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However, Apple could potentially get away with this, thanks to a recent in a different case, in which Apple was cleared by a judge who said that Apple did not have to unlock the iPhone. Apple’s recent court victory suggests it is slowly but surely winning its battle to maintain iPhone privacy in the U.S. On Monday, French Socialist MP Yann Galut proposed an amendment to French law that – if passed – would see the US companies (Apple, Google and other tech companies) punished if they didn’t give French officials backdoor access to terrorists’ phones that are encrypted....

According to 9to5Mac the iOS 9 will be the supporting older iPhones including iPhone 4s and this may be the first time that old iPhone users can enjoy the features of a new OS. Apple for this iOS version also wanted to improve the stability and optimize the performance of its mobile operating system before introducing new features. The report states that Apple has developed a whole new security system called Rootless that is called a ‘huge’ kernel-level feature for OS X as well as iOS....

Russian software company, Elcomsoft, a specialist in developing cracking tools for extracting data from iOS devices, discovered the issue while building an updated version of its Phone Breaker app. In one instance, Vladimir Katalov, CEO of ElcomSoft, came across his own iCloud history by accident. He then used his company’s Phone Breaker app to extract the data Apple had been keeping in his iCloud account and found that deleted records from over a year ago were still kept....

This time Bkav, a Vietnamese security firm, challenged Apple’s Face ID unlock technology that has been replaced by Touch ID in iPhone X to check if they could bypass the security system using a mask. The security researchers discovered that they could trick the facial recognition features of the iPhone X using a specially constructed mask. For those unaware, Apple has replaced its Touch ID in iPhone X in favor of Face ID, which uses the TrueDepth camera system on the top of the display to unlock the device....

For months now, rumors have been floating around about upgraded models of Apple’s MacBook Pros. Currently, the updated notebooks are expected to be thinner, and include the strip of capacitive touch keys beneath an OLED screen for function keys, and USB Type-C for faster data transfer and various other connectivity uses, including charging. Apart from these details, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has now come up with few more details on the new range of MacBook Pro models....

Called the ‘VivoStick’, this is Asus’ answer for Intel’s Compute Stick. It’s a PC that runs Windows 10, which can be carried in your pocket. Just to remind, the Compute Stick form factor is the x86 version of the popular ARM-based HDMI sticks. The first generation x86 Compute Stick came from Intel and used a Bay Trail-T SoC. In spite of looking like an oversized thumb drive, the unit was actively cooled....

Finding your favorite show on any OTT or streaming site is difficult. Not every show is on these services and you end up scrambling to find them. And when you looked towards ETTV, you could download all of it as torrents. ETTV was a TV torrent group. its torrent site was one of the most visited torrent site that provided movies, web series, web shows and tv shows download using BitTorrent protocol....

So these are some of the best free music download sites that are completely legal to use and provide impressive music quality from different genres. Best Free Music Download sites 1. SoundCloud SoundCloud is one of the most popular music streaming and downloading service that has an extensive collection of more than 150 million songs. If you prefer exploring new music then remixes, beats, remakes and EDM’s created by indie artists will impress you....

With the summer in full swing and the temperatures all set to soar, air conditioners are are almost mandatory in some areas. How much as we need the living room to remain cool, our technology needs to do too. The most phones that have lithium ion battery does not cope up well in the heat. It has been known to explode in some cases. Even the regular air conditioner could not cool the phone, when it was placed on the charging shelf in the new 2016 Chevys....

The list of tech giants include Alibaba Group, Tencent Holdings, Baidu, Suning Ltd. and JD.com. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said that the tech companies violated anti-monopoly legislation and “failed to declare illegal implementation of operating concentration.” Each violation carries a penalty of 500,000 yuan ($78,000) under China’s 2008 Anti-Monopoly law. “With the in-depth advancement of anti-monopoly law enforcement, the awareness of corporate operators’ concentration declarations has continued to increase, proactively sorting out and reporting concentration that has not previously been declared illegally, and actively cooperating with investigations,” the market regulator said in a statement....

