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The Entity List includes Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) and its subsidiaries, the world’s most popular drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. and more than 60 other Chinese companies. According to the Commerce Department, the action against SMIC stems from China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military-industrial complex. “We will not allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary....

In the past, hundreds of thousands of people have been accused by movie companies for sharing pirated movies through BitTorrent. However, often such cases have been settled in private and undisclosed settlements. Kerry Culpepper had plans to use the same approach against Arizona-based Mrs. Parks and her husband after her email address was linked to downloading pirated copies of the films “Lost Child” and “Saving Christmas.” This information was found from the user database of popular torrent site YTS that was shared as part of an earlier settlement and is used by Culpepper to negotiate settlements in and out of court....

While Google and other tech companies have been carrying out tests with their self-driving cars, Uber seems to have quietly gotten down to businesses and made the smart delivery of beers within schedule. The 18-wheeler self-driving truck was followed by a police cruiser, while the driver hung around in the sleeper cab at the back of the pilot seat. The companies said that the self-driving truck was made by Otto, the self-driving vehicle group that Uber acquired in July 2016....

In an announcement posted on Facebook, the CERT-UA said that the spearphishing campaigns are targeting private ‘i.ua’ and ‘meta.ua’ email accounts of Ukrainian defense forces. The spearphishing emails are being sent from two domains (i[.]ua-passport[.]space and id[.]bigmir[.]space). The phishing email targets the victim to click an embedded link to verify their contact information in order to avoid the permanent suspension of their email accounts. Below is an example of the malicious email: “Dear user!...

The statement said that “This new facility will be applicable for all the GSM 2G and 3G pre-paid mobile customers of all BSNL circles across India”, however, the same was stopped in February. BSNL is slowly introducing new 3G mobile internet plans at prices that are lower than industry, in an apparent effort to cash in on huge demand for 3G services. “BSNL recently introduced Rs 68 Data Special Tariff Voucher (STV) which allows 1 GB 3G Mobile Data for 10 days, never given by any other operator at this cheapest rates in the present market,” the statement said....

The OnePlus 2 is going to have a different charging port, which is going to make your smartphone a lot better. Let’s have a look at the benefits that USB Type-C would provide. — OnePlus (@oneplus) June 22, 2015 Like Apple’s Lightning cable, it is reversible. No more clumsiness of the hands to plug it in the right way. It can transmit data at up to 10 Gbps, which is 10 times your crazy Google Fiber connection per second....

“The USB4 specification is a major update to deliver the next-generation USB architecture that complements and builds upon the existing USB 3.2 and USB 2.0 architectures,” the organization announced. “The USB4 architecture is based on the Thunderbolt protocol specification recently contributed by Intel Corporation to the USB Promoter Group. It doubles the maximum aggregate bandwidth of USB and enables multiple simultaneous data and display protocols.” The USB4 specification was first revealed by the USB Promoter Group in March this year....

A study conducted by researchers at Queen Mary University of London has shown that many VPN networks leak information about their users. This information could be as broad in scope as the websites users were visiting, and as detailed as the actual content of messages they were sending to other parties. The have published a paper titled A Glance through the VPN Looking Glass: IPv6 Leakage and DNS Hijacking in Commercial VPN clients....

To resist the fact of their cheap service, the Telecom operators have gone to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to allow them to block apps and websites and charge handsome money from both consumers and business to the deter users from using such free services. As we all know, internet has changed the modern world and how the world is just within your palms. The threat has provoked people from a cross section of society including inert politicians, who were not known for taking any kind of criticism lightly, and celebrities are rallying up to save the future of the nation, The Indian Internet....

Message to WBUT: greetz to : Phoenix 64, Xtreme 64, spider 64 and ofcourse all wbutian …. last time i warned but .. you were unable to bring chang in this university you got pawned again ..

