It is two weeks now after The Pirate Bay servers raided at Nacka, a nuclear-proof data center built into a mountain complex near Stockholm. Since then, the pirate Bay site has been offline. But today, the domain showed signs of being alive and kicking. Will this lead to a full fledged comeback or is this a scam site hosting ads? Return from the dead Despite the rise of various TPB clones and rumors of reincarnations, thepiratebay....
In a way, the online world has become an active community where a lot of our traditional offline activities already have viable counterparts. Because of this, cyberspace has become a significant medium for social change. We are familiar with the rise of influencers, or those people with a huge following on social media. Their voices and posts sometimes become catalysts for change. Interestingly, the effect of influencers and the effectiveness of the Internet, in general, are still hinged on basic human psychology....
The birth of Piton was given at the Hot Chips conference where the idea was to design a chip that could be used in large data centers that handle social networking requests, search and cloud services. The response time in social networking and search will depend upon the horsepower of servers in data centers. Piton is one such rare open-source processor based on the OpenSparc design that will be able to make this happen....
Even though it is avoidable and curable, the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2015 estimated that 438,000 people died from malaria mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. John Lewandowski, a 26-year-old PhD student in mechanical engineering at MIT, said detecting it quickly is very important. “Early detection is very important, typically in the first five to seven days before symptoms arise so that treatment can begin,” said Lewandowski. He has made a mechanical device called RAM (Rapid Assessment of Malaria) that can diagnose malaria from a drop of blood in five seconds....
In order to install or upgrade to Windows 11, your PC must have TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, and officially supported CPUs by Microsoft, since these are essential because security is of utmost importance in Windows 11, according to the company. Recently, a GitHub developer AveYo added a script that allows you to create an ISO for any version of Windows 10, with support for Windows 11 and the skip TPM check feature that were added this month....
Established in 1993, an Israeli firm Ability has developed really amazing software, which has been named Ability Unlimited Interception System to provide unlimited surveillance chances to law enforcement in the US so that criminal activity could be kept at bay, it has been reported. Currently, this system can recognize calls, texts, and location of almost any mobile phone around the world and is available for US$20 million. It is also being guessed that it is quite an accomplishment by the Israeli firm to get it for this price and the amazing skills of the system....
YouTuber,TechRax has decided to go one step further and find something that could really put an iPhone 6s to ‘real’ test. He devised a very hot, boiling, and melting kind of test. What he did was to take a brand new 16GB iPhone 6s and decided to boil it in a pan full of blue wax from a bunch of crayons. Such tests arent for the faint hearted or thrifty kind, as TechRax puts it, “please, don’t EVER try something like this....
There is an increasing pressure to develop new renewable sources of energy, as world’s supply of fossil fuels is getting depleted. Bioenergy is one such source, and microbial fuel cells can produce it. In their study, researchers from University of Bath, Queen Mary University of London and the Bristol Robotics Laboratory describe a new design of microbial fuel cell that overcomes two limitations of standard microbial fuel cells: their cost and low power production....
While some tech CEOs, including Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet Inc. founder Larry Page chose to receive a $1 annual salary, there are still some others who are raking in the big moolah. In an annual survey done by Equilar in collaboration with The Times, they compiled a list of ‘200 highest-paid CEO rankings’ in U.S. The list below provides the 10 highest-paid tech CEOs at public U.S. companies....
There used to be a time when nothing felt better than sticking a DVD disc in the DVD player and sitting back with a bowl of popcorn on the couch with your family for movie night. But with the increasing popularity of streaming services and digital platforms, DVD discs have become a thing of the past. Besides the annoying Windows 10 update errors, the inbuilt Windows Media Player no longer supports or plays DVDs, and paying $15 for the Windows DVD Player is nothing more than a waste of resources as it often fails to decode DVD, is unable to read the disc, freezes during playback, and does not support DVDs from other regions....
