Twitter yesterday announced that they’d discovered and fixed a bug which stored users passwords (in plain text) in an internal log. Here’s an excerpt from the announcement: We mask passwords through a process called hashing using a function known as bcrypt, which replaces the actual password with a random set of numbers and letters that
You should change your Twitter password right now! Read More »
Over a month after the dreadful Note 4 Android Oreo OTA update (X572-H5312AD-O-180203V85), Infinix is giving the update another try. The last update (beta) was so buggy that pushing had to be paused and most of those who had upgraded had to downgrade. A few minutes ago, Conan.Chen (an Administrator at the official Infinix forum)
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Several years ago, Operamini was King for me and many others I knew, those my early University days of browsing cheats. I’ve since switched to Google Chrome & Mozilla Firefox and only have the desktop version installed for comparison on projects. This isn’t to say that Opera has lost relevance entirely even though its market
Opera introduces Opera Touch with cool features like Flow & FAB Read More »
We’d created the Mediatek Auto TWRP recovery porter tool to make it super easy for anybody to port a TWRP recovery to his / her MTK device armed with only the stock recovery.img (for the device) and our tool. We’d carried out a private beta testing and are now making the tool publicly available for beta
MTK Auto TWRP recovery porter v1.1 is now publicly available for beta testing Read More »
Back in 2017 when Mediatek made it known that it will be backing out of the flagship SoC arms race for a while since the likes of its Decacore Helio X30 SoC had few buy-ins compared to the Helio P series, it became obvious that the battle for flagship SoC supremacy would rage on between Qualcomm’s
How soon can we expect a Qualcomm SoC come back on Tecno phones? Read More »
When Google launched Allo in September 2016, they were optimistic that they would finally break the jinx of past failures like Google Voice, Google Talk & Google Hangouts but the smart messaging app is getting dropped in favor of Android’s Messages which is to support a Universal Profile for Rich Communication Services (RCS) based service
Google pauses Allo development for Chat; will they finally win us over? Read More »
