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According to the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the social networking giant collected personal information from its users in Spain without obtaining their “unequivocal consent” and without letting them know how such information would be used. “Facebook collects data on ideology, sex, religious beliefs, personal tastes or navigation without clearly informing about the use and purpose that it will give them,” the statement said. The privacy policy of Facebook “contains generic and unclear terms” and it “does not adequately collect the consent of either its users or nonusers, which constitutes a serious infringement” of data protection rules, said the watchdog....

And they seemed to have started with Steam today. https://twitter.com/mikko/status/812347791414595584 The DDoS attack mounted by PhantomNations on Steam servers is so severe that almost all regional gaming servers are down and the report now shows as 0.00 % online. It is worthwhile to remember that Steam operates about 17 regional servers including 3 for US, 4 for Europe and Australia, India, Brazil, Japan etc. All Steam activities including the Steam community and the Steam Store are down so you cannot buy Steam games as Christmas gifts for your near and dear ones....

Fitbit wearables are pretty popular among the health conscious gen users and among the largest selling brand in the health wearables space. They are marketed by the company as the ultimate devices which can help track things such as your heart rate to better improve your lifestyle. However a new study conducted by California State Polytechnic University found that they may be way off in recording heart beats. The results of study conducted by researchers at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in which participants’ heart rates were simultaneously measured by a Fitbit on each wrist and an echocardiogram, found that the PurePulse heart rate monitors on two Fitbit models – the Surge and Charge HR – can be off by up to 20 beats per minute....

The FTP servers are used by various United States government departments to upload and download files from the internet have been apparently attacked by a hacker known as “Fear” and has a Twitter handle, @hackinyolife. “I gained access to an ftp server, that listed access to all the ftp’s on .us domains, and those .us domains were hosted along with .gov , so I was able to access everything they hosted, such as, public data, private data, source codes etc....

— Thejesh GN (@thej) June 3, 2015 The Wire.in reports that a brief inspection exposed that the code consisted of few lines of JavaScript that loaded an asset like an advertisement on webpages that Thejesh was visiting. It was called Anchor.js. Using a web-based IP tracker, he was also able to find that the code was originating out of the IP address 223.224.131.144 – which belonged to Bharti Airtel Limited....

According to one survey conducted in 2013, women make up a very small percentage of software developers, which is 11.2%. The majority of companies in Silicon Valley showed that women occupied less than 20% of the technical positions in their firms in the year 2014, reports Business Insider. Apparently, HackerRank, which is a free coding practice website that allows developers to hone their coding skills by solving challenges and for companies to find top software developers, also agreed with 20% statistics of women that solves challenges....

The pros and cons of Near Field Communications (NFC) technologyNFC: The Advantages NFC: The Risks Solutions Near Field Communications (NFC): NFC is a technology that is used to allow two electronic devices communicate with one another when in close proximity. Many people are sceptical about the safety of NFC, especially when using it to make payments through a stored credit card and rightly so. With the endless new technologies at our fingertips, a certain level of privacy is inevitably substituted but is it a risk that is worth taking and just how big the risk of using NFC does pose?...

Legendary announced the release date with this tweet earlier today : — Legendary (@Legendary) April 24, 2015 The original Pacific Rim was released on July 12, 2013 and met with an astounding success raking in $411 million for the producers. The Pacific Rim story starts in 2013 when the human cities are attacked by the Kaijus, colossal beasts who come to Earth through a portal on the Pacific Ocean floor called the Breach....

Well, YouTuber Wermy has an answer. He has come up with a Game Boy Zero mod that does it all. His Game Boy Zero modification uses a Raspberry Pi Zero, a modified game cartridge and a fair amount of drilling to imitate classic NES, SNES and the Gameboy’s many iterations all up to and including Advanced, while at the same time preserving majority of the original Game Boy’s look and feel....

On Monday, the Microsoft founder and co-chair of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted an “AMA,” or “ask me anything,” session on Reddit, during which a participant asked, “If you could give 19-year-old Bill Gates some advice, what would it be?” It is always clever to listen to any advice or insight coming from Gates who has tasted success at a very young age. Here’s what Gates had to say: “I would explain that smartness is not single dimensional and not quite as important as I thought it was back then....

