The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surged more than 5% on Monday to cross the $41,000 mark for the first time in 19 months. This is the cryptocurrency’s highest price since April 2022, before the downfall of crypto stablecoin TerraUSD, which hastened a $2 trillion landslide in digital assets. Bitcoin price, which has soared up to 150% since the beginning of the year, has outperformed stocks and gold as a top-performing investment....

A newly identified phishing technique known as “CoPhish” exploits Microsoft Copilot Studio agents to deliver deceptive OAuth consent prompts through legitimate Microsoft domains. Researchers at Datadog Security Labs discovered the method, warning that Copilot Studio’s high level of customization can unintentionally create new phishing vectors. While the attack depends primarily on social engineering , Microsoft confirmed that it is working on a fix. A company spokesperson stated that Microsoft is “taking action to address it through future product updates” and remains focused on strengthening consent governance and implementing extra safeguards to prevent misuse....

Introduction When Bitcoin debuted in 2009 after the global financial meltdown; many people made bold predictions about it being the future of money. The underlying Blockchain technology that powered Bitcoin started getting attention after Ethereum debuted in 2013. It wasn’t long before tech enthusiasts were forecasting a decentralized world powered by DApps – until the crypto bull run ended in 2017 . The mass market adoption of decentralized applications has been frustrated by several technical challenges ....

Exclusive titles like Super Smash Bros Ultimate, make Nintendo a relevant gaming ecosystem to invest in. Although PC gamers have access to some of the greatest fighting games ever made like Mortal Kombat X , Tekken 7 , Injustice 2 , there’s nothing that comes close to adventurous fighting titles available on Nintendo . Due to the courtesy of Yuzu emulator , Super Smash Bros Ultimate is now playable on PC....

Fappening redux: Private pictures and videos of Emma Watson and other celebrities leak online In what seems to a repeat of the famous Fappening or Celebgate of 2014 , unknown hackers leaked nude images and videos of Harry Potter star, Emma Watson and other celebrities like Mischa Barton, Amanda Seyfried. The private and explicit photos and videos were apparently stolen from Emma Watson, Amanda Seyfried, and other female celebrities iCloud accounts or private albums....

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic technology that’s tipped for big things. Its proponents believe FHE to be genuinely groundbreaking due to its unique ability to permit encrypted data processing without decrypting its contents. In cryptographic circles, this is the equivalent of having your cake and eating it: the best of both worlds, combining data privacy with secure processing and storage. Given the value of such a technology, which has been likened to “having a magical glove that allows you to add or remove items from a treasure chest without ever unlocking it,” it’s no surprise that its real-world applications are diverse....

GitHub , the Microsoft-owned service, on Tuesday announced that all of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone, and an unlimited number of collaborators can access private repositories. “We’re happy to announce we’re making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub accounts. All of the core GitHub features are now free for everyone,” GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote in a blog post . Today we’re announcing free private repositories with unlimited collaborators for teams with GitHub Free, and reducing the price of our paid Team plan to $4 per user/month....

Global Average Connection Speed Increased To 7 Mbps In Q4 2016 Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network services (CDN) provider, on March 8, 2017 released its Q4 “2016 State of the Internet Report” that provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, broadband adoption metrics, IPv4 exhaustion, IPv6 implementation, notable Internet disruptions, among others. According to the report, global average internet connection speed has increased 12 percent to 7....

Google’s driverless car did what humans do, crashed into a bus Google’s smart car is doing all things that humans do. In November, 2015, Google’s smart car was pulled by a cop for traffic violation and now it has crashed into a bus. Though Google’s smart car has been involved in a crash earlier, but it may be the first time it has caused one. A Google driverless car has been involved in an accident with a bus and Google has said it “bears some responsibility” for the first time....

Google’s intention to capitalize on the AI wave resulted in Bard, later rebranded as Gemini. The company announced improvements to the Gemini AI Pro model, released in February 2024. In addition, Google announced the Gemini 1.5 Flash model, a lightweight LLM compared to the Gemini 1.5 Pro. Two Gemma models, PaliGemma and Gemma 2, also debuted alongside the new Gemini models. What’s Improved in Gemini 1.5 Pro? What’s Gemini 1.5 Flash?...

