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French police and two dozen computer experts raided Google’s Paris offices Tuesday in a fraud probe, with the US Internet giant already suspected of owing EUR 1.6 billion ($1.7) in back taxes. The French authorities suspect Google of “aggravated tax fraud and conspiracy to conceal (it),” the national financial prosecution service (PNF) said in a statement. The raids give first clear indications of how European countries will proceed against Google and other tech companies evading paying taxes....

Chrome users are more venerable to this type of attack as the browser doest display the whole URL in its address bar.

According to an FCC document unearthed by Brian Benchoff at Hackaday, the internet giant applied for an experimental radio license to be built in the New Mexico desert. Google has asked FCC to treat some information relating to radio experiments as confidential however Hackaday was able to decipher some of the things in the report. These experiments involve highly directional and therefore high power transmissions at 2.5 GHz, 5.8GHz, 24GHz, 71-76GHz, and 81-86GHz....

This how the researchers worked on the videos, which was no small feat, as mentioned by the researchers in a research paper on the topic. They sorted some 86 million photos by geographic location, then used an automated process to find photos that rallied around the same landmark. Once those images were listed, the photos were then arranged in a chronological order of date and later twisted to create the same perspective to show the changes over time....

Google said that the Android 5.1 will not be a game changer in terms of features update but rather targets security aspects for Android user. Android Platform vice president Dave Burke said in a blog post that most of the new features in the update are just meant to “get more out of your Android phone and tablet.” One of the features which could be interesting is the addition of High Definition voice calling promises “crystal clear calling” between compatible Android 5....

For the unversed, last week, Meta released its video AI generator, “Make-A-Video” which produces videos from text. “Our work aims to generate videos from the text. We introduce Imagen Video, a text-to-video generation system based on video diffusion models that is capable of generating high definition videos with high frame fidelity, strong temporal consistency, and deep language understanding,” Google states in their research paper. Google’s Imagen Video AI, which is still in the development phase, was trained with an “internal dataset” of 60 million image-text pairs and 14 million video-text pairs as well as the LAION-400M image-text dataset....

Google recently warned its users about the incoming exploits coming from state-sponsored hackers from North Korea. The vulnerability was detected by the Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on January 4th this year when they found out about an exploit kit deployed on the browser. The tech giant reported another instance of an attempt on February 10 but from a different North Korean hacking team. As the report reads, these hackers were particularly targeting fintech outlets, U....

In order to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October), Google has once again emphasised the need for two-factor authentication to make sign-in safer and more convenient. The company already provides existing security measures such as Google Password Manager, built directly into Chrome, Android, and the Google App to keep passwords safe across all the sites and apps. For iOS devices, users can select Chrome to autofill saved passwords in other apps, and very soon users will be able to take advantage of Chrome’s strong password generation feature for any iOS app....

The Pixel 6a, a first for the A-series of devices, is similar to the Pixel 6, in terms of design, and includes the iconic camera bar as well as a durable metal frame. The new Pixel device will also get the updated Material You design UX that allows you to personalize the look and feel of your phone. Further, the Pixel 6a borrows many features from the premium phones, Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, be it exceptional camera features to speech recognition to security....

According to the agency, Ryan Collins, a 36-year-old Pennsylvania man, hacked into iCloud and Google email accounts of more than 100 people, most of them celebrities. “[Collins] was charged today with felony computer hacking related to a phishing scheme that gave him illegal access to more than 100 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts, including those belonging to members of the entertainment industry in Los Angeles,” according to a statement from the Justice Department....

Hackers are increasingly operating as regular businesses with many advertising themselves as “honest, trustworthy and professional,” and providing a variety of illicit goods and services on the cheap, says the cybersecurity company’s third annual Underground Hacker Markets Report. According to the Dell report, released on 5 April, the information was gathered by two intelligence analysts from the company’s CISO INTEL Team, who tracked hackers on a number of underground hacker forums and marketplaces scattered across the globe....

