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Apple’s Siri digital assistants has been hailed as one of the best digital assistants around. It is fast, it is quirky and it has a great sense of humour but it is as much risky according to Trend Micro. Researchers at Trend Micro state that it poses a serious privacy risk for iPhone owners by leaking personal information. According to Trend Micro, even if your iPhone is protected with a PIN or passcode, it could still be possible for someone else to use Siri to glean personal information about not just you, but your relations and other contacts, as well as details about your schedule....

Announcing the changes on Twitter, Skype says that users can generate their free unique link with one click, share it with participants and enjoy unlimited meetings with Skype. — Skype (@Skype) April 3, 2020 The Meet Now feature in Skype allows you to easily set up a collaboration space and invite both Skype contacts and friends or family who are not on Skype. Participants can then easily join meetings whether they have an account or not....

On examination of the black box data, it was confirmed that while the code was correct, the way it had been configured was faulty. The test crew who were assessing the quality of the turboprop aircraft before purchase were killed in the crash. Airbus had already told A400M operators – Britain, Germany, France and Turkey – to check the planes’ Engine Control Unit. The Royal Malaysian Air Force also has an A400M, delivered in March....

Not many people are aware of the potentials talks between Michael Dell and Steve Jobs that could have changed the Apple’s destiny and possibly the tech history altogether. The Timeline Ousted from the Company He Built Jobs was ousted from the company over internal power struggles with then Apple CEO John Sculley. The TimelineOusted from the Company He BuiltThe Last Ditch with Dell The Apple co-founder took some of the company’s former employees along, which helped build him another company, NeXT....

Follow Google’s Guidelines Google has laid down guidelines that should help webmasters in their endeavour to enhance their ranking on Google. Unfortunately, most of them ignore and flout Google’s basic rules, a thing that leads to having their sites penalized and at times removed from the web’s index. As a webmaster, it is important that you avoid things that Google disapproves which will make your website to be victimized and removed from the index....

Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) has unveiled its flagship device which assures an innovative super security to the smartphone along with an unique outer body which is stronger than steel as it is made up of combination of metals. The smartphone is expected to launch somewhere in summer this year. Based in San Francisco, TRI is inspired by vision of two geniuses namely Charles Babbage and Alan Turing, the fathers of modern computer science and artificial intelligence respectively....

The three Samsung phone vulnerabilities disclosed by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) are CVE-2021-25337, CVE-2021-25369, and CVE-2021-25370. When Google found exploit samples in the late 2020s, it immediately reported these vulnerabilities to Samsung, which have all been patched since by the company in its March 2021 release. Further, the vulnerabilities, discovered in Samsung’s custom-built software of the devices, were all used together as part of an exploit chain to target Samsung phones running Android....

The most interesting highlight of the update is Voice Chats, which is similar to how voice channels work in a Discord room or call. It offers users a persistent conference call to speak live with friends or family who are a part of a Telegram group. It also allows users to join and leave the call as and when they wish. — Telegram Messenger (@telegram) December 23, 2020 “Any Telegram group can now become a voice chat room that is always on....

Wealth-X, a firm that does research and valuations on ultra-high net worth individuals, has provided a list of the 10 richest couples in the world, who are either self-made billionaires or those who have obtained their wealth through inheritance. These men and women are developers, innovators, CEOs, fashion magnates, and philanthropists. From the US to China to Spain to France, we present to you the world’s wealthiest couples in descending order:...

In 1977 Tom Baker was the fourth actor to play the character of famous nerd “Doctor Who” and then the robotic canine made its first appearance in the series. Now, we have this K9 toy for real which has the same look as the one which appeared in the opera years ago. The robotic K9 has many interactive features including the moving ears and the illuminated key pad. The eyes, nose probe, ears and all movements of this robotic K9 can be controlled using a smartphone....

The newly developed quantum computer is only made from five atoms, and is one of the significant steps leading towards developing new devices. “We tried to make a quantum processor of five qubits with trapped ions that is reconfigurable, and by that I mean that you can literally program algorithms into it,” Shantanu Debnath, an optical engineer, a quantum physicist at University of Maryland and the lead author of the Nature paper, from the US University told WIRED....

Finally, after 2 years, the United States Department of Justice has managed to identify the man behind the mega banking hack. A Maryland man accused of participating in a yearslong scheme described by the Justice Department as “securities fraud on cyber steroids” was arrested in Russia on immigration charges several months ago following a lengthy manhunt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Joshua Aaron, 32, was arrested in May after police showed up at his apartment near downtown Moscow and found he had violated the terms of his visa....

For those unaware, The Pirate Bay in mid-September was secretly running a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner on its website through a technology called ‘Coinhive’ that utilizes CPU power from visitor’s computers to generate ‘Monero’, a very profitable cryptocurrency for the website. Users had started complaining about extremely high CPU utilisation when they loaded certain pages on their computers and a slowdown of the entire PC. At that time, The Pirate Bay operators said that they were testing Coinhive briefly to see if they could run it as a replacement for advertisements on the site....

The birth of Piton was given at the Hot Chips conference where the idea was to design a chip that could be used in large data centers that handle social networking requests, search and cloud services. The response time in social networking and search will depend upon the horsepower of servers in data centers. Piton is one such rare open-source processor based on the OpenSparc design that will be able to make this happen....

The humble referral link – direct or anchored in text—however, isn’t intrusive, invasive, or annoying. When people come across a link online; they can choose to click or ignore the link. If the link looks relevant to their needs and they decide to click, they are often inclined to take specific actions such as finding more information, signing up for a trial, or making an outright purchase. In addition, when people receive links to products/services from people/brands/influencers that they trust, they are more inclined to check out the product/service because of the value of trust in recommendations....

The world is filled with creepy sods who do awfully god forsaken things to fulfill their wild fetishes. One such case has come to a light where a creepy cop hacked into a baby’s webcam to spy on its nude mother breastfeeding the baby. These shocking allegations are detailed in a lawsuit filed by Megan Pearce, who accuses officer Michael Emmi of turning into a peeping tom after arresting her fiance....

Many TeamViewer users are claiming that their accounts have been hacked and the hackers have emptied their PayPal and banking accounts. Those TeamViewer who have lost quite a bit of money posted their grievances on Reddit, Twitter and other social media tools expressing their anguish over TeamViewer’s official statement. Many TeamViewer users claimed that hackers used the hack making purchases while others stated that hackers were taking control of their PCs to install to malicious malware....

For those unfamiliar, this newly discovered bug is an upgraded version of an annoying old bug known as concon. This was a computer bug that appeared in the Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating systems and was considered as a security vulnerability because malicious web pages would crash systems with links such as file:///C:/con/con. So, how does this new iteration of bug work? This bug allows a malicious website to load an image file with the “$MFT” name in the directory path....

TikTok is an insanely popular social media platform with millions of active users. As a matter of fact, around 19 million users had downloaded Tiktok in the US in just the first quarter of 2022. Brendan Carr, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner has now written to Apple and Google, asking them to completely ban Tiktok from their respective app stores. Well, Brendan fears that TikTok is leaking sensitive user data to Beijing....

— Alex Yoder (@alex_yoder) June 30, 2015 The above tweet contains a code for a browser game. Called the Tiny Twitch and developed by Alex Yoder, Yoder developed the game in response to a challenge from Ben Porter. Porter had 2 days earlier challenged through a tweet to make a game which could fit in a tweet. — Ben Porter (@eigenbom) June 27, 2015 Yoder took it upon himself and developed the Tiny Twitch game and responded to Porter through the above tweet....