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    04-Nov-2020 | By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Nov 3 : The members of the WhatsApp group named 'Punshinlashi Eikhoi' today extended financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to the mother of one Koijam Dhirajit from Langthabal Kunja Awang Leikai.Dhirajit,  a journalist by profession has been bed ridden for months after he was diagnosed with a kidney disease last year.He was flown to Delhi for treatment but due to lack of funds despite selling most of the families possessions and properties, his treatment was discontinued and both of his kidneys are failing.The members of the group also drew the attention of the State Government and all sections of the society to consider his condition and assist him in getting treatment.

By: Express News Service | Surat | November 3, 2020 1:18:12 am No official police complaint has been registered in the matter so far.A computer teacher at a Hindi-medium school in Ankleshwar was beaten up Monday and later handed over to the police by parents for allegedly uploading nude photographs on the school’s WhatsApp group for Class X students, police said. No official police complaint has been registered in the matter so far. The teacher claimed to have mistakenly uploaded the photograph and submitted a written apology. He was later dismissed from services by the school management. According to police, the teacher of a school at Padmavati Nagar in Ankleshwar town in Bharuch, took online classes Saturday – the school is holding online classes due to the coronavirus pandemic. After the classes ended, he allegedly uploaded nude photographs on the school’s WhatsApp group for Class X students. Though the teacher removed photographs from the group soon after, they had already been shared on the other such groups of the school. On Monday, several parents and students reached the school and beat up the teacher for alleged obscenity. The school management also reached the school on learning about the incident and assured to initiate strict actions against the teacher. The school authorities later called the police control room. A team from Ankleshwar GIDC police station reached the spot and took the teacher to the police station. “We have taken the statements of the teacher and the school trustees. It has been found that the teacher had taken an online class and later shared his nude photographs on a school’s WhatsApp group for students. In his statement, the teacher claimed he accidentally shared the pictures and had deleted them from the group on realising his mistake,” Ankleshwar GIDC police inspector Rahgu Karmatiya…

WhatsApp’s long-awaited disappearing messages feature will roll out for all users soon, but you should make sure you’re comfortable with how the feature works before using it.Disappearing messages add an extra layer of privacy to your conversations. Let’s say you want to let someone know your home address, but don’t want that information forever accessible in your chat history. Send the address as a disappearing message and it will self-delete itself after a set amount of time.The appeal of disappearing messages is obvious, but it seems like WhatsApp’s disappearing messages will be less secure than similar features found in other apps.Based on the company’s explanation for how the feature will work on its platform, disappearing messages will stick around for seven days. You can’t edit that window, which may frustrate users hoping for customizable self-delete times—something many other messaging apps include.Seven days is a long time for potentially sensitive information to be sitting in a message thread. Worse, these messages are potentially accessible even after those seven days are up if:G/O Media may get a commissionThe message preview is still displayed from a device’s notification screenThe message is quoted/replied to.The message is forwarded to other chat threads or groups.The receiver takes a screenshot before it’s deleted.Media sent through disappearing messages will also be saved permanently and needs to be manually deleted if you want to remove it.Apps with better disappearing messages than WhatsAppTo be fair, disappearing messages can be compromised in other apps, including Signal, but it’s harder to do so, and few are impacted by WhatsApp loopholes listed above. As long as you know how WhatsApp’s disappearing messages work and use them appropriately, the feature is entirely fine. Still, WhatsApp’s disappearing messages are not as secure as similar features in other apps. You should seek out an alternative if…

(Image: WhatsApp)Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp is handling and delivering around 100 billion messages daily. This news comes by way of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who confirmed as such during the company's recent quarterly earnings call. This is exponential growth, at least in terms of WhatsApp's use over the past six years. In just 2014, the messaging app was being used for about 50 billion texts daily, according to former chief executive Jan Koum. Tweet "We are proud that WhatsApp is able to deliver roughly 100B messages every day and we’re excited about the road ahead," tweeted Will Cathcart, head of WhatsApp. "This year we’ve all relied on messaging more than ever to keep up with our loved ones and get business done.WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger continue to be some of the most popular chat apps available. In just 2019 alone, users sent around 100 billion messages on WhatsApp on News Year's Eve 2019. While the service also does suffer from some glitches on that day, it didn't have problems in 2019. It remains to be seen whether 2020 will pose the same sort of potential problem. It's likely that WhatsApp is likely going to continue this massive growth for the foreseeable future. Further Reading Facebook Brings Dark Mode Testing to iOS Apps Sony Launches a New PlayStation App Dreading the Winter? Poolside FM Music Streams Keep the Summer Vibes Alive Are You Spending Too Much on App Subscriptions? More in Mobile Apps Mobile App Reviews Adobe Illustrator on the iPad Webtoon Google Android 11 Duet Display VSCO Mobile App Best Picks The Best iPad Apps for 2020 The Best iPad Games for 2020 The Best Weather Apps for 2020 The 50 Best iPhone Games 26 iOS Apps Worth Paying For

