According to the reports, the City of London Police has rounded up seven teenagers who are suspected to have ties with the infamous hacking group Lapsus$. Of the lot, there’s a 16-year-old teenager from Oxford, UK, who is alleged to be the leader of the teenage hacking group, who has been arrested as well. Lapsus$ leader rounded up by the City of London Police Lapsus$ in the news recently Lapsus$ leader rounded up by the City of London Police According to a report by BBC News, the 16-year-old whiffed over $14 million....

Tesla Model 3 catches fire after hitting a tow truck in Moscow, reportedly on Autopilot A Tesla Model 3 electric car, allegedly on Autopilot, crashed into the back of a tow truck parked on a Moscow motorway in Russia late on Saturday night, resulting in the vehicle catching fire and then exploding twice. Videos of the Tesla Model 3 bursting into flames and later exploding were captured by incoming drivers who shared it on the social media....

The U.S. Senate last week failed to pass a bipartisan amendment that stops law enforcement agencies from accessing Americans’ web-browsing and search histories without a warrant. The amendment to the “USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020” ( H.R.6172 ) presented by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, now gives the FBI and Department of Justice (DoJ) additional expansive surveillance powers to access Americans’ internet browsing and search histories without a warrant....

The Witcher is one of the most popular fantasy TV series on Netflix. Since the release of Season 1 in Q4 of 2019, fans of the series have been looking forward to the Season 2 of The Witcher . Luckily, the wait has come to an end and the official premiere of The Witcher Season 2 is scheduled for this Friday. That said, the entire series coupled with English subtitles is already available on several Torrent Sites ....

An embedded system engineer in the United States has created his own business card that can run Linux. For those unaware, a business card typically bearing business information such as name, e-mail address, phone number, and website about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience for retrieving contact information. Check Out- The Actual Business Cards Of Famous People George Hilliard, the creator of the Linux-run business card, said that the idea for the business card came to him when he thought, “These processors are nearly cheap enough to give away....

Zoom, the video conferencing app , has seen a sudden surge in popularity, as people are forced to work and study from home amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. However, with the increase in usage, the Zoom app has also seen an increase in security and privacy compromises . In yet another privacy blow, there are thousands of recorded Zoom video calls that are publicly viewable on the open web, according to a report from the Washington Post ....

Due to the recent news about the data privacy breach of users in the US, TikTok is once again in a bad light. TikTok is an insanely popular social media platform with millions of active users. As a matter of fact, around 19 million users had downloaded Tiktok in the US in just the first quarter of 2022. Brendan Carr, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner has now written to Apple and Google, asking them to completely ban Tiktok from their respective app stores....

U.S. Navy sued for software piracy; software vendor asks court for partial summary judgment Bitmanagement, a German software company, has asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for a partial summary judgment against the U.S. Government for installing its software on hundreds of thousands of computers without permission leading to copyright infringement on a “massive scale”, reports TorrentFreak. Apparently, in 2011 and 2012, Bitmanagement had agreed to license its 3D virtual reality software called BS Contact Geo on a limited and experimental basis....

This infographic shows the reach of Ubuntu from International Space Station to your laptop Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system and distribution for personal computers, smartphones and network servers. It uses Unity as its default user interface. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, “human-ness”), which often is translated as “humanity towards others” or “the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity”....

After months of efforts by ACE , the French file-sharing service Uptobox has shut down . The police raided their data centers hosted in east Paris and have taken possession of the hardware. This raid was aimed at shutting down Uptobox and Uptostream, in an entertainment industrial’s coalition effort to clamp down on privacy. There have been active efforts since May of this year to block the movies sharing website....

Vivo, the popular Chinese tech company, unveiled a new concept smartphone , IFEA (Interest Free Explore Amazing) with a detachable front camera that aims to offer a new photography system. The Vivo IFEA has also won the esteemed 2020 Red Dot Design Concept Award for its modular selfie camera design. The highlight of the concept smartphone is the front-facing camera that can be detached from the body of the device and be controlled with the main smartphone or voice commands....