The malware known as BXAQ or Fengcai, is installed by security guards at the border who physically seize the phone. The software copies all the data including visitor’s text messages, calendar entries and phone logs to a Chinese server. It also scans the device for specific sets of files, including “Islamic extremist content”, as well as innocuous materials and academic books on Islam. “(This app) provides yet another source of evidence showing how pervasive mass surveillance is being carried out in Xinjiang,” said Maya Wang, China senior researcher at Human Rights Watch....

The memo, signed off by the firm’s administrative department, reads: “The American iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus have been launched and official prices are between 5,388 to 6,388 yuan [£624 to £740]. As the internal storage capacity increases, the price of the mobile phone also rises accordingly. “According to our managing director’s orders, all our employees are strictly forbidden to purchase and to use iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus....

The decision comes after a probe into the tech giant was ordered in December 2020 over its monopolistic practices and abusing its dominant market position for several years. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said it had found that Alibaba had been “abusing market dominance” since 2015 by preventing its merchants from selling products on rival e-commerce platforms — a practice known as “choosing one from two.” The practice, which the SAMR has previously pointed out as illegal, violates China’s antimonopoly law and suppresses competition in the country’s online retail market....

This is not the first time Chrome and Mozilla are blocking The Pirate Bay website, earlier in April, both the browsers actively stopped users from accessing TPB for two days. Starting a few hours ago Chrome and Firefox users are unable to access The Pirate Bay’s torrent download pages without running into a roadblock. While the ThePirateBay home page poses no problem, when TPB users visit the download page, they now see an ominous red warning banner stating “The site ahead contains harmful programs,” “Attackers on thepiratebay....

How many time have you seen your IT guy use the IPConfig /flushdns command to magically make the internet problems disappear? That’s not a coincidence because Microsoft ships Windows with IPConfig, a TCP/IP utility for viewing and managing your computer’s network problems through the command line. It can show you the network information at a glance along with a detailed report if required. You can get a new IP assigned, view and flush DNS amongst other things....

We all know that science has no limits but sometimes it manages to surpass even our most utopian expectations. A similar successful research from DARPA will help those people who have lost their limbs to work again with the help of artificially developed bionic arm. The artificial bionic arm which is developed by DEKA is funded by Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). It is developed by Dean Kamen, who had created the Segway, and is a major breakthrough in the field of science and technology....

According to the lecture given, Schukai stated that overall mobile subscriptions are set to jump by 1.7 billion over the next five years to 9.1 billion. In the future, 4.1 billion people of these will sign up to 4G technology, and almost 70 percent of all mobile traffic data is projected to be categorized under video streaming by 2021. Since people are constantly connected while they are at home or on the go, their work and personal lives are blending into one another....

On July 13, Switzerland-based Voat posted on Twitter at midnight (GMT) that it was being struck by an ongoing “layer 7 DDoS attack”. A bit more detail was added to its website: “In case you were wondering why most third party apps for Voat haven’t been working for the last 8 hours or so – we are under DDoS. Again,” Voat wrote citing a CloudFlare support engineer. “In order to keep Voat at least somewhat responsive, we’ve bumped up CloudFlare security settings which essentially breaks most Voat third party apps currently on the market....

“Dell is announcing that on November 9, 2018, it detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to extract Dell.com customer information, which was limited to names, email addresses and hashed passwords,” the company said in its press release. “Upon detection of the attempted extraction, Dell immediately implemented countermeasures and initiated an investigation. Dell also retained a digital forensics firm to conduct an independent investigation and has engaged law enforcement....

Another developer did something similar, but for different reasons. Meet Kenneth Kezeor, this 47 year old programmer worked for Varian which was later bought by Agilent. Two years later, as a part of cost cutting exercise, Agilent laid off Kezeor and several others in a general staff reduction. Kezeor did not take lightly to this news of being laid off and decided to do something about it. He spent next four months to screw Agilent’s IT system before being caught....