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Will WebAssembly overtake JavaScript in Web Application coding needs?JavaScriptWebAssemblyJavaScript vs WebAssemblyWhy is WebAssembly superior to JavaScript?Will WebAssembly replace JavaScript in popularity among programmers? On Tuesday Firefox 52 became the first browser to support WebAssembly, a new standard “to enable near-native performance for web applications” without a plug-in by pre-compiling code into low-level, machine-ready instructions. What were the reasons for Firefox ditching two-decade-old JavaScript in favor of the relatively new WebAssembly? In this article, we look at whether WebAssembly will replace JavaScript as the preferred programming language for Web Applications....

Researchers will lawfully be able to reverse engineer products and consumers can repair their vehicle’s electronics, but the FTC is only allowing the exemptions for a two-year trial run. FTC introduced a similar change back in 2014 when it announced that you can successfully unlock your own smartphone for security research purposes and not suffer the consequences. The same thing has been introduced for cars and smart TVs and hacking them for the sole purpose of learning about security loopholes is definitely allowed....

A Japanese Satellite called Hitomi has been officially termed as lost after it disintegrated in orbit, which was a result of being torn apart when spinning out of control. The reason behind this is still under investigation but the individuals carrying out their own research have claimed that bad data in a software package resulted in a loss of $286 million US dollars, not to mention possible 10 years’ worth of research lost....

These two employees, who wished not to be named, disclosed that the Russian company’s co-founder, Eugene Kaspersky was the one to order the covert operation. Targeting companies like Microsoft Corp, AVG Technologies NV, Avast Software and other competitors, the secret campaign was to trick some of them into disabling or deleting important files on their customers’ PCs. The whole affair started when Mr. Kaspersky felt other companies smaller were making money off his work, as they were copying his software instead of developing their own technology....

The security expert, Dominik Penner aka “@zer0pwn” who discovered the problem said that the vulnerability affects KDE Frameworks version 5.60.0 and below. For those unaware, KDE Frameworks is a collection of libraries and software frameworks that are at the base of the KDE desktop environment v4 and v5 (Plasma). According to Penner, there is a command injection vulnerability in KDE 4/5 Plasma desktop due to the way the KDesktopFile class (part of KDE Frameworks) handles ....

This is not the first time Kelly’s intimate images have have been leaked online, she was one of the victims of iCloud hacks last year with dozens of her intimate and explicit images doing rounds. This leak if not photoshopped could be the second time Kelly’s private photos have been hacked and posted on the internet. In November, Kelly had 34 of her private images leaked on the internet, including one which showed her topless in bed while other pictures showed her posing in bikinis and underwear....

Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, is free software meant for enabling anonymous communication and it cannot be blocked by ISPs. Tor users along with regular sites can access dedicated Tor sites using an .onion address. For that users need to be connected to the Tor network through a Tor browser. KAT is not the first site for the Tor network. This news has come in the wake of the return of the Pirate Bay to its original ....

Supporters belonging Ed Miliband’s Labour party which is the main rival to David Cameron’s Conservative Party and Nigel Farage’s UKIP party, today hacked their Wikipedia pages and put up a huge image of Miliband with the words ‘Vote Labour’ The red page, with an image of Ed Miliband, was all that showed up as you scrolled down the page. Although the pages were restored immediately after Wiki admin noticed the hack in the middle of the afternoon, thus far nobody has claimed responsibility....

After the takeover of its mobile devices division by Microsoft, the Finnish-based technology company can re-enter the smartphone market only after 2016, as per their agreement. Once Nokia’s contract with Microsoft ends, the company can sell smartphones that do not run on the Windows Mobile platform and it would be free to launch its own Android-powered smartphones. A bunch of leaked images that have surfaced online recently hint that the company has already started to work on an Android-powered smartphone, dubbed the Nokia C1....

Cincoze DA-1000 is an ultra-compact and fanless computer that features impressive hardware inside a compact and inexpensive price tag designed to facilitate the requirements of those who need the extra mobility as well as a reduced price. According to Logic Supply, Cincoze DA-1000 is the cheapest rugged computer that you can find right now, and Michael Kleiner, Director of Engineering present at the company has said the following. The computer is quite versatile on account that it is able to run both Ubuntu 14....

