The company has been credited for the burgeoning gig economy, allowing car owners to make side income from driving for Uber in their spare time. The Uber system also creates efficiencies by utilizing otherwise idle vehicles, and deploying smartphone apps so that drivers and riders spend less time seeking one another out. Now, it seems that blockchain could shake up the parcel delivery industry in a similar way that Uber did for ridesharing....

According to the company, the issue was caused due to a Windows 11 update (KB5016691) released in late August, which blocked users who recently added a Microsoft account from signing in to Windows 11 for the first time. However, the Redmond giant clarified that the issue does not affect Active Directory domain users or Azure Active Directory accounts. “After installing KB5016691 and adding a new Microsoft account user in Windows, you might be unable to sign in for a brief time after the first restart or sign out....

Hardcore Unix users have long been able to run the popular Bash command line interface (CLI) on Windows. Thanks to programs such as Cygwin or MSYS utilities. ZDNet reports: With this new addition, Ubuntu users will be able to run Ubuntu simultaneously with Windows. This will not be in a virtual machine, but as an integrated part of Windows 10. The details won’t be revealed until tomorrow’s morning keynote speech at Microsoft Build....

According to Reuters, the victims included activists from China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular who used Microsoft’s Hotmail email service from 2009 to 2011. In an email to Fast Company, the company said that it never concluded the Chinese government was to blame. The attackers exploited a since-fixed flaw in Hotmail’s security to obtain copies of the victims’ emails, according to a previous report explaining the malware behind the hack, the....

Project Reunion 0.5 is aimed to unify the two app platforms APIs – Win32 (desktop) and UWP (Universal Windows Platform) – by decoupling them from Windows 10 operating system and making them available without waiting for the OS to update with new features. “We aim to grow Project Reunion to provide a modern, simple, and accessible version of much of the power of the Windows Application Platform,” the team explains in its README documentation on GitHub....

With this deal in the pocket, Microsoft is adding “Candy Crush” and “Diablo,” the two global video-gaming powerhouse franchises, to its gaming portfolio. The acquisition will make Microsoft the third largest gaming company after Tencent and Sony, provided it is cleared by the EU and USA regulators. This comes as a shocker move as the gaming company has been embroiled in a myriad of “frat boy” culture lawsuits involving workplace harassment, sexual misconduct, and a misogynist culture....

For those unaware, Office 365 ProPlus is a version of Office that is primarily used by businesses and is available through Office 365. It includes applications that you are familiar with, including Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Skype for Business, and Word. Microsoft is aiming to bring its Microsoft Search technology to business users by offering access to files, OneDrive and SharePoint, as well as conversations in Teams and Yammer, directly from the browser address bar....

For those unaware, Minecraft, the block-based sandbox, is offered in two different versions: the Java and Bedrock editions, where you are required to pay separately to buy these versions. While the Java Edition is only available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, you can get the Bedrock Edition on Windows 10 and 11, Xbox One, Xbox Series S and X, PlayStation 4 and 5, Nintendo Switch, Fire OS/TV, Android, iOS, Windows Mobile and Samsung Gear VR....

#OpIsrael Reloaded, a project from hackers to remove Israel from internet was started on 7th of june 2013, one of the hacker involved in this project, Anon Ghost has managed to hack more than 778 Israeli websites till now. including 53 Israeli government websites completely removed form internet. Moreever he has reported more than 35000 Israeli Emails Leak And popular email service hack nana.co.il . The data can be seen in the paste provided by him: List of website hacked by Anon Ghost under #OpIsrael Reloaded List of government websites removed completely by Anon Ghost under #OpIsrael Reloaded Emails hacked by Anon Ghost #OpIsrael Reloaded Data from email service nana....

This Terminal Commands are most frequently used on Ubuntu Linux distro1. APTapt-get apt-files2. LS3. GREP4. MAN5. CAT So we prepared a list of commands which enable the user to do more in less effort( because the GUI approach for doing the same thing would require a lot of directory surfing and complexity). The list follows: 1. APT APT stands for Advanced Packing Tool. It is a utility provided in almost every popular Linux distribution nowadays....

