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The National Higher Education Entrance Exam, commonly known as ‘gaokao’ or ‘the big test’, is held annually to decide which student qualifies for a place in university. Almost nine million Chinese students appear for gaokao every year. Some students try to cheat or practice unfair means in the exam to improve their chances in the exam ‘gaokao’ – by taking covert photos of the exam questions using special pens equipped with hidden cameras, and send it instantly to someone outside who are waiting to gives the correct answers back through a hidden earpiece....

However, the movie has already been leaked online on pirate sites a week before its official release date. The online leak of ‘Dune (also known as Dune: Part One)’ comes from EVO, the same P2P release group, which leaked Netflix’s ‘The Power of the Dog’ and ‘The Guilty’ last month. This movie is the first instalment of a planned two-part adaption. For those unaware, Dune is a feature adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel of the same name....

Danish researchers at the Aarhus University, conducted a new study to understand what would the world look like in absence of Homo sapiens or human species! The study was not conducted from the perspective of climatic changes; rather it was aimed at “studying the extent to which humans have reshaped the Earth’s biodiversity”. It appears European continent has suffered a lot of devastation, all thanks to the inhuman activity by the Homo sapiens, due to which many of the native mammals have historically reached a level of extinction over the last thousand years....

Well, that was the contest that the seven teams were competing for in Darpa’s Cyber Grand Challenge in August. While every team who participated in the contest has already won $750,000 for qualifying, they must now put their hacking systems up against six others in a game of “capture the flag”. The software must not only be able to attack the other team’s susceptibilities but also discover and fix flaws in their own software – all while guarding its performance and functionality....

But DeFoggi’s conviction is perhaps more surprising than others owing to the fact that he worked at one time as the acting cyber security Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. DeFoggi worked for the department from 2008 until January this year. A department official told Business Insider that DeFoggi worked in the office of the assistant secretary for administration as lead IT specialist but a government budget document for the department from this year (....

Now Google is testing a fantastic new design for the YouTube website and it should be released at some point in the coming weeks. However, thanks to a Redditor, FNCxPro you dont have to wait that much longer to experience the Material Design on YouTube. Even as the new YouTube design is being tested by Google, the new Material Design interface looks just fantastic. You can see the new interface in the screenshot below :...

“It really doesn’t work that well in a lot of countries and we just don’t want people to think that their communications with the world will be cut off,” Mr. Koum said at the Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Munich, Germany. Previously, WhatsApp had been free for the first year, with the fee charged for every subsequent year. Long-term users of the iOS version were given free use for life, as thanks for paying a fee to download the app when it had a one-off charge....

Facebook through its counter speech campaign, it is attempting to discredit terrorist content with posts from its users. The social network has supported several counter speech initiatives in recent months, offering ad credits to some users and collaborating with the US State Department to develop messaging from college students. The counter speech initiative was elaborated by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg last month. Last month when speaking at the World Economic Forum, she expressed her support for campaigns that counter propaganda from terrorist groups like ISIS with messages of tolerance and hope....

Swatting, a disturbing form of harassment popular among online trolls and hackers, is when someone calls in a fake report to police about an on-going incident at someone’s home — usually something like an “active shooter” or hostage taking or something similar — in the interest of having police departments overreact and send out a SWAT team to deal with the situation, such as by raiding the home. Melrose Police spokesman John Guilfoil told the Globe that the department received an anonymous call was made around 9....

The saga of Fappening 2.0 got another chapter added today with the release of more nude photos of actress Alison Brie and Dutch actress, Carice van Houten making their way onto the world wide web. The Unending Saga – Fappening 2.0 According to reports coming in, Hollywood star, Allison Brie and Dutch actress, Carice van Houten are the latest celebrities to have been targeted by the Fappening hacker, Brie had been targeted by the Fappening hackers in 2014 as well....

Lena Draper, 10, messaged the Marion Police Department on Facebook early Friday morning with a few problems, as she needed some help with her fifth-grade math homework. “I’m having trouble with my homework,” she wrote to the Marion, Ohio Police Department on Facebook. “[C]ould you help me?” The department Facebook page sent her an automated reply warning it was “not monitored 24/7,” but less than two hours later, Lieutenant B....

While in high school, Curtis used to serve up hot drinks to businessmen at the coffee shop. He then started pestering the owner of a new tech company that was across the street for an internship. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 ambitious tech employees at Internapalooza, Curtis said “It’s okay to be shameless sometimes. You just have to go get it.” The owner finally gave in and Curtis gave it a try; however, he also had to play receptionist for the company by answering the phone calls....

Techworm Deals Special: Save 98% On The 2017 IT Security & Ethical Hacking Certification TrainingHere are some of the features:Note: exam fees not included Ethical hackers identify weaknesses in data computer security for business and organizations across the globe, to protect them from hackers or criminals with less honest motives. This not only helps them earn a good and honest living but also keeps them away from facing prison time. So, if you want to make it in this lucrative career, you need to be up on the most recent tools and certifications....

Further, Gionee’s founder Liu Lirong reportedly lost $144 million (approximately CNY 1 billion) to gambling making financial matters worse for the company. It was speculated that if restructuring is not a viable option, then Gionee would have to go into liquidation. Now, latest reports confirm that the company has filed for bankruptcy and a court in Shenzhen has accepted the bankruptcy application. Despite the financial woes, Lirong is hopeful that the company should be able to make a comeback in three to five years....

The visitors to Google Bangladesh started seeing the hacked page since the night of 19th and continued throughout the next day before Google could redirect the visitors to Google.com/ncr. Right now the page has fully been restored but some visitors are still seeing the defaced page. The defaced page put up by the hackers ‘Google Bangladesh STAMPED by Team Pak Cyber Attackers. The hacker has identified himself as ‘Faisal 1337’....

In 1990, Senator Nelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Bill Clinton. This award is the highest honor that a U.S. civilian can receive and the award was presented in 1990 on the occasion of 20th year of Earth Day which was celebrated by organizing a very big campaign of about 200 million participants across the world. Earth Day is being celebrated since then and today Google has come up with a new Google Doodle to mark the 45th Earth Day celebration wherein the 2nd ‘O’ alphabet has been replaced by spinning planet Earth and the other individual alphabets includes various different animations of a variety of animals....

“Many people choose to save their payment information and passwords for their favorite websites to their Google Account for easy access. Until recently, it was not always easy to access them in Chrome,” Google explains in its Chromium blogpost. “This changed last year, when we made it easier to access the payment methods in your Google Account. Since then, we’ve been working hard to bring the same signed-in experience to more features and users — making it simpler and more intuitive to access your Google Account info in Chrome....

In a move to compete with its rival video chat service Zoom, Google announced that it is making its premium video conferencing app, Google Meet free for everyone until September 30. The free version of the Google Meet app will be available to everyone with a Google account starting in early May. However, those who do have a Google account will not be able to join meetings created by individual accounts....

Chrome 38Whats fixedOther fixesStable release available now Whats fixed The largest slice of the bounty cake went to security researcher, Jüri Aedla. For his research and discovery of the bugs is a combination of V8 and Inter-process Communication (IPC) vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution outside the sandbox, he received a big “thank you” in the form of a $27,633.00 / €21,830.00 from Google. The second largest bounty receiver is Atte Kettunen of the Oulu University Secure Programming Group (OUSPG) and Collin Payne....