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Dairy Queen was investigating a Data breach after security researcher Brian Krebs reported that it may have been hit by a data breach. In the last week of August Dairy Queen had confirmed the Data breach however it did reveal details about the number of customers or stores effected by the breach. After almost a month a half, Dairy Queen, after completion of its investigation into the breach confirmed the number at 395 outlets....

Explaining the problem in an IHS Jane report, US Air Force Major General Jeffrey Harrigian, director of the F-35 Integration Office said the problem being with the fighter’s “radar stability—the radar’s ability to stay up and running.” He added, “What would happen is they’d get a signal that says either a radar degrade or a radar fail—something that would force us to restart the radar.” In development since 2001, the Lockheed Martin plane, which is the most software-driven warplane ever built, has experienced several failures and obstacles that have seen its cost swell and its delivery delayed....

Up to a total of 85 IP addresses connected to the 1 Police Plaza’s servers modified entries for the most high-profile police abuse cases, especially including victims Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo. Edits have been made to entries covering scandals involving NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program, and the details on department leadership. There were even alterations concerned Eric Garner, who was killed by police last year during an arrest that was captured on video by an onlooker....

Is there any harm to be incurred by just pulling a flash drive out? Why do we need safe removal at all? We have all been guilty of ripping our USB drives out of our computers instead of ejecting them properly, only to receive the judgemental pop up telling us we really shouldn’t have done that. But when everything on the USB works fine next time you plug it in, you can’t help but doubt: does it actually do anything when you safely eject your disk before removing it?...

Here’s how to get the new Facebook reactions if you don’t see them yetDesktopOn Facebook App in your smartphones However, many Facebook users reported to us that they still can’t see the new Facebook reactions in their News Feed yet. For those people, we bring a small tutorial on how you can enable Facebook’s new reactions of your timeline : Desktop In the desktop version of Facebook, go to the post you want to react on and simply just hover over the Like button....

An insider source has revealed that Internet companies are following the DOT(Department of Telecommunication) compliance order issued by the authorities. The search engine is not working for alot of broadband users, including with Jio broadband, also confirmed by several twitter users. The site appears to be “unreachable” for a lot of users, across different Internet networks. Several users reported getting a message on the screen. It clearly states that the site has been blocked under the order of DOT (Department of Telecommunications) of India....

Musk mentioned the design when he was questioned whether the company would ever look to develop an aquatic car. “It’s funny you should mention that. We do actually have a design for a submarine car, like the one from ‘The Spy Who Loved Me‘ – the Lotus turns into a sub,” he said. Musk was referencing the 1977 James Bond film starring Roger Moore in which the 1976 Lotus Esprit turned into an amphibious car and was driven on land and underwater....

The “Data Abuse Bounty” program, which is the first of its kind in the industry, has payouts starting at $500 and going up to $40,000 for big discoveries, although the company noted that there’s no maximum amount for the payouts. “We committed to launching this program a few weeks ago as part of our efforts to more quickly uncover potential abuse of people’s information. The Data Abuse Bounty, inspired by the existing bug bounty program that we use to uncover and address security issues, will help us identify violations of our policies,” Collin Greene, Head of Product Security, wrote in a blog post, late on Tuesday....

Going forward, those who try to use Facebook to share the link to The Pirate Bay’s homepage will instead see a pop-up that states, “You can’t share this link. Your post couldn’t be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards.” Similarly, if someone attempts to post a link on Facebook’s Messenger is too greeted with the aforementioned error message. This isn’t the first time The Pirate Bay has been blocked by Facebook....

To make Instant Articles a interesting and an earning proposition for the publishers, Facebook is also offering to let publishers keep all the revenue from certain ads. Facebook hopes that the publishers will then use FB to distribute content through the social network. Another scheme that is being considered is that publications will keep all ad revenue from articles posted on Facebook if the sites themselves sell the ads. However if Facebook puts up the ads, it will keep 30 percent of the revenue for itself....

“A large fraction of people don’t connect to the internet because the wireless communications infrastructure is not available where they live, mostly in very rural areas of the world,” said Connectivity Lab’s Tobias Tiecke, who led the team in writing a paper that was published in the journal Optica. “We are developing communication technologies that are optimised for areas where people live far apart from each other.” As lasers can hold huge information and are able to broadcast it a long way, they are a smart way to transmit data over significant distances....

Ford Motors is the first one to introduce this new feature “Intelligent Speed Limiter Technology” in the car. Ford’s European division has confirmed this model will be available worldwide. How would the technology work: Basically a camera would be placed on the windshield which would read the different speed limit sign boards put up on the sides of the road. Once the car crosses the speed limit which is mentioned on the sign board, the”Intelligent Speed Limiter Technology” will automatically adjust the amount of fuel provided to the engine which leads to lowering the speed of the car hence the speed would fall within the limits mentioned in the sign board....

Game of Thrones Season 7 seems to be at the mercy of hackers. As promised by the hackers, they have leaked the GoT S07E05 called ‘Eastwatch.‘ HBO the maker of the series is facing a real threat as the hackers have promised to release all the remaining episodes of GoT Season 7. Hackers today leaked the Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5 Eastwatch. This is in continuation to the earlier leak of Episode 4, Spoils of War....

After the examination of the code was done by Zeidman, the previously unavailable source code for MS-DOS was donated by Microsoft to the Computer History Museum. Zeidman has used QDOS to do his original analysis. Later, the museum also traced and released a more complete version of the CP/M source code. Zeidman re-ran his analysis, and presented the results at the Vintage Computer Festival West on August 6. So, what was the conclusion of the analysis?...

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Gionee said it has plans to double its sales to 8 million units this year. Gionee is known for its budget smartphone range with cheap prices and claims to have about four per cent share of the Indian handset market. The company is working with consultancy firm EY to find out potential partner and locations across India. Gionee has already shortlisted two potential location though it has to be confirmed by the head of manufacturing of Gionee who will be visiting both the locations in about three weeks time Only time can tell as to who will be the leader in the Indian smartphone market in coming years as other smartphone manufacturers like Karbonn and Xiaomi are also ramping up their production plans to satiate the demands of mobile hungry Indians....

At the launch event, Gionee’s Chairman Liu Lirong said that “While everyone looks to provide the cheapest smartphone, we look to provide the best quality at the most reasonable price.” He also added that the MWarathon M5 targets the problem of low battery life, while the Elife E8 aims to tackle the problem of poor picture quality. Let’s have a look at the specs of Gionee Elife 8. Known for their camera, it looks like Gionee has taken the new E8 a notch higher with a 24MP rear camera....

Kamil was invited with a grant of $1337.00 to take part in Google Vulnerability Research Grants which he accepted and decided to take a look at the security of Google products. He was working with the YouTube Creative Studio when he found out that a logical bug that allowed him to delete any video by entering a video ID against any session token. PoC Being a Bieber fan, he wanted to try out his new found exploit by deleting one of Justin Bieber’s videos posted YouTube....

“This is hugely important for the victims of child sex abuse, as this technology should block thousands of their illegal images from being viewed on the Internet,” the Internet Watch Foundation’s 2015 annual report said. The crawler, combined with a system that tags abuse photos with codes, will also “ease the burden on analysts, as they won’t have to see so many disturbing images,” the report said. The organization said the crawler came out of their “Googler in Residence” program, in which Google dedicated an engineer to work with the foundation....