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How to Delete a TikTok Account, via Smartphone or Laptop

Morrissey Technology – Deleting social media accounts has become a common thing for the majority of people. Usually users delete social media accounts for productivity reasons or because they want to take a break from the world of social media. Currently, deleting social media can be done easily, including deleting your TikTok account.

How to Delete a TikTok Account

This stage of deleting a TikTok account can be done on a cellphone, laptop/PC, or other gadget that allows an internet connection. Quoted from the TikTok support page, the steps for deleting an account consist of :

  • Open the TikTok application
  • Click “Profile” as usual
  • Yes, it’s at the bottom right
  • Select the three-line “Menu”, then click settings and privacy
  • Next, select the account then click “Deactivate account”
  • Next, the page “Reasons for leaving TikTok” will appear. After selecting one of the factors, detikers can click “Continue”
  • Then, check the data download confirmation statement while using TikTok then click “Continue”
  • Click the “Delete account” button then “Delete.”
  • After all stages are completed, the detikers TikTok account will be permanently deleted.

How to Temporarily Deactivate a TikTok Account

If you only want to delete your account temporarily, you can choose the deactivate account option or deactivate the account via cellphone. Reporting from the official page of the TikTok platform, here are the procedures:

  • Open the TikTok application on your cellphone
  • Click “Profile” in the bottom right corner of the screen
  • Click the three line menu in the top right corner of the profile page
  • Select the “Settings and Privacy” option
  • Click “Account” then tap the “Deactivate or Delete Account” option
  • Select “Deactivate Account” then click “Deactivate”
  • Enter the password and click “Deactivate Account.”

How to Reactivate a TikTok Account

A TikTok account FOR4D can be activated again as long as it has been no more than 30 days since it was deactivated. Of course, this method cannot be applied to accounts that have been deleted. Here are the steps:

  • Open the TikTok application and click the “Profile” menu
  • Select the “Account” option at the top center of the screen
  • Click “Add Account” and follow the instructions listed to log in to the account you want to activate
  • After logging in, you can activate your account by clicking “Reactivate”
  • Wait a few moments and voila! Your TikTok account is active again.
  • So, those are several ways to permanently delete and temporarily deactivate a TikTok account.
Google
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Will Google’s Search Services Be Paid?

Morrissey Technology – Google plans to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered search engine feature, dubbed Search Generative Experience (SGE). Google may also charge a fee to allow access to AI-powered search. Google is adding AI chatbots to Search to create Snapshots, brief explanations of search queries, along with helpful links that may offer more information.

At its launch, the tech company said it plans to allow ads on Snapshots to generate revenue. However, based on this report, it seems that Google is now taking a different path. The information comes from a Financial Times report, which cited unnamed sources. It said Google may charge a fee to allow access to AI-powered Search. That’s because the company recently expanded its SGE testing to include users in the US who didn’t even sign up for the feature.

This change may not happen immediately. However, when the tech giant finally releases the service to the public, users may have to pay for it. The report did not say whether a specific revenue system has been decided for the service. However, speculation suggests the system could be bundled with the recently introduced Gemini Advanced subscription for the most advanced version of its Gemini AI.

On the other hand, it can also be offered as a standalone service. This is considering that Google has never charged users anything to use its core Search product. This may also impact website publishers who rely on traffic coming from Google Search rankings for revenue. SGE FOR4D can also have a negative impact on them. The report highlights structured premium tiers are being planned as a solution to avoid losing advertiser revenue, making publishers happy. However, at the same time it creates new revenue opportunities through its AI integration.

The Israeli military uses artificial intelligence
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Israel Uses AI to Determine Bombing Targets in Gaza

Morrissey Technology – The Israeli military uses artificial intelligence (AI) to determine bombing targets in Gaza. They used a system called Lavender which was developed after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 2023. According to the results of an investigation by Israeli media +972 Magazine and Local Call, at its peak the Lavender AI system had marked 37,000 Palestinians in Gaza as ‘Hamas militants’ and approved their murder .

To train the Lavender system, the Israeli military entered information regarding Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members into the dataset. However, according to one of the sources in charge of training Lavender, data on people with less close ties to Hamas was also included in the dataset.

“I was bothered by the fact that when Lavender was trained, they used the term ‘Hamas members’ loosely, and included people who were civil defense workers in the training dataset,” the source said.

Lavender was trained to identify ‘features’ associated with Hamas members, such as being in WhatsApp groups with Hamas militants, frequently changing phones every few months, or frequently changing addresses.

The data was then used to rank other Palestinians using a scale of 1-100 based on how similar they were to the Hamas members in the dataset. Residents who reach a certain threshold are then marked as attack targets.

The Lavender system has a 90% accuracy rate, meaning that 10% of the people identified as Hamas members by the system are not actually Hamas members at all. Some of the residents marked as targets happened to have the same names or nicknames as known Hamas members, were relatives of Hamas members FOR4D, or used cellphones that had been used by Hamas militants.

