Apple on Monday announced the availability of macOS Monterey or macOS 12.0.1 (build 21A559) as a free software update on Macs with Apple silicon and Intel-based Macs. The latest operating system for Macs brings several new features, including additions to FaceTime, AirPlay to Mac, Live Text and Visual Lookup, Safari updates, Shortcuts app, SharePlay, Universal Control and more. Let’s have a look at what’s new in macOS Monterey: FaceTime To begin with, FaceTime includes new audio and video features that make calls feel more natural and lifelike....

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Friday awarded a $10 billion JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract to Microsoft for cloud computing services after a revaluation. “DoD wishes to reconsider its evaluation of the technical aspects of Price Scenario 6, and intends to issue a solicitation amendment and to accept limited proposal revisions addressing the offerors’ technical approach to that price scenario,” DOD said in its motion. “Proposal revisions on remand will be constrained by the storage solutions and unit prices contained in offerors’ final proposal revisions....

Microsoft on Thursday rolled out an update for the Paint app in Windows 11, which allows you to remove the background of any image automatically with a single click leaving a smooth cut-out of the subject. The feature is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders builds in the Canary and Dev Channels (version 11.2306.30.0) of the Paint app. “Today we are beginning to roll out an update for the Paint app to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels,” Microsoft’s Dave Grochocki announced in the Windows Insider Blog....

The last couple of months has seen a surge in the usage of Microsoft Teams due to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Teams video calls grew by more than 1,000 percent in March, according to Microsoft. Also, during a single week in March, Teams had added 12 million users, which brought the number up to 44 million daily active users. While Microsoft has been introducing a series of new chat and video features to its Teams in recent times, the company earlier this month updated its Teams roadmap to increase the Team meetings limit to 300 to take on competitors such as Zoom and Google Meet....

NHS England London on Friday revealed that more than 800 planned operations and 700 outpatient appointments were forced to be rescheduled following a ransomware cyber attack on London hospitals. The interruption was caused when threat actors targeted Synnovis, a pathology services provider that helps manage blood tests, primarily in South East London. Synnovis, formerly Viapath, is a partnership between Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and SYNLAB UK & Ireland....

A proposed class action lawsuit filed against Jerito Pictures Inc., a background check and fraud prevention company operating under the name National Public Data (NPD), alleges that a massive data breach has exposed the personal data of 2.9 billion people in what has been touted as the biggest data breach in history, as reported by Bloomberg . The complaint was filed by Christopher Hofmann, a California resident and named plaintiff, on August 1, 2024, and submitted to the U....

Cybersecurity experts have warned of a new ATM malware family that has been developed to infect Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in Europe, with the potential to generate significant profits. Dubbed “EU ATM Malware”, this malicious software can compromise 99% of devices in Europe and target approximately 60% of ATMs around the world, including machines manufactured by leading vendors, such as Diebold Nixdorf, Hyosung, Oki, Bank of America, NCR, GRG, and Hitachi, claims the developer of this malware, thereby posing a potential security threat to the global banking industry....

Researchers at the cybersecurity firm Qualys have discovered a critical vulnerability in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) in glibc-based Linux systems. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-6387 and named regreSSHion, is a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd). This race condition allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) with full root privileges, posing a significant security risk. Further, it affects sshd in its default configuration. OpenSSH is a suite of secure networking utilities based on the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol....

Omegle, a free online chat site that randomly pairs strangers for video chats or text messaging, has been taken down to the depth of a lawsuit filed last year against the service for allegedly matching an 11-year-old girl with a sexual predator. The lawsuit alleged that the chat service was defective and falsely represented. However, Omegle moved to the court to dismiss all eight claims, holding that each of the claims in the lawsuit was barred under the immunity provision of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), 47 U....

Suprbay, the official forum for ThePirateBay.org, has become unreachable for the last few days, according to a recent report from TorrentFreak . As per Wikipedia, Suprbay.org was introduced in August as the official forum for the popular and infamous torrent hosting site, ThePirateBay.org, and the various sites connected to it. Users can request reseeding of torrents, or report malware within torrent files or illegal material on ThePirateBay.org. RELATED: The Pirate Bay Proxy List...