Angus Taylor was told almost immediately after his office disseminated figures about the Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore’s spending on travel last year that the numbers were wrong, new documents obtained by Guardian Australia reveal. But despite that, the federal energy minister and the Daily Telegraph, which reported the figures on 30 September 2019, did nothing to correct the record until Moore wrote a formal letter of complaint on 22 October. Guardian Australia revealed the mistake soon afterwards, prompting questions in parliament. The Guardian has now obtained more documents and been informed by Taylor’s office that the two staff referred to in the documents have left his employment. The documents were released by the minister in settlement of a case the Guardian brought in the administrative appeals tribunal under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a series of WhatsApp messages between Taylor and his staff that cast light on the saga surrounding the original dodgy document. The WhatsApp messages begin on 29 September 2019, the night before the Telegraph published a story by Anna Caldwell under the headline “City of Sydney Council’s outlay on flights outstrips that of Australian foreign ministers”. The story quoted from the letter Taylor had sent to Moore on that day, including the incorrect information that “your council spent $1.7m on international travel and $14.2m on domestic travel”. The Telegraph sought comment from Moore’s office just before publication. It strongly disputed the figures as being grossly inflated. Someone at the Telegraph then queried the figures with the minister’s office. What followed was a series of frantic communications between two staff members in Taylor’s office referred to only as MS1 and MS2 (their names remain redacted) from just before 6pm until 7.30pm, as they realised something was amiss. Josh Manuatu is a former staff member named…

WhatsApp recently introduced a new feature that lets you mute a chat forever and it is available on both android and IOs.  The new ‘Always’ mute option that would allow you to mute the notifications of a WhatsApp chat or a group forever. Earlier the messaging platform used to provide three mute options – 8 Hours, 1 Week and 1 Year, but now instead of a year, you can mute a chat permanently. This feature is available for everyone on both Android and iOS devices as well as the web version.  This would be a welcome addition for WhatsApp users, at least in our book. I mute notifications from every group due to the sheer number of messages stemming from them, but the “one year” option felt like a band-aid rather than a permanent solution. After all, I have to mute those groups all over again in 365 days. The only other option right now is to simply leave those groups — not ideal for the likes of family chats and work groups. There’s no word on an exact timeline for this tweak to roll out to WhatsApp users at large, and the latest beta doesn’t seem to offer it yet. But we’ll update the article as soon as the change is pushed out to devices. Moreover, another feature was introduced as well, that allows WhatsApp Business users to sell products directly from the platform. The feature will allow purchases to be made directly from a WhatsApp chat with a business. The company will also provide hosting services to small businesses through Facebook’s partners in the country.

OnePlus has been fine-tuning the OxygenOS 11 (Android 11) update for quite some time as there are several bugs and issues. The OnePlus 8 series bagged the latest OS update earlier in October while other eligible devices are still in line to get the same. Those on the OxygenOS 11 update have been reporting about a bug that seems to be affecting some functionality in WhatsApp. When users are opening to the emoji section on WhatsApp, the send button gets disabled and appears as a blank teal dot. There are a lot of reports about this issues on the OnePlus Community as well as other online platforms like Twitter. Also, it was being speculated that the bug might be in WhatsApp itself and is not related to OxygenOS 11. However, a OnePlus staff member has stated that the bug has been reported and development team is working to fix the issue. This indicates that the problem lies within OxygenOS itself and there have been no such reports about other Android devices. We’ve made a note of it and our DEV team is currently working on this. We’ll keep you posted regarding any further updates. Moreover, it is unclear how is the an OS update is affecting the functionality on an emoji platform in a particular app. Nevertheless, it is good to see that the OEM promptly addressed the issue and has already started working to fix it. That said, we will keep tracking this for further development and will provide more details once new information becomes available. In the meantime, you can check out our OnePlus Android 11 (OxygenOS 11) update tracker to get the latest updates on the topic. We also have a dedicated OxygenOS 11 bug tracker that you can go through to know about the bugs and…