A British boy of Pakistani origin has become the world’s youngest qualified computer programmer at the age of seven, a media report claimed. Muhammad Hamza Shahzad, resident of Handsworth area in Birmingham has been trained by his father Asim Shahzad, who works with an American IT firm. “I want to be Bill Gates,” he told Birmingham Mail. This is not the first time when Hamza has set a world record....

A out of work plumber who was a US army veteran decided to teach the authorities a lesson for pissing him off. He stole a M-60 battle tank used by the US Army. Whats more, he drove the tank in the downtown streets of San Diego crushing everything in the way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FRiwjSrwiE Shawn Nelson, the US army war veteran who was driving the tank met with a unfortunate end. He stole an M60A3 Patton tank from a United States National Guard Armory in San Diego, California, and went on a rampage on May 17, 1995, destroying cars, fire hydrants, and a recreational vehicle before being shot and killed by police....

Cook, CEO of Apple joined Sina Corp.’s Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service similar to Twitter earlier this Monday. The move is an indication of the significance of the Chinese smartphone market to Apple. In other words, the Chinese Apple fans and others will now be able to view information and news about the company on one of China’s largest social networks. As of today, the microblogging service has approximately 200 million active users each month....

Anonymous lists the top 10 best-ever hackers of all times10. Kevin Poulsen9. Albert Gonzales8. Vladimir Levin7. Robert Tappan Morris6. Michael Calce5. David Smith4. Adrian Lamo3. George Hotz2. Jonathan James1. Gary McKinnon The group who have released an album of the top 10 best-ever hackers, wrote: “Although sufferers of Asperger’s tend to have difficulty in social situations, they have usually proven to be outright geniuses in one particular subject.” “For Gary? It is computers....

Top 5 Best Websites To Learn Linux Online This is the reason that in this article we look at the top 10 best resources for hackers and security researchers to learn hacking with Kali Linux. Top 10 Best Kali Linux Tutorials for Beginners 1. Kali Linux Installation and Basic Linux Command Line Interface Full Tutorial (Video) We start off this YouTube video tutorial which teaches you how to install basic Linux and Kali Linux on your computer....

Netflix’s Top 10 Original Movies and TV Shows10 Most Watched TV Shows On Netflix10 Most Watched Movies On Netflix The data released by Netflix ranges from October 2018 to September 2019. It is worth noting that Netflix counts anyone who’s watched around 70% of a single episode within four weeks of a series’ premiere as a viewer of that show. Using the data released by Netflix, The New York Times compiled the list of what Netflix claims to be the most-watched TV shows and movies....

Techworm brings to all its readers a combination of 25 English and Hindi WhatsApp messages with some funny flavours which they can send across to their near and dear ones to express your holy wishes: Also Read- Best Happy Holi Wishes, Messages, Quotes I Don’t want much for Holi. I just want the person reading this to be Healthy, Happy and Loved…Wishing You A very Happy HOLI!!! Holi aayi satrangi rango ki bauchar laayi, Dher Saari mithai aur mitha mitha pyar laayi, Aap ki zindagi ho mithe pyar aur khusiyon se bhari, Jisme samaaye saaton rang yahi subhkamna hai hamaari…Happy Holi!...

As it is rightly said in India: “Don’t mind, its Holi.” Well, Holi is a festival which people of all ages celebrate with much vigour throughout India. It is a festival of colours, happiness, a festival of meeting dear and near ones, playing pranks and everyone enjoys the festival. People use colours and coloured water for enjoyment. Also, they consume “Thandai” i.e. sweet milk. People in villages and cities meet up and apply colours to each other throw water and then have delicious lunch....

Already at five million downloads, the popular European translation app updates its technology which now includes an improved UI and educational resources for language learners Chances are, if you’ve ever spoken to someone whose native language differs from yours, you’ve had a misunderstanding while communicating with them. Whether or not you misunderstood them, or if it was yourself who was misunderstood, you have to wonder: What led to it? There are dozens of barriers to communication that might lead to a misunderstanding, things like accents, one’s interpretation of language, faulty definitions, or everyday colloquialisms that can create a slippery slope once translated into a different language....

“We recently discovered that when you provided an email address or phone number for safety or security purposes (for example, two-factor authentication) this data may have inadvertently been used for advertising purposes specifically in our Tailored Audiences and Partner Audiences advertising system,” Twitter said in a blog post on its Help Center page Tailored Audiences is a feature that allows advertisers to target ads to customers based on the advertiser’s marketing lists (e....