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The jury awarded the sum after determining that Oculus executives violated a ZeniMax non-disclosure agreement in the early days of building the Oculus Rift VR headset. The lawsuit was filed in 2014 for a dispute between ZeniMax and Oculus, with ZeniMax alleging that John Carmack, the Chief Technology Officer at Oculus and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey stole intellectual property to begin work on the Oculus Rift VR headset. The company also claimed that Facebook hurried through its acquisition process, not properly inspecting Oculus and its executives for possible conflicts and other warning signs....

An eight-month-old baby boy who was lost in the commotion after the truck massacre in the French Riviera city of Nice was tracked down through Facebook on Friday. Tiava Banner – who said she was not the mother of the baby – sent out an appeal on social media urging Facebook users to help her find the parents of the lost infant during Nice attack. The boy, who was in a blue stroller, was lost when the rioting truck killed at least 84 people and sent hundreds of people fleeing in panic, after Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel zig-zagged through the crowd, who had been watching Bastille Day fireworks....

The recall does not affect any other Apple AC wall plug adapters designed for Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, United Kingdom, United States or any Apple USB power adapters. In an official statement, the company explained how to identify adapters that may be affected by the problem. “An affected two-prong plug adapter has either four or five characters or no characters on the inside slot where it attaches to the main Apple power adapter....

Do you know Facebook knows everything about you and your preferences? Find out howFacebook has three ways to figure you outVisit your Ad Preferences to see what Facebook thinks you likeClick on Manage Your Ad PreferencesYou can make Facebook stop tracking you on the internet However, you can do a lot to control the ads you see and stop Facebook from tracking what you do on the rest of the internet in service of its advertisers....

Linux is everywhere and nearly all Linux distros need network connections to offer their services. Network connection failures is one of the major headaches if you are using a Linux based PC or a system. Because if your network fails, all other services will fail and you will be left with a dud system. For this reason, the administrator must have the appropriate tools and commands to analyze and troubleshoot network connectivity....

Let us consider some important possibilities and advantages of this program: All code highlights depending on a type, the also mixed code is thus supported, so the area of HTML will be highlighted as HTML, PHP as PHP, and Javascript as Javascript in a the same file. Thre is possibility of choice from color schemes, including popular IDEs. Powerful autocompletion for HTML, PHP, CSS and Javascript, including HTML5 and CSS3....

Additionally, the 128GB RAM kit is also running at extremely low frequencies (if you do plan to run them at 3,000MHz); CL14-14-14-34. The bundle comprises up of eight 16GB sticks and will definitely look nice inside your X99 motherboard in order to augment your gaming performance alongside a powerful Core i7-5960X, or even an Intel Core i7-5820K processor. DDR4 RAM modules eclipse the performance of DDR3, which was expected and the largest memory kits that were released in 2015 did not go above the 64GB capacity....

You must have heard the adage “there is a code of honor among thieves” Mr.Smith Group, the hackers who hacked into HBO servers seem to be a living testimony to this code. They had yesterday promised (only reported on Techworm and Independent) that they will leak the entire script of Game of Thrones season 7 episode 7 finale “The Dragon and the Wolf” today. And they did it!!! A Reddit post detailing the complete storyline of Game of Thrones season 7 episode 7 finale “The Dragon and the Wolf” was made today....

The Security advisory for Goo.gl/fb states as follows : Though exact causes are not known but Google blocking its own link shortening service is nothing short of a irony. Techworm is waiting for a comment from Google to know whether this is a genuine blockade for malware or some software glitch in its search algorithm. What is the current listing status for goo.gl/fb? Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this website may harm your computer....

The latest browser will now alert you if the passwords you have asked Chrome to remember have been compromised. However, Google’s password check works only if you use Chrome to store your passwords. To check if your username and password have been compromised, Chrome will send an encrypted copy of your username and password to Google. The search giant will check them against lists of credentials known to be compromised, which are sent to the company in a special form of encryption so that Google cannot derive your username or password....

