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Keys, 28, who works as a managing editor for Grasswire, a news curation website, said he will continue to report until his sentencing. Keys, who also was a web producer for KTXL Fox 40 in Sacramento, owned by the Tribune Company, provided members of the hacker group Anonymous with login information for Tribune servers in 2010. “In 2010, Keys posted login credentials to the Tribune Company content management system (CMS) to a chatroom run by Anonymous, resulting in the defacement of an LA Times article online....

Created by Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab, the tool instead of searching and recognizing just the face of the user, tracks their unique characteristics such as hairdo, clothing, body shape, and pose as well to confirm identity, reports New Scientist website. “We humans can already recognize people with these cues quite well. People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” explained Yann LeCun, head of artificial intelligence at Facebook”....

After working on dating app, the social media giant is now developing another app dubbed as ‘LOL’. This new platform is designed as a “special feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips” using content “pulled from News Feed posts by top meme Pages on Facebook,” according to a new report from TechCrunch. “We are running a small scale test and the concept is in the early stages right now,” a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch....

“Today, we’re excited to share that we’re expanding the availability of Messenger’s screen sharing feature in video calls and Messenger Rooms to our mobile apps. We know people are trying to stay connected more than ever and screen sharing is the latest feature we’re rolling out to bring people closer together,” Nora Micheva, Product Manager, Messenger said in a blog post while announcing the new feature. Screen sharing allows people to instantly share their screen with friends and family one-on-one or in a group video call with up to eight people and up to 16 people in Rooms while using Messenger on their mobile devices, on the Web, or on their desktop....

Previously, such outlets claimed a “news exemption” to get political content posted on Facebook. According to the company’s new regulation, news Pages connected with different types of political entities, including political parties, PACs, politicians, and other organizations that can primarily engage in the influence of public policy or elections will be excluded from the Facebook News tab. Additionally, these pages won’t have access to news messaging on the Messenger Business Platform or the WhatsApp business API....

The move comes after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that he wanted to ‘turn down the temperature’ of political conversations on the social networking site because ‘people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services.’ He had added that Facebook will no longer recommend politics-themed groups to users and was working on ways to reduce the amount of political content served up in users’ news feeds by its automated systems....

What is alarming that the spoof app looks like has got past Google’s self-praised Bouncer app vetting system. The company thinks that the malicious version of the BatteryBot battery indicator app was most likely making an effort to bring together an army of compromised devices for premium SMS scams, click fraud and ad fraud. The bogus BatteryBot Pro that has now been removed from Play Store was offered for free (the real thing sells for Rs....

If you have been following Techworm you must have read the news of latest Fappening 2.0 leaks of nude images of Harry Potter movie series star Emma Watson, Jennifer’s Body star, Amanda Seyfried and The Sixth Sense star, Mischa Barton among others. Before this NSFW Celebgate leak, we had the hackers releasing similar nude images of Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski in last week of February. In all the above cases, unknown hackers hacked the Hollywood celebrities iCloud account and leaked their nude images and videos....

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....

This 29655 Bitcoins if sold today (current market price 1Bitcoin = $911.00 will fetch the US Government around $ 24,800,000 or 25 million approximately and looks like the DA’s office is going to sell it. But selling the Bitcoins poses a unique problem for the FBI because whatever Bitcoin exchanges are operating as of now are not legally certified by the Federal Reserve. Second thing is that the amount of Bitcoins (29655) is huge and may cause potential mini crash if sold at once....

Reported first by Bleeping Computer, the fake email pretended to warn the victims of a “sophisticated chain attack” from an advanced threat actor known as Vinny Troia, who is the head of security research of the dark web intelligence companies NightLion and Shadowbyte. “The FBI and CISA are aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account. This is an ongoing situation, and we are not able to provide any additional information at this time....

McGrath illegal sites were hosted on onion url and could only be viewed by using Tor or other anonymising browsers. Tor anonymiser network is preferred by not only human rights workers, activists, journalists, and whistleblowers but also millions of normal web users who would like to remain anonymous and not have their traffic snooped upon by anybody. FBI conveniently seemed have forgotten this fact that Tor is used by many people who like anonymity as a matter of practice and were in no way connected to McGrath and his cronies....

The German researchers team that studied the applications in detail discovered 56 million items of unprotected data, which included social networks, messaging, games, bank transfer and medical apps. Siegfried Rasthofer, who is a part of the team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology and Darmstadt University of Technology said “In almost every category we found an app which has this vulnerability in it.” Eric Bodden, Team leader said the number of records that are affected “will likely be in the billions....

Independent website down time detecting website outage.report shows that several players are unable to login into the game. Epic games has confirmed that they are currently undergoing downtime to unblock a small number of players who were affected by a recent backend service update which caused login and matchmaking issues. Once downtime has concluded, we will post an update. — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 25, 2018 As of now it is not known till when the services will be up and running properly, but the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented, confirmed Epic games....

Google today announced a new initiative to make an attempt and keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls, entities whose only business is gathering intellectual property and filing legal cases. This new effort is called the Patent Purchase Promotion by Google. The plot is simple: make it simple to sell your patents to Google rather than the wrong people. “Patent owners sell patents for numerous reasons (such as the need to raise money or changes in a company’s business direction),” wrote Allen Lo, Google’s deputy general counsel for patents....

The attack which started on Wednesday, emanated from scripts belonging to the internet giant Baidu. The scripts began directing useless traffic to two specific GitHub pages: one run by GreatFire, and the other offering translations of The New York Times, in the process bringing the entire GitHub down. The useless dataflow resulted in a massive DDoS attack on GitHub and caused it to go down on many occasions throughout Thursday night....

“People tend to focus on visual quality in VR but audio is just as important,” says Nathan Martz, product manager of Google Cardboard. “The way people tend to do 3D audio is a pretty simple approximation…you don’t have the right audio cues.” By utilizing Thrive Audio, which Google acquired last year, Cardboard developers now have the tools to create more accurate audio experiences that go beyond traditional left and right channels; now developers can use top, left, right, bottom, back, and everywhere else....

We all have goals. It could be learn a new language, spend more time with family or exercise more. This new “Google Goals” allows you to enter your goal and how often you want to do it. It will find the time for you to work towards your biggest goals. Google goals will integrate these into the app that runs your life – your calendar. However, the tool relies on you entering almost every meeting and scheduled activity onto the platform in advance to work efficiently....

The programme, which was launched in the capital on Monday aims to train two million Android developers from India by offering a slew of initiatives to train and certify talented students and developers in Android development in the next three years. In order to make its Android app development training programme available in 31 Indian universities — both public and private, the tech giant has partnered with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)....