AMD is targeting the price-performance market with Polaris 10 & 11 GPUs If you were anticipating that AMD’s upcoming Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 graphics chips would be delivering trail blazing performance, the latest statement will probably break your heart. However, for notebook owners as well as mainstream computer system owners, the story is going to be a little different thanks to the latest interview, where critical information was confirmed by AMD’s Roy Taylor....

It is an all too familiar problem in business. You can remember sending the contract months ago, but you can’t remember the exact agreement or the expiration date of the contract. When you go to search for it, it has seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. You check your sent folder, your entire hard drive, every storage platform your organization uses, and come up with nothing. With Evisort, never feel that panic of losing an important document again....

Crypto exchange Kraken on Wednesday disclosed that nearly $3 million in cryptocurrency was stolen from its wallets due to the exploitation of a zero-day bug-related vulnerability, which has now been fixed. Nick Percoco, Kraken’s Chief Security Officer, took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to disclose that they received a “Bug Bounty Program” alert from a security researcher on June 9, 2024, notifying them about an “extremely critical” vulnerability that allowed anyone to artificially increase the value of their Kraken account balance....

Sony Honda Mobility has plans to integrate more entertainment in the form of PlayStation 5 (PS5) in future electric cars in order to take on the likes of Tesla. For those unaware, Sony Honda Mobility is a joint venture between Sony and Honda in the electric vehicle market, which was established in September. Speaking to the Financial Times , Izumi Kawanishi, President and COO of Sony Honda Mobility, said that they are planning to develop an electric car around music, movies, and the PlayStation 5....

Vumoo.to has stopped working, and the BAD news is that IT IS NOT COMING BACK. The anti-piracy group ACE, backed by film studios and gaming companies, has managed to shut down Vumoo.to. Last month, they visited Vietnam, the headquarters of Vumoo and other piracy sites, including Fmovies, AniWave, Aniwatch , 123movies, BestBuy IPTV, 2embed, and Y2mate. Vumoo.to shut down ACE is Coming for All Vumoo.to shut down While others are still active, ACE has managed to shut down Vumoo....

The EZTV site is suffering from “unknown” technical problems. The site has been up and down intermittently. Currently there is no ETA for when the site will consistently return, however, EZTV’s torrents are still spreading through other sites. The popular TV-torrent site EZTV since 2005, has been serving torrents for nearly a decade. EZTV has maintained a steady user-base over the decade of existence and with millions of users it’s one of the most used TV-torrent site on the Internet....

TikTok, the popular short-form video-sharing platform, is testing a new video story feature that will see videos disappearing after 24 hours. Called “TikTok Stories,” the new feature will allow users to post short videos that automatically vanish after 24-hours. It works similarly to stories functions on other social media apps like Instagram and Snapchat. However, unlike other social media platforms, TikTok Stories currently only allows users to share videos and not images....

Image-to-text technologies, specifically optical character recognition (OCR), are transforming how businesses work with visual content and print materials. OCR enables the conversion of images (containing words) into searchable digital text, unlocking new levels of automation, integration, and insight. As OCR continues to improve in accuracy and expand in capabilities, it empowers organizations across industries to enhance productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and gain a “second screen” on their visual data. OCR is streamlining workflows, reducing costs, and transforming how companies leverage and analyze visual information....

C Programming Cheat Sheet What is C Program? C is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations. By design, C provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it has found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, including operating systems, as well as various application software for computers ranging from supercomputers to embedded systems....

The US Navy’s warfare systems paid Microsoft millions of dollars to continue with Microsoft Windows XP The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command signed a contract of US$9.1 million to access security patches for Windows XP, Office 2003, Exchange 2003 and Windows Server 2003. The US Navy’s warfare systems paid Microsoft millions of dollars to continue with Microsoft Windows XP The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command signed a contract of US$9....