ESET, a Slovakian anti-virus software maker, who dubbed the malware Industroyer, said that it was used by hackers to briefly shut down one-fifth of the electric power generated in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev in December 2016. The malware is the “biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet,” ESET said, without indicating who was behind it. However, Ukrainian officials have blamed Russia for it, according to Reuters. “The malware is really easy to repurpose and use against other targets; that is definitely alarming,” ESET malware researcher Robert Lipovsky told Reuters in a telephone interview....

PCWorld reports that several overclockers wanted to get their hands on the chip and take it to its limits. One of them happened to be Roman Hartung, who continued to pour liquid nitrogen until it reached a stable temperature of -110 degrees Celsius. If the temperature dropped any further, then the processor would have forced the system to shutdown in order to prevent further damage from taking place. Intel Core i7-6950X managed to run at a stable 5....

The veteran from Philips spent nearly a half a decade at Intel, joining in as President, Client, and Internet of Things (IoT) Businesses and Systems Architecture Group. Axed for the delay in 7nm? Industry chatter and rumours are giving out the possibility of the reshuffle citing the continuous delay in Intel’s inability to release 7nm processors before 2022. On the other hand, AMD is planning to release its 7nm, compatible with AM4 socket processors this month....

This is happening now as iH8sn0w, the iOS hacker, who developed Sn0wbreeze and iFaith, has successfully jailbroken the early build of iOS that were out for developer accounts and also has a video to prove it. Only at the start of this week, Apple had unveiled its beta developer edition of iOS 10. A few days ago iH8sn0w hinted that he had a jailbreak for iOS 10 when he tweeted that Cydi worked fine with iOS 10....

For those unaware, Trend Micro, a global leader in cyber-security solutions, hosts Pwn2Own in an effort to promote its Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program, that is designed to reward security researchers to exploit the latest and most popular mobile devices and demonstrate and disclose major zero-day vulnerabilities to tech companies. Following the contest, vendors will have 90 days to produce patches for these bugs. Day 1 at the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2018 At the start of day one, Amat Cama and Richard Zhu from the “Fluoroacetate” team were the first to hack Xiaomi Mi 6 with the help of NFC component....

The iris is a thin, circular structure in the eye, responsible for controlling the diameter and size of the pupil. The user of the phone must first save its iris pattern in the phone by staring at animated circles on the screen to use the new security feature. According to Fujitsu, it does this by merging an infrared camera and infrared LED to shine light on a user’s eye and seize their iris pattern....

Scientists in Japan have created a new type of hybrid glass that’s almost as strong as steel and as light and thin as regular glass and nearly unbreakable. This discovery could radically change the commercial use of the new glass in phones, cars, buildings and technology. Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science have published their findings of their experiments in the journal Nature and the new glass should be available for use within five years....

First things first, streaming on Kickass Torrents is a lot different as compared to streaming on The Pirate Bay. The primary difference here is the process is extremely simple and straightforward on Pirate Bay, since all users have to do is press a button marked ‘stream it’. On Kickass Torrents, users wish that it was as simple. Members of Kickass Torrents that actively log into the site on a daily basis will not be able to see this feature; only non-members will be able to see this feature, suggesting that the KAT team are categorizing this as an advert....

The Genius Bars in Apple’s retail stores are supposed to be convenient ways to answer questions and get repairs. Whenever there is an issue with the iPhone or iPad, many people head straight to the Genius Bar, only to be turned away without an appointment or to realize it was a simple issue they could have fixed at home. With this unnamed app, Apple is trying to narrow down the cause of your problem by asking questions, and offer chances to contact support, book a Genius Bar appointment or (if it’s a relatively minor issue) fix it yourself through how-to guides....

Line Call, which is Line’s own voice service is different from Popcorn Buzz, as it is cheap but not free of charge. Line also offers free calls to other Line users in the main app. With an iOS app to come soon, the service is live now on Android globally. Also, in the pipeline, there is the group video chat and the ability to talk with a pre-set LINE chat group....

