More than 460 HP laptop models found with pre-installed keylogger

In its advisory, HP called the keylogger as a potential, local loss of confidentiality. A party would need administrative privileges so that take advantage of the vulnerability. Neither Synaptics nor HP has access to customer data as a result of this issue. The company has released a Driver update to remove debugging code for all the affected HP Notebook models. Clickhereto see the entire list of affected HP laptops and their patches....

December 10, 2017 · 1 min · 97 words · Wayne Poole

Intel ME Firmware Flaws Not Perfectly Fixed Last Month, Say Security Researchers

Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that could potentially impact certain PCs, servers, and IoT platforms. To determine if the identified vulnerabilities impact your system, download and spin up the Intel-SA-00086 Detection tool. Contact your system manufacturer to obtain updates for impacted systems. System owners with specialized requirements should get in touch with the equipment manufacturers for this bang out of request. Source:Dark Reading,The Register Read More source: www.techworm.net

December 9, 2017 · 1 min · 68 words · Charles Johnson

Nvidia announces Titan V, a $2,999 most powerful PC GPU

The new TITAN V card features 21.1 billion transistors that delivers 110 TFLOPs of raw horsepower. Our ultimate purpose is to build computing platforms that allow you to do groundbreaking work. He added, Our vision for Volta was to push the outer limits of high performance computing and AI. With Titan V, we are putting Volta into the hands of researchers and scientists all over the world. I cant wait to see their breakthrough discoveries....

December 9, 2017 · 1 min · 111 words · Ashley Hall

Bitcoin Exchange NiceHash Hacked, Over $67 Million In Bitcoin Stolen

The breach was announced by the company on social media as well as its website. Dear NiceHash users,we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused. We’ll keep you updated! Importantly, our payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen. We are working to verify the precise number of BTC taken, it added. Worried Bitcoin users took to Twitter to express their concerns. A user named Lohit tweeted, Are we going to get our btc?...

December 8, 2017 · 1 min · 196 words · Tracey Bennett

Google’s ‘superhuman’ AlphaZero AI becomes one of the best chess players in the world

Released in 2008, Stockfish 8 has previously won 2016s Top Chess Engine Championship. Other than this, it just plays itself over and over with self-reinforced knowledge. AlphaZero also learned shogi in two hours before beating the leading program Elmo in a 100-game matchup. AlphaZero won 90 games, lost eight and drew 2. Experts have already suggested that the achievement will strengthen the firms position in a competitive sector. Source:theguardian Read More...

December 8, 2017 · 1 min · 73 words · Erika Robinson

Nvidia’s new AI will convince you in believing fake videos as real

Using this technique, the researchers were able to produce some amazing results. Earlier, AI tools required massive amounts of data to make it process comparison between the content. The color effects used by AI makes the video appealing and real. The researchers are expected to present their work this weekat the NIPS AI conferencein Long Beach, California. source: www.techworm.net

December 7, 2017 · 1 min · 59 words · Chelsey Taylor

Uber paid 20-year-old Florida hacker $100000 to keep data breach secret

According to the statement, the hack was performed by two people on a third-party cloud service. The rideshare company did not disclose any more information except that the hacker is a 20-year-old man from Florida. Affected drivers will get free credit monitoring and identity theft protection. It was revealed that even he was not aware of the 2016 incident until recently. On November 21, 2017, Uber had announced about the data breach that took place last year....

December 7, 2017 · 1 min · 178 words · Paul Haas

iPhone X ranks below iPhone 8 because of durability and battery life, says Consumer Reports

Heres what Consumer Reports found: We tumbled three samples of the iPhone X. The first was fine after 50 drops, but the glass on the back was significantly cracked after 100. The other two phones ended up with malfunctioning displays after 50 drops. Though the front glass didnt crack, several bright green bars stretched across the screens from top to bottom. Further, front displays of the iPhone X, 8, and 8 Plus all came away unharmed....

December 6, 2017 · 1 min · 161 words · David Nelson

OnePlus 5T Is The Fastest-Charging Smartphone, Not The iPhone X

Our smartphones are no more a mobile phone rather it is a charging phone. The batteries dont take much time to drain out either. This issue created a new market for power bank, to carry portable batteries and recharge our phone. However, the issue still lies within; the cell phones take a long time to charge. So the next possible way to solve the issue is to avail fast charging options....

December 6, 2017 · 1 min · 189 words · Michelle Huang

TeamViewer vulnerability allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of the other’s PC

This vulnerability affected versions of TeamViewer running on Windows, macOS and Linux machines. TeamViewer too went on to acknowledge the existence of the vulnerability after it was publicly disclosed. The code can be used on both the client and server-side. This vulnerability could be exploited to gain control of the presenters session or the viewers session without permission. For those who do not have automatic updates set will be notified when an update is available....

December 6, 2017 · 1 min · 108 words · Micheal Ramirez

Google creates first-ever coding doodle to mark 50 years of kids coding

Celebrate#CSEdWeek& 50 yrs of kids coding languages by checking out our VERY FIRST coding#GoogleDoodle! The white rabbit needs to cross six levels to gather the carrots. There is a tutorial before every level that helps the user learn the code block using kids coding language. Kids programming on computers must have sounded futuristic and impractical in the 1960s when Logo was first created. Today, computers are used in almost every aspect of our lives....

December 5, 2017 · 1 min · 88 words · Bethany Kelly

Is Facebook Down, FB messenger down for many users

The sudden worldwide outage occurred half hour ago and the reason of the outage is not known. Messages from both mobile and desktop versions of messenger/chat are having difficulties being sent or received. Sending and receiving messages might not work. Our team is working to resolve this. Bug reportTemporary send message failure. hey give it another spin later. Update:All services are coming back up to normal now This is a developing story…....

December 5, 2017 · 1 min · 76 words · Nathan Lewis

Samsung tests 5G network on high-speed Japanese train

Both the companies achieved a successful downlink and uplink handover as well as a peakdata transmissionof1.7 Gbpsduring the demonstration. The tests were carried out in Saitama, Japan, near Tokyo from October 17 through October 19. The test happened on a train running between two stations over a one-mile stretch of track. The companies said that they could download a 8K-quality video via a 5G router installed on-board. This will include research on diverse spectrums and technologies, as well as new business models and applications....

December 5, 2017 · 1 min · 89 words · Jeffrey Smith