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IT departments are faced with increased pressure to provide safe and easy access to a growing number of cloud applications while keeping company data secure. But rolling out application access securely, especially when businesses are yet to fully adopt cloud solutions can be challenging, slow and costly. This is where federated identity management (FIM) comes in. More companies are shifting from on-premise identity and access management solutions to identity federation management solutions....

For those unfamiliar, Jacob Appelbaum, a prominent advocate for digital privacy and security, stepped down from the Tor Project in June, where he worked as a paid employee, after he was accused of rape and unwanted sexual advances. Uploaded online on the GhostBin website, the protest called the #torstrike asks Tor users not to use the service for 24 hours and asks the Tor workers to shutdown nodes and not work on the Tor Project’s software....

If ads are worrisome, another big worry for any torrent user is privacy. With the Trump administration allowing ISPs to sell user’s browser data to the highest bidder, it is expected that the torrent websites make most of this decision and sell their users data to ISPs who in turn will sell it to advertisers. Skytorrents looks to break free from both these issues. It is perhaps the world’s first ad-free torrent website....

As you might know, Slack and Microsft are two rival brands in the software departments. However, recently Slack announced that the company was working on an integration with Microsoft Teams. This integration will allow users to make voice and video calls using Microsoft’s service. Well, Slack is finally launching a new app to integrate Microsoft Teams’ calling features into its messaging app today. Presently, this newly launched app is in the beta stage....

It is disappointing to hear that we will not be getting to witness a new form of a display, Kevin Wang, the Research Director for China has stated that while manufacturers have made good on their promise to deliver the first ever foldable display smartphone on the planet, practical implementations of this particular technology will force these manufacturers to roll out the first ever product during 2017. Currently, Samsung and LG happen to be the leading the pack of the largest display manufacturers, although we have heard nothing from LG’s side....

Sadly, the aforementioned VR headset won’t be launched this year. It is worth noting that the first-generation VR headset for PS4 was launched in October 2016. So here’s everything that you need to know about the upcoming VR headset from Sony. Upcoming VR Headset For PS5 The development of the second-generation VR headset is still underway. This time around Sony will focus on fixing the limitations of the PS4 VR headset....

According to the video posted by Elon Musk, the rocket’s leg-locking mechanisms caused it to tip over after landing, bringing the test to a fiery end. Elon Musk just posted a dramatic video to Instagram that shows the incident up close in footage recorded from the platform; it’s worth watching as a demonstration of just how precise the landing needs to be. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the rocket experienced a “hard landing” upon impact, resulting in a broken landing leg which led to the rocket toppling over and subsequently exploding in a fiery display....

Two researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have recently devised a method to turn a smartphone’s vibration motor into a microphone, capable of recording the sound around them. The brains behind the “VibraPhone” research are Associate professor Romit Roy Choudhury and Ph.D. candidate Nirupam Roy. They are planning to present their paper at MobiSys in Singapore later this month. Even though a speaker, a microphone, and a vibration motor have completely different functions, actually, these components depend on very similar basic principles....

For those unaware, Sublime Text is a proprietary cross-platform source code editor with a Python application programming interface (API). It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages, and its functionality can be extended by users with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses. Sublime Text is available for Mac OS, Windows and Linux. There are a lot of changes in Build 3143 that practically affect every aspect of the application, such as appearance, functionality and performance....

Given this kind of carelessness, companies or businesses that follow the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) business model may want to have a closer look at actually how well secured is their data. BYOD refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. Kaspersky has segregated the type of information saved by participants in their personal smartphones, based on the results received through the survey....

Vincent Lauton was arrested after local threats prompted them to track his IP address, local media reported. He is also being questioned about messages that affected UK and Australian schools, the Daily Mail has since reported. Described by French police as ‘a sophisticated computer operative’ who is “known for previous acts of piracy”, Lauton is linked to the ‘Evacuators 2K16’ bomb hoaxers, who called on children to Tweet if they want their school shut down....

The group video calling feature will now allow support of up to 1,000 people to join a group video call. While the maximum number of people able to participate and broadcast video from both their camera and screen remains capped at 30, Telegram now allows up to 1,000 viewers to join and watch anything from online lectures to live rap battles. “Group video calls now have 1,000 viewers, record video messages in high quality and can be scaled up, allowing viewing at 0....

Dubbed as “Midnight Patrol”, this is a time-sensitive facial recognition system that bans kids under the age of 18 masquerading as adults from getting around a government rule on underage avid gamers in China. For those unaware, in November 2019, China’s General Administration of Press and Publication had released a new set of six guidelines, referred to as the “Notice on Preventing Minors from Indulging in Online Games,” as part of their move to curb video game addiction among youths....

This news comes just after Tesla had formally announced in late March that it had started accepting Bitcoin as a payment method along with the traditional card payment options for its vehicles. Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and founder, in a statement shared on Twitter on Wednesday, said that the company would no longer accept Bitcoin for the purchase of Tesla cars citing concerns over the increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining....

World’s best PDF Solution – A Guide to the newly released PDFelement 6Features of PDFelement Edit PDF image and texts:Merging and Splitting:Compress PDF to any size:Mark and Notes:Extract, rotate and cut PDF:Bookmark and Spell Check:Add Watermarks, Backgrounds, Headers, and Footers:The PDFelement 6 BenefitsRobust editing and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Merging and Creating PDF DocumentExtracting and converting PDF documentsYou can transform files into PDFExporting data from scanned PDFsExcellent EditorThe Software Security is ExcellentWhat Problems Will PDFelement 6 Help a Company Solve?...

HP claims the Spectre x360 15 is the most powerful convertible that you will be able to buy in the futureHardware specifications Normally, you cannot say that hybrids are powerful but the HP Spectre x360 15 is taking a different step, but it is going to be in the right direction. It features a 15.6-inch 4K touchscreen display, with the company saying that it is going to be targeted towards creative professionals and regular professionals....

Speaking to New Scientist, Jing Wang from the National Astronomical Observatories in Beijing, who is in charge of the telescope said “There is no atmosphere on the Moon, so unlike Earth, the ultraviolet light from celestial objects can be detected on the Moon.” The Moon also rotates roughly 27 times slower than Earth to be precise, which means that the telescope can view at the same star for days at a time without interruption, that is something not possible on Earth....

Here is the list of most downloaded torrents of TV shows in August 2015TV shows topping the popularity lists are also topping the list of most pirated TV shows.Mr. Robot:Rick and Morty:True Detective:The Walking Dead:Dark Matter:Lucifer:Teen Wolf:Hannibal: Lets look at the TV shows one by one to give a general idea about why they are doing well in the torrent circuit. Mr. Robot: Mr. Robot is an American drama–thriller television series created by Sam Esmail....

The hackers wrote the following statement on the defaced website: The attack seems to be coordinated as a part of #OpAntifa, a campaign that has been brought up against nationalists, racists and fascists. This is a just a few days after December 15, 2013, when Anonymous first broke into nationalist.org. The hackers claimed they had deleted all their files back then. The following screenshot shows how the Nationalist movement website looks when it is not hacked:...

The Pirate Bay (TPB) has ditched its unreadable Onion domain, uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion to a more identifiable and possibly more permanent, piratebayztemzmv.onion For the uninitiated, TPB had been operating from one of its original domains – thepiratebay.org – for more than 15 years However, during this period, the illegal downloading torrent site moved to over a dozen other domains leading to downtime every now and then. It has hundreds of mirror (proxies) sites that are interlinked to each other....