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Since, it is difficult to learn all those languages, as a programmer, it is very important to keep one’s eyes and ears open to the emerging trends so that one doesn’t lose out on the potential opportunities. Over the years there have been several articles on the websites which every programmer should bookmark and follow but the articles always list the same 10-15 top sites like CodeAcademy, Udemy, Coursera, KhanAcademy etc....

The massive 3D printer is termed as “Big Delta” and the makers of this device claim that with 40 foot height and 20 foot in diameter, it is the world’s largest 3D printer. In addition, it is even capable of creating budget friendly clay and mud houses in just one continuous printing session. Despite being so huge, Big Delta uses only 100 watts of power and hence it is extremely energy efficient....

Transgender Chelsea Manning is already serving life in prison for leaking state secrets. Chelsea called on friends and supporters from prison to inform them that the military court has found her guilty of four charges. The charges on which the new conviction has been made look frivolous and include possession of LGBTQ reading material like the Caitlyn Jenner issue of Vanity Fair, and having a tube of expired toothpaste in her cell....

If you are a fan of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, you will know what I am talking about. Gene’s Star Trek first showed the world what teleportation was all about by beaming Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones and others from one place to another. What seemed like a sci-fi thing in Star Trek may soon become a reality and in this march to teleportation, China has stolen the glory. Chinese scientists successfully “teleported” data from one elementary particle to another....

Linux first appeared on the TOP500 list in 1998, and by 2004 Linux had become the favorite operating system in supercomputing. There were 485 Linux-powered systems in the TOP500 list in 2015, which increased to 498 out of 500 in 2016 and in 2017 it is running on all the 500 supercomputers in the list. “Linux [became] the driving force behind the breakthroughs in computing power that have fueled research and technological innovation,” as reported in The Linux Foundation’s 20 years of Top500....

While Su, 50, is being celebrated as a hero in his home country, he has pled guilty to conspiring with others to break into the networks of Boeing and other American defense contractors in a federal court in Los Angeles, California. He admitted to conspiring with two unnamed accomplices in China to try to acquire plans for F-22 and F-35 fighter jets and C-17 transport aircraft. According to prosecutors, the hacking took place between October 2008 and March 2014....

The photo which was first uploaded by a user on the Chinese social networking website Weibo clearly shows a Chinese woman sitting in front of a panel consisting of about a 100s of iPhones and she is manipulating the App store ranking. Now, how is she doing this? Actually she is installing and uninstalling the apps continuously which would appear as if the some regular users are downloading the apps....

The bug also affects latest versions of Opera while opening the special characters in Firefox causes the browser to load deformed url. If you want to try out the bug just type out into your browser address bar. However the bug does not affect Chrome on Mac PCs or on Android smartphones. Though some users have noted that the Chrome build on Android smartphones returns the dreadful ‘Aw! Snap’ error page....

Sadly, a Germany-based security firm ERNW has recently uncovered a critical bug in Android’s Bluetooth subsystem. This bug can be exploited to steal data and spread malware on Android smartphones and tablets. According to the security firm, if an attacker can get access to your device’s Bluetooth MAC address, then he/she can execute a computer code to hack your Android device. ERNW has further stated that no user interaction is required for the hacking process to take place....

Researcher discovers new privilege escalation Zero-day in OS X Yosemite including v10.10.5Macs still vulnerable as Apple doesnt know about the vulnerability Apple moved quickly and released a patch for the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release. However, Italian talian developer Luca Todesco has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in the Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite operating system, affecting all available updates, including the recently released v10.10.5. https://twitter.com/qwertyoruiop/status/632665422593179649 The exploit which is given on GitHub page here, relies on a combination of attacks including a null pointer dereference in the I/O Kit open-source framework that lets developers write device drivers for Apple’s OS X and iOS operating systems, for dropping a proof-of-concept payload into a root shell....

