Our lack of contact with alien lifeforms could be due to any number of reasons debated Musk, however, none of them point out that intelligent lifeforms have basically never existed within our Universe. Alternatively, Musk suggests that our isolation is in fact proof that we are living in some form of simulation. He also got one more theory that suggests that we can be part of an experiment being run by an even more advanced alien race that is carefully trying to watch our evolutionary behaviors....

Europol said that it had conducted this operation with the assistance of investigators from Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Europol was helped by 3 tech companies, AnubisNetworks, a unit of BitSight Technologies; Microsoft Corp and Symantec Corp, as well in dismantling the command and control server infrastructure used by the hackers. Microsoft alongwith Washington-based Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center sought a court order in US court to shutdown the servers in a sealed lawsuit, Microsoft statement said....

Trailing behind The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent is the second largest torrent site with millions of daily visitors. Several entertainment industry groups put pressure on hosting companies and domain name services to take action against ExtraTorrent due to its popularity. Consequently, ExtraTorrent ended up losing control of three domain names used for its official mirror sites over the past several days. Thus, extratorrent.rocks, etproxy.top and extratorrent.date are no longer available following a complaint from rightholders....

Facebook users over the world are reporting a unique problem with the Facebook App. It is crashing as soon as it is opened. The problem has left many FB users without access to the social media site over the weekend after the Facebook for Android App stopped working. Due to some but, Facebook users were confronted with the error message that “Facebook has stopped” when attempting to open the FB app....

According to Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, the company will cross-reference the purchased black market passwords with encrypted passwords used on the site. This practice has kept the users’ accounts safe from breaches. Speaking at the Web Summit 2016 technology conference in Lisbon, Portugal, Stamos said that more than 1.3 billion people use Facebook every day. “Keeping Facebook safe and keeping it secure are two different things. Security is about building walls to keep out threats and shore up defences....

Facebook engineering director shares his experiences in 6-week engineer bootcamp1. It allows engineers to decide how they want to contribute.2. It gives new joinees an internal network3. It fosters unity among engineers It’s one of the first steps that new college graduates to coding veterans are required to go through in the company’s signature “Bootcamp,” a six-week introduction to Facebook that all engineers. In a 2009 Facebook post, Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, VP of engineering had said that he had started the program the year before, when the engineering staff was pushing 150 members....

The biggest social media company in the world is really struggling very hard to keep its user’s data safe and sound. But there are some notorious hackers who swiped the sleep of Facebook’s security researchers team. Also Read- Top 10 Ways That Hackers Use To Hack Facebook Accounts Recently Facebook said that over 50 million of its users’ data is left exposed by a security flaw. The company also said that by taking the advantage of this flaw, hackers somehow managed to exploit a vulnerability in a feature known as “View as” to get an access over people’s accounts....

The testing of ads will start with Blaston, an action game developed by Resolution Games and a couple of other developers that will be rolling out over the coming weeks. “Our primary focus at Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) is to bring more people into VR, advance the consumer experience, and make progress on our longer-term augmented reality initiatives,” Facebook wrote in a blog post. “We’re also exploring new ways for developers to generate revenue—this is a key part of ensuring we’re creating a self-sustaining platform that can support a variety of business models that unlock new types of content and audiences....

Facebook focused relentlessly on mobile throughout the keynote, positioning themselves as the layer which unites the increasingly fragmented world of mobile operating systems. They revealed that over 1 billion app installs had been driven through Facebook, and over $3bn in payments managed whilst pointing out that their own apps represent more than 20% of the total time spent by users on their phones. Hoping to encourage more developers to take advantage of Facebook sign in within their apps they launched a number of updates which gave users more control of their privacy settings, or even the ability to login anonymously whilst still being able to sync your activity across devices....

“Today we’re launching Reels on Facebook for iOS and Android in the US. We’re bringing short form, entertaining video experiences and tools that have inspired creators on Instagram to more creators and audiences on the Facebook app,” the company wrote in a blog post. “With the ability to create reels and have their Instagram reels suggested to people on Facebook, creators — whether they’re just starting out or already have a large following — will have more ways to express themselves, grow their communities and reach new audiences....

