The jury awarded the sum after determining that Oculus executives violated a ZeniMax non-disclosure agreement in the early days of building the Oculus Rift VR headset. The lawsuit was filed in 2014 for a dispute between ZeniMax and Oculus, with ZeniMax alleging that John Carmack, the Chief Technology Officer at Oculus and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey stole intellectual property to begin work on the Oculus Rift VR headset. The company also claimed that Facebook hurried through its acquisition process, not properly inspecting Oculus and its executives for possible conflicts and other warning signs....

“Broadly, (clear history is) going to give us some headwinds in terms of being able to target as effectively as before,” said David Wehner, Facebook’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference held in Barcelona on Tuesday while announcing the feature, reports CNBC. For those unaware, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had first publicly announced the “Clear History” feature in May 2018 as a mere idea after the Cambridge Analytica scandal....

Not just this, cybercriminals also used the fear of coronavirus outbreak to launch email campaigns to infect users’ systems with malware. Exploiting this situation further, a malicious Android app is now doing the rounds that claim to help track cases of the coronavirus but instead installs ransomware and locks users out of their device. Discovered by DNS threat intelligence company DomainTools, the newly discovered ransomware dubbed as “CovidLock” uses techniques to deny the victim access to their phone by forcing a change in the password used to unlock the phone....

The root of this flaw resides in the way proxy authentication is performed. This kind of authentication is a backbone for organizations that deploy a strong firewall. An attacker, who is placed inside the network and can sniff the proxy traffic, can force the user(s) for unnecessary logins and thus collecting their credentials. How It Works: Suppose your organization has a security implementation that requires users to log in to a proxy server before they can access the internet....

Moreover, these are called Bionic ANTs wherein ANT stands for Autonomous Networking Technologies. As per Festo the basis of future production systems would depend on the intelligent individual components which would readily adjust themselves to different production demands by communicating with each other. The wireless Bionic ANTs can communicate with each other using their wireless systems and hence easily adapt themselves to the wavering production environments. Along with this the robotic ants act intelligently exhibiting the co-operative behavior of the little creature using the complex control algorithms....

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....

Israel-Palestine conflict : New feature of the conflict rides to success on malware attached NSFW videosThe attackTwo of a kindDirty road to success Trend Micro has discovered this new wave of cyber attacks being carried out against the Israeli government, military network and research infrastructure which has taken the aid of NSFW videos. Trend Micros states that there are two separate but similar cyber attacks and both seemed to be interlinked as the trail leads back to Gaza based hackers....

Gest comes fitted with 15 sensors that allow the user to interact with a mobile device or computer without the need of a keyboard and mouse. The company behind Gest is seeking $100,000 in crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The company is also offering the digital toolkit to developers and early adopters until the Kickstarter campaign ends. Gest has one palm strap, plus four finger connectors, each one linked to the strap by wires....

Reuters who was the first to report the news via unnamed sources said the move by Google would mean that Huawei’s future devices would lose access to future OS updates and technical support along with access to Play Store, Google Play Service, Gmail, YouTube, and Maps. However, Huawei can still use the version of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) through an open source license. Google has confirmed in a statement said it was “complying with the order and reviewing the implications”....

It’s not just the satisfaction of working with the under-privileged that keeps Ujjivan’s employees motivated. The company has just gone public with a very successful initial public offering (IPO) and stock options have made its people rich. “Financial performance is just one of the measures of our success,” said founder Samit Ghosh, who started Ujjivan in 2005 to serve the economically active poor who are not sufficiently served by financial institutions, according to its website....

Some of the reasons behind the laying off of employees are expected to be adverse market conditions and the need to reduce costs and increase revenues. According to multiple media reports, the search giant plans to introduce a new performance management system, which could drive out thousands of its underperforming employees from early next year. Under the system, the managers have been reportedly asked to categorize 6% (in contrast to the customary 2%) or roughly about 10,000 of Alphabet’s workforce as poor performers....

