Facebook has launched a number of updates to its shopping experience for both Facebook and Instagram today. After debuting “Facebook Shops” back in May there is now a dedicated section in the app for shopping while Instagram is opening up its Checkout and Live Shopping features to all sellers in the US. Today’s changes also bring new tools to help businesses with e-commerce. Reported by TechCrunch, Facebook detailed the latest changes to shopping across its platforms in a blog post titled “Making It Easier to Shop and Sell on Our Apps....

Facebook is rolling out a new COVID-19 label about treatments without scientific proof, as it already does with COVID-19 information overall. With this, when a user posts about a medication that the World Health Organization has not approved as a treatment for SARS-CoV-2 — which doesn’t exist yet — it will appear with a message reading: “Some unapproved COVID-19 treatments can cause serious harm.” Since the start of the pandemic, many people spread on the internet that chloroquine, ivermectin, and other medications could work as a COVID treatment....

The above concept of how Apple could improve its current iTunes/App Store web view comes from STRV designer Ales Nesetril. It’s not the first time someone has suggested it, but it got me thinking once again about app installs via the web. What is Apple waiting for? It’s something that Android and competitive platforms have long offered, and not having it for iOS devices on Mac is a major hindrance to a smooth App Store shopping experience between devices....

In this article, we will see how to find and conclude the offsets to EIP (Extended Instruction Pointer) by just looking at the disassembly of the program. We will also have a look at bypassing return address restrictions using techniques like ret2libc, ROP chains, Return to text and Return to register. VM used in this article can be downloaded from here. In stack-4 challenge, we need to redirect the execution flow of the program and execute win function which is not supposed to execute ideally....

After moving the messaging component of its iOS client out into a separate app, Facebook has continued its pattern of breaking up the functionality of its software today by launching a new iOS application called Stickered. The app launched a few days ago on Android, but only became available today for iOS users. It allows users to add stickers to photos from their camera roll, or overlay them directly on a live camera view before snapping a photo....

Last month, Facebook unveiled its “Messenger Rooms” alternative to Zoom and Group FaceTime, and released it to a small subset of users. Now, Facebook has announced that Messenger Rooms is available to everyone. Facebook’s blog post today explains more about how the Messenger Room platform works: Your “Room” will appear at the top of the News Feed or through notifications. Facebook emphasizes that you have full control over who joins your Room, whether it be anyone from your Friends list or only those with whom you share the link....

In addition to a few changes to its iPad app, Facebook today released the second major update to its app Paper bringing it closer to feature parity with the main Facebook iPhone app. While the list of changes included in Facebook Paper 1.2 is rather long, the changes largely focus on improving the photo experience. For example, Paper uses can now adjust both profile and cover photos from the app. The update also includes photo tag support and improvements as well as greater support for tilt to explore feature for viewing photos....

Fear the Walking Dead season 5 is officially happening, but when will it release and what can people expect? AMC officially ordered Fear the Walking Dead season 5 in July 2018, shortly before Fear the Walking Dead returned for the second half of season 4. And considering everything that happened in the previous season, Fear the Walking Dead season 5 is going to be quite interesting. In more ways than one, Fear the Walking Dead season 4 for the series....

A filmmaker and colorist who put the iPhone XS low-light video capabilities to the test says that the results are so good that it may be better to simply let the camera app do its own thing than to use flat or gamma log in something like FiLMiC Pro … Richard Lackey said that the camera improvements should not be underestimated. Low-light image-processing He said that the dynamic tone mapping employed appears to be particularly sophisticated....

After announcing earlier this week that it had taken down hundreds of fake accounts due to “inauthentic behavior,” Facebook has now revealed it has suspended over 400 applications due to concerns about how user data was handled… In a blog post, Facebook’s VP of product partnerships Ime Archibong explained that the most notable ban thus far has been of an app called myPersonality. This app was a popular personality quiz and was active primarily prior to 2012....

