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Twitter has claimed that less than five percent of its monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) are fake accounts. But Musk, who has already inked a deal that would take Twitter private, believes the information isn’t accurate. He says the actual number of fake or bot accounts is a lot more. The multi-billionaire CEO of Tesla suggests Twitter’s methodology of counting such accounts isn’t efficient. He has asked the social network to provide information on how it reached that number....

‘Escobar’ Android malware can take control of your smartphone, if you let it ‘Escobar’ Android malware can take control of your smartphone, if you let it This malware can take over your smartphone, and even steal multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes which are being generated by Google’s Authenticator app. Now, ‘Escobar’ is not new, but it wasn’t known by this name before. It is actually a new version of the ‘Aberebot’ Android banking trojan....

Although Google’s parent company, Alphabet, appealed this decision previously, the General Court has now dismissed the appeal, thus upholding a fine of €2.4 billion ($2.8 billion). Alphabet can now appeal this decision with the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The EU General Court said that there was enough evidence to suggest that Google’s actions with its shopping comparison tool were anticompetitive (via). The court held that Google broke its antitrust law “by favouring its own comparison shopping service on its general results pages through more favourable display and positioning, while relegating the results from competing comparison services in those pages by means of ranking algorithms....

Earlier this year the studio held a closed beta for the game. Letting players try it out for the first time prior to its launch. The beta didn’t last too long and left many players wanting more. In a post on the game’s official Twitter, Square Enix confirmed that the official release window for Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier is in November. These new details were initially revealed last week during the Tokyo Game Show 2021....

Health trackers are an important part of wearables and have become a selling point for these devices. Sleep tracking is also an integral part of wearables that gives meaningful insights into the quality of your sleep and the ways to improve it. Fitbit “Sleep Profiles” now wants to help you with that. Last year, tipsters reported that the Google-owned company is testing “Sleep Animals”. The feature reportedly could categorize sleep habits into six groups: Slow to Sleep Tortoise, Restless Sleep Parrot, Shallow Sleep Hedgehog, Short Sleep Giraffe, Segmented Sleep Dolphin, and Solid Sleep Bear....