We leave that up to you if you want that level of personalization for yourself. In the past, Google has made changes to the activity history privacy by providing an option to auto-delete. Now the Big G has introduced auto-delete feature enabled for all its new users, which deletes YouTube activity, browser history, location history, etc. after 3 months or 18 months automatically. Note – Configuring auto-delete would not delete the past data and history....

The unidentified man, who hails from Cote d’Azur in the south of France, says his ordeal started when he used his wife’s cellphone to log into the app-based taxi company. However, his wife kept getting notifications of everywhere he went even after he logged off, according to the French newspaper Le Figaro. His wife would be notified of the pickup location, destination, and time. This exposed his whereabouts to his wife who deduced that her husband was having an affair, which eventually ended up with the wife filing for a divorce....

Wahle could not have implanted the chip by a doctor considering the many types of body modification. As a result, he had an “unlicensed amateur” inject it with a special syringe. Wahle resides in Florida, which has strict body modification limitations. However, in most other places you can get a professional piercer who will do implants of various types. The chip in Wahle’s hand lets him send a web page to any Android phone with an NFC chip, and this page is the key to his misuse....

Hoax alert : Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg is not giving his millions to youStop sharing this hoax post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not giving away millions of dollars to its users In the recent days, you may have probably seen messages in your Facebook feed that essentially say Zuckerberg and his wife plan to give away $45 billion dollars to random Facebook users. All you have to do is share a message and tag your friends....

Posting a picture of him in which he was sitting on the east side of Taj Mahal watching the monument of love, Mr. Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that: “I am in India for our Townhall Q&A tomorrow, and I decided to visit the Taj Mahal. I have always wanted to see this.” “It is even more stunning than I expected. It’s incredible what people can build — and what love can motivate us to build,” the tech giant further wrote in the Facebook post which was liked by over 4....

As you might have guessed by looking at the cover image of this article, Ana resembles an actual human being. Well, Krafton was able to reduce the differences between a digital character and a real human using the hyperrealism production technology of Unreal Engine. Some of the most noteworthy human-like features that Ana are baby hairs and fluff on her skin, delicate movement of the pupil, fine facial muscles and wrinkles, and natural joint movement across the entire body....

When Canonical’s Ubuntu Edge dream crashed, it turned its eyes towards hooking up with OEMs instead. BQ and Meizu have long been announced as the first of those partners, though it took quite some time for any actual product to be launched. That happened in February, at least for BQ, when the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition was unveiled. The same thing is happening now for Meizu’s existing MX4, which boasts of beefier specs than BQ’s budget phone....

Microsoft on Thursday finally announced that a team of researchers has successfully executed the first fully automated system where data can be stored and retrieved in manufactured DNA and then again converted back into digital data. The researchers published their proof-of-concept system in a new paper in Nature Scientific Reports journal on March 21. In a simple proof-of-concept test, the research team was able to successfully encode the word “hello” in snippets of fabricated DNA and convert it back to digital data using a fully automated end-to-end system....

WalkingCat, a Twitter user, discovered video demonstrations of the new app, that indicates that the upcoming Paint app is built on UWP and would be optimized for touch and pen input. While the new “Paint Preview” app includes all regular painting features of Paint, it now also includes support for 3D object, an ideal addition for HoloLens. With this new app, Paint Preview users will be able to make 3D content creation incredibly easily....

Microsoft, through the newly rebranded Microsoft Rewards – formerly Bing Rewards, will be paying Windows 10 users for using the Edge browser, shopping at the Microsoft store, or using Bing. Microsoft claims that the Edge browser is faster, more battery efficient and all-round better than Chrome or Firefox. It also consistently offers 1080p streaming on Netflix. You can even draw on websites with a stylus. In spite of all this, Edge has had trouble attracting users to use this browser....