Tim Berners-Lee, who is better known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, is launching a startup called Inrupt, which he has reportedly been building in stealth since the past nine months. According to the Fast Company, the startup is backed by Glasswing Ventures and is aimed at decentralizing the web and “take back power from the forces (Facebook, Google, Amazon) that have profited from centralizing it.” The report claims that ever since revelations were made regarding Facebook’s involvement in the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal and Russian meddling in the US presidential elections in 2016, Berners-Lee has been wanting to introduce a better alternative for users. “The intent is world domination. We have to do it now. It’s a historical moment,” Berners-Lee said. The Britain-born scientist took a sabbatical from MIT to build this “commercial venture off of Solid -- a decentralized web platform he and others at MIT have spent years building.” Solid is a two-year-old project that has made some serious headway towards making a decentralised web a reality. “There are people working in the lab trying to imagine how the Web could be different. How society on the web could look different. What could happen if we give people privacy and we give people control of their data, We are building a whole eco-system,” Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair. Anyone can join and contribute to this open-source project. Berners-Lee hopes that Inrupt “is just the first of many companies to emerge from Solid.” According to the report, the Inrupt app features a simple-looking web page with several tabs and has the engineer’s to-do list, calendar, chats and address book. Fast Company says the app uses Solid’s technology and allows Berners-Lee to access all his data. “It’s like a mashup of Google Drive, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Spotify, and WhatsApp.” The difference is, of course, related to data. The report says that on Solid, all the information will be under users’ control. The data that is being created or added on Solid exists within a Solid pod - an acronym for Personal Online Data store. Anyone who will use the platform will get a Solid identity and a Solid pod. Berners-Lee is also reportedly working on a decentralized version of an Alexa-like smart assistant, which he calls Charlie. He says that with Charlie, people will own all their data. As per the report, the developers globally will soon be able to start building their own decentralised apps with tools through the Inrupt site. Berners-Lee is also planning to raise more funds.
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A Samsung Galaxy smartphone has been found listed on TENAA and reports have claimed that it could either be the Galaxy P30 or Galax A6s. The listing reveals some of the information about the handset which bears the model number SM-G6200. The smartphone can be seen featuring a dual camera setup on the back, a rear fingerprint sensor, a 5.99-inch display and it is said to come equipped with a 3,300mAh battery that keep the phone running. According to XDA Developers, the device might be powered by either an Exynos 7885 or the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 processor. If priced correctly, the phone might pose a threat to Chinese-smartphone market segment that is dominated by the likes of Xiaomi, Vivo, Honor and Oppo. The company had teased a smartphone by uploading an event invite which says “4X Fun”. The invitation gives the date of the event as October 11 but it does not provide any information regarding the venue. “Samsung’s newest Galaxy device is bringing more ways to express yourself than ever before. Capture the fun with Samsung as the company celebrates the launch of the new device with A Galaxy Event on October 11, 2018,” Samsung had said on its website. It could be possible that the South Korean giant may incorporate a 4X optical zoom on the rear camera. Intext image: Mysmartprice
Telegram has fixed a bug that was leaking IP addresses of users who were placing calls using the Telegram for Desktop app. The bug was found by security researcher Dhiraj Mishra who said that a default setting led the app leak the above-mentioned information during voice calls. As per Bleeping Computer, when using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) to initiate Telegram calls, IP address of the receiver will appear in the Telegram console logs. Telegram Messenger is a communication app that allows users to use encrypted chats and phone calls over the Internet. Under the settings menu (Settings --> Private and Security --> Voice Calls --> Peer-To-Peer) you can see that the app gives users an option to prevent their IP address from being revealed by changing the default setting “Always” to “Never”. If a user does this, the calls will be routed through Telegram's servers, which would then hide the IP address but there will also be a drop in the audio quality. But this is only on iOS and Android. PCs powered by Linux or Ubuntu OS, the official Telegram for Desktop and Telegram Messenger for Windows applications did not offer the same ability. Mishra illustrated how the IP address were leaked during the calls in a Proof of Concept video. After alerting Telegram about the loophole in Telegram for Desktop and Telegram Messenger for Windows applications, Dhiraj was awarded a bounty of €2,000 (approx Rs 1.70 lakh) and the issue has been fixed in the 1.3.17 beta and 1.4.0 versions of Telegram for Desktop, which bring the option of disabling P2P calls in the app.