For the unaware, Cydia App Store for iOS provides user software packages that can be installed on jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices. Basically, it allows users to install software from third-party by bypassing Apple’s own App Store lockdown. However, the number of users who have cracked the iPhone has decreased in recent years due to Apple’s iOS ecosystem has grown more strong and secure. While Freeman had initial plans to shut down the store purchases option by the end of 2018, a recently found security vulnerability in the app that would allow hackers to buy apps using other people’s accounts led to the shut down earlier than planned....

According to multiple reports, the clearly illegal website which “went live” last week, consists of a single HTML file, and an image of President-elect Trump in the crosshair of a scope, with the website asking for donations in order to fund the assassination attempt. The Bitcoin wallet associated with the site has managed to amass $88,000 in their bitcoin wallet since March. However, since the website has only been live for about a week, donations believed to be related to the assassination fundraising only amount to $119, CSO reports....

The issue was first noticed by Dani Grant, an ad product intern at BuzzFeed and founder of Hackers of NY, discovered the flaw when she realized she could simply share the URL and anyone can access her boarding pass. She immediately emailed the Delta security team about this flaw and got a stereotype feedback from them. Shocked Dr.Grant took to web and posted her boarding passes and the flaw....

Now, a team of developers behind the “Renegade Project” have managed to get Windows 11 running on a OnePlus 6T smartphone since the operating system supports both x86 and ARM processors. To run Windows 11 on the Android phone, the developers created their own tools and drivers and enabled a custom UEFI environment on the Snapdragon 845. Xilin Wu, the lead developer behind the project, told Windows Latest that “Windows 11 ARM64 can be installed on Snapdragon 845 phones, while Snapdragon 855 is partially supported by the edk2-sm8150 port....

Clicking the menu button in the top-right corner of posts while using the desktop version of Facebook, only shows the following options: Save post, Edit post, Turn off notifications for this post and Show in tab. Delete option is nowhere to be seen. This unusual activity was first spotted by The Next Web’s Director Matt Navarra along with some users who flocked across different social media sites complaining about facing the same problem....

According to the breach notification email sent to affected customers, the data leak took place when a DigitalOcean-owned document from 2018 was unintentionally made accessible on the internet without password protection. “This document contained your email address and/or account name (the name you gave your account at sign-up) as well as some data about your account that may have included Droplet count, bandwidth usage, some support or sales communications notes, and the amount you paid during 2018,” the company said in the breach notification email....

They are testing traffic lights that are created for pedestrians using mobile phones who are not looking at the road and not traffic. Officially dubbed as, the +Lichtlijn, which is developed by local firm HIG Traffic Systems consists of an LED lighting strip in the pavement, which is linked to existing traffic lights and changes colour simultaneously. ‘Social media, games, WhatsAp and music are major distractions in traffic,’ said town alderman Kees Oskam....

As it stands, the tech tycoon is willing to pay a per-share price of $54.20 in cash. Compared to the stock price of Twitter on the last trading day, the 1st of April, the price offered by Musk translates to a 38% premium. Similarly, compared to the closing price on the 28th of January, the current rate represents a 54% premium. Musk serious about Twitter takeover The filing to the US SEC was made on the 13th of April, and Musk tweeted about the same on Thursday....

“As of the end of Q2, we have converted approximately 75% of our Bitcoin purchases into fiat currency. Conversions in Q2 added $936M of cash to our balance sheet,” the company said in its earnings release. Tesla has listed this sum under “proceeds from sales of digital assets” in its second-quarter earnings results. The company said in a shareholder presentation that its year-over-year operating income was mainly affected by several items, including “Bitcoin impairment”, which had a negative impact on its profitability during the second quarter, when it posted $2....

The accused, Anthony Scott Levandowski, a 39-year-old engineer and former head of Uber’s self-driving vehicle efforts, has been indicted on 33-counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1832. Levandowski had worked at Google’s self-driving car unit, which was later rebranded as Waymo. According to the indictment, Levandowski illicitly downloaded thousands of confidential files related to engineering, manufacturing, and business for Google’s LiDAR (Light Detecting and Ranging) and self-driving technology, in the months before he left Google....