It has resulted in over a hundred thousand backlinks getting into a jiffy, unreachable for Indian audience users explicitly. Blogger was bought by Google in 2003, in a deal to expand in the publishing space. When we tried looking into the domain by WHOIS lookup, the following information appeared. It looks like the domain has been picked up by another entity named Domainming, which seems like a hosting, domain provider at first glance....

EU anti-trust body says that Google illegally promoted its own shopping results over those of competitors. Google has denied doing anything wrong and the matter is sure to land in a court. The Telegraph also noted that EU may impose the penalty within weeks and has fined the maximum it can on Google. According to rules, EU is allowed to fine Google up to a tenth of its annual sales, allowing for a maximum fine of 3....

Though Google may be on the right side because the United States has not recognised Palestine as a separate independent state when 136 members of the United Nations recognised Palestine. And Google being a US incorporated company has every right to follow the US government writ. The outrage over ‘erasing’ may be new but the issue is quite old. When searching for Palestine on Google Maps, it shows an outline, but with no label for Palestine and Israel labelled alongside it....

The settlement will release Google from claims that it “paid women in Covered Positions less than it paid men for substantially similar work, that Google assigned women to lower levels than it assigned men, and that Google failed to pay all wages due to employees upon their separation of employment.” The settlement covers approximately 15,500 female employees working in 236 job titles (“covered positions”) in California since September 14, 2013....

All Linux Platforms are vulnerable to the ‘Grinch’ Root Access vulnerabilityExploitation of the logging systemThreat perception Exploitation of the logging system This isn’t the first major vulnerability to be uncovered in Linux. The same researchers had uncovered vulnerabilities in JournalD back in August, 2014, which allowed attackers to hijack the terminal sessions for remote execute commands. Further digging led them to grinch. The vulnerability was found in a Linux authorization system which could give an unauthorized user root access to the system by leveraging “wheel,” a special user group that controls access to the su command and allows one user to operate as if they were another....

The report titled “Threat Horizons” is based on threat intelligence observations from the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Google Cloud Threat Intelligence for Chronicle, Trust and Safety, and other internal teams. According to the report, of the 50 hacked Google Cloud Platforms or GCPs, 86% of the compromised Google Cloud instances were used to perform cryptocurrency mining, a cloud resource-intensive for-profit activity, while the remainder of the hacking activities included phishing scams and ransomware....

Among the leaked DVD screeners are pilot episode of Fox’s DC Comics-based crime-horror Lucifer which is supposed to release only in 2016 while sci-fi crime drama Minority Report and NBC’s Blindspot are supposed to be released somewhere in September. This year DVD screeners of Oscar nominated films like American Sniper were leaked on torrent sites however this is the first time such screeners of pilot episodes of TV serials have been leaked....

According to OIG’s report, JPL “has experienced several notable cybersecurity incidents that have compromised major segments of its IT network” in the last decade, and more recently “in April 2018, JPL discovered an account belonging to an external user had been compromised and used to steal approximately 500 megabytes of data from one of its major mission systems.” The report also points out that back in 2011, the same JPL department had suffered another data breach where cyber intruders had gained full access to 18 servers supporting key JPL missions and stole 87 gigabytes of data....

Hackers use ‘Double Tap’ to exploit Windows OLE bug under Operation Clandestine FoxFlaws patched, yet targetedClandestine Fox campaignExpert Speak Flaws patched, yet targeted One of the bugs, CVE-2014-6332, was fixed and the patch was released during Patch Tuesday by Microsoft and noted for being remotely exploitable for 18 years prior to the update. The Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution vulnerability presented a serious security issue to users, researchers warned, as it impacts every version of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95....

Hell, was a forum for criminal hackers, wannabe criminal hackers, scammers, federal agents and as per Ping, it could be reached only on the dark web through Tor anonymisor and other anonymising browsers. During an encrypted chat Ping told Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, from Motherboard, that “Hell is a community where criminals can share, learn and make money.” Earlier this year, in March, a hacker known as “ROR[RG]”, with an intention of “Sharing is caring” dumped fifteen spreadsheets on a message board titled “Hacked Data” which helped Hell to gain terrific notoriety....