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Lenovo SVP and CTO Peter Hortensius at Lenovo Tech World 2016 in San Francisco showed off a prototype bendable phone that wraps around the wrist like an old-school slap bracelet, as well as a tablet that can be folded in half to use like a phone. “Over the past two years Lenovo has been transforming, making major acquisitions in mobile and infrastructure to expand beyond our core PC business,” said Yuanqing Yang, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer....

The researchers from Core Security’s CoreLabs have discovered that the SHAREit App can leak information as well as passwords due to flaws. According to the researchers, Lenovo SHAREit version for Android 3.0.18_ww and Lenovo SHAREit version for Windows 2.5.1.1 were found to have multiple vulnerabilities which could result in integrity corruption, information leak and security bypasses. According to the CoreLabs researchers, the SHAREit for Windows Phone is particularly risky because has hardcoded password which can be easily exploited by potential hackers....

Carrying the model number KBB-700, the wireless keyboard folds up along the four rows of the keys, which largely increases its portability so that it can be easily carried around. The Rolly keyboard features high-contrast keys and a fold-out mobile device stand. Due to the foldability of the keyboard, it might be small and difficult to type with one may wonder. However, according to LG, typing on the new Rolly Keyboard is “extremely simple” because of its 17-mm key pitch, which is almost the same as the 18-mm key pitch found on regular desktop keyboards....

Currently, the Ubuntu 16.10 is powered by the same kernel packages as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). However, it looks like Ubuntu 16.10 has been swapped to a universal local DNS (Domain Name System) resolver service. However, the other day, the Ubuntu Kernel Team published a new installation of their weekly newsletter updating the community that Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) will soon be rebased on the latest stable Linux 4....

The flaw was found to be working only on Linux systems that have a non-standard configuration. For those unaware, Sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the ‘superuser’ (a special user account used for system administration). In other words, Sudo (su “do”) allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments....

The social media across the world has buzzed with the sound of two massive black holes colliding, an event so cataclysmic that it converted the mass of three solar systems into pure energy in about a tenth of a second. The aural imprint caused by the gravitational waves of this cataclysmic event is 1.3 billion light years away. The discovery was made at the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US....

Material Girl demo version tracks hacked and leaked!How did Madonna’s unreleased demo recordings leak out? The Material Girl took to photo sharing site, Instagram to vent her anger against the thieves/hackers. Madonna’s message on Instagram shows the kind of anger she has for the demo version leakers, How did Madonna’s unreleased demo recordings leak out? In most of the cases like this, the leaks are a inside job but after the massive hack attack on Sony, Madonna suspects a hack attack....

While he is constantly seen endorsing services that provide users with a secure communications platform, he is now is teaching users how to make your smartphone spy-proof. This is actually a preview of an upcoming episode of Vice on HBO, where Snowden teaches Vice’s Shane Smith, and subsequently anyone else watching as to how we can “Go Black” with our smartphone. In other words, he teaches how to avoid being spied on through our smartphones by hackers or government agencies....

The accused, Lawrence Welch, 29, has been charged with attaching an electronic tracking device to his girlfriend’s vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit. Welch was apprehended at the Family Safety Center on Murfreesboro Pike after they received a call from security that the boyfriend of a victim, who was trying to get an order of protection from him, had turned up and was spotted near the victim’s car. The victim told police that both Welch and she used the Life360 app to track each other’s location but she would turn the app off before visiting Family Safety Centers in the past....

It would have likely taken weeks for Sony to become aware of the leaks had the hackers not decide to embarrass the company in public. It looks like Sony has found a partner in its fight against malware attack via Terbium Labs. Terbium Labs, is a Baltimore-based startup founded by a pair of academics with backgrounds in large scale data analysis, quantum cryptography and working with the intelligence services. The company’s first product, Matchlight, is a data intelligence system that claims it can detect Sony hack and instantly locate stolen data on the dark Web the minute it appears, as well as on more publicly accessible forums and sites....

