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— Netflix US (@netflix) November 30, 2016 “Netflix members worldwide can now download in addition to stream great series and films at no extra cost,” Eddy Wu, director of product innovation, said in an announcement. “While many members enjoy watching Netflix at home, we’ve often heard they also want to continue their Stranger Things binge while on airplanes and other places where Internet is expensive or limited. Just click the download button on the details page for a film or TV series and you can watch it later without an internet connection....

According to AdAge, the “Free to Watch” section was added to the “Movies & Shows” section in October. However, there is no “Free to Watch” section for TV shows yet. “We saw this opportunity based on user demand, beyond just offering paid movies. Can we do ad-supported movies, free to the user?” Rohit Dhawan, YouTube’s director of product management, told AdAge. “It also presents a nice opportunity for advertisers.” YouTube hasn’t disclosed the deals it has made with studios and advertisers....

The social media platforms including the popular cross platform mobile messaging service, WhatsApp went into a tizzy on Sunday with leaked nude images and videos of actor Preeti Gupta being circulated widely. According to the reports, leaked videos and images feature Preeti Gupta’s “nude scenes” and “lesbian kissing scenes” from a banned film called Unfreedom. The film was banned last month by the censor boards of India for having explicit sexual content and has not been released anywhere....

According to the company, TITAN RTX is “the world’s most powerful desktop GPU” that offers massive performance for AI research, data science, and creative applications. The TITAN RTX, which NVIDIA has dubbed T-Rex, is driven by the new NVIDIA Turing architecture. It can deliver 130 Teraflops of deep learning performance and 11 GigaRays of ray-tracing performance to world’s most demanding users. “Turing is NVIDIA’s biggest advance in a decade – fusing shaders, ray tracing, and deep learning to reinvent the GPU....

OnePlus has announced that its OnePlus 2 smartphone will get a “new and improved” invite system. In addition, on Wednesday, Liu Zuohu (aka Pete Lau) OnePlus CEO affirmed on Weibo that the forthcoming flagship will support dual-SIMs. Carl Pei, OnePlus co-founder disclosed details about OnePlus 2 invite system and introduced a few key improvements in a blog post on Wednesday. The company affirmed that it will have more invites on offer, alongside having “more launch inventory than last time”....

While the dark web may have these things running aboard but it also has very good things to offer. Especially in heavily censored states and nations Tor and the dark web is a life saver. It offers opportunities for people to anonymously browse the cyberworld without fear of snooping. Some are curious, others are afraid and some just avoid the .onion URL but now Virgil Griffith has gone ahead and brought you a normal search engine called Onion....

Though a number of images and videos have been teased until now, however as per a recent report we do know that R7 touts a premium build quality which is a combination of metal and glass giving it a sleek look. A new teaser posted on Oppo’s Weibo page confirmed that the phone sports a metallic unibody design. The phone also sports three capacitive buttons just below the display. There are rumors that there is a possibility of another variant which would sport a physical home button....

JDK 9 is a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 9 Platform Specification, which was recently approved along with Java EE 8 in the Java Community Process (JCP). On the other hand, with updates to eight major specifications, Java EE 8 looks to streamline and simplify the Java EE platform for the cloud and micro services. Java SE 9 The star feature of Java SE 9 is the Java Platform Module System, also known as Project Jigsaw, whose goal is to help developers reliably assemble and maintain sophisticated applications....

For those unaware, Zoom recently has seen a sudden surge in popularity, as more and more people are forced to work from home amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Discovered by Cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble, the accounts were being sold on hacker forums for less than a penny each per account while some of them were given away in bulk for free. Cyble were able to purchase 530,000 Zoom credentials for $0....

The 31,266 URLs found a 137 percent increase in 2014 in the uploading of pictures and videos of children being sexually abused as compared to 2013, although the IWF put that rise down to improved search methods. The research team also stated that illegitimate material was being sold on legal website in folders. These said websites were already hacked and their URLs were spread through spam emails. Digital currency, that is, bitcoin has numerous properties and this makes it ideal for trading child sex abuse images....

