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For those unaware, cell phones with activated FM chips can easily be used as radios, allowing people access to potentially life-saving information when stuck in emergency such as a major storm or black out. FM radios are an important communication channel between people affected and agencies trying to get information to them. Pai said in a statement, “In recent years, I have repeatedly called on the wireless industry to activate the FM chips that are already installed in almost all smartphones sold in the United States....

For those unaware, Pwn2Own hacking contest is an effort to promote the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program, that is designed to reward security researchers to exploit the latest and most popular mobile devices, web browsers, virtualization servers, enterprise applications, Windows RDP and demonstrate and disclose major zero-day vulnerabilities to tech companies. Following the contest, vendors will have 90 days to produce patches for these bugs. Day 1 at the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 (Apple Safari) At the start of day one, Amat Cama and Richard Zhu from the Fluoroacetate team successfully targeted Apple Safari browser by using a bug in JIT with a heap overflow to escape the sandbox....

Once again, a leak of a very detailed concept art from the show that depicts a moment from a major scene in the season finale has appeared on Reddit. This week two images emerged, of which one showed several characters from the HBO’s fantasy TV show standing near the ruins of the Dragonpit, including Tyrion Lannister, Bronn, a Lannister guard, and likely Jon Snow with his back turned. The second photo is a close-up of the picture’s corner, where it reads “Game of Thrones VII....

Genshin Impact is a role-playing action-based gacha game developed by miHoYo. In this game, you have to acquire characters and currency along with getting new weapons. The Genshin Impact codes help the players to progress through the game without any hassle. As an ardent Genshin player, you should also try the Genshin redeem codes: Genshin Impact codes (Active 2022) Genshin Impact codes (Active 2022)Genshin Impact codes (Expired 2022)How to redeem Genshin Impact codes?...

Simon Schräder, from Münster, used the internet website fragdenstaat.de (“ask the state”), to request the Education Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia for “the tasks of the centrally-made Abitur examinations in the senior classes of high school in the current school year”. He was explicitly invoking his state’s freedom of information law. Although Schrader’s first exam is on the 16th of April, he has set the Ministry the legally allowed one-month deadline to comply, which falls on 21st April....

The initial courses offered by GitHub’s Learning Lab included “Introduction to GitHub”, “Communicating using Markdown”, “Managing Merge Conflicts”, “GitHub Pages”, and “Moving Your Project to GitHub”. With a significant increase in terms of contents and number of users, it’s Learning Lab has seen more than 3,700 students successfully completed the course. Now, in a recent blog post, the company has released four free new courses on Learning Lab for learners of all skill levels....

The security compromise was detected by a Google Chrome security engineer named Adrienne Porter Felt who discovered this during a flight she took while using the inflight service provided by Gogo Inflight Internet. She noticed this while connecting to Google sites and looking at the issuer of the SSL certificate. The SSL certificate was being issued by Gogo and not Google. This serious man-in-the-middle attack is likely to have effected all user sessions that Gogo Inflight Internet provide service for including Aeromexico, American Airlines, Air Canada, Japan Airlines and Virgin Atlantic, possibly many others....

It looks like everyone wants to have their own “speed tests” these days. After, Netflix’s fast.com and Microsoft’s Bing speed test widget, it’s now the turn of Google to launch its own speed test. The search giant is reported to be trying out a way for people to allow them to check their internet speed by simply typing “check internet speed” into search. Pete Meyers posted a screenshot on Twitter showing the Google speed test tool in their search results....

According to a report in The Information citing people with direct knowledge of the situation, “several thousand” Google employees back in 2018 preferred using California-based video meet app Zoom over Google’s own Hangouts Meet. At the time, the unprecedented popularity of Zoom among Google Cloud employees prompted the search giant to consider acquiring the video conferencing app by the end of 2018. Google Cloud engineers “evaluated what would be a reasonable price to pay and calculated the unit economics for the service if it ran on Google’s servers”....

Google’s most anticipated and upcoming Android 8.0 OS will now allow you to download updates even if your phone is low on storage. Apparently, this new feature called “streaming updates” has been introduced by the tech giant in its forthcoming Android 8.0 OS, reports Ars Technica who spotted these changes in the new Android documentation for Seamless system updates. The system is borrowed from the update engine in ChromeOS and has been introduced in the Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones....

However, if you don’t have a built-in call recorder on your Android smartphone, you can easily download one of the thousand call recorders available on the Google PlayStore. Sadly the aforementioned solution will no longer work starting 11th May 2022. Let’s get into details. To further enhance users’ safety and privacy, Google is implementing new Play Store policies to prevent third-party apps from using the Accessibility API. This API makes the process of remote call audio recording work properly....

Google has placed an ad looking for “vehicle safety specialists” to be contracted for one to two years of autonomous driving field work. The job will pay chosen ones a pretty decent $20 an hour and you will be expected to work six- to eight-hour work days with potential for road trips as long as a month at a time. The job opening is in Arizona, not California where Google is reportedly testing its self-driving cars....

This latest technique of attack is known as DiskFiltration. The research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev shows how data could be stolen from “air-gapped” computers, which are not connected to the Internet and any local networks and how they are not safe from hackers. “An air-gap isolation is considered to be a hermetic security measure which can prevent data leakage,” Mordechai Guri, a security researcher from Ben-Gurion University, told Ars Technica....

Ryan Welton from NowSecure detailed his findings at the Blackhat Security Summit in London. According to Welton the exploit arises out of the pre-installed SwiftKey keyboard. The Swiftkey updates its language packs as and when they become available. However, the updates are done over unencrypted lines and via plain text making it susceptible for hackers to introduce malicious content in the updates pack from any spoofed proxy server. In his presentation, Welton said that a hacker could scale up the attack to basically take over a vulnerable mobile device while the user remains unaware....

In the eagerness to catch the latest episodes, many fans turn to other methods of digital distribution like torrents and illegal online streaming for downloading recent Games of Thrones series. Apparently, cybercriminals are using this opportunity to disguise malware inside torrents and spread onto computers of such users, claims security firm Kaspersky. According to a recent report from security firm Kaspersky, cybercriminals are using the latest episodes of Game of Thrones as bait to target unsuspecting users....

Getting a job in Google is a dream come true for millions of engineers. Google has been ranked by job-community website, Glassdoor as ‘best workplaces’ year after year. Many job aspirants aspire to get a job in Google but getting one seems to be the toughest assignment according to Glassdoor. We already know that Google takes on board only the best talent available in the world over and therefore it is well known for asking difficult and tricky interview questions....

Step by step guide to becoming an ethical hackerWhat is Ethical Hacking?Getting StartedSoft SkillsBe a part of a project or sign up for a courseSpecializeBe a part of the bug lovers’ communityStay legal By definition, hacking is the practice of altering the features of a system, to accomplish a goal which is not in scope of the purpose of its creation. However, hacking has more to it than just altering a code, as it is a high paying career choice with huge reputation for successful hackers....

How to Delete Twitch Account Head to your Twitch account. Login, if you have not already. How to Delete Twitch AccountDisable Twitch Account Go to the Delete Account page of Twitch, which is located inside the settings page. State a reason if you feel the need to address the issue at hand. It is optional so you can choose to skip it. 3. Click on the Delete Account button to permanently delete your account....

Pokemon Go has been a game changer for gaming on Android smartphones and iOS devices. It has already climbed to the top of charts in both Apple Play Store as well as Google Play Store. However, most of Pokemon Go players face one perennial problem PokeCoins. If you have money to burn, buying Pokecoin seems to be the best option. There are some players who are lazy and don’t want to grind your way to get Pokeballs or a lucky egg, you can always buy items in the shop....