Doomsday not near as NASA denies Asteroid impact with Earth report

In addition NASA also provided some vital facts that supported the denial. source: www.techworm.net

August 23, 2015 · 1 min · 14 words · Donna Johnson

New Windows 7/8/8.1 updates spy on you just like Windows 10

It is now a known fact thatWindows 10 user datais being reported back to Microsoft servers back in Redmond. For these Windows 7/8/8.1 users there are a few updates which Microsoft has been pushing through last few days. Namely, KB3075249 and KB3080149, if installed are known to report your data back to Microsoft servers. There is little news about these updates but tech forums are already abuzz about their spying ways....

August 23, 2015 · 1 min · 98 words · Jared Young

Now anybody can create Ransomware using open source kit on GitHub

Utku Sen warns, While this may be helpful for some, there are significant risks. The Hidden Tear may be used only for Educational Purposes. Do not use it as a ransomware! you’re able to check the demonstration video made by Utku Sen Read More source: www.techworm.net

August 23, 2015 · 1 min · 46 words · Sydney Singleton

One of the country’s best VPNs taken down by the Chinese Police

Hundreds of thousands of people in China, used Shadowsocks as the foundation of several key pieces of software. It was was originally created by a programmer known as clowwindy. Today they asked me to delete all the code from GitHub. I have no choice but to obey. The Chinese government has complete control over the content and timing of the internet in their country. China is considered as the worlds largest prison for the Netizens....

August 23, 2015 · 1 min · 126 words · Richard Warner

Facebook open sources “Hack Codegen” a code that writes code

Facebook has decided to open-source a piece of software that is designed to write code. (HHVM is a virtual machine designed to execute programs in Hack and PHP.) Weve been using Hack Codegen at Facebook for a while. We realized early on that we would need a good library to generate code, wrote Marcu. This is the need that motivated us to write this library. The lack of scaling facilities motivated the engineering team to work to complete the Hack Codegen project....

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 109 words · Robert Miller MD

Fappening may follow as Ashley Madison hackers claim to have millions of nude pics

It looks like we were right. A lot of that consists of tens of thousands of user pictures, Impact Team says. A third of those are NSFW pictures, Impact Team says, but it wont release those. Third round: A third wave of documents has now been revealed by the Impact Team. It comes after a 9.7GB and 20GB leak earlier this week In the meantime, the hackers published the third tranche of the Ashley Madison booty on the dark web....

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 152 words · Nicole Diaz

How Trending Topics Are Decided By Facebook

Table Of Contents It seems like a lot of people these days get their news from Facebook. The news, however, though is determined by whom you follow and what pages you like. It is also based on what the broader Facebook community selects to speak about. For it to work, you should probably have both. Zac Efron and Jimmy Fallon breaking eggs onto their heads is important for Facebook and not New York Times....

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 159 words · Brian Turner

Intel releases Stephen Hawking’s speech system for public

The program interprets visual signals and translates them into words, which are then spoken by a machine. The ACAT software uses visual cues from a users face to understand commands. Inputs can come from a webcam or an infrared sensor. We have contextual menus to access all different parts of your box, said Lama Nachman, principal engineer. Intel is currently working with both users and patients in testing the system....

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 158 words · Mark Hurley

It is pretty easy to guess the Android lock patterns

Hence, it is much easier to remember and use them in comparison to the passwords. Those which started from one of the four corner nodes made up of 77 percent of the patterns. In case of password breaches, it was found that most common password cracked were 1234567 and letmein. This indicated that there is one-in-ten chance that attacker can predict the ALP. Suppose, attacker knows the names of the victim or their people it becomes all the more easier guess....

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 115 words · Erica Steele

New NASA grant explores turning human poop into astronaut meals

This indicates that NASA is actually making awesome progress at growing their own food in orbit. Anyways, astronauts on ISS are already drinking their own fluids, which includes their urine and sweat! source: www.techworm.net

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 34 words · Mrs. Danielle Ball MD

Popular Android Camera App Camera360 Ultimate Leaks Sensitive User Data

Camera360 is a popular photo shooting and editing program with millions of users worldwide. It has been downloaded about 30 million times and has a 4.4 rating from 2 million users. FireEye has found that the vulnerability lies in the Appss cloud services. The cloud access is protected by username and password. Apps that can read logcat or capture web link traffic can steal this data. The secret album option uses an additional password to secure important images....

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 111 words · Henry Johnson

Rags to riches : How Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA and became a billionaire

He is now one of the worlds richest self-made billionaires with a net worth of $48.1 billion. Inherently simplistic and extremely wealthy, Kamprad remains confident and courageous and an innovative thinker. Kamprad was born on March 30, 1926 in Pjatteryd, Sweden. His paternal grandfather was from Germany, but moved the family to Sweden. By the age of five, he began selling matches for profit. In his teens, Kamprad was influenced by his German grandmother who was a great admirer of Hitler....

August 22, 2015 · 2 min · 323 words · Kim Contreras

Top 10 popular programming languages used on GitHub

Here are the top 10 programming languages used for Gits by programmers on GitHub Among new projects started on GitHub, Java is now the second-most popular programming language, up from seventh place in 2008. The popularity of Android smartphones has also given weight to Java as Google made Java the primary language for developing applications on Android smart devices. Read More source: www.techworm.net

August 22, 2015 · 1 min · 63 words · Chad Brock