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The company has also increased the frequency of cleaning and sanitizing at all sites, including all door handles, stairway handrails, elevator buttons, and touch screens, among others. It’s staggered start and break times and suspended exit screenings to aid social distancing. He also went on to add that the company is implementing “a series of preventative health measures for employees and contractors at our sites around the world – everything from increasing the frequency and intensity of cleaning to adjusting our practices in fulfillment centers to ensure the recommended social distancing guidelines....

AMD recently patched more than a dozen of high-risk vulnerabilities discovered in its Graphics Driver for Windows 10 , which could have allowed hackers to perform privilege escalation attacks or execute arbitrary code on the victim’s machine. “After a comprehensive analysis of AMD Escape commands, we found a set of weaknesses in several APIs. These weaknesses make the system vulnerable to privilege escalation, denial-of-service attacks and denial-of-service attacks. services, disclosing information, bypassing KASLR, or writing arbitrary code to memory,” AMD stated in the security advisory published this week....

Apple recently warned its MacBook owners to avoid closing their laptops when a camera cover is on, as it could damage the computer’s screen. In a new support document published earlier this month and spotted by MacRumors , Apple says that “the clearance between the display and keyboard is designed to very tight tolerances.” Therefore, using a camera cover on MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro can cause a crack on the display screen....

The Windows Search Bar stands out as a handy feature within the Windows operating system, given its ability to provide quick access to a wide range of functions on your computer or laptop. Thus, a significant number of individuals have grown accustomed to relying on it as the primary method for accessing various computer functions. Unfortunately, the Windows Search Bar, like any other function on our PC, can become unresponsive or stop working for various reasons, which can be extremely annoying....

Convert, edit, improve even your home videos to professional ones with Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate 10.0.0 for your Windows 7/8.1/10 or Apple’s Mac PCs The smartphone boom in the world has led to one unexpected gain. Almost every smartphone user out there has become a photographer and a video shooter. While it has become very easy to just point and shoot videos with a smartphone with all the image stabilization technologies that smartphone manufacturers have come up with, it is not easy to make a professional video out of the various shoots you manage on your smartphone....

Cydia on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Apple accusing it of anti-competitive iOS app distribution practices. For those unaware, Cydia is the first unofficial app store for jailbroken iOS devices and was created by Jay Freeman, better known as Saurik. It was launched as the first iPhone app store in 2007 before Apple launched its own App Store in 2008. Cydia enables a user to find and install software not authorized by Apple on jailbroken iPhones, iPads and iPod touch devices....

More than 64 million McDonald’s job applicants across the United States may have had their personal information exposed after cybersecurity researchers discovered serious security vulnerabilities in McHire, the fast-food giant’s AI-powered hiring platform. Weak Credentials Unlock Admin Access Security researchers Ian Carroll and Sam Curry uncovered that McHire’s admin panel, used by restaurant owners to manage applications, accepted weak default login credentials of a login name “123456” and a password of “123456”....

DuckDuckGo had rolled out its Email Protection service in private beta last year with a waiting list for those wanting to use it. The popular privacy-focused web browser on Thursday announced that it has removed the waitlist for its Email Protection beta, making it open for everyone who wants to try. For the unversed, DuckDuckGo’s Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that allows you to create a free, personal @duck....

Linux distro : elementary OS Freya 0.3.2 is now available for download Linux is one of the best operating systems around and there are many distro’s which are popular among developers but what about the normal people like you and me. Well, there is a Linux distro just made for home users and desktop environment. Called elementary OS Freya, the version 0.3.0 of this Linux distro is now available for download....

A Person Committed Apparent Suicide And He Was Pronounced Dead At The Scene Unfortunately, a Facebook employee died due to an apparent suicide. This person jumped off the fourth floor of a building at the social network’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters on Thursday. Soon after the accident, Menlo Park Police received a call at 11:30 a.m. PT about a man who had jumped off a building on the 100 block of Jefferson Drive....

