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Luckily, Chicago-based photographer Reuben Wu was there to photograph it. Though the electric blue streams seems out of this world, its look can be easily explained by those who have come into contact with it most. Paris-based photographer Olivier Grunewald was one of the first to document the lava with his photographs, it isn’t really lava at all. “This blue glow—unusual for a volcano—isn’t, of course, lava, as unfortunately can be read on many websites,” Grunewald explained to National Geographic in an email....

Serbian hackers deface the site of the Albanian state television and put the picture of Albanian flag on fireSerbian hackers followed up on recent soccer match incidentMysterious drone driver Serbian hackers broke down the site of the Albanian state television RTSH. Hackers at one point put up a image of burning flag of Albania, and embedded map of Kosovo with the message in English: “Kosovo is the heart of Serbia“. The defaced site of Radio Television of Albania was not accessible for many hours....

The software dubbed as ‘Skygofree’ is “one of the most powerful spyware tools” ever seen for Android that “display capabilities more reminiscent of Hollywood spy movies,” says Kaspersky. This Android software can trace user’s location, record audio conversations, intercept SMS, calendar entries, monitor popular apps such as Facebook Messenger, Skype, Viber, and WhatsApp, and even read WhatsApp messages through Accessibility Services. It can also connect a device to a Wi-Fi network controlled by hackers, even when the user has disabled Wi-Fi connections or take photos every time the user unlocks his device....

Today, we look at some of these weirdest codes ever written. The way these absurd codes are written, only the programmer who wrote this program may be able to explain why it is so. World’s most absurd codes ever written! Software engineer, Fouad Elia Kada who found this code says that he has what the guy who wrote this code had in mind or what the code does. Developer, Andrew Philips explains this code....

For those unaware, Bungie is the videogame developer behind two of gaming’s highly-acclaimed franchises, including Halo and Destiny. “We’ve had a strong partnership with Bungie since the inception of the Destiny franchise, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to officially welcome the studio to the PlayStation family. This is an important step in our strategy to expand the reach of PlayStation to a much wider audience,” said Jim Ryan, President & CEO of SIE....

Tutorial for troubleshooting the soundcard problems in Windows 10Here is how to fix the “No Sound” issue on Windows 10:If the issue is still unresolved, you can try another method for restoring sound:If your Windows 10 STILL does not recognise the soundcard drivers or does not install them, try this final method : The problem with sound arises when Windows 10 users have external soundcards like Soundblaster installed and there seems to be a conflict between the onboard soundcard and the external soundcard which causes this problem....

What is SSL 3.0 ? SSL 3.0 is an obsolete and insecure protocol used for web encryption, with SSL 3.0 being nearly 15 years old it has been replaced by its successors TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2. however SSL 3.0 is still being widely used. many TLS implementations remain backwards­ compatible with SSL 3.0 to interoperate with legacy systems in the interest of a smooth user experience. The protocol handshake provides for authenticated version negotiation, so normally the latest protocol version common to the client and the server will be used....

Superhumans: A Fear To Mankind This Tuesday, Stephen Hawking’s final book In Brief Answers to the Big Questions revealed his fears about superhumans. According to Stephen Hawking, wealthy people in the future would be able to edit the DNA of their children. This editing in DNA will help in improving attributes like memory and disease immunity. Superhumans: A Fear To MankindSuperhumans: Shall We Worry A child with edited DNA will be more intelligent as compared to a normal child....

A 26-year-old student at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security in Maribor, Slovenia this week received a suspended jail sentence of 15 months, and will not go to jail if he does not repeat his crime within the subsequent three years. According to local news site Pod Crto, Dejan Ornig had found security flaws in the state-developed TETRA encrypted communications protocol, which he later disclosed to the public. TETRA is utilized by Slovenian police, but additionally by some components of the military, the Slovenian Intelligence and Safety Company (SOVA), the jail administration, and even some entities in monetary administration departments....

