After two long years of 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard, we could soon be having the new 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard This article is for nerds and tech geeks. For others who use Wi-Fi, I am pretty sure they don’t even know what a Wi-Fi standard is and what standard their current Wi-Fi router or smartphone uses. For those who want to learn about Wi-Fi standards, currently most devices we use including our routers, smartphones, laptops, PCs etc support the 802....

GitHub has rolled out fixes to address an authentication bypass vulnerability that affects the GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) when utilizing SAML single sign-on (SSO) authentication with the optional encrypted assertions feature. For those unaware, GHES is a self-hosted platform for software development for organizations to build and ship software using Git version control, powerful APIs, productivity and collaboration tools, and integrations. The authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-4985 (CVSS v4 score: 10....

Pôle emploi, French governmental agency that registers unemployed people, helps them find jobs, and provides them with financial aid on Wednesday informed that it is a victim of a cyberattack after one of its service providers was targeted, involving a risk of disclosure of personal data belonging to 10 million job seekers. The incident came to light at the end of last week. Investigations are underway at the service provider to find out the reason behind the attack....

After releasing quite a few impressive lineups of drones, DJI is working on the next project dubbed DJI Mini 3 Pro. Tipster Jasper Ellens posted a tonne of pictures and videos of the upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro giving a lot of information about the drone. It is likely to offer substantial upgrades over the non-Pro variant including a larger battery, and an obstacle avoidance sensor among others. Upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro photos and specs leaked Improved DJI Mini 3 Pro Battery Pack Upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro photos and specs leaked According to a self-proclaimed DJI investigator, the upcoming DJI Mini 3 Pro offers two large sensors at the front that will enable it to avoid obstacles....

Roberto De Jesus Escobar Gaviria, brother of the late Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, has announced a foldable smartphone, the Escobar Fold 1 for $349. Conceptualized in the USA, the Escobar Fold 1 smartphone is being manufactured in Hong Kong. “I have made one of the first foldable smartphones in the world. Thanks to effective production and no special deals with retailers, we have been able to keep costs low as compared to other manufacturers....

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Wednesday, announced that he has formed a new artificial intelligence (AI) company called “xAI” whose goal is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” The start-up, xAI, comprises a team of 12 people, including Musk. The xAI team has employees who have previously worked for other AI companies such as DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Research, Microsoft Research, Tesla, and the University of Toronto....

A Facebook software engineer resigned on Tuesday citing that he could no longer work to contribute to an organization that is “profiting off hate”. Ashok Chandwaney, 28, who is non-binary and uses they, them, and theirs as pronouns, publicly criticized Facebook’s approach of dealing with misinformation and for not doing enough to combat hate speech. “After nearly 5 1/2 years, today is my last day at Facebook. I’m quitting because I can no longer stomach contributing to an organization that is profiting off hate in the US and globally,” Chandwaney wrote in a post shared publicly on Facebook and internally with co-workers....

The app has been released two months prior to its scheduled unveiling (i.e. June) due to a rise in the number of users gaming and streaming at home due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Facebook said it has accelerated the launch “to encourage meaningful community interactions” and benefit people locked down at home. “The Facebook Gaming app is a focused, gaming-only experience where you can watch your favorite streamers, play instant games and take part in gaming groups,” Facebook said in a statement on Twitter....

On the other hand, Indian company Bharat Petroleum voted world’s least empathetic company In a study published by Harvard Business Review (HBR), Facebook has been ranked the most empathetic company in the world. The recently released Global Empathy Index has published two different lists of companies: 20 companies on a “most empathetic” list and 20 on a “least empathetic” one. The list has been made by comparing 170 companies, based on an analysis of the internal culture, CEO performances, ethics, and social media presence on major financial indexes....

Police raids Share-online.biz, takes it offline Share-Online.biz, the largest file hosting site operated in Germany, has shut down following raids as part of a copyright-violation investigation, reported TorrentFreak . The investigation was jointly carried out by the prosecutor’s office in Cologne and the police in the city of Aachen. For those unaware, Share-Online.biz was a popular file hosting platform with an average of 10 million monthly users that had hosted millions of files on several hundred servers....

