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However, an ‘accidental’ mistake of dumping a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins has cost a Newport-based IT worker a fortune of over $105 million. Now, the Welsh IT worker wants to dig up his fortune which is likely buried deep below 200,000 tons of garbage on a landfill site near his home in Newport, Wales. The story dates back to 2013, when James Howells who had been mining cryptocurrency on his computer since 2009 to solve complex mathematical problems and earn rewards, dismantled the device after spilling a drink on it....

Clicking on the admissions page redirected the visitors to a adult site, however within hours of the breaking of hacking news, the officials were able to fix out the issue. The damage for the time the site was redirected is predicted to be very high as the admission season has just begun to set in. This is not the first time when the Jadavpur University was targeted by the hackers, back in September last year, the website was hacked and the page about the vice chancellor was replaced with a fake message from him saying he is sorry....

Vengeance against Jennifer LawrenceWikipedia ResponseSock Puppet An unknown individual today defaced Jennifer Lawrence’s Wikipedia page by uploading one of the ‘NSFW’ pics that had been previously leaked during the now famous iCloud Hacks. As per news reports, an unknown individual who may be one of the iCloud hackers uploaded a NSFW pic on Wikipedia at 21:52 UTC on Tuesday. Wikipedia Response The said Wikipedia page showed the inappropriate content for about 20 minutes before the Wiki admin noticed something was amiss and the page was brought back to its original state with the original photo uploaded by Gage Skidmore from an appearance Lawrence made at Comic Con in 2013....

Koler worm’ latest variant is the latest Android ransomware in townModus OperandiRemoval AdaptiveMobile stated that the latest variant of Koler worm is very active in the wild and has blocked thousands of messages from hundreds of infected Android smartphones and tablets. AdaptiveMobile also detected that the all new Koler was spreading all over the world through SMS messages but most of the victims discovered so far are in the United States....

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 4, 2015 “As you noticed Hideo Kojima is not here with us tonight and I want to tell you a little bit about that,” explained Keighley. “Mr. Kojima had every intention of being with us tonight but unfortunately he was informed by a lawyer representing Konami just recently that he would not be allowed to travel to tonight’s awards ceremony to accept any awards.” “He’s still under an employment contract and it’s disappointing, and it’s inconceivable to me that an artist like Hideo would not be allowed to come here and celebrate with his peers and his fellow teammates....

In the modern era, it is quite common for apps to require users’ identity, along with a series of other credentials before proceeding forward. However, it creates unnecessary exposure towards the user by using their sensitive information in order to pass the authentication phase. One such example can be when users are attempting to access a website whose content might not be acceptable to view for the younger generation. In order to confirm the individual’s age, that person has to punch in his/her date of birth, which is literally giving away your information....

Ladar Levison’s latest project is a larger scope than his originally hosted e-mail service, with the aid of some fellow crypto-minded developers, he wants to change basic e-mail and build an automatic encryption service into email’s fundamental nature. Ladar Levison one of the members of the Darkmail Technical Alliance collective including Jon Callas, Mike Janke, and PGP designer Phil Zimmermann—is currently working on a project collectively referred to as DIME, (Dark Internet Mail Environment)....

Easy 3 step guide for newbies to learn hackingHow can I Learn to Hack as a newbie?Step-1: Explore the FundamentalsStep-2: Find a Good Source that will Teach How to Hack in Simple StepsStep-3: Learn ProgrammingHow Long does it Take to Learn Hacking? How To Hack Using Your Android Smartphone If you are a beginner and need to learn how to hack, the information provided in this post can surely help you out....

For consumers it might be a new element to the concept of smartphones, but the introduction of the world’s first smartphones with USB Type-C is sure to upset the biggies of the tech world. Chinese company LETV unveiled its debut smartphones, named Le Superphones, which boast of the new type of reversible socket that is used for charging the device; transfer of data, and for external output. Two weeks ago the company opted for a different marketing strategy in which the teaser posters for the phones flashed Nazi leader Hitler sporting an armband with Apple’s logo on it....