Syrian Electronic Army took this seriously and defaced the website of RSA Conference with a short reply to Winkler’s comments from the presentation. Winkler today in a blog post went on explaining how the Syrian Electronic Army managed to deface RSA Conference website Winkler said the Syrian Electronic Army then managed to update the DNS information of the website and redirect it to the deface page. last tweet from the Syrian Electronic Army suggest that they may carry on with some more attack in the coming days

The new law comes as part of a major overhaul of data protection laws designed to create a single set of rules for the EU. The EU is on the verge of pushing through new regulations that would raise the age of consent for websites to use personal data from 13 to 16. However, the new law has drawn criticisms from the ICT Coalition for Children, a group that counts Facebook, Google and Twitter among its members, for the amendments being made so late in the process and without any discussions....

On Tuesday, Alvin Hellerstein, U.S. District Judge in Manhattan ordered Time Warner Cable Inc. to make the payment of $229,500 to Araceli King of Irving, Texas, quoting the New York-based company’s “particularly egregious” behavior as it did not comply with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. King said she had constantly asked the company to stop making the calls; however, they did not acknowledge it following which she sued them last year....

The three Disney’s classic 16-bit platformers are Aladdin, The Lion King and The Jungle Book, which have been updated for modern computers and re-released exclusively on GOG.com. “All three titles have been meticulously updated to be compatible with modern operating systems while preserving the original graphics, sound and gameplay,” GOG.com’s press release reads. In order to bring popular Disney characters to life in the gaming world, all the three timeless classics were developed using Digicel technology....

Will Kerslake, a game developer, took to Twitter on Sunday to post a confusing picture of intersecting grey lines over a white background. The image was retweeted over 30,000 times as people tried to understand how it worked. — Will Kerslake (@wkerslake) September 11, 2016 The optical illusion came to prominence in the past few days after it was posted to Facebook this weekend by Japanese psychology professor Akiyoshi Kitaoka....

Due to this fact, tests have shown that OnePlus 3 lags behind Samsung Galaxy S7 in various benchmarks. It has also been noticed that OnePlus 3 requires apps to be reloaded more frequently that phones with less RAM, and this has upset some users. However a XDA Forum member has devised a nifty hack which can make your OnePlus 3 use the 6GB RAM in its entirety. The bad news is that you need to some bit of editing in the smartphone configuration....

As per report in The New Orleans Advocate, Gideon Hodge, 35, a novelist by profession, dashed past firefighters into a burning New Orleans house Thursday to rescue two completed novels stored on his laptop. “Anybody that’s ever created art, there’s no replacing that,” Hodge told The New Orleans Advocate after safely making it out of the burning building with the computer. “It’s got pretty much my life’s work.” The story started at 11....

The character-linked bug, when received as a text message, is crashing almost all devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch) running Apple’s latest publicly available iOS 13.4.1 software update. The bug is apparently exploiting the vulnerability in the message notifications on the phone, which means it doesn’t display a notification about the new message. In some cases, the device crashes, while other times it simply forces the Messages app to crash and re-open....

Its parent company, ByteDance is reportedly testing in-app video games among users under the age of 35 in Vietnam, according to a report from Reuters citing four sources familiar with the matter. By adding games to the platform, TikTok, which has over 1 billion monthly active users, is looking to boost its revenue via in-game ads as well as increase the number of times users engage on the app. The video-sharing service will likely use ByteDance’s library of games for its in-app games, beginning with simpler gaming mechanics and short game times and later expanding to more ambitious titles....

For those who have not used Dos commands, the Windows Command Prompt tool, and many of its commands might seem boring or even relatively useless at first glance, but as anyone who has ever used the Command Prompt very often can tell you, there’s much to love! Here are some Command Prompt tricks and hacks that can make your life easier with PC/laptop : #1 Use Ctrl-C to Abort a Running Command Just like any command can be stopped in its tracks with the abort command: Ctrl-C....