Truth in Deception

Rights activists term Nov 7 order on stray dogs ‘Inhumane’, call for stay and nationwide stir NEW DELHI: Animal welfare organisations and several animal lovers in Delhi posted letter petitions to the Supreme Court on Saturday requesting to revoke the latest order on stray dog removal from certain public places in the country. The movement was limited not just to the capital but was spread across the states. Refusing to term it as a protest, all the animal lovers across the country were asked to go to their nearest post office to send these letters to the SC. The exercise aspires to be India’s largest coordinated letter petition posting to the apex court. Speaking to the newspaper, Sheela, an animal feeder from Delhi’s Jorbagh area, said, “This is the last resort we have. Over the last few months we have protested immensely to roll back this inhumane order, but nothing worked.” Issuing a notice, Animal Writes, a social media page spearheading this campaign across India, stated, “Among t...

Samsung Plans Fix For Galaxy Notification Ad Spam Screenshots shared by tipster Tarun Vats indicate that with One UI 8.5, users can use an option to block apps that send out “excessive ads” through notifications. Samsung’s software, according to the leak, is capable of putting offending apps into a kind of “deep sleep,” essentially severing their ability to wake up in the background or force out fresh alert spam until you’ve opened them again yourself. Another toggle, called “intelligent blocking,” seems to look through what the device deems notification content, in an effort to determine if it should allow or silence the received notification. If true, the logic would run on-device, so that sensitive data never leaves the phone — an important privacy consideration for any system that inspects message content. How Deep Sleep Tries to Stamp Out Notification Spam Samsung’s deep sleep already exists for less-used apps; it pauses background activity and suspends network access to save batt...