Representational image (Express Illustrations) By Express News Service HYDERABAD: A photograph posted as the WhatsApp status of a woman helped Rachakonda police detect a 15-month-old theft case reported at Malkajgiri and nab the accused Ponnugoti Jitender. On July 12 last year, Angidi Ravikiran, a resident of Saipuri colony, Malkajgiri, had gone to a temple. When he returned home, he noticed that the key was hanging from the lock. He assumed that he had forgotten to lock the house. But a few days later, he realised that gold jewellery was missing from his almirah and approached the police.  Meanwhile, Ravikiran's neighbour shared her picture on her WhatsApp status. Ravikiran who saw the status, realised that she was wearing the jewellery stolen from his home. He then informed the police. The accused, Ponnugoti Jitender, was found to be the neighbour’s son. Jitender was arrested, while police served notices to his mother as she was aware of the jewellery theft. 

1 / 12Want WhatsApp features before others? Here's step-by-step guide to become a beta testerWonder how you can get to use upcoming features on WhatsApp before they are rolled out for everyone else? The answer is by joining WhatsApp beta test programme. It’s an opt-in programme that allows beta members to test/use upcoming WhatsApp features. This helps the Facebook-owned company discover as well as fix bugs and other issues before they are rolled out for billions of users globally. Here’s step-by-step guide on how to get going......Read more2 / 12Can join both via PC or smartphoneThere are two ways to do this, one via smartphone other via web browser on a PC. ...Read more3 / 12Use your Android phone Gmail IDBoth on smartphone as well as PC, use the same Google account that you use on your Android device....Read more4 / 12Go to Google Play StoreOn your Android smartphone, open Google Play Store app. Search for WhatsApp. As mentioned above, login with same Gmail ID that you use on your phone....Read more5 / 12Look for Beta tester panelScroll down till the bottom where you will see ‘Become a beta tester’ panel. Tap on the ‘I’m in’ button and confirm by selecting ‘Join.’...Read more6 / 12Joining via web browser...Read more7 / 12Confirmation processA dialog box will appear, click on the button that says ‘become a tester’ to confirm. Once done, you have been enrolled for the beta testing programme. ...Read more8 / 12Go back to Google Play StoreNow search for WhatsApp in Google Play Store (on smartphone or PC). You will see a congratulatory message. ...Read moreAn update for WhatsApp should come in the next few hours. This will take you to the beta test version. ...Read more10 / 12You can opt out any time from the programmePlease note WhatsApp beta…

There are several web services that employees of small and medium businesses most frequently access while working. These include YouTube, Facebook, Google services and WhatsApp, with some of these applications being the most exploited by malefactors as a springboard for phishing, researchers at Kaspersky have found.  However, this list differs from the services that employers tend to limit for use on corporate devices  According to anonymized statistics of events captured in a Kaspersky product, voluntarily provided by its customers, the top five web services employees access more often from their corporate devices include a video sharing platform, a social network, a mail service and a messenger: YouTube, Facebook, Google Drive, Gmail and WhatsApp - all leading services in their respective segments.  Unfortunately, these same web services are also exploited for phishing and other malicious actions. Kaspersky analysis revealed the top five applications where phishing attempts were found most often: Facebook (4.5m phishing attempts), WhatsApp (3.7m), Amazon (3.3m), Apple (3.1m) and Netflix (2.7m).   Google’s offerings bundled together, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, took sixth position with 1.5m phishing attempts. With the two lists sharing many of the services, these results only confirm the trend that popular applications have become valuable platforms for fraudsters’ malicious actions.  How to stay safe?  Kaspersky suggests that businesses should follow these steps to ensure their employees use web services safely and securely:  ·Show employees how to recognize fake or insecure websites and phishing messages. Encourage them to never enter their credentials before checking a website’s credibility, or open and download files from unknown senders.  ·Conduct basic security awareness training for your employees. This can be done online and should cover essential practices including those that protect against phishing, such as account and password management, email security, endpoint security and web browsing.   ·Adopt a proven endpoint security…