New: Bill Gates Has Dropped From Being The World's Richest Man

Amancio Ortega, the founder of the clothing line Zara, has replaced Bill Gates as the world’s richest person. Ortega and Gates switched the top position in a matter of a few minutes. Currently, Ortega is ahead with a net worth of $78 billion.

The road to becoming the world’s richest person is full of ups and downs. The last few days have witnessed two billionaires going through those ups and downs to sit on the throne and become the world’s richest person. One the of them is Bill Gates, a name synonymous to the title “World’s Richest Person”. The second one is the co-founder of Zara retail clothing line, Amancio Ortega, whose dramatic stock performance made him climb the world’s billionaires list leaving behind Gates, Buffett, Bezos, and Zuckerberg in the below positions.

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Zara’s parent company Inditex’s 2.5% rise on Wednesday made Ortega surpass Bill Gates to become the richest man. The shares dropped by 2.8% on Friday, Ortega fell on to the second position and Gates took the lead. Ortega made a come back after 45 minutes but Gates was again on the first position ten minutes later.

As per Forbes’ The World’s Billionaires real-time list, the Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega is the world’s richest man with a net worth of $78 billion and Bill Gates follows him with $77.6 billion. The stock market can’t be predicted. Hence, the list is likely to change in the coming days or hours.

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Note: The net worth figures mentioned above were observed at the time of writing this post.

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New: Adobe Now Plans To Support Flash Player Once Again On Linux Systems

Adobe has taken a u-turn and released a new beta version for its Flash player plugin for Linux. The company discontinued the plugin long back in 2012. Now, it plans to move the NPAPI Linux Flash player plugin forward and sync it with the regular Windows and Mac releases. However, Adobe calls this step a “security initiative” and doesn’t plan to bring advanced features to the NPAPI plugin.



For the last 4 years, Adobe refused to update its NPAPI Flash player plugin for Linux. In 2012, Adobe released the last version of NPAPI, i.e., version 11.2. However, it promised to push security updates for the same until 2017.



In a strange turn of events, Adobe has now revealed its plan to support Adobe Flash for Linux again. In an official blog post, Adobe announced that it’s updating the beta channel with the newer versions of Linux Flash Plugin. The company plans to move the plugin forward, syncing it with the current version 23.


“In the past, we communicated that NPAPI Linux releases would stop in 2017. This is no longer the case,” Adobe wrote. A new beta version has been made available for download. However, the new beta won’t work in the applications that have removed NPAPI plugins, e.g., Google Chrome.

You might be thinking–‘I already run Flash on Google Chrome’. True. This was made possible when Google decided to ship its own Flash version after Adobe abandoned the ship. This new development will benefit the users of Firefox and other web browsers that are stuck with an older version of Flash.


At the current stage, Adobe is only releasing 32-bit and 64-bit binaries. After further testing, the company plans to release the proper installer packages.

Note: The current beta release doesn’t support Fedora-based Linux distributions.
Why has Adobe taken this u-turn?

In the announcement, Adobe mentioned its intentions to keep the Linux plugin in line with the standard Windows and Mac release. After performing enough testing and feedback, both NPAPI and PPAPI Linux builds are slated to arrive.

One should note that Adobe has called this a “security initiative”. Adobe doesn’t plan to bring advanced features like premium video DRM and GPU 3D acceleration to the NPAPI version. If you are looking for such features, we recommend you to use the PPAPI version of Flash Player.

You can argue that Adobe has released the plugin update four years later. However, taking a look at the complete picture, Flash Player for Linux sounds like a good news for Linux community.

For more information, feel free to visit Adobe’s official blog. Don’t forget to share your thoughts and feedback in the comments section below.

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New: Microsoft Now Blocking Non-Microsoft Web Browsers In The Name Of Kids

Microsoft “cares” about your kids and what they see on the internet. An update to Family Features has been recently announced by Microsoft. The company would now be blocking non-Microsoft web browsers which do not offer web filtering options and allow kids to access blocked websites.

Microsoft has started blocking non-Microsoft web browsers in order to protect your kids. The reason given is that these browsers can easily circumvent Redmond’s web filtering shield and allow your kids to access blocked websites.



Without mentioning any names of the “commonly used browsers”, Microsoft has mentioned that they’ll “automatically block these browsers on [children’s] devices”. However, you still have the authority to give a green signal to those web browsers.


The above changes have been made to Microsoft’s Family Features, an online platform for you to keep an eye on the internet activities of your family.

Other than browser blocking, Microsoft has provided you more powers to control the internet life of your kids. You could allow your kids to access a blocked website via accepting a notification, control how much time they use their device and how much they shop, get a weekly email of their account activity, etc.

For the last couple of years, Microsoft has been promoting their products like fiercely. First, it was the long shot Windows 10 operating system which became a topic of criticism due the forced update campaign carried out by Microsoft.

Now, it is the turn of the web browsers. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the newer Edge haven’t been able to make a dent in the success of Google-baked Chrome. According to the August desktop browser stats from NetMarketShare, Chrome sits on the Iron Throne with 53.97% market share and the second position is secured by the exiled Internet Explorer with 27.38%. Firefox with 7.69%, Edge with 5.16%, and Safari with 4.28% follow the line. So, Microsoft’s IE+Edge share is 32.54% but still less than Google Chrome. It’s quite possible that the Redmond might have intentions to push its own browsers.

As far as other commonly used web browsers are concerned, the popular Chrome also has a Supervised Users feature which can be used to control the online activities of that person.

— Via The Reg

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