During the Games Awards on Thursday, Google announced that it is planning to bring a Google Play Games app in 2022, which will allow Android games from Google Play to run on Windows PCs, laptops, and tablets. For those unaware, one of the interesting features introduced in Microsoft’s Windows 11 is its ability to support Android apps, which means it can run Android apps and games. “Google Play has helped billions of people find and play their favorite games across multiple platforms, including on mobile, tablets and ChromeOS....

Google rubbished all recently floated rumors that claimed its cloud gaming platform , Stadia is shutting down later this year. The search giant has officially clarified that Stadia “is not shutting down” and it is still “working on bringing more great games to the platform”. “Stadia is not shutting down. Rest assured we’re always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro. Let us know if you have other questions,” the official Stadia Twitter account responded when asked if the closure was imminent....

Google on Thursday announced a new feature for its search engine that will now proactively warn you when it thinks there aren’t any good results for your search query. The search giant has started rolling out this feature for the people in the U.S. “We’ve probably all gone through this before: you do a search for something, and the results just don’t seem to be related to what you were looking for,” Elizabeth Tucker, Google Product Manager wrote in a blog post ....

Tech giant Google has published a new report on cybersecurity warning how compromised Google Cloud instances are being used by cryptocurrency miners for cryptocurrency mining. The report titled “ Threat Horizons ” is based on threat intelligence observations from the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Google Cloud Threat Intelligence for Chronicle, Trust and Safety, and other internal teams. According to the report, of the 50 hacked Google Cloud Platforms or GCPs, 86% of the compromised Google Cloud instances were used to perform cryptocurrency mining, a cloud resource-intensive for-profit activity, while the remainder of the hacking activities included phishing scams and ransomware....

Cybersecurity researchers at Elastic Security Labs have uncovered design flaws in Windows Smart App Control (SAC) and SmartScreen that enable threat actors to gain initial access without security warnings or popups. For those unaware, Microsoft (Defender) SmartScreen has been a built-in OS feature since its introduction in Windows 8. It protects against phishing or malware websites and applications and the downloading of potentially malicious files. It runs on files that have the “Mark of the Web” (MotW) and are clicked on by users....

This 3 Neflix Hack Day even hacks should be implemented right now On a blog post published on Netflix , the team has decided to show-off some really cool hacks that would definitely bring an upgrade to your viewing experience. The blog post states the following: “Keeping with our roughly six-month cadence, Netflix recently hosted another fantastic Hack Day event. As was the case with our past installments, Hack Day is a way for our product development staff to take a break from everyday work to have fun, experiment with new technologies, collaborate with new people, and to generally be creative....

Google Chrome accounts for over 64% of Internet usage across the world, according to a report by Statcounter. The web browser has been blamed for high CPU usage and RAM usage, which leads to slowing down Windows PCs for quite some time now. Opening over half a dozen tabs in Chrome often results in a tiny amount of free RAM left for other programs. On top of that, the Software Reporter tool of Chrome increases CPU usage as it runs in the background....

Apple announced the new iteration of its mobile software iOS 16 at WWDC earlier this year. The iOS 16 brings many excellent features, such as a new lock screen, haptic keyboard, the ability to lock notes, photos with Face ID, and more. The latest iPhone 14 pro and 14 pro max also got the latest always-on display feature. As soon as iOS 16 became available, iPhone users started upgrading their devices....

YouTube allows you to stream high-quality videos, but some users experience lags while watching a video . Other websites load fine, while YouTube’s home page is lagging , and videos take a long time to buffer on Chrome . Users cannot watch YouTube without lag despite having a high-speed internet connection and notice that videos are freezing . Why are YouTube Videos Loading Slowly? How to Fix YouTube Lagging While Playing Videos 1....

Here is how run two WhatsApp accounts on an Android smartphone (rooted as well as unrooted) For Rooted Android Device For Non Rooted Android Device Here is how run two WhatsApp accounts on an Android smartphone (rooted as well as unrooted) WhatsApp is the most popular messaging service right now. It has almost 700 million users worldwide. And almost every user group uses WhatsApp these days. The messaging service has seen an exponential growth after being taken over by Facebook Inc....