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The database, called the Automated Case Tracking System, was run by defense firm Lockheed Martin. Neither Lockheed Martin nor the Air Force could provide an explanation as to why the database became corrupted or when they will be able to recover the information. According to Defense One, the database was corrupted last month and the firm spent two weeks trying to recover data before informing the Air Force on June 6....

The unknown hacker then proceeded to post a series of offensive political posts related to the GOI’s demonetization drive and Rahul Gandhi’s family. However, within minutes, the account was restored and all offensive tweets were deleted from its timeline. However, the hacker once again hacked the same and posted more offensive tweets. The hack comes in the middle of a Parliament jam because Rahul Gandhi’s Congress and the other rag-tag opposition parties have been opposing Government’s demonetization drive....

According to the Twitter account for the hamster, the trading which involves real money has seen the hamster’s portfolio go up by almost 20 percent in the last four months. He holds some of the major cryptos such as Tron, Cardano’s ADA, Ripple’s XRP, and ether. On any given day, Mr. Goxx enters its “Goxx Box” – a separate trading office that is attached to his regular cage – and starts a livestream on his Twitch account to let his followers know that he has started a trading session....

“Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people’s experiences with our products, whether we’re surfacing more of the content that people want to see or filtering out undesirable content like spam,” the company said in a blog post. “Every minute, Facebook users make 4,000 new posts,” with 180 million comments made on public Facebook posts per day, says Hussein Mehanna, an engineering director with Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning team....

University of Missouri-Columbia study whose results are published here, states that Facebook can make us sadder, but only if you’re using it to lurk from afar. Lurking from afar means using Facebook to check on how your old acquaintance/friend/ex-girl friend/boy friend is doing, which actually engaging with them through ‘likes’ comments or sharing their posts. The study by the two researchers Margaret Duffy and Edson Tandoc, has taken care to distinguish between the good kind and the bad kind of Facebook usage....

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon comes between the sun and Earth and casts the darkest part of its shadow, known as its umbra, on Earth. The darkest part of a total solar eclipse is almost as dark as night. Most of the world usually only encounters a partial solar eclipse, depending on when and where the eclipse takes place. For example, a total solar eclipse will actually take place on March 9, 2016....

Conceptualized in the USA, the Escobar Fold 1 smartphone is being manufactured in Hong Kong. “I have made one of the first foldable smartphones in the world. Thanks to effective production and no special deals with retailers, we have been able to keep costs low as compared to other manufacturers. The Escobar Fold 1 is the best smartphone in the world right now,” says Robert Escobar, Founder of Escobar Inc....

The experimental prototype was designed around an operating system called “Acorn OS”, which was the internal code name for the software and the device shows an acorn on the boot screen instead of an Apple logo. “Apple clearly made the right choice,” pointed out Dickson when Apple chose to ditch those efforts and focus on developing the iPhone OS that eventually became what we know today as iOS. Acorn OS, featured an iPod Classic-like interface with a digital click wheel that could be used for navigating between menus....

However, Internet.org is having a difficult time making the world believe its importance and intention. In February, the social giant in partnership with telecommunication company, Rcom launched the project in India. From the time the project has been launched, the company has received severe reactions, pressurizing the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg to come out and speak in favor of the project. Nevertheless, things are far from sorted. After the criticism in India, the company is now receiving objection from groups in Columbia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Zimbabwe among many other places....

elementary OS Freya is the third stable version of elementary OS, Isis, which was proposed in August 2013 by Daniel Foré, the project leader. It was later changed to Freya to avoid association with the terrorist group ISIS. The first beta of Freya was released on 11 August 2014. The second beta of Freya was released on 8 February 2015. The final version was released on 11 April 2015, and now the team has come out with the next stable version of the OS....

There are valid, serious, military technology developments happening in the Pacific. This is not about that. This is about some dudes who have built a giant robot with paintball cannons piloted by two people that seem to come right out of science fiction and they want it to fight a Japanese-made counterpart in an epic battle. On Wednesday, the video challenge was made by U.S.-based Megabits to Japan-based Suidobashi Heavy Industry to add to the trans-Pacific competition heating up following the USA Women’s National Soccer team beat Germany that same night to face Japan in the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday....

The Turla spyware trojan which was discovered in August 2014, was found to be operating and targeting governments and militaries worldwide since 2008. In fact Turla and its precursor called Epic were so powerful and stealthy that United States government had created the US Cyber Command after its discovery. Turla had been targeting municipal governments, embassies, militaries and other high-value targets worldwide, with particular concentrations in the Middle East and Europe....

“Hello” for Android is the brainchild of Facebook Creative Labs, the company’s arm tasked with creating new applications outside of Facebook. Unlike WhatsApp voice calling where the user just sees the user’s profile on the smartphone screen, Hello is a full fledged dialler with caller id facility. Because it’s connected to Facebook, Hello users can see information about their callers’ identity even if the caller is not in their friends list....

So far, virtual personal assistants like Apple’s Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Google Now have been part of an effort to identify differences between mobile platforms like iOS and Android. According to The Information, Facebook is working on bringing virtual personal assistants to its Messenger app and the web. Where Apple’s Siri, Google Now, and Microsoft Cortana focus on productivity, Facebook’s offering nicknamed “Moneypenny” is actually a way to ask real people for help researching and buying products and services....

Facebook facing class-action lawsuit over illegal message scanningTargeted AdvertisingCase Files The lawsuit which was filed in 2013, alleges that Facebook scanned the content of private messages sent between users for links to websites and would then count any links in a tally of “likes” of the pages. Those “likes” were then used to compile user profiles, which were then used for delivering targeted advertising to its users, the lawsuit said....

Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “Cryptoqueen”, who is believed to be in her 40s, was the founder of OneCoin Ltd., a Bulgaria-based company that marketed a purported cryptocurrency called OneCoin launched in 2014. In order to execute the large-scale fraud scheme, Ignatova allegedly made false statements and representations to individuals in order to solicit investments in OneCoin. In order to purchase OneCoin packages, she apparently instructed victims to transmit investment funds to OneCoin accounts, causing them to send wire transfers representing these investments....

While earlier Windows version users were quite habituated to see BSoD on their PC/laptop screens, the BSoD screens become rarer with subsequent Windows versions. However, even now with Windows 10 or Windows 7/8.1, the Blue Screen of Death evokes exactly the same feeling of desperation amongst users, that it evoked when we were using Windows XP. Seeing the BSoD on your PC or Laptop in one thing and seeing an entire building with a BSoD screen is quite shocking or awesome (the way you see it)....

Launched in technical preview last year, GitHub Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, an AI system trained on billions of lines of public code. It is an AI pair programmer tool that developers to write code faster and with less work. It draws context from comments and code to suggest individual lines and whole functions instantly. So, how does GitHub Copilot work? OpenAI Codex was trained on publicly available source code and natural language, so it works for both programming and human languages....

Some other tweets stated, ‘This time we hacked your website and your Twitter account, the next time you will start searching for new job 🙂 | https://www.globalpost.com/?flush_page_cache=1 ‘ Think twice before you publish untrusted informations about Syrian Electronic Army via @Official_SEA16 #SEA #Syria The twitter Account is still compromised, and tweets are being fired about, Syria. Another screenshot from Syrian Electronic Army shows, they have access to Global post’s Website Admin panel....

GironSec has illustrated how Uber is reporting all this user confidential data back to the base. He has decompiled the code of the Uber Android app and found it to be collecting and sending the following information back to Uber: GironSec’s research concludes that it uses following permissions with your permission From the above you can notice that a taxi provider like Uber is taking the Big Brother talk rather seriously....