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Alphareign searches other sites for the best torrents and then delivers them straight to you if you are a member. This means that you get the best torrent first for faster downloading. The site also allows users to find torrents collected from BitTorrent’s ‘trackerless’ Distributed Hash Table (DTH) for the sake of better security measures that will benefit both the users and the website. AlphaReign is a torrent search engine by function so the similarity with Torrentz is easily visible....

Side-channel attack has been used earlier to hack into air gapped computers but this is the first time researchers have used this vector to steal encryption keys from Android smartphones and iOS devices. Five researchers from universities in Tel Aviv and Adelaide have devised a new crypto side-channel attack that can extract encryption keys from electromagnetic emanations coming out of Android and iOS devices that are running cryptographic operations. For the uninitiated, in cryptography, a side-channel attack is any attack based on information gained from the physical implementation of a cryptosystem, rather than brute force or theoretical weaknesses in the algorithms (compare cryptanalysis)....

Early Friday, Twitter accounts apparently operated by Anonymous members showed parts of what it said were thousands of CAT customer accounts, including logins, passwords and personal IDs including Thai government ID names and numbers. The CAT website was taken off the internet for several hours late Thursday. CAT’s home page, cattelecom.com, was back online early Friday. However, the biggest takeaway from the hack attack according to Anonymous was the release of previously undisclosed details about the single gateway plan....

In comparison to other years, the data shows that hacktivism has decelerated and lost its impetus but still has managed to cause enough damages to gather mainstream media attention. The government agencies were hit the most by hacktivism campaigns says the security firm with the most publicity having been created around the now-notorious COMELEC hack by Anonymous Philippines and Lulzsec Philippines, during which information for around 50 million Filipino voters were disclosed....

Deric Lostutter, the Anonymous member who exposed the infamous Steubenville High School rape case may get more prison time than the rapist(s). The man who formed a team with the co-conspirator, McHugh, a.k.a. JustBatCat and called themselves KYAnonymous, allegedly hacked a website to expose a high school girl’s rapists has been charged with violating federal computer laws, and if convicted, faces prison sentence eight times longer that would be applicable to the rapist under the US law....

Tom Dickson, the spokes person of Blendtec, wore a lab coat and actually put the Apple Watch in the blender, then he pressed the “force touch button” to start the blender. For the first few seconds the watch seems to hold itself pretty well however later the watch could not hold to the torturous whips of the Blendtec blades and gets shredded to pieces. All the components of the watch was destroyed and ultimately what left behind was just a pile of gray ash and dust....

• Amlogic S905 (ARM Cortex-A53 (ARMv8) 2GHz quad core CPU) • 2Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM • ARM Mali-450 MP3 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 for Linux and Android) • HDMI 2.0 4K/60Hz display • H.265 4K/60FPS and H.264 4K/30FPS capable VPU • Gigabit Ethernet • 40+7pin GPIO port • eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage slot / UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD slot • USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB 2.0 OTG x 1 (power + data capable) • Infrared(IR) Receiver • Ubuntu 16....

While there are many gadgets which influence something or the other, lights do have an effect on Wi-Fi. The reason is that Wi-Fi is a radio frequency (RF) signal operating within a specific range on the electromagnetic spectrum, making it susceptible to interference by other devices operating within the same or similar frequency range. A white paper published by networking giant Cisco points out that microwave ovens, Bluetooth and among common signals and appliances can interfere with the Wi-Fi signal from your router....

Alonzo Knowles, 23, known online under the moniker of Jeff Moxey, was arrested in Manhattan on Monday after meeting with an undercover law enforcement agent to whom he boasted of having records of at least 130 accounts of stars and big shots in entertainment, sports and media. At the time of his arrest, Knowles was allegedly attempting to sell the stolen material to the undercover agent, the court papers say....

The person in question is Larry Mitchell, of Kokomo, Indiana, who wants people to donate to his GoFundMe page so that they can send him back to Africa. “Send me ‘back’ to Africa fund … If you want me to go back to Africa I will gladly go … you can help make your dream and mine come true … accepting all donations … KKK, Skin Heads and anyone else with like mind thinking are welcome to donate … Thank you....

A file system for the real pirates – BTFS (bittorrent file system)BTFS Bit Torrent File System : BTFS Bit Torrent File System : In order to mount the torrent as a directory and allow the use of torrent-files and magnet-links, Linux supporters have created a new file system BTFS. BTFS is very simple to work. You will find the magnet link on the torrent tracker and you need to use it with the system mount command....

Now, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has collected data from ten sources that ranked programming languages based on several criterias’ to give one of the broadest rankings for programming languages till date. The top 10 most popular programming languages today, according to its findings, are C, Java, Python, C++, R, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, and Go. IEEE comprised of data from Google searches, Hacker News, GitHub active repos, Twitter, GitHub trends, Reddit, Career Builder, Stack Overflow questions, IEEE Xplore, new GitHub projects, views on existing Stack Overflow questions, and Dice....

As our brains are hardwired to judge on the visual aspects of a person, company, and their actions, we can be persuaded into purchasing products and services through the medium of advertising alone. Striking images can attract the eyes like almost nothing else. Pictures from Focused Collection are a strong example of a company who further this point. For almost every adult over a certain age will tell you, sometimes “impulse buys” happen....

The new regulations serve as a broad clampdown on China’s tech giants, in addition, to control what the government feels is a growing “gaming addiction among young people”. As per the new regulation, minors in China will be allowed to play games only between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and on public holidays starting September 1st. In other words, minors will be banned from playing online video games entirely between Monday and Thursday....

The new rules were published in a document last week with the title: “Provisions on the Administration of Internet Thread Commenting Services”. The proposed revisions tighten the regulation, ‘Provisions on the Management of Internet Post Comments Services’, which first came into effect in 2017. According to the new draft, any company or individual that runs a website in China needs to hire ‘a review and editing team suitable for the scale of services to improve the professional quality of reviews and editors....

One of the most valued qualities of society is privacy. Sending private messages or carrying out financial transactions without the fear of being observed remains at the heart of many government, commercial and military activities. Quantum cryptography is that one technology that lets this to be done in a better way, and it needs a very strong source of random numbers. Although, there is a glitch to it. It is very difficult to generate random numbers in large quantities....

Su, aKa Stephen Su alias Stephen Subin, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia at the request of the U.S. on June 28.Su, who is described to be managing, Lode-Tech, an aviation technology company based in China with an subordinate office in Canada. It is alleged that Su used Lode-Tech to breakinto the Boeing network of January 2010, according to a report filed by authorities in a federal complaint unsealed in Los Angeles this week....