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Social networking website Twitter is soon going to roll out a new feature that will allow users to “undo” their tweets . Reverse engineering specialist Jane Manchun Wong has posted a GIF on Twitter that shows how the feature may work. In the GIF, it can be seen that as soon as a tweet is posted, users may soon get the option to undo their tweet for a couple of seconds before it vanishes. Twitter is working on “Undo Send” timer for tweets https://t.co/nS0kuijPK0 — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) 1614921028000 Just yesterday, it was revealed that Twitter is working on rolling out e-commerce features as well. As per a tweet by Matt Navarra, the platform is testing a new card for tweets that will come with links to product pages on a shops’ website. These shopping cards will show details like product name and its price, shop name and a shop button. The company even confirmed to TechCrunch that these tweets would be organic rather than being ads. There … [Read more...] about Twitter may soon get an ‘undo’ button

A new type of supply chain attack unveiled last month is targeting more and more companies, with new rounds this week taking aim at Microsoft, Amazon, Slack, Lyft, Zillow, and an unknown number of others. In weeks past, Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and 32 other companies were targeted by a similar attack that allowed a security researcher to execute unauthorized code inside their networks. The latest attack against Microsoft was also carried out as a proof-of-concept by a researcher. Attacks targeting Amazon, Slack, Lyft, and Zillow, by contrast, were malicious, but it’s not clear if they succeeded in executing the malware inside their networks. The npm and PyPi open source code repositories, meanwhile, have been flooded with more than 5,000 proof-of-concept packages, according to Sonatype, a firm that helps customers secure the applications they develop. “Given the daily volume of suspicious npm packages being picked up by Sonatype’s automated malware detection systems, we only expect … [Read more...] about A new type of supply-chain attack with serious consequences is flourishing

Twitter is testing a major profile redesign that's very reminiscent of Facebook and Google+. Mashable assistant features editor Matt Petronzio spotted on Tuesday a huge update to his Twitter profile page, with the main picture and bio scaled to the left and significantly more real estate dedicated to the header photo. SEE ALSO: Twitter Still Testing and Changing Profile Redesign The revamped tweet stream is also a departure from its signature look. There is a greater focus on photos and content cards. It moves away from a strictly vertical timeline too. Click the image below to enlarge. It's common for Twitter to quietly test new features and design updates before tweaking or rolling it out to a larger user base. Experiments typically go out to a small, random pool of users. Under the header photo in the test is the count for tweets, photos/videos (a new category called out on the profile), who you are following, followers, favorites and lists. Although … [Read more...] about Twitter Testing Major Profile Redesign That Looks a Lot Like Facebook

Empire is quickly taking over television . The pulpy family drama about a man running a wildly successful record company has been a runaway hit with audiences — and it's still growing. In its seventh week on the air, its audience has continued to grow — an unprecedented rise that's shocked even the most seasoned TV veterans. See also: 8 awkward, not remotely hot tools used to film Hollywood sex scenes Even though the series, created by Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels, is front-loaded with seasoned, Oscar-nominated actors such as Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Howard and Gabourey Sidibe, numerous fresh faces also fill out the cast. From Henson's secret college nickname to the new cast member who almost became a pastor, here are a bunch of facts you never knew about the dominating cast of Empire . Taraji P. Henson — Cookie Taraji P. Henson plays Cookie, the quick-witted matriarch and Lucious' ex-wife. Highly stylish with a perpetually raised brow, she's the … [Read more...] about Ruling the ‘Empire’: Facts you don’t know about TV’s hottest cast

When a series of spookily convincing Tom Cruise deepfakes went viral on TikTok , some suggested it was a chilling sign of things to come — harbinger of an era where AI will let anyone make fake videos of anyone else. The video’s creator, though, Belgium VFX specialist Chris Ume , says this is far from the case. Speaking to The Verge about his viral clips, Ume stresses the amount of time and effort that went into making each deepfake, as well as the importance of working with a top-flight Tom Cruise impersonator, Miles Fisher. “You can’t do it by just pressing a button,” says Ume. “That’s important, that’s a message I want to tell people.” Each clip took weeks of work, he says, using the open-source DeepFaceLab algorithm as well as established video editing tools. “By combining traditional CGI and VFX with deepfakes, it makes it better. I make sure you don’t see any of the glitches.” Ume has been working with deepfakes for years, including creating the effects for the “Sassy … [Read more...] about Tom Cruise deepfake creator says public shouldn’t be worried about ‘one-click fakes’