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Alonzo Knowles, 23, known online under the moniker of Jeff Moxey, was arrested in Manhattan on Monday after meeting with an undercover law enforcement agent to whom he boasted of having records of at least 130 accounts of stars and big shots in entertainment, sports and media. At the time of his arrest, Knowles was allegedly attempting to sell the stolen material to the undercover agent, the court papers say....

The person in question is Larry Mitchell, of Kokomo, Indiana, who wants people to donate to his GoFundMe page so that they can send him back to Africa. “Send me ‘back’ to Africa fund … If you want me to go back to Africa I will gladly go … you can help make your dream and mine come true … accepting all donations … KKK, Skin Heads and anyone else with like mind thinking are welcome to donate … Thank you....

A file system for the real pirates – BTFS (bittorrent file system)BTFS Bit Torrent File System : BTFS Bit Torrent File System : In order to mount the torrent as a directory and allow the use of torrent-files and magnet-links, Linux supporters have created a new file system BTFS. BTFS is very simple to work. You will find the magnet link on the torrent tracker and you need to use it with the system mount command....

Now, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has collected data from ten sources that ranked programming languages based on several criterias’ to give one of the broadest rankings for programming languages till date. The top 10 most popular programming languages today, according to its findings, are C, Java, Python, C++, R, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, and Go. IEEE comprised of data from Google searches, Hacker News, GitHub active repos, Twitter, GitHub trends, Reddit, Career Builder, Stack Overflow questions, IEEE Xplore, new GitHub projects, views on existing Stack Overflow questions, and Dice....

As our brains are hardwired to judge on the visual aspects of a person, company, and their actions, we can be persuaded into purchasing products and services through the medium of advertising alone. Striking images can attract the eyes like almost nothing else. Pictures from Focused Collection are a strong example of a company who further this point. For almost every adult over a certain age will tell you, sometimes “impulse buys” happen....

The new regulations serve as a broad clampdown on China’s tech giants, in addition, to control what the government feels is a growing “gaming addiction among young people”. As per the new regulation, minors in China will be allowed to play games only between 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and on public holidays starting September 1st. In other words, minors will be banned from playing online video games entirely between Monday and Thursday....

The new rules were published in a document last week with the title: “Provisions on the Administration of Internet Thread Commenting Services”. The proposed revisions tighten the regulation, ‘Provisions on the Management of Internet Post Comments Services’, which first came into effect in 2017. According to the new draft, any company or individual that runs a website in China needs to hire ‘a review and editing team suitable for the scale of services to improve the professional quality of reviews and editors....

One of the most valued qualities of society is privacy. Sending private messages or carrying out financial transactions without the fear of being observed remains at the heart of many government, commercial and military activities. Quantum cryptography is that one technology that lets this to be done in a better way, and it needs a very strong source of random numbers. Although, there is a glitch to it. It is very difficult to generate random numbers in large quantities....

Su, aKa Stephen Su alias Stephen Subin, was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia at the request of the U.S. on June 28.Su, who is described to be managing, Lode-Tech, an aviation technology company based in China with an subordinate office in Canada. It is alleged that Su used Lode-Tech to breakinto the Boeing network of January 2010, according to a report filed by authorities in a federal complaint unsealed in Los Angeles this week....

The original Doom is playable on the 2170×60 resolution of the Touch Bar. The touch bar replaces the traditional function keys as a digital, displaying context-sensitive controls that go beyond regular buttons due to the multitouch display. It can apparently be reconfigured to display the original Doom complete with music and sound effects pumped through the Pro’s speakers. “Doom runs on pretty much everything… but can it run on the new MacBook Pro Touch Bar?...

Chinese Connection The police unearthed a fake click racket that was being run by Wang Dong, Niu Bang, and Ni Wenjin this past sunday. The 3 individuals were arrested by the Thai police on charges of working without a permit and smuggling SIM cards into the country. The setup that they discovered included 500 smartphones, 350,00 SIM cards, 21 SIM card readers, and nine computers that were being used in the operation....

Cloudflare on Wednesday announced the launch of its WARP VPN service in beta for Windows and macOS. The company also plans to introduce a desktop client for WARP+ in the coming months. “While we announced the beta of 1.1.1.1 with WARP on April 1, 2019 it took us until late September before we were able to open it up to general availability,” writes Matthew Prince, the company’s CEO in a blog post....

The agency has not explained how it will use that funding. Sam Scimemi, International Space Station director at NASA Headquarters, speaking at a Space Transportation Association luncheon on December 16, said he was not immediately aware of any specific plans for that funding. The omnibus bill that specifies how much NASA gets in the following year actually reads: “NASA shall develop a prototype deep space habitation module within the advanced exploration systems program no later than 2018....

It was revealed last Thursday that one of Google’s self-driving car was pulled over in the company’s hometown of Mountain View, California because apparently it was driving too slowly. According to the Mountain View Police Department (MVPD), they observed traffic backing up behind the peculiar-looking prototype vehicle, which was traveling at 24 mph in a 35 mph zone, about two miles from Google’s headquarters. The police also said that the Google car in the photo was self-driving legally on the street which was identified as El Camino Real – a 35 mph zone....

In an announcement Green said “it is no longer appropriate” for him to be the part of the Tor Project, whether his contribution is time-based or financial. Green is one of the people who were part of the Tor Project before the network was known as Tor, to begin with. He is also one of those who ran one of the first five nodes ever introduced in Tor, and across years, he has gained the trust of the Tor Project to allow him to manage special nodes inside the network....

Italy is one such country that is massively impacted by the coronavirus and has been under strict lockdown since March 9th, 2020. People in Italy are only allowed to come out of their homes only to get food, medicines, going to work, or performing essential services. However, this lockdown did not deter a 31-year-old man from breaking the coronavirus quarantine to play the augmented reality (AR) game, ‘Pokemon Go’. The man was detained by the Carabinieri on the streets of San Fermo, in the northern Como province, which was one of the critical outbreak centers at the start of the pandemic in Europe....

When A specially-constructed malformed certificate or a cross-signed is introduced into any Android device running, it may either slow down the device or crash it, forcing the user to reboot. Wish Wu, a mobile threat research engineer has published a report in this regard on TrendMicro blog. Wu says that Trend discovered this vulnerability in Android devices when researching the affects of how Android device handles cross-signed certificates are handled....

These gaming memory sticks also put a lot of focus on aesthetics. The new memory features black PCBs with a digital camo printed on the heat spreaders and while you might not get to see this unique color combination since they will be present inside your gaming notebook, it still gives you a very good first impression of the amount of detail that the company has put on its product....

People in the West Midlands turned to police for help after being harassed on Facebook and Twitter, with the victims ranging from age five to 67. The statistics published on police force website indicates a big increase in the number of officers being asked for help to cope with the abuse on social media. The force website indicates that the number of complainants on Facebook have doubled in number last year compared to the year 2010....