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HP claims that the batteries shipped with the aforementioned laptops “have the potential to overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to customers.” Also, the batteries were also sold as spare batteries and as separate accessories, and may have been given to consumers as replacement batteries via HP’s support. In order to keep its customers safe, HP says it is proactively notifying its customers about potential burn and fire risks that could result from overheating....

First, it was Apple’s iPhone X style notch design that was copied by few of its competitors, and now it is Apple’s AirPods – a set of wireless earbuds – that has caught the fascination of Huawei, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer company. In a recently held launch event of Huawei’s most anticipated Huawei P20/P20 Pro flagship smartphones and the Mate RS, the company also unveiled a compatible audio accessory what appeared to be the most expensive AirPod ripoffs yet called as “FreeBuds”....

Newman started working on the “Megaprocessor”, which is 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high in 2012. It does the job of a chip-sized microprocessor and he has spent $53,000 (£40,000) for building it. It comprises of 40,000 transistors, 10,000 LED lights and weighs around half a tonne (500kg). Until now, he has used it to play the classic video game Tetris. Newman acknowledges in a video demonstration that the game is not easy to play....

IBM and GENCI collaborate to work on Next-Gen Exascale ComputingWhat is Exascale computing: International Business Machines Corporation, commonly known as IBM, is a well known American multinational corporation which has teamed up with a French high-performance computing agency known as GENCI, to work on next-Gen “Exascale Computing”. GENCI was established by the government of France in the year 2007. The main aim behind this establishment was to ensure proper coordination of the major equipment of the high performing computing centers of France by providing them the essential funds....

What makes IBM’s achievement notable from other researches is that their artificial neurons are built out of famous materials that can scale down to a few nanometers but can still activate with low energy, points out Ars Technica. Also important is the neurons’ stochasticity, which means their ability to always generate slightly different, random results, like biological neurons. Organic neurons have membranes acting as signal gates that take a definite amount of energy to absorb....

“The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored,” Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored. — PMO India (@PMOIndia) December 11, 2021 Before the account was restored, the hackers shared a tweet promoting cryptocurrency along with a URL on PM Modi’s timeline which read, “India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender....

INSTAGRAM – The new Silk Road of the internetVentureBeat goes on to give the example of ease of search for the drugs. As per the VentureBeat blog, the drugs are being sold across the internet by the sellers by mixing them up with the thousands of photo and video posts. The drug mafia have a large market free of legal hassles as Instagram has around 200 million and growing active users....

Instagram Users Reporting Strange Hacks Instagram users have been reporting of the bizarre hack since the beginning of August. Users are reporting that they are getting ‘logged out’ of their account, and if they try to log in again, it shows that their username no longer exist. The affected users also found hackers had altered their profile info and changed contact details. Many of them saw their profile pictures typically set to a Disney or Pixar character with the new email addresses switching to a Russian ....

YiSpecter, as the malware was named, has mostly affected users in China and Taiwan through four different methods. Users can be infected with the malware with the help of the Lingdun worm. This work which works via the QQ social network and its file sharing interface, can target a wide variety of device types. Malicious HTML files with pornographic names are uploaded by the worm, which are then shared with other users in the network....

Apple would have not thought of following the embarrassment that Samsung had gone through last year when several incidences of Galaxy Note 7 exploding due to faulty batteries were reported. In case of iPhone 8 Plus too, faulty or damaged batteries are suspected to be the reason behind the devices to crack open. One victim in question is Ms. Wu, who had recently purchased her gold 64GB iPhone 8 Plus, and had reportedly been in use for five days, reported the Taiwanese media....

Urgent work like replying to an email, making/receiving a call, Video call, or Facetime from someone will not wait. What if you wish to listen to music, browse the internet, or play games while charging your iPhone? Many of you may be using an old iPhone. It is quite obvious that an old iPhone battery degrades. So, you may be charging your iPhone more than once a day. It is not always possible to put your iPhone on charge and not use it....

Taking a tough stand on blocking pirated websites on copyright grounds, the High Court of Delhi has ordered ISPs (Internet Service Providers) in India to block several torrenting websites, reports TorrentFreak. The decision comes following a series of eight complaints filed by Twentieth Century Fox and local Disney-owned media giant UTV Software Communications. The list of blocked websites includes the Pirate Bay, RARBG, Torrentz2, 1337x, ExtraTorrent, YTS, FMovies, and BMovies, as well as several alternative domain names and/or proxies hired by some of the sites....

According to Facebook’s post, messages will remain private amongst accounts, so you can use and pass someone else your phone and need not worry about them reading your messages. “The beauty of this new feature is that your messages stay completely private. Anyone else who shares the device will just see the number of notifications of messages that you have, but they will never be able to see the content of your messages....

At the moment, Kickass Torrents is the 2nd most popular torrents website after The Pirate Bay. Registered users add hundreds of torrents every day. At least half of these torrents contain pirated files, much to the frustration of copyright holders. However, unlike other torrents websites, Kickass accepts DMCA takedown notices and complies with it if the rightholder can prove his/her ownership. According to KAT’s official figures, 15,794 torrent files were deleted over the past week, and 55,238 for the most recent month....

Anonabox, the $50 portable anonymising network router or master scam?The story behind AnonaboxConclusion of Germe’s quest for funding As expected, Kickstarter had freezed the Anonabox funding for scamming the investors and backers with false claims. The story behind Anonabox The man behind Anonabox, August Germar kicked of the Kickstarter campaign for Anonbox asking $7,500 and found out that he had almost 80 times the amount at one point only to know yesterday that it had come to zero....

“Since the launch of Windows 11 in October, we have seen strong demand and preference for Windows 11 with people upgrading their eligible PCs at twice the rate we saw for Windows 10. Based on this trend, we are advancing the pace of the rollout faster than we originally announced and entering the final phase of availability for Windows 11 ahead of our initial plan of mid-2022,” the company said....

Russian national accused in largest-ever hacking scheme is up for hearing in federal court todayThe Charge He will appear in the U.S. District Court this afternoon to face charges on account of being a part of global hacking network that siphoned 160 million credit and debit card numbers from 17 major United States based retailers, financial institutions and payment processors. Drinkman’s alleged hack victims include Dow Jones, NASDAQ, J.C. Penney, JetBlue, 7-Eleven and Princeton-based Heartland Payment Systems and together with his cybercrime gang, Drinkman is estimated to have made upt0 $500 million in cash from the hacking operations....

In a security advisory email sent out to its users on Thursday, the company said that two weeks ago, they detected some unusual activity within portions of the LastPass development environment, and immediately started an investigation. Based on the investigation, they found that an unauthorized party had gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment through a single compromised developer account and took portions of source code and some proprietary LastPass technical information....

In addition to making great headphones, microphones, gaming mice, the company also leads the front when making gaming keyboards and to remind the general public that it is still producing this particular gaming peripheral, Logitech unveiled a giant wall comprised of 160 Logitech G810 RGB keyboards. For those unfamiliar, Logitech G810 was announced earlier this year and it is a mechanical gaming keyboard, which has a higher lifespan compared to regular keyboards, which feature a membrane keypad....