Today, the company made its open sourced code Infer freely available to any independent developer or any company looking to debug their apps in new ways. Peter O’Hearn, Infer’s co-creator said “It looks at the program and makes guesses or hypotheses about the program, the way a human might.” However, in contrast to a human, it can read thousands of lines of code in just minutes to locate potential bugs....

It is still not known that when this feature will be available Globally, for the rest of the Facebook users Stickers are available only in the Facebook messenger or chat. Last week Facebook rolled out an update for its windows phone messenger app which allows user to share Emoticons and Voice Messages which can be accessed via a dedicated button on the navigation bar in the Messenger app. Update: The Feature looks to be working for most of the users in Australia....

Social networking giant Facebook has alleged that someone at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) office has blocked emails from its websites through which people shared their views on differential pricing for data services, a key issue of net neutrality. In a startling series of e-mail exchanges made public on January 19, the regulatory body delivered a scathing indictment of Facebook’s lobbying practices, accusing the company of converting the regulator’s consultation process into a “crudely majoritarian and orchestrated opinion poll” and wilfully disregarding its request to better inform Facebook’s users....

The private photos of Paige started circulating on social media early on Friday which later started trending on twitter. It was soon discovered that Paige’s nude photos and an alleged sex tape of her was doing its round on notorious website Celeb Jihad. Just two days ago nude images of Emma Watson, Mischa Barton, Amanda Seyfried and other celebrities were leaked. It is still unclear if these hacks or leaks are in anyway associated to that of iCloud leaks (Fappening) of 2014....

Another celebrity’s personal account has been hacked leading to some personal photos including nudes being leaked online. The celebrity victim is Samara Weaving and the notorious website Celeb Jihad has been the one to release the photos. Samara’s father has spoken out against the hack, though the actress herself has not yet made a statement. Her Father’s statement Samara’s father Simon has released a statement against the alleged hacks & consequent release of the photos....

Say hello to the FBI’s facial recognition systemNot only criminals, but also Civilian images with non criminal records, The Next Generation Identification (NGI) is a new system developed by FBI, which features the facial recognition system, will help the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in investigations in criminal cases. The NGI entails complete build up of the FACIAL features a person which will then make the task of hunting them down easy for the enforcement agencies....

Microsoft itself was criticized a lot for the way it took on to investigate into the leak. In order to find out the culprit behind leaking of the code, Microsoft allegedly tapped into the blogger’s Hotmail account without his consent. Later on due to the furore raised by the online community against illegal snooping, the company has since changed its policy. As per the new Microsoft ToS, if such circumstances occur in the future, the company will call in law enforcement agencies to look into the matter, rather than investigating the matter themselves....

During a show called “Varney & Company” on Fox Business Network, host, Stuart Varney asked the guest on the show John McAfee to tell the views how the hackers were able to break into the Sony’s computer systems. Varney got a hack lesson of his life! The McAfee Inc. owner decided to give Varney first hand knowledge of hacking. From a remote location, McAfee hacked into Varney’s phone via its voicemail, accessed the contacts and then faked a call from one of those contacts....

As per NetMarketShare which is an Internet analytic firm the Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox contributes to a total of 40% of the world wide browser market. With this decision from the giant browser sites it could disturb users who access wide ranges of the Chinese websites. From 1st April users who are using the Firefox browser or Chrome browser would receive a pop up message as soon as they enter any ‘....

Stadia is being promoted as the central community for gamers, creators, and developers that aims to take on Microsoft’s Xbox One, Sony’s PlayStation 4, Nintendo’s Switch, as well as upcoming streaming services like Microsoft’s xCloud and Nvidia’s GeForce Now. Stadia is not a piece of hardware or a dedicated console but a streaming platform meant to free the player of hardware limitations of PCs and gaming consoles. All games will run on Google’s global network of data centers, and a video feed of the game will be accessible by the user on desktops, laptops, tablets, phones, and TVs connected to Chromecast streaming media sticks to start with....