Ubisoft the publisher of Far Cry 4, Assassin’s Creed deactivates third party keys leaving genuine buyers in lurch

One of thecomplainant, Slump3r is an expat Belgian living in Poland. Now he finds that FC 4 has been deleted from his library. If I understand correctly, you did not distribute those keys to those retailers. than officially-supported online shops such as Steam, Origin or Uplay. In the meantime, customers should communicate with the vendor from whom they purchased the key. source: www.techworm.net

January 28, 2015 · 1 min · 63 words · Suzanne Bryant

A Battery boosting a bell for last 175 years – yet know one knows how

A Battery that has been boosting a bell for the last 175 year continuously. Researchers found a battery that has been surprisingly running continuously for the last 175 years. It consists of dry pile, which is one of the first kinds of electric batteries. Dry piles were invented by Giuseppe Zamboni in the early 1800s. It was eventually purchased by a researcher, who continued to allow it to ring. But Oxford University believes that the bell was set up something around in 1825....

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 148 words · Justin Moss

A toy drone quadcopter on the White House grounds causes alarm from Secret Service

The drone caused a temporary lockdown at the White House. This raises the possibility of small drones that could also be used to launch chemical and biological attacks. A photograph released by the Secret Service of the drone that crashed on the South Lawn looks partly broken. Under federal law, it is illegal to fly a drone in Washington. Technology is available to jam the signals of an approaching drone, Mr....

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 73 words · Kristen Cobb

Facebook and Instagram outage due to mis-configuration not a hack attack

Facebook officials categorically denied any hacking or third party attack on Facebook and Instagram. A Facebook spokesperson told The Next Web that the reason behind the outage was a misconfigured code. Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone. Lizard Squad made a very innocuous tweet which just state that the Facebook was down....

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 75 words · Shawn Rogers

Facebook down; Facebook and Instagram face international outage, social animals harangued

The Facebook outage first occurred around 1.10 am ET and Instagram went down subsequently followed by Tinder. Luckily for users, the Facebook owned mobile instant messaging App, WhatsApp is operating normally as of now. Instagram has also been knocked offline. Ask me something , can be about music , advice or just anything in general ! If we lose this, society will plunge into chaos. That is what we call, a collateral damage!...

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 76 words · Michael Castro

Maldrone: Malware which hijacks your personal drone

A French company Parrot has been relatively successful company which markets AR Drones. Now a Indian security researcher Rahul Sasi has discovered a backdoor in the AR Drones. This backdoor has been exploited by him to create a malware called Maldrone. In this we would show infecting a drone with Maldrone and expecting a reverse tcp connection from drone. Once connection is established we can interact with the software as well as drivers/sensors of drone directly....

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 178 words · Mary Campbell

Mozilla stepping towards to bring Virtual Reality to the Firefox Browser

Earlier this week, support for WebVR also landed in Firefoxs Nightly and Developer Edition release channels. The concept of introducing VR is really amazing but challenging too. Virtual reality in any website you visit? The challenges involve synchronizing your head movements with the screen responding to them. The reaction time between the two should be as low as it can go. The team at Mozilla believes that WebVR will enhance the web experience, as a whole....

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 78 words · Michael Harris

OpDeathEaters : Anonymous calls for Global protest on 13th February

February, Friday 13th will be their worst nightmare. Fighting pedophilia,@David_Cameron? Anonymous have just released a press release regarding the protest march on February 13, 2015. It is reproduced below : Greetings citizens of the world. In recent months, OpDeathEaters has shown the number of stories all over the world involving institutional pedosadism. They have failed the position we gave them. They have abused the privilege and power we allowed them and used it against our children....

January 27, 2015 · 2 min · 233 words · Gary Jones

Samsung working on a wearable sensor to detect strokes early

Two years ago, a group of engineers at Samsung Electronics wanted a breath of fresh air. The engineers wanted to develop a solution that could detect the onset of a stroke by monitoring brainwaves. A various range of open source software solutions were also used, including FFT and Wavelet. Third, the sensors are easy to wear. The EDSAP may turn out to be boon for patients with chronic heart problems or blood pressure history....

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · 76 words · Rachel Rodriguez

“Game of Threats” PwC’s new game to create awareness against hacking

How is corporate world or retailers fighting back. Well by playing games! More accurately playing Game of Threats. The strategy game is somewhat a mixture of Chess with turned based card game like Magic: The Gathering. The players of the game are led into a room and split into two groups. Half of them play as hackers on the offensive. The other half is the unsuspecting Acme Corporation. Each side gets playing cards with special abilities....

January 27, 2015 · 2 min · 272 words · Amanda Herring

Anonymous relaunch Operation Death Eaters to expose international paedophile networks

#OpDeathEaters : Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks The popular hacktivist group Anonymous, which have had a long standing war on government censorship, internet privacy, and for right to speech and freedom of expression have announced yet another operation only this time the targets are paedosadist industry. While making announcement for the reactivating the campaign called #OpDeathEaters, Anonymous has sought help from activists all over the world to annihilate the scourge of internet, the paedophiles and their likes, by bringing the international paedophile web link out in the open....

January 26, 2015 · 3 min · 439 words · Danny Horn

China Restricting the use of VPN’s after its Censorship Upgradation

VPNs work by establishing an encrypted pipe between a computer or smartphone and a server in a foreign country. Chinese citizens use VPN to get to external news sources and for day-to-day communications. So this why my China VPN hasn’t been working on IOS. He further added by saying that the controls hurt businesses that depend on online information and tools. He further concluded that Censorship has suddenly become a serious business issue....

January 26, 2015 · 1 min · 91 words · Brent Robinson

Facebook launches Facebook Lite App for lower end smartphones

A report by TechCrunch says that the App has been built to accommodate lower end and Android devices. The App will prove beneficial in areas with 2G and poor quality internet connections. Facebook Lite will have some of the features of Facebook like push notifications and camera integration. A report suggests that Indias mobile Facebook users will surpass US user-base by 2017. source: www.techworm.net

January 26, 2015 · 1 min · 64 words · Randy Garrett