FIA wanted to curb the activities of grey traffickers and hence asked PTA to monitor the international calls which show up as local numbers on their devices. Generally in the grey trafficking operators use illegal routes to make the international calls by skirting the legal routes, ultimately leading to high financial loses to the Government. Normally an international call should show a legal number and the corresponding country code. However, maximum chunk of international calls coming in and going out of Pakistan are for Saudi Arabia and there are lots of issues going on with respect to the tariff....

Khurram Nawaz Gandapur, Secretary General of the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) political party and a member of Pakistan’s Defense Committee, on July 5 shared a video of a flight narrowly avoiding a collision with an oil tanker while descending on the runway. “Narrow escape of an aircraft which could have ended in a great disaster. Miraculous save by the pilot’s presence of mind,” his tweet said that was accompanied with a screenshot from the video....

This international level cyber espionage operation is dubbed as “Arachnophobia” and was apparently started in early 2013 involving a Pakistani Cyber Security firm possibly funded by Pakistan Government. It is not known whether the Cyber Security firm is a government entity or not. Operation Arachnophobia has all features of a advanced cyber espionage activity which feature a custom malware family dubbed Bitterbug malware (Trojan horse) which opens a backdoor on the compromised system or computer and enables its operator to remotely download and execute files/Documents on the infected computer....

The teenaged student allegedly used an administrator password to log into a teacher’s computer and change the background image to a photo of two men kissing for which the school suspended him for three weeks thinking it was a prank. But later it was changed into a felony charge because he had gained access to the multiple network computers. The Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco stated that he logged into multiple network computers using an “administrative-level account....

Basically, an aircraft would be considered hypersonic in case if it travels at about a speed of 3,800 miles per hour which is equivalent to five times the speed of sound and generally referred to as ‘Mach 5’. An aircraft which can manage to run at this speed will be unsafe for travelling of human passengers; however, it can travel across the entire breadth of United States in a time span of half an hour....

But now it is fixed with it’s latest patch release rolled out by PHP maintainers. The patch was released to fix multiple vulnerabilities which were resided in its core and bundled libraries. The most risky one could have allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and compromise targeted servers. This is something very serious because PHP is a server-side web programming language that powers over 78 percent of the internet today....

The first pirated copies of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” appeared online late Tuesday, and within 12 hours had been downloaded by about 250,000 people, according to piracy-news site TorrentFreak, which first reported the leak. This number is expected to increase to several millions during the weeks to come. The movie leaked to sites like Kickass Torrents, the Pirate Bay and others. Disney has set April 1 for the home-video release of the film, followed by Blu-ray release on April 5th....

Thinking of a way to block those annoying pop ups and ads? You want to continue reading but this annoying set of ads keep popping up. Some ads or pop ups may be triggered by leaving and returning to the site, by clicking on the page, or by clicking a link on the page. They can be infuriating, especially when you get to the moment of digesting the content on a web page....

According to the latest news from Google, it will be conducting Project Loon trials in Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. Mike Cassidy from Google says that Google will be using its own manufacturing facility and automated systems to deliver a balloon in hours instead of days. He further stated that the company is now ready to launch thousands of balloons in the skies. Google has tied up with leading service provides like Telstra in Australia, Telefonica in Latin America and Vodafone in New Zealand for end point connectivity....

MediaTek recently though came out with the MT6797 SoC, which is part of the Helio X20 series and comes fitted with a deca-core CPU. The silicone piece is build out of four ARM 1.4GHz Cortex-A53 cores, four 2GHz ARM Cortex-A57 cores, and two 2.5GHz ARM Cortex-A72 cores. It also has support for LTE Cat-6 and 993MHz LPDDR3 RAM, which is less in standard in comparison to Qualcomm’s and Snapdragon’s support for 1600 MHz LPDDR4 RAM, and the former’s support for LTE Cat-9....