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The election campaign website, run by Likud, a political party led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, inadvertently disclosed personal information including full names, addresses and identity card numbers about all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet raising concerns about identity theft and electoral manipulation, just three weeks before country legislative elections. In […]
As Apple promised in August this year, the company finally launched a bug bounty program for all security researchers, offering cash prizes to anyone who reported vulnerabilities in iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, and iCloud to society. Since its launch three years ago, Apple’s bug bounty program was open only to invited security researchers and […]
The new ‘Data Protection Bill’ formulated by Narendra Modi’s led BJP government seeks to snatch away privacy, anonymity, and discretion from Indian citizens and companies operating in India. Mozilla, an active advocate of privacy protection, strongly criticized the new reforms made in the Data Protection Law, introduced in the Indian Parliament, earlier today. The reforms […]
Winter is here and the inevitable “Tesla Model 3 vs Heavy Fog” is here. This time popular Tesla YouTuber ‘DirtyTesla’ tested a Model 3 in dense fog with zero visibility conditions to prove whether it is safe to use Autopilot or not. He did his testing on different types of roads including the residential street, […]
Apple usually doesn’t allow emulator apps in the App Store citing its strong review policies. However, Louis Anslow, an app creator, has managed to create an app that emulates the interface of iPod classic on your iPhone. Rewound is a free iOS app that turns your iPhone into an iPod Classic cleverly. The app creator […]
When talking about the Apple ecosystem, one of the things that I like is that you can receive phone calls on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Sadly, Android users haven’t been able to have that level of comfort until now. Microsoft has added the much-awaited phone call feature to its Your Phone app for Windows […]
Many graduates from engineering universities dream of working at major tech giants, such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. While these tech giants do shell out huge salaries, a popular notion is that companies like Google and Facebook are also the best places to work due to numerous employee benefits, office amenities, and a great work […]
Another unfortunate incident in India involving the popular battle royal game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) has occurred. A 20-year-old boy died after consuming chemical instead of water while playing PUBG on his mobile phone. The police report says that the boy identified as Saurabh Yadav, a parking lot attendant by profession, was traveling to Agra via […]
Scientists from European Universities have disclosed a vulnerability in Intel processors that could allow hackers to steal crypto keys by modifying CPU voltage. The attack dubbed Plundervolt can raid Intel’s Software Guard Extension (SGX), which is a secure CPU environment that encrypts certain parts of memory, and only specific programs are allowed to access it. […]
A Xiaomi Electric Bike is available for consumers to buy at $430 or Rs. 30,700. The brand new electric bike or e-Bike from Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone brand, has been launched in China. Those familiar with Xiaomi know the brand’s involvement in almost every facet of consumer products in addition to mobile phones. Xiaomi makes […]
A Tesla Cybertruck Rival will be emerging next year from a small village in Ohio, United States. The village of Lordstown has been a popular hub for manufacturing cars from General Motors. The Lordstown village was in the news last year when GM decided to close down its plant in the region, thus eliminating thousands […]
Despite being the most popular browser on the planet, if there is one thing that Google hasn’t been able to fix, it’s the Google Chrome high CPU usage, which devours even the mightest PCs. While Chrome’s technique of considering each tab as a separate process is primarily to blame, the number of opened tabs also […]
A research team from SophosLabs and Sophos managed Threat Response(SMTR) has come across a new ransomware dubbed Snatch that reboots Windows PCs into safe mode before initiating encryption. According to researchers, this is a never-before-seen behavior and the possible reason why Snatch reboots PCs mid-attack is to evade antivirus apps installed in infected computers. The […]
For several years, developers have been working on WireGuard VPN for Linux and now it is finally ready to arrive on the platform. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux himself praised the new in-kernel Linux VPN, calling it a “work of art” in comparison to other VPNs such as OpenVPN and IPSec (referring to them […]
What do Tesla Cybertruck and The Tesla Model X have in common? The Tesla Model X electric car has similar battery efficiency when compared to Tesla Cybertruck. If you’re wondering how an SUV and a super heavy Tesla Cybertruck can have similar battery consumption rates, well it’s because Elon Musk himself revealed this during the […]
French scientists have set a world record by cracking the most complex cryptography algorithm to date. The encryption key, in this case, was 240 characters long making it 8 characters longer than the previous record. RSA-240, the encryption key cracked to achieve this feat is 795 bits in size and has 240 decimal digits. To […]
Humans are mostly the size of dust when compared to the size of stars, solar systems, galaxies, etc. If that didn’t induce a feeling of existential dread at this very moment, then this will surely do the trick. Astronomers have recorded a massive black hole that is roughly two-thirds of the mass of all the […]
After all the ups and downs (mostly downs), the Windows Mobile story is now coming to a full stop. Per the official schedule, Microsoft is delivering the last security update for Windows 10 Mobile version 1709 as a part of the December 10 Patch Tuesday. After this, Microsoft will be pulling support for Windows 10 […]
If I say the word ‘High Mileage Tesla Model S,’ what comes to your mind? Is it the image of an old battered up electric car that has battery degradation? If your answer is yes, then I will be glad to disprove your assumption. Brooks, a drag racing professional, recently tested a high mileage Tesla […]
Moscow, the capital of Russia, has 175,000 CCTV cameras for surveillance purposes. Out of these, over 4,000 cameras are installed in crowded places in the city. In 2017, the mayor of Moscow said that the 3,000 cameras installed in the city had been integrated with the government’s facial recognition technology. Moscow’s city video surveillance system’s […]
Yes, you read that right. We have a Tesla Model 3 Performance killer – a stock Dodge Challenger finally beat the Model 3 in a quarter-mile drag race. Our regular readers are familiar with the YouTube channel ‘Drag Times’ and its owner Brooks. He is a professional drag-racing enthusiast and regularly uploads racing content on […]