The specification of both the Chromebooks are the same. Both Nexian Air Chromebook and Xolo Chromebook feature a 11.6-inch TFT display with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels. It comes with a 16GB in-built storage capacity that can be expanded via a SD card slot. It is powered by a 1.8GHz Cortex A17 Rockchip quad core processor coupled with 2GB DDR3 RAM.On the connectivity front, it has 2 USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port and Bluetooth 4....

The lightning strike was so fierce that it wiped data from one of the disks at its Google Compute Engine (GCE) storage system marking it permanently unusable. In an online statement, Google said that just 0.000001% of disk space was permanently affected. Google said that some of the affected disks later became recoverable but some hardware at the data center has suffered irreversible data loss. Google operates GCE service which allows its worldwide customers to store data and run virtual computers in the cloud....

Affected users took to Google’s issue tracker, support forums, and Reddit, to complain that their phones are being trapped in a Qualcomm EDL (emergency download) mode, instead of Android leaving their handsets effectively useless. For those unaware, EDL mode is a Qualcomm-enabled feature that can allow you to recover data from a device and perform tasks like unbricking the device, unlocking the bootloader, or modifying protected device parameters. Majority of the complaints dated back to June where Google Pixel 3 users reported issues such as waking up to a dead phone after an overnight security update or while listening to music....

The AnTuTu Benchmark application was last updated on February 7, while the latest update for the AI benchmark app was on February 13th. It is not known exactly when the application disappeared from the Play Store, although the AnTuTu application was available until February 22nd. According to a report from Android Police the disappearance of AnTuTu apps is being linked as part of the crackdown on Cheetah Mobile. Last month, Google reportedly pulled out all Android apps published on the Play Store by Cheetah Mobile, due to the company’s repeated violations of privacy policies of its Play Store....

Google has now officially launched the Fuchsia OS developer website, fuchsia.dev, which was first spotted by Android Police. The website notes that Fuchsia OS is an “open source operating system”. However, it also clarifies that “Fuchsia is not Linux” in the System Documentation section of the site. “[It is] a modular, capability-based operating system.” Fuchsia is powered by a microkernel called “Zircon,” which is written mostly in C++ and also provides core drivers and Fuchsia’s lib implementation....

Well, there is some good news from Samsung. The South Korean electric giant has announced the world’s largest SSD (Solid State Drive) for $10,000, which is now available for shipping. It’s Samsung PM1663a SSD, which has 15TB or 7TB capacities. The 15TB SSD is primarily designed for large server systems or enterprise customers for use in data centers. A solid-state drive (SSD, also known as a solid-state disk even though it contains neither an actual disk nor a drive motor to spin a disk) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently....

After two years, the long hands of law have finally reached the Fappening hackers. Illinois man Edward Majerczyk is pleading guilty to the crime of illegally accessing the iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 300 people using an e-mail phishing scam, sending e-mails that appeared to be from the security accounts of Internet service providers, like “[email protected]” and “[email protected]” that directed targeted individuals to a website and prompted them to give up their personal information....

With security being a paramount concern, hackers continue to improve their methods of sophisticated attacks which have branched out to smart devices like smartphones and smart appliances. According to researchers, hackers can now take control of a user’s Wi-Fi network through a smart kettle that is known as iKettle. This latest smart device retails for £99.99 and is manufactured by British company known as Smarter. While the features of iKettle saves the user several minutes of their precious time by producing their hot beverage, it does not necessarily mean that it is secure as well....

For those unaware, UC Browser, which is developed by China-based Alibaba-owned UCWeb is one of the most widely used mobile device browsers in India and China and has more than 500 million users worldwide. According to the report from Doctor Web firm, while UC Browser itself is not embedded with malicious software, it does feature a ‘secret function’ since at least 2016 that allows developers to download new libraries and modules from its servers and install them on users’ mobile devices at any time and without any authentication....