The Xiaomi Mi 8 launch will be taking place in Shenzhen, China, which was confirmed by a teaser image posted on Weibo. “To celebrate our 8th year anniversary, we’ll be launching Mi 8 at our annual flagship product launch in Shenzhen on May 31,” said Xiaomi product manager Donovan Sung confirming the news in a tweet. To celebrate our 8th year anniversary, we’ll be launching Mi 8 at our annual flagship product launch in Shenzhen on May 31....

The company in its advisory said that the patch, MS15-106, includes patches for critical vulnerabilities that can allow for remote code execution (RCE) if a user views a specially crafted Web page. This critical bulletins affect IE versions 7 and up on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10. Windows Server 2008 and 2012 are also affected, but the vulnerabilities are rated as moderate because of the restricted mode in which Internet Explorer runs on those systems....

For those unaware, The Nun is an upcoming American gothic supernatural horror film that is a direct spin-off of 2016’s The Conjuring 2 and is directed by Corin Hardy (The Hallow). The story is set in 1952, where a Catholic priest and a novice are sent by the Vatican to investigate the mysterious suicide of a nun at an abbey in Romania. On August 12, 2018, a six-second trailer for the new film was released on YouTube....

Kanghua Ren, who was 19 at the time of the prank, has been ordered to pay compensation of 20,000 euros (or about $22,300) to the victim for the humiliation, the Times reported. Ren, also known as ReSet to his followers on YouTube, had published the video on his channel in January 2017 which has since been removed, was found guilty of violating the moral integrity of the victim, the Barcelona Court said....

In a 36-page report published on Monday, Group-IB, which runs the largest computer forensics laboratory in eastern Europe, provided details of the newly-disclosed hacking group “MoneyTaker” named after a piece of custom malware it uses. According to the Group-IB, the hacking group has carried out more than 20 successful attacks on financial institutions and legal firms in the U.S., UK and Russia in the last two months alone. The MoneyTaker group stole funds by targeting electric fund transfer networks like SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication)....

Smartphones have become a pocket-sized computer that is used for a plethora of purposes besides the good old way to communicate. We use it every day for all sorts of purposes, and therefore store a significant amount of sensitive data including our private photos, videos, chats, messages, bank details and even personal data of our friends and family in form of their email address, phone numbers, photos on our smartphones....

“This vulnerability discovered in Xiaomi’s ‘Guard Provider,’ however, raises the worrying question of who is guarding the guardian. And although the guardian should not necessarily need guarding, clearly when it comes to how apps are developed, even those built in by the smartphone vendor, one cannot be too careful,” Makkaveev said in his blog post. Guard Provider allows users to choose from three antivirus scanners, Avast, AVL and Tencent built-in to detect potential malware....

The teenager stays in downtown Mumbai suburb and has chosen quit school after Class 9 and now works solely assembling computers from scraps. The class 9 dropout is driven by one vision, “I want to make affordable computers. The computer I have made is from leftovers from offices, banks and hospitals,” he told Mid-Day. “The screen is similar to one seen in operation theatres. It’s not a real computer. I used bits and pieces from here and there, and acrylic for the body, which I cut myself....

By using a BitTorrent protocol, people can download a file available on seeder’s system from the torrent sites. It allows users to download media files like music, movies, games, etc. If you’re an experienced torrent user probably you know that in order to browse the internet anonymously you will require to have the best VPN. Since outcomes of copyright contravention are rapidly increasing around the world, everyone is looking for a reliable VPN for torrenting to stay secure and safe online....

Dubbed as Sequoia and tracked CVE-2021-33909, this size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux Kernel’s Filesystem layer grants any unprivileged user gains root privileges on vulnerable devices by exploiting this vulnerability in a default configuration. The most important function of a Linux Filesystem is to manage user data. It is also the most important function of any operating system and is ubiquitous on all major Linux operating systems. According to Qualys security researchers, if an unprivileged local attacker creates, mounts, and deletes a deep directory structure whose total path length exceeds 1GB, the Sequoia bug (an out-of-bounds read) occurs in the Linux OS filesystem component, allowing any low-privileged local account to run code with root privileges....

The company is now using a new technology called Neural Machine Translation (NMT), which aims to make computer-generated translations more parallel to those done by humans and to power its translations in seven new languages. The update should make translations in those languages much more accurate and easier to understand, says Google. “At a high level, the Neural system translates whole sentences at a time, rather than just piece by piece,” said Barak Turovsky, product lead at Google Translate during a press event at Google’s San Francisco office on Tuesday....

The new hexagon-shaped fully-electric drone can fly up to 15 miles and deliver packages under 5 pounds to customers in less than 30 minutes. “With the help of our world-class fulfillment and delivery network, we expect to scale Prime Air both quickly and efficiently, delivering packages via drone to customers within months,” said Wilke in a blog post announcing the drone. Wilke pointed out the new drone design includes advances in efficiency, stability and, most importantly, in safety....

The website of American Choral Directors Association is still vulnerable to Sql Injection. Don’t be a silent user let us know what do you think about it in comments below 🙂

Android wins the battle against iOS, thanks to poor iPhone 6s salesEuropean performanceUS performance iOS also appears to have been affected by the poor demand for the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, which were launched in September 2015 as revives of the core devices launched one year before. With the drop in demand for new iPhones, which is expected to fall below the 200 million mark this year, more users are shifting to Android these days indicate new data provided by Kantar....

At the same time, Microsoft announced earlier on that its Windows 10 user base was standing in at 400 million users, showing the dominance of the company’s desktop OS. In order to help increase that user base, Apple is going to be reviving a few products later in the year. The iMac lineup, which is the company’s desktop computer family is going to be refreshed later this year, while the desktop workstation named Mac Pro is going to be reintroduced in 2018....

Greg Joswiak, Apple’s SVP of Marketing, who made the announcement on Twitter, released an invite for the event with the tagline ‘Peak Performance’ along with a multicolored Apple logo. — Greg Joswiak (@gregjoz) March 2, 2022 While the tease invite does not reveal what we can expect from the upcoming event, the ongoing rumors suggest that we could expect a new iPhone SE (2022), iPad Air (2022), and potentially a revamped Mac computer at the event....

The Woz, told Lateline that cybercrime was the greatest threat the world faced and he likened it to the cold war nuclear hysteria of his childhood. Saying that the cyber threat seems to unstoppable, Wozniak added: Woz hits out at FBI Woz also hit out at the FBI’s attempts to force the tech giant to unlock an iPhone that belonged to a terrorist. . Woz sid it was wrong for the US government to try to order Apple to unlock the phone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters Woz left his role as vice-president of research and development at Apple in the 1980s and sold most of his shares, but he is still an employee of the company and receives an annual salary....

The claim was filed in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London on Monday on behalf of around 19.6 million eligible UK iPhone and iPad users in the collective action. The lawsuit accuses Apple of using its dominant position and breaching the competition law by forcing people to use its own payment processing system, generating “excessive” profits for itself in the process. The claim argues that Apple’s policy of forcing developers to use Apple’s payment systems for in-app purchases and taking up to 30% commission is “excessive” and “unlawful”....