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Whether you are working on your next assignment, article or book, vigilance is the ultimate key. Writing is an art and a good writer is the one who values his time as well as the time of his clients or target audience. A careless piece of writing is not only going to serve you bad, but it will also be off-putting for anyone who reads it. Plagiarism & Grammar: Two Important Elements in Writing If you are a student or someone who writes for a living, then you must be well aware of two important terms: Plagiarism & Grammar....

The GAO said the Pentagon was one of several departments where “legacy systems” urgently needed to be replaced. The report says that a Pentagon command and control system that is responsible for US nuclear forces, such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers, and tanker support aircraft runs on an IBM Series/1 computer and uses 8-inch floppy disks. And the Justice Department uses a 35-year-old system that runs the issue-plagued Java coding language to compile information on federal inmate work assignments and security levels at federal prisons....

However, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order late on Monday evening to block Broadcom from its $117 billion takeover bid on Qualcomm, citing danger to national security. “The proposed takeover of Qualcomm by the Purchaser (Broadcom) is prohibited, and any substantially equivalent merger, acquisition, or takeover, whether effected directly or indirectly, is also prohibited,” the executive order said. “All 15 individuals listed as potential candidates on the Form of Blue Proxy Card filed by Broadcom and Broadcom Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 20, 2018 (together, the Candidates), are hereby disqualified from standing for election as directors of Qualcomm....

RedPhone & TextSecure: With this app Android users can encrypt their “Phone calls” as well as “Text”. Users can try to download the free RedPhone and TextSecure apps from this link : https://whispersystems.org/ This is a free security app from Whispersystems. Users will have to download two individual apps from this site. RedPhone App: This is an Open source App which provides end to end encryption only for the “Phone calls” ensuring it is protected from any surveillance....

The researchers have also given a kind of hypothetical situation in which the Bitcoin would cause excessive supply of USD into the US economy. They say this would depend on a couple of factors like the Bitcoin has to be used very widely by the US citizens to have any cascading effect. Second premise is that Bitcoins must be used as a currency in its own right. The researchers may be right about their premise but as of now the Bitcoins are used as a kind of stock money....

VLC Media Player is being used to deploy a custom malware loader VLC Media Player is being used to deploy a custom malware loaderThe Cicada-backed malicious campaign According to the reports, the malicious campaign is being used by hackers linked to the Chinese government targeting legal, government, religious activities as well as non-governmental organizations. The report adds that the attacks are orchestrated by the hacker group Cicada (also known as APT10 and Stone Panda)....

While other researchers are trying out self healing material using mostly liquid compound, this process differs from them. Watch this video to get an idea of how the material self heals after getting shot at. We had earlier reported about a similar research being carried out by a team at the University of Bristol. Lead by Prof.Duncan Wass, the team is working on their own self-healing material. Prof Wass has confirmed that the self-healing products will reach consumers in the “very near future”....

here you go, C is an M1 Garand standard issue rifle, old but reliable. C++ is a set of nunchuks, powerful and impressive when wielded but takes many years of pain to master and often you probably wish you were using something else. Perl is a molotov cocktail, it was probably useful once, but few people use it now. Java is a belt fed 240G automatic weapon where sometimes the belt has rounds, sometimes it doesn’t, and when it doesn’t during firing you get an NullPointerException, the gun explodes and you die....

Wikileaks has started an online effort to crowdfund a €100,000 ($109,700) reward for anyone that can secure information on the highly secretive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). At the time of the writing, $50484.36 had been raised by 1290 people with high profile politicians, philosophers, fashion designers and journalists contributing to the cause. According to Wikileaks, the US and European Union have been debating a treaty called TTIP which will allow corporations to sue governments for decisions which impact their profitability....

Back Story A file system stands for the methods and data structures that the OS uses to keep track of files on a disk or partition, or in other words, it defines the way the files are managed in the system. The word is also used when referring to a partition or disk that is used to store files. More often than not, an OS will have in-built support for multiple file systems....

Last week iPhone users have also been spotted using the calling feature, which means that the developers have started testing WhatsApp on the iOS platform too. WhatsApp has said that WhatsApp calling will also be available on Windows Phone in a couple of weeks. For iPhone users who have jailbroken iOS aboard their smartphone, they can use this technique given by TheFuseJoplin.com : 1.) You will need to install AppSyn and download the latest WhatsApp BETA version....

Now, WABetainfo, a user on twitter that often leaks features from beta versions of the chat apps has posted that WhatsApp is reportedly working to bring back the text status once again. He tweeted that the new feature called ‘Tagline’ has been added in WhatsApp beta for iOS 2.17.6.21 and for Windows Phone 2.17.82, even though it is hidden for now. The feature is expected to make a comeback in the Android version too....

In this latest update, The Facebook-owned instant messaging app has reintroduced Disappearing messages feature, which will allow to automatically delete messages by setting a limit for how long the receiver can see the message before it disappears. As per WABetaInfo, Users can choose to turn off the feature as per their choice or can opt limit ranging from 1 hour to a year. Once the feature is enabled a clock icon will appear in text-bubble, also the users will see a notification specifying the limit set....

Following public outcry over investigation and compulsory storing of messages, the Modi government yesterday issued clarification that social media websites like WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook and applications will be exempted from the purview of the Encryption Policy. There are certain categories of encryption products that will be exempted from the purview of the draft national encryption policy, according to the draft posted by The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY)....

This version introduces a new photo editing tool for WhatsApp web and the desktop app also referred to as ‘Drawing Tools’, which includes image editing tools such as adding emojis or text to the image, cropping images, and rotating before sending. This feature is already available on WhatsApp’s mobile app (both Android and iOS), which allows users to mark items, add filters and text elements. The web/desktop version of the app will also allow users to Undo and Redo their changes to an image before sending it....

According to WhatsApp, it will no longer support Android phones running OS 4.0.4 and older, and Apple iPhones running iOS 9 or older. In other words, only users with phones supporting Android OS 4.1 and above and iOS 10 and above will be able to use the messaging app. Further, WhatsApp will only run on KaiOS devices running on KaiOS version 2.5. 1 or above starting November 2021, which means JioPhone and JioPhone 2 users can continue to use the app....

Times changing ? The method followed by the site can be a genuine indicator of the growth of a programming language considering the website receives 40 million visits on a monthly basis.Java and JavaScript have usually held the top spot by getting the highest number of visitors from developed countries such as the US and UK. The popularity of a language depends on a wide range of factors, including education and wealth of the nations....

But these are murky waters. And the landscape changes quickly. Crucially, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community of cybersecurity experts that provides valuable resources to enhance security. And through its regularly updated guidance including the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks document, developers can limit the risk of, for instance, a data breach or malware attack, pre-emptively. The modern software development market is a competitive one....

So here’s everything you need to know about the issues with KB4023057 update and the possible solutions to them. ALSO READ: No Audio Output Device Is Installed In Windows 10- FIX October 2018 KB4023057 Update Failed To Install Recently, Microsoft released an update named as KB4023057 for computers running on Windows 10 April 2018 update or earlier. Consequently, anyone with the latest October 2018 Update didn’t receive the KB4023057 patch....

Users of Chrome version 53 and older editions of the browser could be redirected to the basic HTML version of Gmail as early as December 2017. The older version users will see a warning at the top telling them to upgrade to an up-to-date version of Google’s browser. “Gmail users that are still on Windows XP and Windows Vista are the most likely to be affected because v49 was the last released version which supported those operating systems,” Google explained in the announcement....