Indian telecom service provider Vodafone Idea (Vi) on Monday launched a new gaming platform called “Vi Games” in the Vi App in collaboration with Nazara Technologies, an Indian gaming and sports media company. The new Vi Games app will be offering Vodafone Idea users access to over 1200+ Android and HTML 5 based mobile games as part of their new subscription plans. The games will spread across 10 popular genres such as Action, Adventure, Arcade, Casual, Education, Fun, Puzzle, Racing, Sports, And Strategy....

What is NFC? How does NFC work? What is NFC for? Does my smartphone have NFC? Uses of NFC, Near Field Communication explained How do I know if my Android smartphone has NFC? How does NFC work on Android? Connecting with NFC tags View Public Transit Card Details Send Files, Photos, & More with Android Beam Ditch Your Wallet with Android Pay Share Wi-Fi Passwords with Friends Tap Your Wallet To Check Your Bank Account Balance Make Your Remote Tell You What’s On TV Wake Your PC Remotely Force Yourself to Get Out of Bed What is NFC?...

Last year, WhatsApp introduced the ability to transfer chats from iPhone to Android devices. Now, the popular messaging platform has launched the same functionality for all Android devices as a stable version. In other words, users can now freely migrate their chat history from Android to iOS devices. “A new way to keep the chats that mean the most. Today, you’ll have the ability to transfer your entire chat history from Android to iOS and vice versa....

Emma Best, the co-founder of the Wikileaks-style Distributed Denial of Secrets (or DDoSecrets), has confirmed today that its primary public download server has been seized by the German authorities. In a series of tweets, Emma has confirmed the confiscation of its DDoSecrets server: We have received official confirmation that #DDoSecrets’ primary public download server was seized by German authorities (Department of Public Prosecution Zwickau file number AZ 210 AR 396/20) We are working to obtain additional information, but presume it is re #BlueLeaks....

Microsoft on Tuesday released the next version of Windows 11 called “22H2,” also known as the Windows 11 2022 Update, to the general availability channel with several game related improvements. However, this version is causing significant game performance degradation on computers with NVIDIA graphics cards. According to the posts posted on Reddit, but also on other social networks, including Microsoft’s support page, some users are complaining about issues such as picture freezing in gaming apps, audio failures, and picture distortions due to significant drops in CPU usage after installing the Windows 11 2022 Update....

Microsoft had recently released the Windows KB5012170 ‘Security update for Secure Boot DBX’ to address vulnerabilities found in various UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootloaders. Secure Boot is a security feature that protects the boot process of the system. However, bootloaders have vulnerabilities that could be exploited by threat actors to bypass Secure Boot protection and execute infected code when the operating system starts. To fix these vulnerabilities, Microsoft added the signatures of the known vulnerable UEFI modules to UEFI Revocation List , also known as the Secure Boot Forbidden Signature Database (DBX), thus avoiding them from being used with Secure Boot....

YouTube, the Google-owned video-streaming giant, has added a new indicator that will make it easier for users to identify when a channel is live streaming on the YouTube mobile app while they browse their video feed. The new feature called “Live Rings” will display a luminous red ring with the word “Live” around a channel’s profile picture when live streaming on the platform. Clicking on the channel avatar will directly take users to the live broadcast....

In an effort to protect creators from online harassment and reduce dislike attacks, YouTube will be removing the dislike count on videos from the video-sharing platform. In other words, the company will be making the public dislike count private across YouTube. While the dislike button will still be there, the dislike count on all videos will be hidden from public view except the content creator. This move by YouTube comes amidst ongoing concern about how social media and video platforms – such as YouTube – are being used to unfairly target and attack creators (especially those with smaller channels) with dislike counts....

Z-Library, the world’s largest pirated e-book library, has recently released a dedicated Tor-enabled desktop launcher for Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms, according to a new report from TorrentFreak . Previously, the Z-Library users accessed the site through a dedicated URL, which required the users to enter their regular login credentials. Once logged in, they were sent to a ‘personal’ domain that provided access to the library. However, the new Z-Library launcher software will automatically send users to the library directly without being redirected to the personal domain....