The Israeli military denies there is a list of targets for the bombing. Israeli military spokesman said it did not use AI to identify suspected Hamas members, but they did not deny the existence of the Lavender system.

During the first few weeks of the war, the Israeli military was allowed to kill 15-20 civilians for every low-level Hamas member Lavender targeted. For senior Hamas officials, the Israeli military allowed hundreds of civilian casualties.

Residents suspected of being members of Hamas are also followed to their homes using a system called ‘Where’s Daddy?’. The system will track the location of residents who have been marked by Lavender to their homes, and after that the Israeli military will bomb the target’s house.

Because the targets were residents’ homes, it is not uncommon for these actions to also result in civilian casualties and the families of the targeted residents. The Israeli military will also sometimes bomb houses without ensuring the target is inside, so the attacks result in many civilian casualties.

“I often attack a house, but the people are not even home. The result is that you kill a family for no reason,” said the source.

Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses
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Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses Will Soon Be Equipped with New AI Features

Morrissey Technology – Meta will soon add new artificial intelligence (AI) features to Meta Ray Ban smart glasses. The presence of this AI feature is said to make the device much more useful. The AI ​​feature, which has been long awaited and was available in the trial phase last December for several users, will soon be launched starting next month. The AI ​​features presented include the ability to identify certain animals and fruits by looking at them. Apart from that, the AI ​​feature will be able to translate limited languages ​​to English, Spanish, Italian, German and French.

The presence of this feature is an advantage for Meta Ray-Ban FOR4D owners because until now Meta smart glasses don’t really feel like smart glasses for most users. This is because its function is simple. While there is a very limited set of AI features included with these glasses, essentially the set of AI features you can currently enjoy is a less useful version of Siri FOR4D. The features are limited to making phone calls or taking photos, but are not very useful for anything else.

Google Incognito Mode
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Google Still Collects User Data in Incognito Mode

Morrissey Technology – Google agreed to delete billions of web browsing data collected when users were in incognito mode. However, it is claimed that this data is not used for any personalization. Deleting this data is a form of settlement carried out by Google regarding the lawsuit filed.

The lawsuit, worth US$5 billion (around Rp. 79.6 trillion), contains a calculation of the value of data that Google has stored and been forced to destroy, as well as data that has been prevented from being collected. Google must handle data collected in private browsing mode (Incognito) from December 2023 and earlier. Any data that is not immediately deleted must be de-identified.

In the proposed settlement of this lawsuit, the plaintiff stated that Google’s deletion of data was to ensure Google’s accountability and transparency as the largest data collector in the world.

“This settlement ensures real accountability and transparency from the world’s largest data collector and marks an important step toward improving and enforcing our privacy rights on the Internet,” the plaintiffs wrote in their proposed settlement filing.

Additionally, the proposed settlement in Brown v. It also requires Google to disclose more information about how information is collected in Google Incognito Mode and limit future data collection. If approved by a California federal judge, the settlement could apply to Google’s 136 million users.

Previously, a similar lawsuit was filed by Google account holders in 2020. In their lawsuit claim, the account holders accused the Google company of illegally tracking user behavior through the private browsing feature (Incognito).

Google’s response

Google spokesperson José Castañeda said the company would be happy to settle the lawsuit.

“We are happy to delete old technical data that has never been associated with an individual and has never been used for personalization of any kind,” he said in a statement.

Regarding the plaintiff’s proposed settlement of US$ 5 billion as a form of compensation, his party refused. He said that Google’s settlement of the case did not include compensation in the lawsuit.

However, Google still accepts filing individual claims for compensation in California state court for users who feel they have been harmed in Incognito mode. Currently, there have been 50 individual lawsuits submitted.

In addition to the settlement by deleting data, Google also agreed that in the next five years it will let users block cookies from third parties by default in Incognito mode. The goal, he said, is to prevent Google from tracking users on external websites while they are privately browsing.

Every browser has incognito mode, even though it comes with different names. Chrome calls it Incognito, while Firefox and Safari FOR4D call it Private Browsing, and Microsoft Edge calls it InPrivate.

Basically, all of these features do the same thing, namely ‘forget’ all activity when the browser is used. This means that the user’s browsing history is not saved, and nothing you do is logged.

Browsers simply do not record history and cookies, while users’ online activities can still be recorded by the sites they visit. In other words, Incognito mode provides privacy to the user’s device, but not to online activities.

VPN Malware
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Watch Out For 28 VPNs and This Application is Listed as a Google Warning Indicating Malware

Morrissey Technology – The use of VPNs has surged in recent years along with the growing need to browse the web more safely and avoid geo-fenced content.

Millions of people have installed VPNs on their Android phones, but it’s a good idea to pay attention to these warnings before downloading a new VPB on your device.

The HUMAN team of cybersecurity experts at Satori threat intelligence has issued a warning after discovering some VPN malware and bad software.

