In an email sent to customers, the company said its systems were compromised in late July 2022, which was discovered by them on or around August 4, 2022. During their ongoing investigation, Samsung found that an unauthorized third party had acquired the personal information of its customers from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems and exfiltrated it out of its network. However, no consumer devices and in-app control interfaces were affected....
For those unaware, The Blue Whale Challenge that became a social media phenomenon, plays out over a period of 50 days, where a player has to successfully complete 50 challenges. These tasks are given by the “curator”, who also asks for photos of the teenagers carrying out the tasks as proof for his approval. Once the 50 challenges are completed, the game directs the player to commit suicide, which is the ultimate task....
Scientists find surprising link between Birth Month and Disease Risk. “It turns out that if a newborn is exposed to high levels of dust mites in their first few months of life then they have higher possibility of a certain type of asthma later,” says Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD, an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia’s Data Science Institute. The record states that 1.7 million patients treated at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center between 1985 and 2013, the researchers used an algorithm to look at relationships between birth month and disease risk....
On Wednesday, schools in Singapore were closed as part of partial lockdown measures to control local transmissions of the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. As a result, some teachers are using video conferencing tools like Zoom for home-based learning. According to local media reports, one of the incidents saw hackers joining a virtual geography class with teenage girls and displaying offensive pictures on screens. They also lewd remarks to the students, who were just 13 years old....
Manu Prakash is an Indian by birth. Presently he is an assistant professor of bioengineering at the Stanford University and the one who was in news last year for building a paper microscope. Now, this year the genius has come up with a ‘synchronous computer’ that works by using the physics of moving water droplets. Prakash and his two students have persistently worked for an entire decade to develop this unique computer that can work on moving water droplets instead of electrons....
Several users have reported that they cant access sites hosted on WordPress.com but it looks like self hosted blogs on WordPress.org have been spared. The users who operated blogs on WordPress.com are greeted with the following message : Many users said that the block has been implemented by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) though there is no word of the block from the authorities or the WordPress foundation. Pakistan seems to be following footsteps of its neighbours, China and India in the game of censorship....
The $100-million (AUD$130 million) research and engineering programme is expected to search for extraterrestrial intelligence by scanning the skies for radio and light signals from aliens. This program aims to suss out the scientific and engineering architecture needed to make an interstellar probe a reality. These nano-craft would have to travel roughly a thousand times faster than current spacecraft – and would also be much smaller, consisting of a light sail and a chip that could fit in your cellphone....
Hawking shares the credit of writing this theory with Cambridge University’s Malcolm J Perry and Harvard’s Andrew Strominger. This new discovery may very well earn the scientists a Nobel Prize. So, what is the black hole information paradox? According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the problem with black holes is that all information that crosses the boundary of a black hole – called the event horizon – is lost forever....
“Since 2009, Google has been running Doodle 4 Google contest. With ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition, we aim to promote creativity, passion and imagination in younger users. We congratulate Anvita for being judged as the winner this year,” said Sapna Chadha, Head of Marketing, Google India, in a statement. Based on this year’s theme ‘If I could teach anyone anything, it would be’, Anvita had submitted her doodle titled ‘Live in the present’, which won compliments....
To stop such activities, DroneShield, an Australian and U.S. firm is introducing DroneGun, which is the firm’s six-kilogram gun that can apparently disable drone signals (including GPS and GLONASS positioning) at a range of 2km (1.2 miles). It forces the vehicle to land or return to its starting point. Besides disabling threats from a safe distance, anti-drone teams can also possibly locate their pilots. The highly-dramatic video (see below) from the firm shows a man armed with the gun and its accompanying backpack shooting down a drone that’s flying a short distance away....
University of Hamburg student Nikolai Philipp Tschacher was conducting an experiment as part of his bachelor thesis. He was testing whether he could fool coders using to run his program using a variation of a decade-old attack known as typosquatting Tschacher used the variation of typosquatting and uploaded his code to three popular developer communities and gave them names that were similar to widely used packages already submitted by other users....
Well, YouTuber Wermy has an answer. He has come up with a Game Boy Zero mod that does it all. His Game Boy Zero modification uses a Raspberry Pi Zero, a modified game cartridge and a fair amount of drilling to imitate classic NES, SNES and the Gameboy’s many iterations all up to and including Advanced, while at the same time preserving majority of the original Game Boy’s look and feel....
A prosecutor asked a Paris court to hand the three men, aged 22 to 27, a one-year suspended sentence and a 5,000 euro (5,500 dollar) fine each, a lawyer for the police officers. The three member of French wing of Anonymous are also accused of breaking into two government sites and blocking public access for days. Back in Jan,2012, Anonymous had called for Operation Megaupload in retaliation for the shutdown of the file sharing service Megaupload and the arrest of four workers....
“The Ministry of Information Technology has received many complaints from various sources including several reports about misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data in an unauthorized manner to servers which have locations outside India,” the Ministry of Electronics and IT had said in a statement dated June 29, 2020. “The compilation of these data, its mining and profiling by elements hostile to national security and defence of India, which ultimately impinges upon the sovereignty and integrity of India, is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures....
For those unaware, TIOBE Programming Community Index is calculated every month and the ratings are based on the number of search engine queries, which contain the name of the programming language as a keyword in popular search engines such as Google, Bing, and Wikipedia. In August 2017, C had slipped to its lowest-ever rating (6.477 percent). Since then, C has clawed back and climbed back up to 11.07 percent this month....
Best 10 Free Collaborative Tools For ProgrammersGitHubBitbucketSnowy EveningSlackGitter.IMCyberduckTrelloSourceTreeTodoistNotePad++ Listed in no particular order of importance, provided below are the top 10 and free collaborative tools for programmers. GitHub GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service and officially the largest code host in the world. It offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. It greatly encourages an open source mindset by making all code projects available to public by default....
In spite of having smartphones with higher image sensors and good optical image stabilization (OIS), there are times when you are looking to click that perfect picture from your phone but it still doesn’t turn out right even after a dozen attempts? That’s when photo-editing apps come to your rescue. While there are hundreds, maybe even thousands, of photo editor apps available, in this article we bring to you the best photo editing apps for Android that can be downloaded free of cost and be used to enhance the beauty of your favorite pictures....
With hundreds of apps (free and paid) available for download from Google Play Store, we have selected some of the Android apps that a beginner should have on their smartphone. In no particular order, given below are the top 5 Android apps for beginners. Kindly note that the apps given below are based on user needs, download rates, and reviews. However, this list could vary for each person depending on their need....
“Hacker” was a term used to denote a skilled programmer who had competency in machine code and operating systems. Such individuals were proficient in solving unsatisfactory problems and often interpreted competitors’ code to work as intelligence agents for small software companies. However, over a period of time, hacking has a more negative implication, as black hat hackers have caused irreparable damage by breaking into secure networks to destroy, modify, or steal data; or to make the network unusable for those who are authorized to use the network....