The patent, “Early Detection of High Volume Peer-To-Peer swarms,” has been issued by USPTO to Comcast’s NBC Universal. The system is set up to detect popular pirated files shared by large groups of people on peer-to-peer networks in real-time and gather data that can be used for anti-piracy purposes, business intelligence, etc. When there are many users involved in sharing the verified file, it will raise an alarm so appropriate action, like alerting the ISP or filing a lawsuit, can be taken....

Currently, in some of the safety systems, the car’s movement is observed to alert the driver. However, such warning normally come after the driver has already acted. Therefore, the new system developed by Cornell researchers works by studying the driver’s body movements while taking into consideration the outside environment and accordingly, advise a proper course of action for the driver. This is achieved by the new car safety system by deploying cameras to record the driver’s body language as well as locate the other vehicles & hurdles on the road....

Alon Gal, the co-founder, and CTO of cybersecurity company Hudson Rock tweeted about the tool and uploaded a video to YouTube showing email addresses being scuffed from Facebook. Technologist Ashkan Soltani also posted a transcript of the video, wherein the person who made the video claims the tool abuses an active front-end vulnerability in Facebook. The narrator also told that the tool is currently available “within the hacking community” and can be used to match 5 million email addresses to Facebook accounts within a day....

RiskIQ said that one out of every three of the sites contained malware in a sampling done of 800 sites dedicated to distributing stolen TV shows and movies. “It’s clear that the criminals who exploit stolen content have diversified to make more money by baiting consumers to view videos and songs and then stealing their IDs and financial information,” Tom Galvin, the executive director of Digital Citizens Alliance, said in a statement....

In a report published by CyberArk Labs, experts have pointed out that anti-malware solutions that are supposed to protect the user may unintentionally assist malware in increasing privileges on the system. Anti-malware products seem to be a lot more vulnerable to exploitation because of their high privileges, which could be abused to gain elevated permissions via file manipulation attacks. Multiple anti-malware products that are vulnerable to the bugs include those from Kaspersky, McAfee, Symantec, Fortinet, Check Point, Trend Micro, Avira, and Microsoft Defender....

Nintendo has announced that it will be airing a new Nintendo Direct on April 1st, The Fools Day.This is no April Fools prank, Nintendo Says. — Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) March 31, 2015 While Nintendo has recently delayed Legend of Zelda for Wii U into 2016. the company also confirmed it major plans to enter in smartphone gaming market and revealed its next platform, codenamed “NX.” Any guesses what’s coming during the Nintendo Direct tomorrow!...

The developer Intelligent Systems has offered significant improvements in the graphics, soundtracks, and dialogues department. Prior to the official launch of Paper Mario: The Origami King, videos of the game being played on PC surfaced on the internet. At the time of writing this article, the gameplay YouTube videos have been removed due to copyright claims from Nintendo of America Inc. Unreleased Nintendo Title Gameplay Footage Leaked Prior To Launch Over the years, the emulation technology has developed drastically....

After we spotted the Nokia D1C Android smartphone renders, Nokia came out with an official statement that it will be coming with not one but three Android smartphones and the same will be available to buyers only in early 2017. Now we are into the first week of December so we can expect the Nokia Android smartphones by March 2017. This was confirmed by HMD Global, the firm that now owns the Nokia license, which stated that it will hold a press conference at MWC in February....

The website was hacked by hackers named Màh Di & ROJO XI & MR.CHARFE of FALLAGA TEAM and they left a defaced page carrying following message : The Notepad++ website was apparently hacked for publishing a special Je Suis Charlie edition on its website, the image of which is given below : Hi NOTEPAD++, Today is your turn. So you are “CHARLIE” ! Because the last notepad++ version (6.7.4) named “JE SUIS CHARLIE” !...