One of such stories happened with a wannabe Python developer who was searching for a job. The man sauntered off and the Python developer thought the issue was best forgotten. He walked into the interviewers chamber and within seconds, began to remember the lord and curse himself. This is a VC company that offers money to fledgling start-ups. How did the interview go? Our Python developer lost his job opportunity and Buckland laughed it off....

Now it has announced that all Dropbox will be getting 100GB OneDrive space for a period ofone year. To claim the free storage, Dropbox users will have to sign up to OneDriveafter logginginto Dropbox. Once they are logged in, they need to download and save a OneDrive brochure to their Dropbox account. Once the brochure is saved in the Dropbox before the promotional storage is added to their OneDrive account....

Lawyers for CG state that this would open doors for many others who had been similarly aggrieved. And enjoy watching him in pain. Another stated, If you see, kill the ****. His lawyers who successfully argued the case, stated that McCloskeys Facebook page was nothing but vigilantism. Resource :Irish Times. source: www.techworm.net

you’re free to do unlimited changes to the image prior to uploading it through the mobile App. The update is available for FacebooksiOSandAndroidapps. So dress up your images with puppies, dolls and dinosaurs. source: www.techworm.net

Apple seems to have fixed this issue in the iOS 8.1.3. Now, FireEye researchers have discovered a new but which can be doubly dangerous than Masque. We will give a shot to understand this in simple terms. Fire Eye has brought this issue to the notice of Apple. According to FireEyes article: An attacker can leverage this issue to launch an app containing a Masque Attack. stealing the get in credentials....

We had earlier recounted how Microsoft was bungling with its patches notonceortwicebutthreetimes in the recent past. This is being done since 2003 and is known as Patch Tuesday or Black Tuesday. This corruption would be rectified if the patch was uninstalled. Also it was found that the patch does not affect the Windows 7 and 8.1 versions. The problem lies that, Microsoft published this patch without documentation and proper instructions regarding the patch....

Now Time Warner Cable (TWC) is following Comcasts example of calling customers insulting names. We have terminated our agreement with this vendor and are changing our processes to prevent this from happening again. Esperanza Martinez got an apology and a free year of service. source: www.techworm.net

December 2015 would witness a talking Barbie i.e. Hello Barbie is being produced by Mattel in collaboration with Toy Talk which is US based Start-up. It is found that kids are more attracted to smarter versions of the toys which can engage with them. Hence, toy makers are busy manufacturing such technologically advanced toys to meet the demands of next gen children. One such toy wasCayla, which was introduced in Nov 2014....

New Snowden docs show that in 2010, Top SIM makers were hacked by a specialized NSA & GCHQ Hack team and lost control of their encryption keys In the continuing series of Snowden leaks revelations, The Intercept has published a new report which states that NSA and GCHQ teamed up together to form a team of hackers codenamed Mobile Handset Exploitation Team (MHET) to hack top SIM card manufacturers. TheIntercept reportwhich was published today provides damning evidence against the National Security Administration (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) who formed a team together in April 2010 to crack mobile phone encryption....

Researches are going on and still much had to be done to make it more effective and efficient. This web connection involves training a computer to recognise elements of images from a database using various layers. And, the team said the technology could be improved following further training. The Facebook Deep Face tool feature has now started appearing in the privacy configs of accounts during tagging. But the feature is not available to all and it is still in its infancy....

Our boy however had different ideas altogether. He chose to have a go at hacking the car alone without any guidance from the experts available. What he did next morning left the experts flummoxed. Early morning, he used his homemade rig to hack into the car of a major automaker. Within minutes the 14 year old had the car windshield wipers turned on and off. You dont have to be an engineer....

Once this is done the malware will inject the virus so that the entire Power Off process is locked. However in reality the phone is still active and working. source: www.techworm.net

Well, Oxford researchers believe that this may indeed happen. Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be possessing huge potential to deliberately work towards extinction of human race. Musk refers the AI to be biggest existential threat to humanity. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, its probably that. So we need to be very careful. Human Intelligence surely can make super intelligent machines however can we control the thinking of these AIs?...