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A Shattered Collection of My Best Memories: An Immediate Solution Thanks to Stellar Photo Recovery
Desktop Jan 2, 2024
Who doesn’t love creating new memories and saving them as photos on a smartphone, PC, or any other digital media? While many of us share some on social media, we keep the most precious and private ones to ourselves. Sadly, my hard drive of photos became corrupted, which held images…
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GOM Mix Max’s Big Launch
Video Dec 8, 2021
GOM & Company is releasing its newest video editing software, GOM Mix Max, with a big launch celebration. Focused on balancing high-quality and plentiful features, GOM Mix Max will be a powerful tool for new editors and veterans alike. Users who sign up now can get GOM Mix Max for free for…
Microsoft To End All Windows Vista Support On April 11
News March 27, 2017
Less than two weeks before Windows Vista officially reaches ‘end of life’. On April 11, 2017, more than 10 years after Microsoft officially launched Windows Vista, the much-maligned operating system that no one ever seemed to really like, will cease to receive any further technical support by Microsoft. Haven’t I... Read more
A Lithuanian man has been charged with defrauding two major US tech companies of $100 million via an email phishing scam. In a statement issued this week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Lithuanian native, Evaldas Rimasauskas masterminded a sophisticated phishing scheme that over the course of two years... Read more
Microsoft Finalises Windows 10 For China
News March 23, 2017
Microsoft (MS) has completed its government approved, specially adapted version of Windows 10 for the Chinese market. Windows 10 is already widely available for domestic use in China. But crucially for Microsoft, it is banned for use on government systems. Given the way that China operates as a country, this... Read more
CIA apparently knew and used zero-day Telnet vulnerability affecting up to 300 switches. Cisco has warned customers that the Vault 7 files obtained by WikiLeaks contains critical device-affecting data on a vulnerability that could be affecting up to 300 of the company’s switches. As a result, users have been advised... Read more
Facebook relents under pressure from civil liberties groups and bans developers from using social networks to create surveillance tools. Facebook announced that it has stopped software developers from being able to access the social network’s data to create surveillance tools, finally closing off a dubious situation that has seen... Read more
Uber President Jeff Jones Quits As Company Turmoil Continues
News March 20, 2017
Jones quits Uber six months after joining due to differences over ‘beliefs and approach to leadership’. The president of ride sharing app, Uber, Jeff Jones, has quit the company just under seven months after he was hired releasing the news through the press and apparently taking everyone at the... Read more
Indictment claims Russian spies and hackers routinely collaborate to undermine US companies and government. Four people have been indicted by a California Grand Jury of the 2014 cyber security attack against Yahoo. U.S. officials have claimed the accusations are proof of a symbiotic relationship between Moscow’s security services and a... Read more
Intel Buys Driverless Car Tech Firm Mobileye For $15bn
News March 16, 2017
Intel throws its hat into the ring and joins Silicon Valley’s race for self-driving cars. The US chipmaker, Intel, has taken a major step and some might say, gamble, on driverless cars with a $15 billion takeover of car technology specialist firm, Mobileye. The acquisition of Mobileye has jumpstarted... Read more
The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web some 28 years ago, says it faces three major threats – and we should all be worried. In an open letter to the world, Tim Berners Lee, has said we are all losing control of our personal data, that the spread... Read more
Researcher Finds 200,000 Wi-Fi Cameras Wide Open To Hacking
News March 14, 2017
Vast swathes of Wi-Fi IP cameras suffering from zero-day vulnerabilities, making them easy targets for hackers. What began as an everyday study of basic security issue in one IP camera quickly turned into seven major vulnerabilities that affects over 1,000 camera models and left nearly 200,000 cameras wide open to attack.... Read more
Advances in technology and innate human tendency for aggression could threaten survival chances of human race, but it might not come to that… Stephen Hawking, the world renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist has said in an interview the UK Times newspaper that he thinks that rapid technological advances mixed... Read more
Firefox 52 bans plugins except for Flash, warns users about logins on unencrypted websites, and claims to run processor intensive apps at nearly the same speed as native code. Mozilla have quietly released their latest browser, Firefox 52 into the wilds of the internet this week. In doing so... Read more
Microsoft Closing Quasi Social Network Experiment So.cl
News March 9, 2017
The social network you probably didn’t know ever existed, is closing due to a lack of users. Microsoft are pulling the plug on yet another one its projects. The So.cl experiment will be shut down at the end of the month joining other recent projects such as Windows Phone... Read more
FBI Drops Child Porn Case To Protect Tor Spying Method
News March 8, 2017
Prosecutors in the USA have dropped child pornography charges against a man because the FBI refused to reveal how it found out his identity. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said that it had dropped the case because the FBI did not want to reveal the Tor vulnerability it... Read more
Reviewed: the desktop video capture software packed with useful features. Gom Cam is a nifty piece of software that allows you to record your PC screen exactly as it appears, well… on your screen. Gom Cam can also record all the audio outputs from you PC or laptop, making it the... Read more
WikiLeaks posts 8,761 documents that seem to detail CIA hacking arsenal and secret cyber weapons. WikiLeaks has posted classified leaked documents online that it claims shows some of the CIA’s hacking and surveillance techniques. It began posting the leaked material on Tuesday of this week. The leak, called “Vault... Read more
Big name businesses team up to develop standards and technology to make it easier for enterprises to use blockchain code Ethereum. Looking to jumpstart a blockchain bandwagon, thirty or so companies have united to build business-ready versions of the software behind Ethereum, a decentralized computing network based on digital... Read more
A class action lawsuit filed in Illinois, USA, claims PayPal misled thousands over charitable donations. According to the lawsuit, donations made through PayPal’s Giving Fund platform may often never reach their intended targets. Lawyers pursuing the case say specifically that the PayPal Giving Fund will redirect donated money to... Read more