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Answering to a question in the Indian lower house, Lok Sabha, the Minister for Communications and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that “The government has not decided to get servers of popular social networking sites, like hike, Facebook, Twitter etc established within the country” He added that Indian government regularly communicates with these social media websites to resolve the issues like unlawful and hateful content hosted on them. Mr.Prasad added that the security agencies in India face a difficulty in processing the encrypted communications provided by various tracking and surveillance agencies....

In a tweet, the PIB (Press Information Bureau) Fact Check, which is the government’s official fact-checker, dubbed the viral message as fake, saying that no such instructions were given to Google or Apple by the MeitY or NIC. — PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) June 19, 2020 The fake message circulated on the social media claimed that the Indian Government has directed the regional executive and representatives of Google and Apple to “restrict the functioning of Chinese applications from the respective stores with immediate effect”....

There are several reasons why the PC market has slowed down. First off, if you take a look at the performance differences between the processors of each new architecture (this would be between i7-5820K vs. i7-6820K), there is not much difference to them if you decide to run somewhat taxing applications and programs on them. Sure, those synthetics and occasional gaming benchmarks might have a different story to tell, but at the end of the day, those are not based on real-world performance....

For those unaware, a couple of months ago, Broadcom had made an unexpected and unsolicited bid to acquire its rival chipmaker, Qualcomm for $130 billion in November 2017 but this initial bid was rejected by Qualcomm’s board of directors, and so were every subsequent counter offer claiming that Broadcom’s proposed price for the deal “undervalues” the company. In February 2018, a revised buyout of $121 billion was offered by Broadcom, which was too rejected by Qualcomm....

The news is from the city of Federal Way (Washington) where a guy named “Rahel Mohamad” twitted about the incident. — Rocky Mohamadali (@rocky_mohamad) November 14, 2018 He said that “This year early January I bought the iPhone and have been using it normally.” The iPhone X was in process of getting new iOS 12.1 update and when Mohamad put it on charging at a later stage, he observed a “Dark grey smoke started coming from the phone....

This year, Iraq’s Internet went dark for May 14, 15, and 16, between 05:00 AM and 08:00 AM GMT. Adding timezone differences, that’s 08:00 to 11:00 AM, the time, and dates for Iraq’s official exams for secondary and high schools. However, this is not the first time, the communications ministry done the same thing in 2015. The diktat was implemented during the national exam days but no Iraqi official ever admitted it....

You may stumble upon outrageously cheap Bluetooth headphones and wireless phone chargers or whimsical swan-shaped toilet brush holders, depending on your personal demographics and shopping proclivities. Moreover, unbelievably low prices are a cherry on top, pushing you to buy everything you need (and do not need!) At the same time, this may raise suspicions about the site’s legitimacy, which is seemingly too good to be true. So, is Wish legit and safe or that’s just our wishful thinking?...

“We need to establish deterrents in cyber space. We need to not just defend ourselves against attacks but rather to dissuade people and states from targetting us in the first place,” Osborne said. In the first ever speech by a Chancellor at spy base Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), he also unveiled a £1.9 billion spending boost for online security by 2020 to combat their efforts. “We are building our own offensive cyber capability....

ISIS, the radical insurgent group holding territory in both Syria and Iraq, is fighting for its life in Mosul, a large city in Northern Iraq that the terrorist organization has occupied since 2014. Iraqi troops and other security forces have been fighting to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group since early November. Last week, Kurdish media network Rudaw reported that Islamic State fighters in Mosul are using drones to drop small bombs onto Iraqi security forces and civilians....

Java got an approval rating of 19.804 % followed by C with 12.238 % while C++ came in third at 6.311 %. Python and C# continue to hang in there with a slight downtick in their popularity. Java’s popularity rose at 2.08 percent while C and C++ have a little worry as their popularity shrank at -3.91 % and -2.33 %respectively. PHP, the programming language of choice among web applications developers made it to the top 5, while C# slid from the top 5....

Largest ever DDoS attacks carried out on Hong kong’s Democracy MomentsDNS AttackLargest ever in historyResponse DNS Attack What is striking about these attacks is the way they are being carried out. The attack involves bombarding DNS servers. A DNS server is responsible for taking a request from a user fro a website, resolving it and forwarding the request onto the website. What has happened in this attack is, the attacker/attackers have been bombarding the DNS servers with multiple request for these specific sites, which is ensuring that the DNS server resolves every request....

Redditor, tdark12 has made a full thread on Redditor describing the issue and give a solution for disabling the same. He noted that Avast is adding an unseen signature in his emails. As stated above, the settings for the signature have also been added to the Web Shield without any way of disabling it. So, even though you DON’T have Mail Shield installed, it could still be appending the signature....

In other words, this means that there will be no unique identity of Moto brand in itself. Now, all smartphones designed and manufactured by Lenovo will carry the ‘Moto’ brand. The news comes in light of the company’s no-so-good financial results. The announcement also comes as part of a larger shift in leadership at Lenovo, which involves replacement of current Co-President and SVP of the company’s Mobile Business Group Xudong Chen with Gina Qiao, formerly SVP of Human Resources....

How would it sound if we take the light all the way to the computer or TV, projecting it through the air over the last few meters and only converting it to an electronic signal at the end? That sounds amazing isn’t. The researches at Oxford University is working on the similar technique with a system that takes light from the fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 gigabits per second....

“Thank you all for your donations and for your support. We’ve received a lot of help in preparation for the next release,” said Clement Lefebvre. “The ISO images are getting close to passing QA (quality testing) so we could see a Beta release early this month. Linux Mint 18 is just around the corner. I hope you’ll enjoy it.” The Mint team is expecting to receive lots of suggestions and help from the community to find bugs and polish the operating system before it pushes out a solid stable release subsequently with the beta release....

So here’s good news for those concerned about camera and microphone spying! MacKeeper developers came up with a must-have solution: Camera Protection and Microphone Protection. They are small but useful widgets are designed to notify the user when an app attempts to access the Mac’s camera or microphone. These features are included in the new version of MacKeeper. Camera Protection and Microphone Protection quickly detect any access to your Mac’s camera or microphone....

Microsoft’s updates for Windows 10 are compulsory; who’s to protect PCs from buggy updatesThe EULA reads:This has its pros and cons. Let us check the Pros:What are the Cons: The biggest disadvantage of auto updates : Microsoft is ready to release its much awaited latest preview build of Windows 10 and just a week before the final release Microsoft has published its Windows 10 End User License Agreement (EULA) which confirms its clause that : Windows 10 updates are mandatory for Home users....

“Today, we are pleased to share the next step in our journey to support our business and education customers with the introduction of Surface Pro 7+ for Business,” Microsoft said in its announcement. “From small and medium size businesses to the largest organizations, Surface Pro 7+ is purpose-built with the needs of our business and education customers in mind. This next generation of Surface Pro stays true to its ethos – delivering on top customer requested updates while maintaining the same iconic design so customers can continue to leverage their existing investments....

The new method is detailed in a paper in the journal Science Advances, wherein Microsoft has introduced their first nanoscale DNA storage writer – a proof-of-concept molecular controller in the form of a tiny DNA storage writing mechanism on a chip. It is known that available methods of storage are having difficulty keeping up with the increasing demand in the long term. As per prediction by the International Data Corporation, data storage demands will reach nine zettabytes by 2024....