Cyberpower Ups Units With Yellow Glue Could Pose Fire Hazard

Based on the preliminary data and reports online from users, the CP1350PFCLCD and CP1500PFCLCD, which are the rev 1 and rev 2 variants respectively, apparently houses a yellow glue as the primary adhesive that can eventually become conductive and corrosive due to aging and cause a short circuit, and may even cause a fire. The problem with CyberPower’s UPS units was first brought to notice in January 2022 on the Canadian RedFlagDeals forum by user ‘bluesun’ who cited a YouTube video posted by computer engineer and YouTuber Mark Furneaux in May 2021....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 477 words · Timothy Worley

Deltek Suffers Data Breach Payment Card Details Of 25 000 Deltek Customers At Risk Techworm

December 18, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Mary Conway

Do You Know How Steve Jobs Acquired Iphone Trademark From Cisco Techworm

While many of us take pride in owning the iPhone and flash it around, does anyone know how the “iPhone” get its name? Several theories have floated around this question, however, the most popular answer to this remains that Steve Jobs, the late co-founder and former CEO of Apple, had actually “acquired” the iPhone trademark from Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in IT and networking. Well, not really!!! So, how did Apple manage to convince Cisco Systems to do away with the iPhone trademark?...

December 18, 2022 · 4 min · 795 words · Julie Berg

Edge Browser And Cortana Feature In Microsoft S Latest Windows 10 Build

Microsoft is rolling out another test build just one day after releasing a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs. Yesterday, Microsoft released Build 10158 to its Fast Ring testers. Today, Microsoft released another Windows 10 build for PC, numbered 10159. They have included the new wallpaper that will be the hero image for the OS and also updated the login screen as well. Looks like this build is primarily a bug fix update, as it only one version newer than what was released yesterday....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 542 words · Laurie Knight

Edward Snowden Confirms Stuxnet Worm Was Created By Israel With Collabration Of Nsa Techworm

Stuxnet a Highly complex computer program was developed by US and Israel to take down a uranium enrichment facility of Natanz Iran, as belived by US and Israel That it Was for developing nuclear wepons.allthough Iran said the facility was for developing nuclear power stations. In An Interview with a German Magazine, NSA whistle Blower Edward Snowden confirmed that Stuxnet Worm Was created by Israel With Collabration Of NSA. The Virus was designed to Make some technical Defaults in The Uranium Facility Of Iran....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 157 words · Rosemary Hibbard

Elon Musk Voted As The Most Admired Leader In Tech Techworm

First Round writes, “We launched State of Startups to capture what it means to be an entrepreneur. We asked the leaders of venture-backed companies about everything from the fundraising environment to their working relationships with their co-founders to their office’s price per square foot.” Adding, “Once again, we asked founders to write in which current tech leader they admire the most and we tallied 125 names. The Tesla and SpaceX leader held firm at the top spot (23%),” ranking Musk as most admired leader....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 226 words · Kay Austerberry

Ex Google Executive Is Starting His Own Artificial Intelligence Church Techworm

According to IRS documents, the new church of AI will aim “to develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead [to] contribute to the betterment of society.” Levandowski would be the leader – in this case “dean” – of the religion. The robot god will head a non-profit religious organization called “Way Of The Future” (WOTF). According to the website (wayofthefuture....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 530 words · Benjamin Youngdahl

Facebook Accidentally Releases Airplane Reaction Emoji

Soon after, users began to report that they were able to react to posts with a new airplane emoji. Apparently, the new plane emoji was only available on Facebook’s Android app and that too after clearing the app’s cache. According to some users, the new emoji appeared only if they updated the Android app and flushed the cache in the app. Then they had to hold down the ‘like’ button in the comments section of a post, which would then show two angry face reaction icons....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 280 words · Harold Whittington

Facebook Behaves Like North Korea Says Ex Employee Techworm

Antonio Garcia Martinez, an ex-Facebook employee wants people to know Silicon Valley is way different in reality than it is actually portrayed. “It’s often painted as a very meritocratic sifting of the best and the brightest,” Martinez told CBS. In fact, he says, “It’s all connections, happenstance, sheer luck, fate, etc.” The employees at the social media site’s office have nicknamed Zuckerberg ‘the little emperor’ as he has a KGB-like internal police force called ‘The Sec’ monitoring every move of the staff, according to Martinez....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 638 words · Doris Rooney

Former Pirate Bay Cyberlocker Bayfiles Is Back

But there is some good news for BayFiles fans. The BayFiles website that was dead in 2014 has been brought back to life this week by an anonymous group of ‘privacy-oriented’ people who toyed with the idea of relaunching it. While the new operators have acquired the site’s domains and logotype from TPB co-founder Fredrik Neij, aka TiAMO, the website will start from scratch since all the old data and its potential users have gone....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 571 words · Douglas Welch

German Nuclear Power Plant Shut Down Due To Malware On Chernobyl S 30Th Anniversary Techworm

Based on the initial assessment conducted by the experts, the virus has not affected any important parts of the power plant and wouldn’t pose any major threat. The malware affected only the computer IT systems and not the ICS/SCADA equipment that interacts with the nuclear fuel. The audit revealed that, unlike Stuxnet, the virus wasn’t created to target power plants but was a more commonly seen variant. “After the discovery of malicious software on a computer in Gundremmingen emphasizes the operator, the control of sensitive areas was not affected....