Fast and Furious 9, officially titled F9, introduces Dominic Toretto’s brother, Jakob, to The Fast Saga, but the problem is, it’s essentially a retcon. Dom (Vin Diesel) has been serving as the primary protagonist for the franchise since it launched in 2001. Former wrestler-turned-actor John Cena is set to portray the role of Jakob in F9. The reveal came during Fast & Furious 9’s trailer release, but it had many viewers scratching their heads since the twist of Dom having a brother doesn’t make much sense....

Apple knows more about my music tastes than anyone else in the world. Thanks to iTunes Match, it knows every artist, album and track I own. And through my use of Apple Music, it knows exactly who and what I listen to on a daily basis. It’s great at using this data to create personalized playlists for me. ‘For You’ is fantastic, in my experience. My Favourites Mix is an incredibly reliable – if somewhat repetitive – way to play music I love....

‘Include’ functionality Before we get into the details of this vulnerability, let us understand briefly the functioning of an “include” statement. In simple words, the include command takes all the content present in the specified file and copies it into the file that contains the include statement. File include methods are used to avoid re-coding and to obtain reusability. Developers may also use include statements to include the data common to most of the files in the application....

With the iPhone X finally out, it’s time to sell your old phone and our buyback partners are offering an extra $10 on every trade-in through the end of the month. As the demand for the X continues to grow, the value of all older iPhones will begin to depreciate very quickly. If you were lucky enough to receive your phone already or if you will be receiving your new phone in the next few weeks, now is the time to act to maximize the value of your old phone with the coupon “9to5....

Facebook today confirmed previous rumors that it was developing a Messenger-based virtual assistant codenamed “Moneypenny.” The software was debuted today under the name “M,” and will be available in a very limited release to users in the Bay Area starting today. As explained in the original rumor, M isn’t just powered a computer parsing speech and trying to make sense of questions and commands. On the other side of the system is a group of human beings who can help answer queries when the machine is unable to....

Facebook: Here comes the AI of the Metaverse Take your pick from among any of the many justifications cited by the renamed company or its critics. Merely talking about the metaverse distracts attention away from the host of serious issues raised by The Facebook Papers. Long-term, the virtual or blended environments Meta promotes will deliver richer interactions among members as well as apps and other digital content. Meta’s vision migrates what Apple and Google have built-in mobile to a fantastic, expansive, greenfield world–not just for Meta’s users, but for Meta itself....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FPqqA712Rs] Mike Matas demoing Al Gore’s Our Choice AllThingsD reports that Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press – the newly established interactive iPad book maker. The company is known for creating the interactive version of Al Gore’s Our Choice. Notably, the company was co-founded by former Apple designer Mike Matas. Unsurprisingly, Matas was a lead designer of both the original iPhone and iPad interfaces. Facebook does not plan to sell interactive iPad books, but the technology and design talent will be used in Facebook’s future....

Apple is being hit with its first lawsuit over the FaceTime eavesdropping bug that we first reported on yesterday. As reported by Bloomberg, a Houston, Texas-based lawyer is suing Apple, alleging that the FaceTime flaw allowed an unknown person to listen in on a private conversation with a client. The complaint, filed in state court in Houston, says that the eavesdropping bug is a significant violation of privacy: Williams is seeking punitive damages on claims of product liability, negligence, warranty breach, and misrepresentation....

Blumhouse Productions’ Fantasy Island is slated for release on February 14, 2020. The film is based on the ABC television series of the same name, which ran from 1977-1984 and was created by Gene Levitt. Fantasy Island may be another feather in the cap for Blumhouse, who has seen great success with various types of horror films in the past; they usually bank on a young adult audience, though have branched out to cover other ground with their acquisition of major franchises, such as Halloween....

Spider-Man: Far From Home’s ending may have been a cliffhanger, but it provides an easy way for him to leave the Marvel Cinematic Universe behind in future films. It’s a confusing time for Spider-Man fans right now. An unprecedented deal between Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios saw the wall-crawler begin his crime-fighting career anew onscreen in 2016, joining the MCU in Captain America: Civil War. With Tom Holland donning the iconic costume, Peter Parker’s career flourished across five movie appearances in a cinematic universe teeming with superheroes....