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The original Doom is playable on the 2170×60 resolution of the Touch Bar. The touch bar replaces the traditional function keys as a digital, displaying context-sensitive controls that go beyond regular buttons due to the multitouch display. It can apparently be reconfigured to display the original Doom complete with music and sound effects pumped through the Pro’s speakers. “Doom runs on pretty much everything… but can it run on the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar?...

Chinese Connection The police unearthed a fake click racket that was being run by Wang Dong, Niu Bang, and Ni Wenjin this past sunday. The 3 individuals were arrested by the Thai police on charges of working without a permit and smuggling SIM cards into the country. The setup that they discovered included 500 smartphones, 350,00 SIM cards, 21 SIM card readers, and nine computers that were being used in the operation....

Cloudflare on Wednesday announced the launch of its WARP VPN service in beta for Windows and macOS. The company also plans to introduce a desktop client for WARP+ in the coming months. “While we announced the beta of 1.1.1.1 with WARP on April 1, 2019 it took us until late September before we were able to open it up to general availability,” writes Matthew Prince, the company’s CEO in a blog post....

The agency has not explained how it will use that funding. Sam Scimemi, International Space Station director at NASA Headquarters, speaking at a Space Transportation Association luncheon on December 16, said he was not immediately aware of any specific plans for that funding. The omnibus bill that specifies how much NASA gets in the following year actually reads: “NASA shall develop a prototype deep space habitation module within the advanced exploration systems program no later than 2018....

It was revealed last Thursday that one of Google’s self-driving car was pulled over in the company’s hometown of Mountain View, California because apparently it was driving too slowly. According to the Mountain View Police Department (MVPD), they observed traffic backing up behind the peculiar-looking prototype vehicle, which was traveling at 24 mph in a 35 mph zone, about two miles from Google’s headquarters. The police also said that the Google car in the photo was self-driving legally on the street which was identified as El Camino Real – a 35 mph zone....

In an announcement Green said “it is no longer appropriate” for him to be the part of the Tor Project, whether his contribution is time-based or financial. Green is one of the people who were part of the Tor Project before the network was known as Tor, to begin with. He is also one of those who ran one of the first five nodes ever introduced in Tor, and across years, he has gained the trust of the Tor Project to allow him to manage special nodes inside the network....

Italy is one such country that is massively impacted by the coronavirus and has been under strict lockdown since March 9th, 2020. People in Italy are only allowed to come out of their homes only to get food, medicines, going to work, or performing essential services. However, this lockdown did not deter a 31-year-old man from breaking the coronavirus quarantine to play the augmented reality (AR) game, ‘Pokemon Go’. The man was detained by the Carabinieri on the streets of San Fermo, in the northern Como province, which was one of the critical outbreak centers at the start of the pandemic in Europe....

When A specially-constructed malformed certificate or a cross-signed is introduced into any Android device running, it may either slow down the device or crash it, forcing the user to reboot. Wish Wu, a mobile threat research engineer has published a report in this regard on TrendMicro blog. Wu says that Trend discovered this vulnerability in Android devices when researching the affects of how Android device handles cross-signed certificates are handled....

These gaming memory sticks also put a lot of focus on aesthetics. The new memory features black PCBs with a digital camo printed on the heat spreaders and while you might not get to see this unique color combination since they will be present inside your gaming notebook, it still gives you a very good first impression of the amount of detail that the company has put on its product....

People in the West Midlands turned to police for help after being harassed on Facebook and Twitter, with the victims ranging from age five to 67. The statistics published on police force website indicates a big increase in the number of officers being asked for help to cope with the abuse on social media. The force website indicates that the number of complainants on Facebook have doubled in number last year compared to the year 2010....

In an interview with The Guardian, Chang talks about how Apple has turned to unfair practices to avoid paying taxes and isn’t helping with the city’s failing infrastructure and lack of funding for public projects. Also, Silicon Valley’s boom has strong effects on surrounding cities in California, particularly in terms of traffic congestion and affordable housing. Chang went as far as blasting Apple for turning to offshore accounts to dodge taxes....

Whether you were gripped by this exciting ‘new’ asset and are just working out how to trade by brushing up on an options trading tutorial, or are concerned about what this means for the future of the established system of currencies and payments, what happens next matters. The challenges faced by cryptocurrency Perhaps inevitably, the rise of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has led to challenges. Firstly, there are a lot of people with vested interests in the existing system that have been left red-faced by the rise of an asset that is free from regulation by central banks....

An employee working for Domino’s Pizza received a terrifying message for help last Tuesday morning from someone claiming to be held hostage in a residential neighborhood in Sherman Oaks, California. The employee immediately called 911 to notify them about the hostage situation. With guns drawn, a team of police in tactical gear surrounded the house and began searching for the alleged captive, according to NBC San Diego. But no one could be found....

Dropbox Users scammed into handing over credentials through a Phishing Page sent over SSLThe modus operandiLog in pages served over a webpage using a secure protocol It so happens that a new style of stealing Dropbox credentials has emerged. Cyber criminals try steal credentials for Dropbox and web-based email service by having created a fake log-in page that is hosted on the file sharing website, taking advantage of its secure protocol....

After all, housing your web development service on a less than stellar platform will only cause you and your clients unnecessary headache — which can ultimately damage your agency’s reputation. And so the question becomes, which among the myriad of platforms on the internet should you choose to power your web design services? That’s where Duda.co comes in. Duda is among the younger platforms that aim to do more than its predecessors....

In a tweet, Musk wrote, “Much appreciated. This was a serious attack,” responding to a report on Teslarati. He said that the Nevada factory was the target of a “serious cybersecurity attack.” — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 27, 2020 Earlier this week, the U.S. authorities arrested and charged a 27-year-old Russian national named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov. As per court documents, Kriuchkov tried to reach out to one of Tesla’s employees (a Russian-speaking immigrant) via WhatsApp Messenger to plant a malicious malware in Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada....

To prove this point, a team at the University of Edinburgh carried out a detailed security investigation of two popular models of wearable fitness trackers, Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex, made by Fitbit. Fitbit secures its devices with end-to-end encryption. However, when Fitbit One and Fitbit Flex were modified to bypass encryption system, the researchers were able to gain access to stored information proving that these devices provided no protection against the hack....

Thanks to the rapid developments in technology, Cloud Computing has now become a household name. While using traditional cloud computing/storage services all of your data resides in one large data center, however if anything goes wrong at the data center due to an outage the entire service goes offline. Furthermore, most mainstream cloud computing services don’t offer proper encryption and almost none of them offer confidentiality at an affordable price....

For those unaware, Tesla had filed a lawsuit at the US District Court for the Northern District of California in March this year against its former employee, Guangzhi Cao, who is currently working for Xiaopeng Motors (aka XPeng or Xmotors), an Alibaba-backed Chinese electric vehicle (EV)-startup , for stealing and uploading over 300,000 files and directories related to Autopilot. Tesla accused Guangzhi Cao of illegally stealing company’s confidential information before he began work and later took the information to Xiaopeng Motors....

The message normally reads as follows This message has being doing rounds lately and encourages you to put up a similar message on your feed for your followers as well, if you want your own Facebook walls to be placed “under protection of copyright laws.” This message is actually a hoax and dont fall prey to it. Facebook doesnt own your media nor has it copyrights on your feed messages and further there is no such thing as the Berner Convention....