A new bug on Facebook for iOS allows the app to secretly record through iPhone camera in the background, as users scroll through their personal feed, reports The Next Web . Found a @facebook #security & #privacy issue. When the app is open it actively uses the camera. I found a bug in the app that lets you see the camera open behind your feed. Note that I had the camera pointed at the carpet....

Is your computer lagging because the Shell infrastructure host is causing high CPU and memory usage? Then, you are not alone. The issue has become a common thing for Windows 10 and 11 users. The Shell Infrastructure Host normally manages the graphics interface, notifications, and taskbar. However, it becomes a problem when it consumes a lot of CPU and memory for no apparent reason. You cannot use other apps because they don’t function properly, owing to less RAM and processor power....

New low-cost Chromebook line ups and Chromebit dongle for $100 has been announced by Google today. Chromebook runs on Google’s web-based Chrome OS and it is designed to be used with an Internet connection. Google by default provides 100 GB of cloud storage for every Chromebook because documents and apps are automatically saved in the cloud. All these products are in the low-cost range. Here is a brief introduction to all these new members of Chrome OS:...

Google in a blog post on Friday confirmed that it is acquiring Fitbit Inc., a leading wearables brand in the world. “Today, we’re announcing that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Fitbit, a leading wearables brand,” Rick Osterloh Senior Vice President, can accommodateDevices & Services said in the blog post. “Fitbit has been a true pioneer in the industry and has created terrific products, experiences and a vibrant community of users....

In December 2016, Google had launched a personal safety app called “Trusted Contacts” that allowed users to share their location with friends and family, even if their phone is offline or the battery is dead. Almost four years later, the search giant has decided to pull the plug on the Trusted Contacts app. Ever since the launch of Trusted Contacts app, functionality found in this app have been built directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing making it even easier for users to share their live location with trusted family and friends....

Unlimited possibilities : Hack that lets users run Linux kernel on Canon EOS DSLR 60D, 600D, 7D, 5D2 and 5D3 models Taking beautiful snaps is the only function of Canon EOS cameras but what if you can hack it to run Linux kernel on it. Magic Lantern has done just that. They have hacked Canon EOS DSLR and run the Linux kernel on it. This was possible because the Canon EOS camera models have a processor (ARM 946E-S) and RAM (256MB/512MB depending on the model....

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 gameplay videos and source code were leaked on public forums early Sunday morning, which included GTA assets such as pre-alpha footage and multiple screenshots. The hacker ‘teapotuberhacker’ who claims to be responsible for the leak on the GTAForums is said to have stolen “GTA 5 and 6 source code and assets, GTA 6 testing build.” The hacker also shared a link to a RAR archive containing 90 stolen videos downloaded directly from Rockstar’s internal Slack groups....

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), a Google security team specialized in hunting advanced persistent threat (APT) groups, on Wednesday shared that a North Korean government-backed campaign is targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware via social media. For those unaware, in January 2021, TAG had disclosed a hacking campaign, targeting security researchers working on vulnerability research and development across different organizations. On March 17th, the same actors behind those attacks set up a new website for a fake company called “SecuriElite” as well as associated Twitter and LinkedIn accounts....

Hong Kong man builds a ‘Scarlett Johansson’ robot from scratch to ‘fulfil a childhood dream’ A graphic designer based in Hong Kong has created a life-like replica of a famous Hollywood actress that winks and giggles when he tells her she’s cute. Ricky Ma, 42, has spent more than $50,000 (£34,000) and a year and a half creating his female robot prototype, Mark 1. He admits it is modelled after a Hollywood star, but says he does not want to name her....

Google removes popular TV torrent website EZTV from search engines after hostile takeover The EZTV is still attracting millions of visitors per week in spite of being run by the ‘scammers’. However, the search engine, Google has totally removed the domain from its top search results, indicating at the unfriendly takeover instead. The group behind the popular TV-torrent distribution group EZTV finally called it quits last month, after months of trouble with an unfriendly takeover....