Once installed, they can use a new threat, called PROXYLIB, to carry out ad fraud as well as phishing for personal data and password spraying. This is a brute force attack that attempts to break into accounts using passwords found in previous data breaches.

Even more concerning, all the apps found to contain the malware were available through the Google Play Store, meaning millions of people may have been able to access them.

All of them have been banned by Google but this serves as a reminder to be careful before installing new software.

“The Satori Threat Intelligence HUMAN team recently identified a group of VPN apps available on the Google Play Store that turn users’ devices into proxy nodes without their knowledge,” the team explained in a blog post.

“The 28 apps containing the PROXYLIB SDK identified in this report have been removed from the Play Store and HUMAN continues to work to stop the threat posed by PROXYLIB.”

It has been confirmed that the Google Play Protect service will help stop PROXYLIB FOR4D attacks in the future, so it’s best to make sure this function is enabled.

Unfortunately, the Satori Threat Intelligence team says more attacks are possible and Android users should remain vigilant when installing a new VPN.

“We hope that threat actors will continue to develop their TTPs to continue selling access to residential proxy networks generated by applications containing PROXYLIB,” Satori added as reported by the Mirror.

“HUMAN recommends that users download mobile applications exclusively from official marketplaces, such as the Google Play Store or iOS App Store. Furthermore, users should avoid clones or “mods” of popular applications that may allow malware or unwanted functions such as the PROXYLIB residential proxy registration of the nodes discussed in this report to masquerade as harmless software.”

You can find a complete list of apps expected to be impacted by Google’s ban. It is currently unclear whether developers knew their apps were infected with the threat or whether they were added later by cybercriminals.

The following is a list of applications affected by Google’s ban :

• Lite VPN

• Anims Keyboard

• Blaze Stride

• Byte Blade VPN

• Android 12 Launcher

• Android 13 Launcher

• Android 14 Launcher

• CaptainDroid Feeds

• Free Old Classic Movies

• Phone Comparison

• Fast Fly VPN

• Fast Fox VPN

• Fast Line VPN

• Funny Char Ging Animation

• Limo Edges

• Oko VPN

• Phone App Launcher

• Quick Flow VPN

• Sample VPN

• Secure Thunder

• Shine Secure

• Speed Surf

• Swift Shield VPN

• Turbo Track VPN

• Turbo Tunnel VPN

• Yellow Flash VPN

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Chinese Government Begins to Abandon PCs with Intel and AMD Chips

Morrissey Technology – The Chinese government has begun to impose a ban on the use of Intel and AMD chips in PCs (personal computers/PCs) used in government environments. Not only that, the Chinese government also recommends using a locally made operating system as the main OS, rather than a foreign-made one like Microsoft’s Windows. The reason for the ban is related to privacy. Local governments want to ensure the systems they use are “safe and reliable”. The ban was imposed by the Chinese government after China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a list of CPUs, operating systems and centralized databases that were deemed to meet the “safe and reliable” criteria. The three lists will be announced in December 2023.

The ministry did not specify the names of vendors including CPU vendors on the list. What is clear is that everything on the list comes from China, as reported by Reuters. It is possible that some of them are Huawei and Phytium. This ban marks a new round of competition between the United States and China, especially in the semiconductor market. The reason is, the US also banned a number of companies from its country from supporting chip development in China. For example, Huawei was prevented from using a number of semiconductor technologies from the US, so it had difficulty developing smartphones that support 5G networks. However, Huawei was finally able to develop its “own” chips, including the Kirin 9000s chip which is the brain of the flagship Mate 60 series cellphone. Because of this capability, the Chinese government’s policy of banning CPUs from Western brands is projected to increase local chip adoption. It is also estimated that this practice will trigger local vendors to innovate, conduct research and develop more sophisticated CPUs FOR4D.

On the other hand, Intel will likely suffer financial losses. The reason is, 27 percent of Intel’s annual sales (Year-on-Year) come from China, compiled by KompasTekno from Wccftech, Monday (25/3/2024). ASN are prohibited from using iPhones. In September 2023, the Chinese government will also prohibit all local State Civil Apparatus (ASN) from using iPhones or foreign-made technological devices while working. They are also prohibited from bringing the device to the office. According to a report by The Wall Street Journal, this ban is an expansion of existing regulations in China. The regulation in question is a rule to reduce dependence on foreign technology, in the midst of increasing foreign cyber security threats. After being implemented in at least three Chinese government ministries and business entities in September 2023, the ban on iPhone use was then expanded to a number of local government agencies in December of the same year. Until the end of last year, several Chinese state-owned companies and government departments in eight provinces had instructed employees not to use iPhones. Some of them are Zhejiang Situs Toto, Shandong, Liaoning and Hebei provinces. In fact, Hebei is the location of the largest iPhone assembly factory in the world. Apart from that, staff are also prohibited from using foreign brand technology devices, not just iPhones. Instead, they are advised to use local brand technology devices.