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Lerner, 40-year-old citizen of Russia, was abducted on December 26 while leaving his office in Stepan Bandera Avenue in Kiev and driven off in a black Mercedes-Benz Vito brand (state number AA 2063 MT) car to an unknown location, according to news resource Strana.au, which cited an anonymous source in local law enforcement. The unidentified kidnappers were dressed in dark clothes and balaclavas who forcibly dragged Lerner into the car....

Based on the preliminary data and reports online from users, the CP1350PFCLCD and CP1500PFCLCD, which are the rev 1 and rev 2 variants respectively, apparently houses a yellow glue as the primary adhesive that can eventually become conductive and corrosive due to aging and cause a short circuit, and may even cause a fire. The problem with CyberPower’s UPS units was first brought to notice in January 2022 on the Canadian RedFlagDeals forum by user ‘bluesun’ who cited a YouTube video posted by computer engineer and YouTuber Mark Furneaux in May 2021....

Disclosed by security company UpGuard, the multiple data leaks unintentionally exposed a total of 38 million records, which included personal information used for COVID-19 contact tracing, COVID-19 vaccination appointments, social security numbers for job applicants, employee IDs, and millions of names and email addresses. The companies affected by the breach include governmental bodies like Indiana, Maryland, and New York City, and private companies like American Airlines, J.B. Hunt, and Microsoft....

The three affected Seagate hard drive products are Table Of ContentsLaCie FUELSeagate Wireless Mobile StorageSeagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage. LaCie FUEL Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage. Mike Baucom, Allen Harper, and J. Rach, all security researchers for Tangible Security made the discovery which if exploited can let hackers take complete control of the device storage products and the files stored on it. LaCie FUELSeagate Wireless Mobile StorageSeagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage....

The issue arose after countless projects were left in limbo because of a three-way spat between the programmer, Azer Koçulu, the company behind npm, and messaging app Kik. What started the fight, according to Koçulu, was that Kik’s lawyers challenged the name of one of his modules on npm, which was also called Kik. A Kik lawyer asked him to delete it from npm. “My answer was ‘no’,” Koçulu explained....

The Touch Bar on Windows 10 allows you to easily access the Start menu, search, Cortana and also switch between apps running on the device instantly. In other words, the Touch Bar can be used as a substitute for Taskbar on Windows 10. However, this hack will only work if you run Windows 10 on a MacBook Pro. In order to make the Touch Bar appear on the MacBook Pro, the developer @imbushuo used Microsoft’s USB Common Class Generic Parent Driver (USBCCGP) and a modified Windows Registry entry to switch to the second configuration on Windows....

Twitter’s embedding function is a pretty clean way for users to share stuff like images, videos, vines and more. This discovery has come about due to the efforts made by American historian of technology and activist, Jason Scott. Whether you want to play them yourself or tweet them to your followers, there is an abundance of games that are on offer to play with. It is extremely simple to do too....

As a result, ETTV had to switch to a new domain name a few days ago. For those unaware, when the popular torrent site ExtraTorrent pulled down the curtains on its website in 2017, several prominent uploaders and groups like ETTV, ETHD, and DTOne were left in the lurch. That’s when ETTV, ETHD, and DTOne decided to collaborate and launch their own torrent website called ETTV.tv. Over the years, the site’s traffic has grown gradually making it a medium-sized torrent site with a dedicated and vetted group of regular uploaders....

When they introduced a remotely controlled cleanup robot to drain the nuclear plant, they found that even after six years the radiation levels in Fukushima remained so high that the cleanup robot was deep fried. Eventually the scientists had to aport the entire cleanup mission. Earlier this week, the robot equipped with a high-pressure water pump and a camera designed to withstand up to 1,000 Sieverts of cumulative exposure had been pulled off the inactive Reactor 2 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex, citing the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), reported The Japan Times on Friday....

According to the new data law, all VPN providers are required to collect/store user information for at least five years – even after users stop using the service – and hand it over to India’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). The new VPN order in India, which is set to become effective on June 27, 2022, will require companies to store users’ real names, IP addresses assigned to them, usage patterns, and other identifying data....

The ExtraTorrent homepage greeted its billions of visitors with a goodbye message that read: “ExtraTorrent has shut down permanently. ExtraTorrent with all mirrors goes offline. We permanently erase all data. Stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones. Thx to all ET supporters and torrent community. ET was a place to be….” The site which was home to several prominent uploaders and groups were left in the lurch due to the shutdown....

Many users considered ExtraTorrents to be a perfect alternative to popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing torrent sites and torrent search engines like The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents. Unfortunately, Official Extratorrents was voluntarily shut down on May 17, 2017, and was replaced by several Extratorrent Proxy, clones, and mirror sites. These clones and mirror sites of Extratorrents have also been blocked in many countries as the website is used to redistribute copyrighted movies, games, etc....

While the financial terms of the agreement were not revealed, according to Axios, who first reported the news, estimates the deal to be valued at around $400 million. Apparently, the companies were already in talks even before the COVID-19 pandemic started, says the report. For those unaware, Giphy, styled as GIPHY, is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share short looping videos with no sound, that resemble animated GIF files....

For those unaware, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook were involved in a privacy scandal wherein the former had illegally lifted data of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge and consent and used it to influence voter trends in several countries. Facebook allowed thousands of app developers to harvest data through third-party online games and quizzes and then used it to target American voters with emotionally specific messaging. Facebook believes that as many as 87 million users’ personal data have been collected without their permission....

It turns out you don’t always get a notification to alert when messages arrive from people with whom you are not friends with on Facebook, meaning they are nearly always missed. In other words, it basically works as a spam inbox. If Facebook decides something is probably spam, some messages are diverted to a special folder ‘filtered requests’ in the ‘Message Requests’ inbox, where it can lay around unread. Facebook only notifies you if it senses you might know the sender, otherwise everything else is assumed to be spam....

Facebook’s revamped Friends icon bring more feminism and spread gender equality1. The Friends icon2. Groups icon Caitlin Winner, Facebook’s Design Manager shares the changes made to the icons via a post on Medium. The designer tries to bring a little more balance to its website by highlighting gender equality. 1. The Friends icon Winner, according to the post, started with the individual symbol and swapped the man and woman around in its “friends” icon, because the lady was in the past “literally in the shadow of the man”....

This new mapping project is part of Facebook’s Internet.org Connectivity Lab, which announced this week that it has created new, high-resolution population-distribution maps of 20 countries, most of which are developing. The group is tasked with using drones, satellites, and lasers to improve internet access in rural areas and developing countries. Robert Chen, director of Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network, believes the maps will have many uses beyond Internet access projects....

To figure out the top ten moments of the year, Facebook counted how frequently a topic was mentioned in Facebook posts made between January 1 and November 27, 2016. Mentions were analysed in an “aggregated, anonymised way”, and then ranked to create a snapshot of the year, the social network says. The last 12 months has been clearly dominated by politics, which is also shown in the list. With the rise of Donald Trump to the American presidency, to the “Brazilian Politics” and, of course, Pokemon Go, all of them have found themselves as the most popular topics, globally....

The Furious 7 torrents have been doing rounds for past week but all of them are cam rip versions. Scified claims that the Anonymous Hacktivist Group has released the Furious 76 DVD quality version online The news has not been independently verified nor been confirmed by any Anonymous spokesperson. The hacktivist group which is at the forefront of fight for Internet freedom and freedom of expression is a very vocal group when it comes to announcing its exploits....