It is no secret that Google pays Apple millions of dollars to remain the default search engine across its ecosystem, which includes numerous Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Macs. As per an investor note from Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi spotted by Ped30, Google is reportedly going to pay Apple as much as $15 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2021 to remain Safari’s default search on iOS and macOS devices....

It seems like Google ‘s effort to counter malware -infected apps is falling short as the Play Store gets too many such apps to tackle. Researchers have found six more apps on the Google Play Store that reportedly steam login credentials and have been successfully removed from the platform. The irony here is that these apps are ‘anti-virus’ programs. Six anti-virus programs were removed from the Play Store The modus operandi of Sharkbot Six anti-virus programs were removed from the Play Store According to the researchers at CheckPoint, researchers have found 6 apps on the Google Play Store were downloaded over 15,000 times before the search engine giant removed them....

iPhone ages with time but since they have better hardware and software than Android they tend to last longer. This is why several people are still using 5-8 years old iPhones like iPhone SE, iPhone 6, iPhone 7, iPhone 8, or iPhone X. Are you an iPhone user? Wondering How Old Your iPhone Is? Or maybe you just purchased an old iPhone and want to know The Age Of Your iPhone?...

How to connect, delete and manage WiFi networks using command prompt (cmd) in your Windows PC/laptop using netsh wlan commands Nowadays internet connectivity is everything. For the Internet, we have Wi-Fi connections that we manage and use through the network settings on Windows 7/8.1/10 computers. You can also connect, manage, and delete your WiFi networks using the command prompt. In fact, the command prompt offers many more features than the standard network connection settings in Windows 10....

How to use Google like a pro using Google Dorking In the last article, we had reported how Iranian hackers were able to glean information from Google about the dams in US cities in order to infiltrate and flood the cities. The hackers used a method known as Google Dorking which has been used ever since Google was launched. It is well known that the Internet is a reservoir of vast information but it is out there in split format....

Huawei has been on the backfoot, ever since the USA’s FCC flagged Chinese telecom giants such as Huawei and ZTE as a National Security Threats. Consequently, Huawei was banned from using Google’s services, including Android on their smartphone. The move left the leading smartphone makers in high and dry. Huawei is making a Comeback What is HarmonyOS? Huawei is making a Comeback The ban on using Google services was a significant setback for the major smartphone manufacturers which prompted Huawei to push their products with massive discounts, especially on their flagship products....

“No Mario’s Sky” taken down by Nintendo, its dev team comes out with ‘DMCA’s Sky’ Nintendo is a known bully when it comes to fan-made games which mention its characters or copy its plot. It has in the past initiated legal action against such fans who use Nintendo copyrighted material in their indie games. However, one such developer team has decided to hit back at Nintendo. The developers behind a game called No Mario’s Sky based on Nintendo character have decided to rename their game as DMCA’s Sky after being threatened with legal action by Nintendo....

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has proposed that the Indian government should ban Virtual Private Network (VPN) services in the country citing fears of cyber-attacks and other illegal activities. For those unaware, a VPN is an internet tool that is highly encrypted and enhances protection as well as improves privacy while the user is browsing the internet. In addition to improved privacy, a VPN might also help users in accessing websites and services that are blocked in their region....

Intel’s first generation of discrete graphics cards dubbed as ARC Alchemist (formerly known as DG2) was originally planned for release in January 2022. However, a new report from IT Home (Chinese) citing anonymous sources, claims that the company is now looking to launch the DG2 desktop graphic cards in March 2022. According to the report , the ARC Alchemist DG2 GPUs based on the Xe HPG microarchitecture have already been shipped to major AIB partners for debugging....

In 2020, Samsung introduced a “Space Zoom” feature with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, which allows its cameras to offer a total zoom of 100x. With this feature, the company claimed that you can take extraordinary and precise photos from far away, for instance, even the moon. Back in 2021, the South Korean giant was accused of false advertising and misleading customers by using image overlay or texture effects on higher-resolution images of moon shots with the Space Zoom feature....