The breach came to light after the Japanese car manufacturer recently discovered that a part of the source code of its “T-Connect” website was erroneously published on GitHub. The source code also contained an access key to the data server that stored email addresses and management numbers (assigned automatically) of customers who had signed up for the T-Connect website after July 2017. For the unversed, Toyota’s T-Connect is a connectivity app that allows owners of Toyota cars to track their cars, check their status, control car remotely, and much more using their smartphone or smartwatch....
The data is considered to have been obtained as recently as this Monday, as the company saw sensitive company information and streamer earnings. While the leaks do not seem to contain the login credentials like email IDs or passwords, the users are still being encouraged to change the login information as soon as possible. The “extent” of the leak More than 100GB of confidential information, including the source code of the streaming platform, technical details of unannounced and unreleased projects, and the income of the streamers was leaked to the anonymous image hosting site 4chan....
“They stole military data and personal identifying information belonging to servicemen and women,” Fishman said in a statement. “Such conduct endangers the security of our country and is an affront to those who serve.” Love and two of his friends from Sweden and Australia was found guilty of stealing personal information of workers at Missile Defense Agency, NASA and Army Network Enterprise Technology Command. ‘The hackers also stole data on the demolition and disposal of military facilities, natural-resource management, defense program budgeting data and nonpublic competitive acquisition bid data,’ according to Fishman....
In a letter sent to the company, the traffic agency agreed to one of Google’s proposal to have its Self-Driving System (SDS) AI to be considered as the legal “driver” of the car, opening the doors for more legal opportunities for Google’s self-driving car. Google’s self-driving car unit on November 12 submitted a proposed design for a self-driving car that has “no need for a human driver,” the letter to Google from NHTSA Chief Counsel Paul Hemmersbaugh said....
Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 Beta 1 has been released as part of the Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak launch. The Ubuntu flavors taking part in the Beta 1 milestone include Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and Ubuntu Kylin. Xubuntu has decided to skip the Beta 1 release. Yakkety Yak’s release coincides with the fact that Linux celebrated a 25th birthday yesterday. The distro is in beta phase and you may encounter many bugs during its installation....
The hack attack on CareFirst may have compromised as many as 1.1 million of its customers out of the 3.2 million total customers, including their names, email addresses and birth dates. CareFirst says that as of not there is no information that the hackers accessed sensitive financial or medical information like Social Security numbers, credit card information and medical claims. CareFirst which is based in Maryland and has majority of customers in and around Washington, said the attack occurred in June and described it as “sophisticated....
this can allow Malicious apps to get permission to access voicemails, text messages, call logs and other apps which may also let the Malware decide what updates and permission should be allowed to any other app installed on the device. Researchers said that all the Official versions and over 3000 customized version of the Android are effected by the flaw, The flaws has already been reported to the Google, and measures are being taken to fix it....
The company, Bitmanagement, makes a 3D virtual reality program called BS Contact Geo. According to the complaint (PDF), Bitmanagement and the Navy agreed to a trial license of the software in 2011 and 2012. That agreement let the Navy use the program on 38 computers on a trial basis — to see if they liked it, to see if it was useful, to see if it could be integrated with other Naval systems, and so on....
VAIO’s newly announced smartphone is running Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 617, which features eight Cortex-A53 cores, which will deliver decent amount of performance. In addition, there is 3GB of RAM present, so you can expect that multitasking will be a breeze, assuming Microsoft has done well with the mobile version of its Windows 10 platform. VAIO previously stated that it was going to produce limited units and that the smartphone was going to be targeted to enterprises....
After Android, VAIO now wants to dabble in Windows 10 smartphones. It seems that during a press conference in Japan, President of Microsoft Japan Takuya Hirano revealed a handful of partners who will be working on creating a series of Windows 10 smartphones, and as you can see in the photo above, VAIO is one of them (along with Acer). Apart from Hirano’s word that VAIO is now planning a Windows 10 smartphone, there is no word regarding VAIO’s plans for a new smartphone, and more importantly what will this new VAIO Windows 10 smartphone will feature....
