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The Pirate Bay to remove CloudFlare CDN soon after it gets its act straight, says TPB crewTPB Response A thread on Reddit voiced concerns that The Pirate Bay website uses CloudFlare SSL certificate which means that when a user visits TPB, the CloudFlare employees/law enforcement agencies will know you accessed TPB. The redditor goes on to state that Cloudflare could also be coerced to inject malicious code into the responses. Many of the reddit users went on to state that the present TPB is a FBI honeypot....

According to a recent study by the researchers at UC Berkeley, smog kills about 4,000 people every day in China. On the other hand, in the US about 4 in 10 people live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association. Daan Roosegaarde has created a 23-foot (7-metre) tall air purifier called the Smog Free Tower that will help address the country’s growing smog problem....

Stefansen says “The emulator code is based on the Open Source Universal Amiga Emulator which is about 400k lines of C code. He didn’t cook up the code out of altruism: Google offers “Native Client”, billed as “a sandbox for running compiled C and C++ code in the browser efficiently and securely.” The emulator hasn’t been written from scratch but is based on UAE, the Universal Amiga Emulator meaning it’s a full-fledged emulator....

His bot dubbed [email protected] Looper, a Ruby-based service running on a Web server, managed to engross the spammers in never-ending and senseless conversations for days and sometimes weeks. Weinreich (@BeWeinreich) has posted such 16 hilarious conversations. “My inbox is a sacred place, and spammers shit all over it,” Weinreich says. “I get in the zone when responding to emails, and it’s tough to jump from an email about our businesses pricing strategy, to reviewing the latest bug reports, to [spam]....

In a blog post, Burela describes Islandwood as a “cool tool” and demonstrates how easy, and quick, it can be as he completes the task in five minutes. “Today I wanted to show you how easy it is to take an iOS game and port it straight to a Windows 10 UWP application,” he wrote in the post. “I’m porting the classic game Canabalt which was originally an online flash game, which they then ported to an iPhone game....

If you have grown tired of the heavy traffic on the streets of Los Santos, you can now have some extra fund thanks to gamer BlackSmoke Billy who has modified the title to add a massive ramp to the front of a truck. The crazy GTA 5 fan then takes a drive the wrong way down a highway, launching cars, vans and people high in the air. Not content with this level of obliteration BlackSmoke Billy then manages to create even bigger ramps causing the ultimate destruction....

The hacker, “Giannoug”, says he came up with the idea after stumbling upon a new modification called “OpenComputers”, which allows you to add real-life computers into Minecraft. It also allows to add peripherals such as monitors and keyboards, and the ability to communicate with “the real-life internet” into Minecraft. He produced a computer inside his game by using it in combination with a few other mod programs, and then opened a TCP connection that allows the game to communicate with his “unknown, eBay sourced” smart bulb....

Space Men recounts two initiatives – Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior – in which explorers went up as high as 102,800 feet in helium-filled balloons to understand the freezing cold and near zero atmospheric pressure of such altitudes. These missions in some ways laid the platform for Project Mercury, which would come shortly after. This episode shows John Paul Stapp, a physician who entered the Army Air Corps in 1944, as an out-of-his-time man who predicted that one day humans would fly into space....

Created by the Berkeley-based company SuitX, the Phoenix is a 27-pound, $40,000 robot frame that can allow paraplegic people to walk. The Phoenix is among the lightest and cheapest medical exoskeletons. It also has unique abilities; the suit is modular and adjustable so it can adapt to, say, a relatively tall person who just needs mobility assistance for one knee. Phoenix could act as a replacement for a wheelchair, allowing them to take small but stable steps or even join in a game of soccer....

Cohen’s mirror operates by turning it on with his voice commands, before getting it to display maps of Seattle and Berkley in California before he gets it to adjust the lights and the colour they emit in his room. “I started this project back in September and have been hacking things together in some of my spare time,” Mr Cohen wrote. Cohen says he first got inspired to build his smart mirror when he saw the work of Hannah Mitt, who built an Android application that powers her mirror....