What is DNS?How does DNS work?The process behind the DNS Resolution It’s a process, through which the internet provides the user with the most accurate and desired results. By this, a user is able to get what he or she wished to search for and it’s often called as the Phonebook or Directory of the internet. Why? Because as we all know that the Web Browsers on the internet interact through IP addresses....

WhatsApp rolls out WhatsApp calling feature for all Android 4.0.0 and above devices, iOS and Blackberry have to wait a fortnightHowever we now show you the easiest method To avail this feature, we have already given you two methods, now here is a third method which does not take any tech savvyness but you have to sideload it onto your Android smartphone device. As many of our readers of the previous post pointed out, while enabling the WhatsApp calling through the rooted method, though they were successful, when they tried to make a call on the WhatsApp calling, the App gave a beeping sound and crashed....

In a group chat with WABetaInfo, Zuckerberg confirmed that the multi-device capability feature will allow users to link their WhatsApp account on up to four different devices at the same time even when their primary smartphone does not have an active internet connection. “It’s been a big technical challenge to get all your messages and content to sync properly across devices even when your phone battery dies, but we’ve solved this and we’re looking forward to getting it out soon!...

WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service app, which offers end-to-end encryption of messages and multiple features for protecting conversations has announced that it is going to share information with its parent company, Facebook as planned, thereby going against a Delhi High Court order that had restricted it to share user data collected up to September 25, 2016 with the social media giant. A division bench of the Delhi High Court had ordered the messaging service on September 23, 2016 to delete all data from WhatsApp servers of those users who delete their WhatsApp account before September 25, 2016 and not share users’ data collected under its old privacy policy with Facebook or any other related company....

The new feature called ‘Linked Devices’ will allow users to access WhatsApp on multiple devices such as smartphones or tablets or PCs with a single account. The company is actively working on this user interface (UI) to support the multiple device feature. As per the screenshots found in the beta version by WABetaInfo, the latest WhatsApp beta Android update 2.20.196.8 gives a peek of how the much-rumoured Linked Devices feature will look like....

Big Data refers to the huge data piles most organizations have collected and encourages teams to find new and helpful ways to leverage the data to make better products or services. Applying DevOps concepts to Big Data can unlock great insights for an organization and help them act on exciting opportunities. Collaboration between developers creating code and analyst who understand algorithms can help provide valuable operational perspective to business leaders....

The Moon rover that the part-time scientists are building has room to send pictures of the Moon back to Earth, once it lands safely on the surface. However, it comes with a data disc that has been offered by the German Wikimedia Chapter, Wikimedia Deutschland, in order to use for Wikipedia. Wikimedia Deutschland has been offered space on a data disc to be carried by one of the five image-gathering rovers still competing to land on the Moon by 2017 for the Google Lunar XPRIZE challenge....

In the last couple of years, live trivia game show apps have started setting the stage for another revolution in digital advertisements. Some trivia games consistently pull upwards of 500K players sometimes more than 1 million player every night – those are engaged crowds that could be targeted for ads. This piece provides insight into two ways advertisers can leverage trivia games for targeted ads. HQ Trivia is a popular game in the trivia live game category....

This is the 15th Anniversary of the event and the first day was a blast. Several contestants were able to legally break into Windows 11, Microsoft Teams, and even Apple’s Safari browser. As per the event rules, these contestants were awarded both rewards and recognition. One of the contestants namely Hector “p3rro” Peralta was the first one who cracked into Microsoft Teams. He was awarded $150,000 for his findings. Well, Hector “p3rro” Peralta demonstrated an improper configuration against Teams....

For the unversed, VBS or Core Isolation provides “added protection against malware and other attacks by isolating computer processes from your operating system and device.” As a result, this is halting overvolting and undervolting software enablement on MSI motherboards that use Intel 400/500 CPUs. In other words, anyone using tweaking tools like Intel’s Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU), MSI’s Afterburner, and others, on an affected system are unable to overvolt or undervolt the CPU in Windows....