Unity is the default desktop environment for Ubuntu Linux, but since Ubuntu on Windows is designed for command-line use, it’s not enabled by default. While preview versions have been available since April, and Microsoft and Canonical have been working together to bring support for the Bash terminal to Windows 10, it didn’t take long for some users to figure out that they could get some desktop Linux apps to run in Windows....
The research team presented their work in a paper titled DeepMasterPrints: Generating MasterPrints for Dictionary Attacks via Latent Variable Evolution. How Are Master Fingerprints Generated? The fingerprints dubbed as “DeepMasterPrints” by the researchers can be artificially generated using machine learning algorithm. These can be used to fool databases protected by fingerprint authentication without essentially requiring any information about the user’s fingerprints. The artificially generated prints were able to accurately replicate more than one in five real fingerprints in a database, which should only have an error rate of one in a thousand....
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has spotted the US Navy publicly soliciting people to sell security vulnerabilities to well-known software. It seems that the US Navy was also buying the Zero-days as NSA, to build backdoors into the software. The offer for the buying of Zero-days was listed on government website FedBizOpps, which was deleted shortly after being highlighted by the EFF. On the website, the US Navy detailed why it needed the zero-days....
Leaving annoying groups has become easier, and WhatsApp lets you silently leave a group without anyone knowing. No more worrying about people messaging you personally asking about the reason for leaving a group. Delete Messages for Everyone for 2 Days Now the largest messaging platform is letting users have up to 2 days to delete messages for everyone. This is a game-changer as a one-hour window was sometimes not enough....
Reasons for the overheat We all know laptops have air vents to let the hot air to be blown out by the fans but what about the fan itself ? If you have opened up the covering of your machine, you would have noticed the amount of dust that gets collected inside the laptop – around the fan and other components. The more the dust, the less efficient will the fans be....
The Internet coupled with millions of computing devices that we use on a daily basis has to be one of the greatest inventions of mankind. No matter where you live, what’s your age, or what’s your gender, you definitely rely on the internet to get things done and stay connected. Sadly, there are many problems associated with the internet. For instance, the internet is filled with images, videos, and all sorts of multimedia content that’s not ideal for children....
The first modular smartphone, Fairphone 2 is available for pre-order nowMiningManufacturingReuse and recyclingDesign and product longevity Fairphone wants to lessen the number of “blood gadgets” in the market. In order to achieve this, it has created a smartphone with some conflict-free minerals and manufactured them in factories that pledge to behave towards their workers fairly. Additionally, it has discovered a way to lessen the amount of dangerous waste their phones generate when they are got rid of....
Fixing another coder’s bugs If you work for a company, more often than not you will have to fix someone else’s code. If you’re among the lucky ones who have never been asked to do this, bless your stars. For those who have, it can be a horrible experience. Its rarely easy to understand a code someone else has written, even more so when there isn’t proper documentation or comments in that code....
For those unaware, “POCO” was launched as a sub-brand of Xiaomi in August 2018 to represent the company’s line of mid-range smartphones. POCO F1 was the first-ever smartphone to be unveiled under this brand in the same month in India as well as in the international markets. After its release, POCO F1 became an instant hit in the smartphone market as an affordable flagship that ran Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 SoC and packed an impressive camera setup along with amazing performance costing just $300....
The news may come as a shock to users who are already reeling after Yahoo announced the massive data breach which resulted in hackers having access to 500 million users personal information and login details. It was also revealed that Yahoo agreed to scan all its users’ incoming emails on behalf of a U.S. intelligence agency in 2015. It appears that Yahoo made the change in an attempt to prevent a mass exodus, with several users reporting that they noticed the feature that sends a copy of incoming messages from one account to another had been disabled in the wake of the spying revelations....
To help thousands of Nepalese rebuild their life from scratch, you can now use Facebook to make a valuable contribution to the cause. The social network announced that it is rolling out a banner message on news feeds that will allow you to make a donation to International Medical Corps to support its response teams on the ground. For every dollar that you donate, Facebook would match your contribution to the cause (up to $2 million)....
JIDE, a company founded by them has launched a mini PC “Remix ” in the market that is meant to provide users basic functionalities of a PC at an affordable cost. The Remix Mini which fits in palm of hand is being billed as the first truly Android PC ever. “The idea is that we want to make sure it’s affordable and accessible,” David Ko, one of Jide’s co-founders and an ex-Googler, told CNBC by phone....
Custom PC Specs Apple iMac Specs 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K Display Intel i7 Quad-Core 4.00Ghz 32GB 1867Mhz DDR3 SDRAM 1TB Flash Storage AMD Radeon R9 M395X w/ 4GB Video Memory FINAL PRICE $4,431 (Apple Tax required) Given below are the tests that were carried out on both machines. Custom PC SpecsApple iMac SpecsImage Testing MethodologyLightroom ImportLightroom Smart PreviewsLightroom Develop Module Image To Image Time Image Testing Methodology For the following series of tests, 1,121 identical RAW images from the Canon 5D Mark III and Canon 5DS were used on both machines....
Tencent Holdings in China is working with Riot Games, developer of the popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game “League of Legends” in the United States, to develop the smartphone version of the game. According to one of the sources, Tencent had about a decade ago suggested a mobile version of League of Legends to Riot, but the developer rejected the proposal. Tencent then went on to release its own mobile MOBA for China, “Honor of Kings” – a game similar to Legends of Legends....
Sanford Wallace, 47, of Las Vegas confessed in Federal Court of San Jose, California, that he had accessed about 500,000 Facebook accounts and sent uninvited ads disguised as friend requests over a three-month period, said U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag on Monday. Wallace accepted that he had accessed Facebook’s computer network on three occasions between November 2008 and February 2009 so that he could send the spam messages. He also confessed that he infringed a court order that stated he could not access Facebook’s computer network, says Haag....
Researchers at Access Now, an international non-profit organisation which looks into issues affecting open and free Internet, recently discovered a new phishing scam that abuses the “Trusted Contacts” feature on Facebook and tricks you into handing over your credentials to the attackers. For those unaware, Trusted Contacts is a recovery feature created by Facebook, which allows you to choose 3-5 friends who you trust to help you gain access to your account if you forget your password or your account is locked....
The huge database consisting over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in plain text was discovered online on December 5 by security researchers from the California-based identity threat intelligence company, 4iQ. The file found is not the result of a new data breach, but an amalgamation of those from several past breaches, collated into a single database that is over 41GB in size. According to Julio Casal, 4iQ founder and chief technology officer, the archive is the most massive aggregation of various leaks that’s ever been found in the Dark Web until date....
