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Many users have reported that they are being barraged with incessant popups that inform them their Windows 10 upgrade will be installed in one hour. Earlier, Windows 7/8.1 users could opt-out of such process but now there is no longer an option to opt-out of upgrading altogether, ZDNet reports. The fact that Microsoft wants you to upgrade to Windows 10 come whatever may is not lost when not even GWX Control Panel, a third-party tool that lets you manage or sidestep such updates, is not able to do so according to the app’s creator, Josh Mayfield....

Guy Merin, Microsoft’s Principal Development Manager of the Surface Duo Developer Experience Team, announced the availability of the SDK for Mac Developers via Twitter. — Guy Merin (@gmerin) January 27, 2020 Not just macOS, according to the official download page, the SDK will be available for the Linux platform as well. The requirements for SDK configuration should not be any different than what is needed for the Windows platform. Developers will still need to install the latest version of Android Studio before they can run the SDK and emulator on top of it....

Microsoft releases optional tool that lets users hide or block any update for Windows 10 or hardware driversHere’s what the troubleshooter looks like when you download and run it: Being used to years of being able to select and choose from a menu of updates each month, it caused a huge outcry from Windows 10 testers. What if Windows Update pushes an update to your system that causes more problems than it fixes?...

People who have the habit of forgetting things used it pretty well. Luckily, Microsoft also brought some good news to them. By revealing the newest version of sticky notes “Version 3.0” which will let you sync all your important notes on the cloud. This surely allows the user to access those notes from any windows powered device. Not only that, but this new version also allows the user to use a formatting bar....

Windows 95 which turns 20 today changed the way we use our desktop computers foreverThe next 20 years It featured significant improvements over its predecessor, Windows 3.1, most notably in the graphical user interface (GUI) and in its relatively simplified “plug-n-play” features. Bill Gates’s specified aim of one PC per person per desk in action was put in action by Microsoft 95. It brought to the scene 8MB of RAM, 15-inch CRT monitors and 320MB hard drive along with Internet for most of the home users....

Starting March 31, 2006, programs that use things like injection by proxy or network layer manipulation, or change DNS settings will be categorized as malware by Microsoft and blocked. Microsoft will force all programs that employ the MiTM technique to use each browser’s extension model that can be easily removed by the user. “Programs that create advertisements in browsers must only use the browsers’ supported extensibility model for installation, execution, disabling, and removal,” Microsoft said in a blog post....

At the time of writing the Article the website was showing ‘under construction page’, the restoring process was initiated. While the website is being restored there are Thousands of websites which is defaced today by hackers, with new year wishes on the deface page.

According to the latest data released by StatCounter, Chrome clinches the top position with a mighty 54.89% of the worldwide browser market share, followed by Apple’s Safari with 14.88%, UC Browser with 7.43%, Mozilla’s Firefox with 5.9%, Microsoft Edge with 3.69%, and the remaining belonging to others. However, Mozilla has decided to dethrone Google’s Chrome by giving it a competition with its next major release. The company will call the latest version of its web browsing software as “Firefox Quantum” instead of “Firefox 57”, which will be available to all Firefox users beginning November 14....

The Screenshot has been provided by AnonGhost, seems soon the data will be leaked and available to everyone. well it’s too many days for #OpBurma to start but its started earlier with a bang. Also Read: Lauch of official video of #OpBurma by AnonGhost Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

A majority of firms have instructed their employees to work from home And people around the globe have started avoiding going out of their home. This, in turn, has increased internet usage across the globe. In order to avoid network congestion and help the people who are working from home, mainstream streaming services like Netflix, YouTube, and Prime Video have lowered the bitrates in Europe. The lowered bitrates will result in the reduction of video quality....

A cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) is a medium of exchange using cryptography to secure the transactions and to control the creation of additional units of the currency. Cryptocurrencies are a subset of alternative currencies, or specifically of digital currencies. Both the researchers presented their paper at the Usenix 2016 security conference, “DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with a Malicious Proof-of-Work” that presents a proof-of-work DDoS currency that allows miners to prove their participation in DDoS attacks against target webservers in order to create more virtual money....

The malware was initially called “EvilQuest” but later dubbed to “OSX.ThiefQuest” to avoid confusion with a name used by Chaosoft Games Xbox 360 and PC video game since 2012, Thomas Reed, Malwarebytes Director of Mac and mobile, explained. Malwarebytes has analyzed the ransomware, which was first found hidden in a legitimate-looking software supporting the Little Snitch host-based application firewall for macOS. The malicious installer was found available for download on a Russian forum with torrent links....

NASA funding $200,000 a year research for converting human poop into astronaut’s meal Synthetic Biology for Recycling Human Waste into Food: The U.S. space agency, NASA has sanctioned funds of $200,000 a year for up to three years to the researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina. The major aim of this research would be to discover ways on how to turn human poop into synthetic food! With NASA’s growing interest in the long interplanetary journeys it is becoming very much essential to make provision for food that can sustain astronauts during long journeys such as extended Martian mission or any other long journey missions....

According to the security researchers, the new found OS X malware in the wild is likely a new version of Hacking Team’s old Mac malware. The sample, according to them, is mostly made of the same code as the old Hacking Team malware for Mac OS X, but has new components that help it stay undetected. The researchers also note that the malware installs a copy of the software firm’s Remote Code Systems (RCS) compromise platform, leading them to believe that the infamous, controversial Italian firm is back....

Basically, optimized for capacity and efficiency, Nimbus Data’s DC100 is a 3.5-inch form factor and has a SATA interface used by hard drives, which means it can work as a plug-and-play compatible with hundreds of storage and server platforms. The SSD uses Nimbus’s multi-processor architecture and 3D NAND, which provides enough capacity to store 20 million songs, 20,000 HD movies or 2,000 iPhones of data in a device that is “small enough to fit in your back pocket....

The LED bulbs introduced by Jake Dyson will supposedly last for 37 years, ensuring 160,000 hours of continuous warm and white light against the 25000 hours given by the normal LED bulbs available in the market. Normal LEDs are long-lasting but in some regular lights using them, the LEDs are bot protected from heat which leads to them losing brightness and colour. The new Dyson lights use heat pipe technology which will ensure 160,000 hours of continual use with a warm, white light at all times....

According to the reports that were leaked and pictures that were published at frandroid.com, the device is said to feature a USB Type-C port, a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and 13MP dual-lens camera with laser assisted autofocus. The report reveals that the device will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor with 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal memory. As opposed to earlier reports that claimed Nokia 9 would sport a 5....

North Korea’s Internet faces outage after U.S warned of a ‘proportionate response’Proportional ResponseAnonymous link Could this be a response by the U.S against the Sony hack ? Or is another entity involved ? Proportional Response Early reports suggested this might have been a response by the US government against the “Sony Hack. ” It seems more than a mere coincidence that North Korea’s connection to the Internet was essentially inactive Monday just days after the U....

Turkish security bod Utku Sen has published what seems to be the first open source ransomware that anyone can download and spread. The ‘Hidden Tear’ ransomware, available at GitHub, is a working version of the malware the world has come to hate. It uses AES encryption to lock down files and could display a scare warning or ransom message to get users to pay. The Features of Hidden Tear are:...