A group of hackers going by the handle of Spain Squad claimed they have found a way to seize inactive and suspended Twitter accounts. Spain Squad says that it is now selling such banned and suspended Twitter accounts on its social network. “Spain Squad” claims they have gained control of a number including @Hell, @Hitler, @Nazi, @ak47, and @1337 with the help of their hack. While Spain Squad’s hack may be questionable it was found that previously suspended @Hitler, @Hell, and @LizardSquad owned by the infamous band of hackers who brought Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox down to its knees in midst of a Christmas season in 2014, have somehow been activated....

While the Google Play Services can be side-loaded to Windows 10 Mobile’s Android environment, it is non functional due to insufficient permission. But, some users want the entire Google Play Store in their Windows 10 Mobile device, or at least show that it is possible. A user could be able to run any and every Android app by having the Google Play Store inside of a Windows 10 Mobile device....

Security researchers have been collaborating with the law enforcement agencies for this operation. Researchers from Proofpoint said that the hackers sent out waves of up to 350,000 Dridex-laced spam emails every day, while, researchers at Dell SecureWorks started working on a project to disrupt the monstrous botnet. It teamed up with law enforcement, and received legal permission to hack the botnet, according to the company. In United Kingdom, Mike Hulett from the NCA said: “This is a particularly virulent form of malware and we have been working with our international law enforcement partners, as well as key partners from industry, to mitigate the damage it causes....

Similarly, earlier this week, Phantom Squad said it was planning to take down Xbox Live and PlayStation Network with outages over Christmas. Further, it took responsibility for an outage that hit the Xbox Live network and caused connection problems for gamers on December 17. However, it appears that Xbox Live and PSN may not be the only gaming services to be hit over the festive season. While acknowledging the publicity that such attacks bring in for hacking groups, he claimed that the ultimate aim is to force companies like Microsoft, Sony and Valve to do more to stop them....

But what do developers really bitch the most about? What programming languages really irks them the most? Tim Rogus, a UX/UI designer in New York has taken it upon himself to find out which programming languages are most cursed. To get a ringside view of the developers community, Rogus has created an app called devRant.io specifically for developers to rant about. Based on the feedback received on his App, Rogus has prepared an infographic detailing which programming language gets most cussed and which one is least bothersome to developers....

However, NSO Group is a big name in top secret cyber surveillance community which includes many government agencies like NSA. It has managed to create a big name for itself by creating some of the top malware which allows governments to spy on its citizens. The iPhone hack with a text message is just a small example of the expertise NSO Group has in cyber security matters. “NSO Group are a highly valued surveillance company purporting to sell some of the most advanced spyware on the market,” Edin Omanovic, a research officer at Privacy International, told Motherboard in an email....

The researchers combined data from embedded sensors in wearable technologies such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. The algorithm called “Backward PIN-sequence Inference Algorithm” developed by the research team could crack private PINs and passwords with 80 percent accuracy on the first try and more than 90 percent accuracy after three efforts. The team conducted 5,000 key-entry tests on three key-based security systems, including an ATM, with 20 adults wearing a variety of technologies over 11 months....

The Digital Revolution The digital revolution has changed all aspects of the printing industry. It was always a case of the bigger the run the lower the unit price was. This meant that businesses particularly often ordered runs of 10,000 or more of the same item. If the item was advertising leaflets, this meant that everyone that was being targeted saw exactly the same thing. If it was business stationery and then a phone number or zip code changed, the stationery was wasted....

The traditional treatment for deep burns is to cover them with healthy skin harvested from another part of the body called grafting. However when the victim has extensive burns, there often isn’t enough healthy skin to harvest. Researchers at WFIRM had designed a printer which can directly print skin cells onto the burn wounds. During phase I of AFIRM, WFIRM scientists designed, built and tested a printer designed to print skin cells onto burn wounds....