Given this huge influx of wearable devices (and the profit from them), many companies are entering the market with new products — so how do companies differentiate themselves? Take a look at Lucyd, a Singapore-based company that is changing the wearables market by bringing amazing technology into high profile smartglasses. Their frames combine fashion with user-friendly, hands-on technology that seamlessly integrates into everyday situations. Imagine listening to music, taking calls, and using voice commands through your glasses....

Adam Penny, 25, stole the names, addresses and parcel tracking numbers of customers who were waiting for deliveries of gold bullion, before passing the data to three associates who then intercepted the gold deliveries. It emerged that the culprit and his team stole or attempted to steal six packages of gold with an estimated value of more than £88,000, according to a court hearing at Kingston Crown Court on September 12....

Micron’s new i400 is the world’s first microSD card to use 176-layer 3D NAND storage technology with a focus on performance and endurance. It is specifically designed for edge storage applications with a focus on handling tasks like continuous high-quality video recording and multiple AI (artificial intelligence) capture events concurrently. The U.S. semiconductor giant says the video security market is estimated to be worth $83 billion by 2030. Applications such as fleet dash cameras, smart home security, police body cameras and AI-enabled cameras in factories, and cloud-based video security as a service, or VSaaS, all need storage capable of handling media-rich data....

For those unaware, the EdgeDeflector app parses the microsoft-edge:// links and redirects them to regular https:// links that it tells Windows to open in your default web browser. The user needs to simply to install the free EdgeDeflector app and choose it as the default for microsoft-edge:// links instead of Microsoft Edge. However, Microsoft has now made it difficult to hijack the protocol between Windows 11 Insider builds 22483 and 22494....

Microsoft on Thursday finally announced that a team of researchers has successfully executed the first fully automated system where data can be stored and retrieved in manufactured DNA and then again converted back into digital data. The researchers published their proof-of-concept system in a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports journal on March 21. In a simple proof-of-concept test, the research team was able to successfully encode the word “hello” in snippets of fabricated DNA and convert it back to digital data using a fully automated end-to-end system....

Gates said that by allowing Google to develop Android even before Microsoft could develop a competing mobile operating system cost the company nearly $400 billion. “In the software world, particularly for platforms, these are winner-take-all markets. So the greatest mistake ever is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is. That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform. That was a natural thing for Microsoft to win,” Gates told Eventbrite co-founder and CEO Julia Hartz....

Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group has a webpage explaining how the company has considered the use of “adaptive hardware” over the years. This idea struck Microsoft back in 1999, involved PCs that could display dedicated action keys and hide the irrelevant keys for a given application, application mode, and application state. Steven Bathiche, Director of research in Microsoft’s applied sciences group spent years investigating keyboards that changed their function keys and actions based on the applications on the screen, as reported earlier by The Verge....

For those unaware, WB Games is the video game division of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and is a publisher behind popular game franchises such as Batman: Arkham, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings. Microsoft’s interest in acquiring WB Games comes after Warner’s parent, AT&T, a telco giant, announced its intentions last month to sell off WarnerMedia’s gaming division in a deal that would pull in around $4 billion in order to help lessen its $154 billion debt, according to a CNBC report....

What is Mitigation Bypass Bounty and Mitigation Bypass ? A Mitigation bypass bounty is one of three Bounty program offered by Microsoft. A Mitigation bypass is capable of exploiting remote code execution vulnerabilities that attack the stack. It is sometimes referred as “stack overflow”. Microsoft further Clarifies that an Bypass Submission must demonstrate a way of exploiting a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows. Bypass must also meet seven criteria....

Now, a Microsoft Store employee (who wanted to remain anonymous) in a series of messages with a Windows Latest journalist has revealed that the Redmond giant is currently working on a new line of phones that will be powered by Google’s Android operating system and sold on Microsoft Store. Besides this, the representative did not disclose any significant information regarding the design or features of the handset. When the journalist asked if the Microsoft representative was referring to a new series of Lumia smartphones, he replied, “Our Windows phone engineers are focusing on releasing a new model....