Speaking to Business Insider, Ved said while he awake late in the night and looking through Google domains, which is Google’s website buying service, he noticed that Google.com was available for purchase at that time. He was surprised to see a green happy face indicating that it was available instead of a gray sad face which means that the domain has an owner. So, how much did it cost him to buy the most-trafficked domain in the world?...

Windows 10 upgrades are now almost impossible to block, as users are provided with a prompt that has no cancel button, according to a new report by The Register. However, clicking the ‘X’ to close the window doesn’t cancel the planned installation, as some users expected it would. The only option that the users have is to either reschedule the installation, or cancel it entirely. Pressing the ‘X’ button in the right top corner makes no difference....

Jonathan Bar Or, Microsoft’s Principal Security Researcher, detailed Gatekeeper, the vulnerability able to bypass it, and the effects of the flaw in a security blog post published on Monday. The research was shared by Microsoft to emphasize the importance of collaboration among researchers and the security community to improve defenses for the larger ecosystem. Tracked as CVE-2022-42821 (dubbed as Achilles), the vulnerability is related to a scenario where attackers may side-step application execution restrictions imposed by Apple’s Gatekeeper security checks, which is designed to ensure that only trusted software run on Mac devices....

However, if you run your PC on the pirated older versions of Windows and want to take this opportunity by Microsoft and download the Windows 10 version, there is a catch in the announcement. Microsoft has said that it will not provide any support to non-genuine systems after they’re updated to Windows 10. A Microsoft spokesperson told Ars Technica, “With Windows 10, although non-Genuine PCs may be able to upgrade to Windows 10, the upgrade will not change the genuine state of the license… “If a device was considered non-genuine or mislicensed prior to the upgrade, that device will continue to be considered non-genuine or mislicensed after the upgrade....

Microsoft has also integrated project Spartan with this new build. In this preview, Microsoft said, Issues that are fixed in this new build: The issue from Build 10041 for when the Photos app on your PC crashes when you tap on the circular icon at the top left to view the photo you just took has been fixed now. You no longer will have issues where windows open on your desktop are accidentally visible behind the Start Screen, Task View, Snap Assist, and when rearranging windows in Tablet Mode....

“All of a sudden people could be so much more productive,” says Armando Solar-Lezama at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the work. “They could build systems that it [would be] impossible to build before.” The paper, DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs, is a basic system with some limitations according to the researchers. However, it is a significant step forward in the world of coding and artificial intelligence (AI)....

Currently, when hosting a video call with Teams, the number of participants is limited to four (or a 2×2 grid) on screen at a time, irrespective of the number of participants in the meeting. However, the new update will now allow nine (or a 3×3 grid) participants on a single screen. The company will be rolling out the update for all customers by the end of April. “We will start rolling out our first update to view nine participants simultaneously by the end of April,” a Microsoft Teams engineer said on the Teams UserVoice page....

The announcement for Windows 1.0 was shared by Microsoft’s official Instagram and Twitter account. So here’s everything you need to know about Microsoft’s weird announcement for Windows 1.0. Microsoft’s Strange Social Media Activity In the past, we have witnessed many big companies like Google and Dbrand randomly teasing their new projects and services. Well, this time around Microsoft has announced it’s upcoming operating system out of nowhere. Microsoft’s Strange Social Media ActivityMicrosoft’s Follow-Up Tweets...

Arch rivals, Redmond based, Microsoft also jumped the troll bandwagon to but have a little bit of fun at the expense of the search giant. If you visit ABC.WTF — a clear play on the ABC.XYZ site Google used to make its Alphabet announcement, you’re immediately redirected to Bing search page. Even better, going to ABC.FAIL will also take you straight to Bing Search’s landing page. Although Microsoft hasnt claimed responsibility for the troll attack with the abc....

For those unaware, the Microsoft Messaging app in Windows 10 is based on Skype and was announced back in 2015. The Microsoft Messaging app in Windows 10 on PC keeps a record of messages sent from Windows 10 PCs with cellular connectivity and SMS messages sent via Skype SMS Relay service. However, the app cannot be used to actually send text messages on PC. Back in 2016, Microsoft had pulled Skype integration from the app....