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One of the domains that points to KickassTorrents, Kickass.cr is up for sale with a minimum bid of $230, TorrentFreak reported. According to the report, the domain is available through the SEDO marketplace. 2015-16 has been a bad year for Torrent lovers. First we had news of the death of YTS/YIFY last November. Now KickassTorrents bites the dust after the alleged Ukrainian founder of KickassTorrents, Artem Vaulin, was arrested in Poland and faces extradition to the United States....

Researchers exploring ways to preserve the digital data with DNA for future generationsComputer hard drives lack durability hence scientists are turning to DNA to store the digital information as well as preserve the knowledge for posterity.Digital Data technology is turning to DNA for storing and preserving valuable information:Major limitation for wide scale use of DNA hard drives: Digital Dark Age: As a method to overcome these shortcomings, researchers are now turning to DNA and exploring ways to not only store the digital data but also preserve it for future generations....

Do you want to download Windows 7 to relish the nostalgia or run an older application? Then you have come to the right place. You can still download Windows 7 all versions on your old Windows laptop or PC or a new one. In this article, you will download Windows 7 ISO, create a Windows 7 bootable, and learn to clean install Windows 7 on your older system. Download Window 7 ISO (Ultimate and Professional Edition) Direct Download Link These are the direct download links for Windows 7 ISOs, straight from the Microsoft servers....

Today, SpaceX announced that it will build a one-mile test track at half-scale next to its headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif, which will be finished within a year. Simultaneously, SpaceX is starting a pod design-build competition that is open-sourced and accessible to anyone who submits a filled form on SpaceX’s new Hyperloop web site. The last day to enroll for the competition is September 15. SpaceX will send technical guidelines in details in August....

The Financial Times reports that tight deadlines given to four lawyers suggest that the EC, the bloc’s antitrust watchdog, will issue the “statement of objections” against Google around noon on Wednesday, the two people said, although the process could still take slightly longer. EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday that the commission was concentrating on Google’s demand that smartphone makers and mobile carriers using Android load Google apps on their devices if they offer any of the company’s services—including search—on their phones....

Apparently, the law enforcement agency had executed a warrant in Scotland, where FAB IPTV is reportedly based, but no further information was provided. The official website of FAB IPTV, an IPTV provider known to operate from addresses in Scotland, currently displays a message that reads, Important Annoucement – CLOSURE & INFORMATION On the morning of Tuesday September 11th a co-operation raid took place on one of the administrators homes whilst on holiday led by EUROPOL/Police Scotland and members from SKY/BT/Virgin/Possibly HBO and other Film/TV organizations....

According to Facebook, Oculus Quest 2 packs a suite of innovations to power the next generation of VR games and experiences. “Today, we’re excited to announce Oculus Quest 2, the next generation of all-in-one VR. Quest 2 pushes the state of VR forward with a redesigned all-in-one form factor, new Touch controllers, and our highest-resolution display ever,” says the Oculus blog. “With a higher resolution panel and the ability to reach a higher refresh rate than Rift S, all in a lighter form factor and at a lower cost, Quest 2 brings a leveled-up PC VR gaming experience to enthusiasts....

Facebook basically sends only one notification per birthday to users. It also sends emails only to those users who have opted either actively or passively to receive them. However, over the last one month, few users have reported a huge increase in notifications from the website, sending multiple pokes over various media to wish happy birthday to friends. While many suppose that the change was intentional, or probably a form of user experience testing, as with so many of the site’s undocumented changes, it was seemingly an unusual accident....

Facebook will now start be using your Web-browsing data to target you with advertising. All this will be done thanks to Like and Share buttons placed on websites and apps that collect data about things you’re reading, watching, and interested in. The company announced it would use this data collected off Facebook in personalized ads last year, and on Tuesday, said it is beginning to use it more broadly. However Facebook has also given a way for users to opt out of this targeted advertisements....