LG was able to make this possible by cutting a shallow furrow of 0.01 inches (equivalent to 0.3mm) thick on the lower backside of the cover glass and installed the fingerprint sensor inside of it using their supreme precision and combination technology. Since the sensor is placed behind the glass, manufacturers will be able to produce more handsets boasting smaller levels of thickness, because according to them, a smartphone being sleek is the definition of aesthetics....

The study was presented by Rachel Greenstadt, an associate professor of computer science at Drexel University, and Aylin Caliskan, Greenstadt’s former Ph.D. student and now an assistant professor at George Washington University, at the DefCon hacking experience. How To De-Anonymize Code According to the researchers, the code written in the programming language is not completely anonymous. The abstract syntax trees contain stylistic fingerprints that can be used to potentially identify programmers from code and binaries....

In December last year, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan had pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares – about $45 billion – in a letter to their newborn daughter Maxima Chan Zuckerberg – to advance human potential and promote equality for children. The couple had then declared that the “Chan Zuckerberg Initiative” would initially focus on “personalised learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities”. “As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation,” they posted in a 2,200-word letter to their new-born daughter on Facebook....

Awarding Anvitha and showcasing her as the youngest iOS developer may be a marketing strategy by Apple and Cook but it does not hide the fact that Anvitha is doing what even 30 year old find difficult. What makes 9-year-old Anvitha Vijay from Australia different from millions of coders out there is the fact that she can code better than most adults. In an interview with USA Today, Anvitha said that she’s got a long way to go when it comes to coding....

According to the company, the bug causes Windows 10 to show duplicate copies of printers installed on a device, commonly with a similar name and the suffix “Copy1”. Also, applications that refer to the printer by a specific name cannot print a document. The update also affects the normal printer usage and normal printing operations may be interrupted, resulting in failure of printing operations. The Redmond giant says it is working on a new update to address the problem in a future update....

The new division is headed by former Portal lead designer Kim Swift, who joined Xbox last year as cloud gaming director. Besides Portal, she has been involved in other Valve projects, most notably Left 4 Dead and its sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, where she also played a leading role in development. In a presentation video aimed at Xbox game developers and posted on YouTube, Swift explained that the division’s directive is to bring unprecedented experiences to players that can only be achieved with Cloud Technology....

For those unaware, the PC Health Check app was announced alongside Windows 11’s announcement back in June. This tool helps you determine whether your PC is compatible with Windows 11 or not. However, the app was subsequently taken down from the company’s website due to some controversies surrounding system requirements, in addition to fluctuating and inaccurate results. In August, Microsoft updated its list of supported CPUs as well as re-released an updated preview version of the PC Health Check app to Windows Insiders for testing....

Despite the fact that running Microsoft Windows 95 is heavily broken on Apple Watch, this is possibly the first time that a developer managed to get a different OS to run on the wearable. The long story short is that if you watch the video below, Lee can actually go through the Windows 95 Start Menu and load a program but that is pretty much it due to limitations of the OS....

“We are very excited to introduce to all of you the redesigned Notepad for Windows 11, which includes a number of changes we think the community will enjoy!,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post. “First, you will notice a completely updated UI that aligns with the new visual design of Windows 11, including rounded corners, Mica, and more. We know how important Notepad is to so many of your daily workflows, so we designed this modern spin on the classic app to feel fresh, but familiar....

The Chromium-based Edge browser will be rolled out to Windows 10 users with a new Windows 10 update. It will replace the existing EdgeHTML browser engine and switch to the Chromium engine. First reported by The Verge, the new version of Edge still doesn’t include full mouse and keyboard support and is unsurprisingly buggy. Currently, the test is only limited to Xbox testers in the Alpha Skip-Ahead group who will automatically find the new Edge in their apps library once they install the latest Xbox system update....

According to the papers obtained by Torrent Freak, Microsoft has not identified the person (or persons) that owns the account, but has the person’s IP address, and is now requesting a subpoena from the court to identify this person who activated thousands of copies of Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server and Office 10. “On information and belief, each of these activations and attempted activations constitutes the unauthorized copying of Microsoft software, in violation of Microsoft’s software licenses and its intellectual property rights,” the company says....