The Register reports that way back in December 2011 Thomas completely trashed his employer ClickMotive’s entire network. Not only that, Thomas proceeded to delete ClickMotive’s backups and notification systems for network problems leaving them high and dry. He also cut their VPN access and deleted internal wiki pages, and removed contact details for the organization’s outside tech support. Thomas’ revenge left ClckMotive stranded and without any means to troubleshoot the chaos that Thomas caused....

TikTok is an insanely popular social media platform with millions of active users. As a matter of fact, around 19 million users had downloaded Tiktok in the US in just the first quarter of 2022. Brendan Carr, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner has now written to Apple and Google, asking them to completely ban Tiktok from their respective app stores. Well, Brendan fears that TikTok is leaking sensitive user data to Beijing....

— Alex Yoder (@alex_yoder) June 30, 2015 The above tweet contains a code for a browser game. Called the Tiny Twitch and developed by Alex Yoder, Yoder developed the game in response to a challenge from Ben Porter. Porter had 2 days earlier challenged through a tweet to make a game which could fit in a tweet. — Ben Porter (@eigenbom) June 27, 2015 Yoder took it upon himself and developed the Tiny Twitch game and responded to Porter through the above tweet....

In this article, we have picked the most common 10 Android problems along with its simplest and most effective solutions. Battery Drain Battery drain is one of the most common problems in an Android smartphone. This is the price we have to pay for having the smartest devices in the world. While there are many reasons behind the battery drain issue, one of the best ways to solve this issue is to enable battery saving mode and reduce your Android smartphone brightness....

Ultimate answer to clean the junk files from Android smartphones and tablets………check the Top 5 Cleaner apps that are mentioned here.CCleanerClean MasterStartup ManagerHistory Eraser CCleaner Piriform has created an excellent cleaner known as CCleaner. CCleaner is the ultimate cleaner application which wipes off the junk files and makes the Windows and Android devices much cleaner and faster. The PiriForm CCleaner application also identifies the Junk data on the device through various scripts and codes and this cleaner will not delete any data without user’s permission or command....

In other words, the telecom sector regulator has barred differential pricing of data products, implying that controversial zero-rated products such as Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero won’t be allowed to be offered in the country. While not ruling explicitly on net neutrality, the TRAI said in a statement that “No service provider shall offer or charge discriminatory tariffs for data services on basis of content.” The ruling suggests that Free Basics, which was aimed primarily at people in poor rural areas, will not be allowed to continue in its current form....

According to the blog published by anti-malware provider Malwarebytes, the new method secretly opens a hidden browser window that sits behind the clock on the Microsoft Windows taskbar and continues to mine cryptocurrency siphoning CPU resources and power from your computer in a way so as not to attract attention from most users. “The hidden window’s coordinates will vary based on each user’s screen resolution, but follow this rule: Horizontal position = ( current screen x resolution ) – 100 Vertical position = ( current screen y resolution ) – 40,” Malwarebytes Lead Malware Intelligence Analyst Jérôme Segura wrote....

Step4: Use the check box and check the option which you want to use for installing Ubuntu alongside your present operating system or replace the current operating system with Ubuntu Linux. If you want to create or resize PC partitions, go in advance mode then click continue. We suggest you to select the advanced menu only if you have knowledge of how to create or resize partition. Step6: Select your location, if you are connected to Internet, it will automatically detect your location....

The Navy destroyer is designed to look like a much smaller vessel on radar, and it lived up to its billing during recent builder trials. Lawrence Pye, a lobsterman, told The Associated Press that during a recent outing, the 610-foot ship on his radar screen looked like a 40- to 50-foot fishing boat. He watched as the behemoth came within a half-mile while returning to shipbuilder Bath Iron Works. “It’s pretty mammoth when it’s that close to you,” Pye told the news service....

Mohamed M.Fouad who is well known for his bug research, found that he could brute force the ‘Promo Codes’ feature in Uber App and make it spill out high value promo codes of as much as $25,000 in value. Fouad found that the “promo codes ” vulnerability in the sign-up invitation link for Uber allows any user to invite another user to join the service and get one or more than one free rides based on the promotion code value....