Ban of TikTok and other 58 apps by the Indian government sent shockwaves of disbelief and sadness across its 200 million-plus users in the country. TikTok Pro is a scam app – Beware As per the developing trends, many imitating apps such as TikTok Pro are a malware-containing app that spreads itself through normal text messages or WhatsApp messages. TikTok Pro is a scam app – BewareDon’t fall for Tiktok Pro ScamThe motive behind the Scam appMaharashtra Cyber Cell Flagged it First...

The sudden spate and steady stream of hacking even stunned FBI and it came out with a advisory warning that the ISIS and its supporters are targeting the US websites that have vulnerable WordPress plugins. WordPress content management system is the post popular CMS world over and small websites including small and medium businesses use WP for their websites. WordPress is also popular because of the countless plugins available to the simple tasks and add features to WP....

Essential, this order will let a US judge can grant an FBI agent in, say, New York, permission to hack into a computer in San Francisco, or potentially any city in the world, in order to help in their investigations. The court documents also state that the US based judge can also grant a warrant if a suspect uses tools to hide their identity, such as Tor. The judgement is in line with an amendment, first introduced in 2014 and it allows US authorities to keep pace with the dynamics of Internet but at the same time it also raises privacy and security issues....

These separate containers will allow the user to log into a website using different identities. For example, one tab can be logged into Facebook using one account for friends and family, while another tab displays a second work-related Facebook account. By default, Firefox Nightly comes with four different containers called Personal (blue), Work (orange), Banking (green), and Shopping (pink), which means users would be able to log in with four different IDs....

Usually, the alert appears when the iPhone detects liquid or moisture in the charging port. And that’s perfectly okay, as it saves the iPhone from any potential damage. But that’s not always the case. Many times iPhone users receive the Liquid Detected In Lightning Connector error even when their iPhone is not in contact with liquid. If you are also facing similar issues and your iPhone is showing a liquid Detected in Lightning Connector error, there is nothing to worry about....

While smartphone users world over are awaiting deployment of 5G tech by their respective mobile service providers, researchers from Japan have stolen the march over 5G by developing a new terahertz transmitter which can transmit data at an unbelievable speed of more than 100Gbs and above. While the fifth generation of mobile network, 5G is hardly three years away from its launch in 2020, this new tech could totally change the face of how we transmit data wirelessly....

Jonathan Nightingale, a former General Manager and Vice President of the Firefox group at Mozilla, said that Google was the company’s biggest partner during his 8-year tenure at Mozilla. “Our revenue share deal on search drove 90% of Mozilla’s income,” he tweeted. However, in a series of tweets that followed Nightingale described the changes and issues between Google and Mozilla that happened after the release of Google Chrome. “When I started at Mozilla in 2007 there was no Google Chrome, and most folks we spoke with inside [Google] were Firefox fans,” Nightingale mentioned in a Twitter thread on April 13....

However, it is not that easy to get hired by the search giant. And it is no surprise. While interns here start at $70,000 to $90,000 salaries, the software engineers get $118,000 and senior software engineers earn an average of $152,985. You need skills and talent to get a job in Google. The company receives more than 2.5 million job applications per year, of which only 4,000 people get hired....

CNBC is reporting that “the social media company is engaged in conversations with potential suitors that are said to include Google and Salesforce, among other technology companies”. Telecom giant Verizon and software giant Microsoft may also be interested, according to TechCrunch. As rumoured before, Google, who has the resources to buy the company, is a particularly interesting suitor, as buying Twitter would give it a strong foothold to take on Facebook after the relative failure of Google+....

According to Buzzfeed, Google sent an email to its employees last week notifying that the video-conferencing app would no longer work on their machines from this week, citing “security vulnerabilities” within Zoom. However, the employees could use the Zoom app to stay in touch with family and friends through mobile apps and browsers. “We have long had a policy of not allowing employees to use unapproved apps for work that are outside of our corporate network....

— Tavis Ormandy (@taviso) May 23, 2017 Fuzz Testing Fuzz testing or fuzzing is a software testing approach wherein invalid or unexpected data is fed to a computer program that is then monitored for unexpected behavior such as crashes or memory leaks. The technique that Ormandy has worked on is in the domain of vulnerability scanning by injecting data directly into a DLL file ( a Windows file format )....