, which allows you to post images and videos as part of a story but they will be available only for 24 hours. The users who broadcast the videos come with a banner that that reads ‘LIVE’, to tell others that they’re broadcasting. #digital #marketing Facebook Adopts Client-side Ranking to Improve News Feed Facebook just employed client-side ranking to ensure that News Feed content is more efficient. The idea is to bring news articles and content quickly. The idea is to make new links load quickly in the background, so that the redesigned News Feed loads everything almost instantaneously. #social Google Will Now Associate Web Tracking with Personally Identifiable User Data Apparently, Google just changed its privacy policy silently to associate web tracking with personally identifiable user data. This is supposed to be anonymous and breaks the promise that Google had once made. This could raise questions about Google Pixel, Google’s new smartphone which could make collecting such personal data easier. #privacy #security Linux’s Next Ubuntu Release Codenamed ‘Zesty Zapus’ If you are a Linux user and were wondering when the new Ubuntu update would be released, here are some clues. First, the next release will be Ubuntu 17.04, and its launch date will soon be announced. Second, it has a strange codename, just like its predecessors and is called ‘Zesty Zapus’. #os