December 18, 2022 · 4 min · 704 words · John Smith

Gmail Drafts Being Used By A New Icoscript Variant To Remotely Control Victims Computer

Gmail Drafts used to update RAT and send victims data to the hackersModus OperandiRandom Access Tool (RAT)Rescue method Modus Operandi Shape Security said that this was how this new kind of malware work. The cyber criminal / hacker first set up an anonymous Gmail account. He then proceeded to infect the victims computer with the malware. Once the malware was injected into the victims computer, all he had to do is open the original anonymous Gmail account as as invisible instance of Internet Explorer....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 501 words · Mary Goings

Google Is Building Its Own Chip To Power Its Ai Bots Techworm

Google has been using the Tensor Processing Units (TPU) custom-built chips to power its data centers according to Google’s senior VP for its technical infrastructure Urs Holzle. Now it wants TPU to power its machine learning algorithms. Google says it’s getting “an order of magnitude better-optimized performance per watt for machine learning” and argues that this is “roughly equivalent to fast-forwarding technology about seven years into the future.” Google said that it has managed to speed up the machine learning algorithms with the TPUs because it doesn’t need the high-precision of standard CPUs and GPUs....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 209 words · Courtney Shelton

Google May Soon Force Users To Pay To Watch 4K Videos On Youtube

Sadly removing ads, background playback, and offering youtube music for free is not doing the trick. A huge majority of YouTube users still prefer using YouTube over YouTube Premium. However, this time around it seems that YouTube has found a great way to force users to finally upgrade to YouTube Premium. According to trustworthy sources, Google may soon make 4K video streaming exclusive to YouTube Premium. As you can see in the screenshot shared above, there’s a tap-to-upgrade button below 2160p quality on the YouTube app for iPhone....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 176 words · Donald Large

Google Patents Its Odour Detection And Fragrance Emitting Wearable Device

Google has patented “smart wearable gadget” for emitting fragrance and at the same time detecting foul odour in London. The fragrance emitting device will ward of bad odour and also detect foul odour. This technological innovation includes a gear which the user needs to wear close to their body (off course, underneath their clothes). The gadget has something called as “activity sensors” incorporated which detects the physical activity of the user constantly....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 337 words · Gemma Whiteside

Google Researcher Finds Top Antivirus Provider Eset Antivirus Plagued With Flaws Trivial To Find

According to Forbes, the antivirus companies said that since they were used to be being attacked, the findings did not really surprise them. They stated that they were absolutely cautious in making secure code. Tavis Ormandy, a Google researcher and a member of the elite Project Zero hacker team who just a few days into the research asserted that it is not very hard to find serious problems in any antivirus software....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 506 words · Lori Rodriguez

Google Said To Brand Its Nexus Smartphones As Pixel And Pixel Xl Techworm

The two upcoming HTC Nexus devices that are meant to succeed the Nexus 5X and 6P would now be called the Google Pixel and Pixel XL instead, according to a recent Android Police report. The Pixel will be the 5? HTC-made Sailfish device, while Pixel XL will be the 5.5? HTC-made Marlin. Sailfish and Marlin would both feature quad-core Qualcomm processors, 4GB of RAM, and 12-megapixel cameras. The only difference between these two smartphones is Marlin’s larger screen and battery....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 236 words · Bonnie Puryear

Google Street View Cant Come To India Due To Security Concerns Techworm

Street View is the search giant’s virtual mapping tool that lets users view 360-degree, panoramic and street-level images across more than 65 countries, and seven million miles. Despite the fact that Google blurs faces, licence plates and other sensitive information, India’s security agencies and defence department reportedly objected. Street View in India until now has only mapped major landmarks and tourist attractions such as the Taj Mahal in Agra and the Gateway of India in Mumbai, rather than the street-level detail seen in cities in the UK or the U....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 363 words · Ashley Rice

Google Unveils Pixel 6 And Pixel 6 Pro For 599 And 899 Respectively

“We started with what is the ideal mobile experience from Google and what things that would come together to give you that,” said Chris Breithaupt, Project Manager for Pixel. “There’s the device, peace of mind that if you drop your phone you can get an easy repair, and then there are these mobile services, YouTube streaming and music streaming, apps and games. It feels like the right set.” Let’s have a look at the features and specifications of Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro: Google Pixel 6: The Google Pixel 6 has a 6....

December 18, 2022 · 4 min · 727 words · Charles Regan

Hacker Claims Idict Tool Can Hack Any Icloud Account Released On Github

Pr0x13 has described this as a “100% working iCloud Apple ID Dictionary attack” and it was possible due to a “painfully obvious” bug and that it “was only a matter of time” before hackers or cyber criminals found it. Proxy13 intends to alert Apple of this serious bug therefore he has uploaded the tool on GitHub. Business Insider says that Pr0x13 won’t take responsibility for the exploit is used but wants everyone to know that his intentions were to alert Apple to the bug so that the company could patch it as soon as possible....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 261 words · Thomas Mann