For those unaware, Java was created by Sun Microsystems back in the 1990s and Oracle acquired the company in 2010. The legal battle between Oracle and Google formally started in 2010 over bits of Java code called Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) – a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. APIs are useful as developers don’t have to write new code from scratch to implement every new function or change it for every new type of device....

In a public statement last month during a political rally, on September 19th, Bilawal Bhutto said that his party would take back entire Kashmir from India if it comes to power. Condemning Bilawal’s comments, BJP national secretary Srikant Sharma said that “It was a very childish and irresponsible statement.” However Bilawal Bhutto’s statement was not taken so childishly by Indian hackers who earlier today defaced the official website of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in response to the statement made by Bilawal Bhutto over Kashmir....

The innocuous looking but seemingly out of place Google Street view car aroused suspicions of Matt Blaze. Blaze, a University of Pennsylvania computer and information science professor, discovered a SUV “tucked away in the shadows of the Philadelphia Convention Center’s tunnel” that was labeled as a Google Maps Street View car. Blaze noticed that it had two high-powered license plate reader cameras mounted on top, meaning it had to belong to a government agency....

The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ sports a slightly faster 1.4GHz 1 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU processor as compared to the 1.2GHz BCM2837 processor on its predecessor’s Raspberry Pi 3 Model B that was launched in 2016. The company strongly advises its users to use a “high-quality 2.5A power supply”, as the Pi 3 B+ needs “substantially more power than its predecessor.” The updated version of the processor in the Pi 3 Model B can reach higher clock frequencies (or run at lower voltages to reduce power consumption), and more accurately monitor and control the temperature of the chip, according to blog post by Raspberry Pi chief Eben Upton....

This time around Apple has added a new search button at the bottom of the home screen of iPhones in iOS 16. Using this button you can trigger Spotlight Search and it sits right above the dock. However, if you are one of the iPhone users who is used to swiping the home screen downwards to open search option and don’t like this new search button and instead prefer the Home Screen dots then you can simply remove the search button....

Microlattice was inspired by the structure of our bones, which are very rigid on the outside but mostly hollow on the inside, which means they can’t be easily crushed, but are lightweight enough for us to carry around all day. The new Boeing metal mimics this, and despite its rigid exterior, it has a 3D open-cellular polymer structure, which means its structure is 99.99 percent air. The lattice in the metal is made up of interconnected hollow metal tubes – constructed from nickel, in the case of the prototype....

For those unaware, back in July 2017, Microsoft, along with Adobe and their industry technology partners, had announced that Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 31, 2020. The decision to end support for Flash Player was made by Adobe due to the diminished usage of the technology and the availability of better, more secure options such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly. As a result, Microsoft had decided to end support for Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Edge (both the new Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Edge Legacy) and Internet Explorer 11 at the end of 2020....

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a set of tactics for improving the ranking of a website in the organic search engine results. Many factors account for how well a page ranks, but smart methods used by top SEO agencies can influence some of them. Here’s everything you need to know about SEO if you’re running a small business. Why it’s worth to invest in SEO? The majority of consumers use search engines to navigate the internet and find product or services they need....

A proposed multi-trillion pound strategic development program drawn up for Vladimir Putin would seek to develop teleportation by 2035. According to Kommersant, the $2.1 trillion (£1.4 trillion) “road map” for development of the cybernetics market to 2035 also includes developing a Russian computer programming language, secure cybernetic communications, quantum computing, and neural interfaces (direct connections between computers and human brains). “It sounds fantastical today, but there have been successful experiments at Stanford at the molecular level,” Alexander Galitsky, a prominent investor in the country’s technology sector, told Russia’s Kommersant daily on Wednesday....

While the faulty batteries are considered to be the reason behind the overheating and recall of 2.5 million devices, it appears that the company’s eagerness to get the better of Apple led to faults in the production of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7. If this was not enough, Samsung is expected to follow Apple and ditch the industry-standard 3.5mm headphone port, just the way its Cupertino giant did it in its newly launched iPhone 7 devices....

Seagate Seven was launched on last Sunday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Seagate, a world leader in storage solutions. The stunning slim Seagate seven comes pre-loaded with Seagate Dashboard and a High-quality braided USB 3.0 cable. Specs: Capacity-500GB Interface-USB 3.0 Height-9.6mm Typical Weight-150gm Width-76mm Length-113.5mm Looking at the specs and features of the device with a little less of the capacity (500GB) it is priced at about $99.99 and will be available in the market in mid to late January....

A literal security loophole Leigh-Anne Galloway has claimed that an ATM can be hacked by means of a hole drilled in the front section of an ATM- near the keypad. She stated “It’s just a safe with a computer on top ” and therefore, are vulnerable to the same threats a safe is. To top off that , most machines run on outdated Windows XP. All a hacker needs to do, is drill a hole in the front of the machine and expose a USB cable....

The company has said that after July 17, 2017, only the “most critical” security fixes will be released for Skylake and those fixes will only be made available if they don’t “risk the reliability or compatibility” of Windows 7 and 8.1 on other (non-Skylake) systems. It also states that non-Skylake machines that run on Windows 7 will get full range of security and compatibility fixes until Jan. 14, 2020, while Windows 8....

The announcement was made after Sony made a minority investment as part of Discord’s Series H investment round. Discord is hugely popular among gamers and used by more than 140 million people every month around the world. “At PlayStation, we’re constantly looking for new ways to enable players around the world to connect with one another, form new friendships and communities, and share fun experiences and lasting memories,” Jim Ryan, Sony President, and CEO said in the blog post....

Sony Fights Back against Torrents and file sharing service using Denial of Service attacks and using Fake SeedsThe Fightback The Fightback According to Recode, Sony has started using various several technological countermeasures to disrupt downloads of its most sensitive information through torrents and file sharing services. Recode says that Sony is using hundreds of computers in Asia to execute what’s known as a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the file sharing sites where its stolen data has been identified to be hosted....

If you do not know, earlier this year SEA started their hacking Operation on Microsoft with hacking Twitter and Blog Account of Skype accompanied by Microsoft Xbox Twitter and Instagram account hack then Microsoft news and twitter account hack and last one microsoft blog hack and then they gave a open challenge to Microsoft in a tweet that they haven’t finish with Microsoft. The last tweet from SEA stated, “Dear @Microsoft, Changing the CMS will not help you if your employees are hacked and they don’t know about that....

The compromised data includes details such as Social Security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique identifier numbers, and driver license information, according to U.S based digital media outlet Vice who first reported the news on Sunday. While the forum post doesn’t mention T-Mobile by name, the seller told Vice that the data was obtained from T-Mobile servers. The seller is asking for 6 bitcoin — approximately $270,000 — for a subset of hacked data that contains 30 million social security numbers and driver licenses, while the rest of the data is being sold privately at the moment, the report noted....

It’s not only because they are at greater risk of severe infection and death. They have been deprived for more than a year of doing the things they should be enjoying in their few remaining years of life. Not everyone succumbed to the gloom of the pandemic, though, as many discovered or rediscovered the wonders of technology. Getting bored has not been an option for seniors who could not enjoy the outdoors....