Until a few decades, artificial intelligence may have seemed like something straight from a science fiction novel. But this is a field that has been explored by industrial and military developers for many years, with researchers producing ever more sophisticated examples of unmanned equipment that actually make a lot of the hardware in those space movies look clunky. So what are some of the latest developments in this area? Commercial drones The use of drones for non-military purposes continues to expand, given their enormous potential to carry out hazardous tasks in a diverse range of industries....

Snowden along with his co-author and fellow hacker Huang presented their findings on smartphone “hardware introspection” in a talk at MIT Media Lab’s Forbidden Research yesterday. “This work aims to give journalists the tools to know when their smart phones are tracking or disclosing their location when the devices are supposed to be in airplane mode,” the pair wrote in their technical paper. They contend that you cannot depend on a smartphone’s user interface to tell you the truth about that state of its radios....

It all started when conservative podcaster and former OANN host Elizabeth Wheeler tweeted on Friday night, “If Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?” To which Musk replied, “I certainly hope it does not come to that, but, yes, if there is no other choice, I will make an alternative phone....

A recently released hacking tool dubbed as KeeFarce silently decodes all usernames, passwords, and notes stored by the KeePass password manager and writes them to a file. While KeeFarce targets KeePass, there is little that can stop the developers from creating similar apps that target almost every other password manager available today. Hackers and professional penetration testers can run it on computers that they have already taken control of. They can can execute the KeeFarce tool on a computer where a logged in user has unlocked the KeePass database....

The statement was made by Haahr at SMX West, a search marketing conference that was scheduled in San Jose, California between March 1 and 3. — Jonah Stein (@Jonahstein) March 3, 2016 Haahr was responding to queries about Google’s search products in general during the event’s keynote, when someone questioned him about the company’s latest addition, the RankBrain AI. The engineer’s answer, as Barry Schwartz, SERoundtable reporter, and many other conference attendants confirmed on Twitter, was that many of Google’s own engineers don’t quite fully understand how the new RankBrain algorithm works....

Kaminsky says a flaw found in the Gnu C standard library, aka “glibc,” can trick browsers into looking up shady domain names. Servers could then reply with overly-long DNS names, causing a buffer overflow in the victim’s software. That would in turn let hackers execute code remotely and possibly take over a machine. The bug is new and has been around since May 2008. Kaminsky said “the buggy code has been around for quite some time, so it’s really worked its way across the globe....

However, you do not need to worry, as you can easily find a great email address verification service provider on the internet. What you need to know is that regardless of the service provider you decide to work with, email verification doesn’t have to break your bank, neither does it have to waste a lot of your time. It is a quick process that is geared towards improving your marketing efforts....

Ex-Google engineer Kent Overstreet is developing a new file system for Linux called Bcache File System (Bcachefs). Right now he is looking for other like minded Linux developers to help him test it and suggest further modifications required. With so many working file systems already available, Linux users may ask why create a new file system? On his blog, Overstreet explains the need for Bcache, Overstreet explained that the main goal of Bcachefs is to match the speed of the traditional Linux file systems with the advanced scalability and reliability of newer file systems such as Btrfs and XFS....

The App has quickly become popular and has clocked 500,000 downloads so far. According to Guardian, the app’s servers have processed more than 3 million requests in that time as FindFace matches users using Vkontakte’s database, a very popular social network in Russia and the Eastern European countries. Trinity Digital, the App developer says that it is building its database so that in future users can instantly know who anyone on the street is and what their interests are....

Google and Facebook are two of the most sought after companies to work in primarily due to employee pay and benefits, office perks, compensations, and a desirable work environment. Of both the tech-giant companies, Facebook has been rated as the ‘best place to work’ three times in the past 10 years. However, this time the social media giant was ranked 23rd in Glassdoor’s best-places-to-work survey for 2020. This is the company’s lowest position since it was ranked number one in 2011 as the top-rated workplace....

“Facebook is releasing the Express Wi-Fi app in the Google Play store to give people another simple and secure way to access fast, affordable internet through their local Express Wi-Fi hotspots,” a Facebook spokesperson told TechCrunch confirming about the app’s rollout. For those unaware, Express Wi-Fi is a part of Facebook’s Internet.org, where it collaborates with carriers, internet service providers, and local entrepreneurs to help expand internet connectivity to underserved locations around the world....

The malware campaign was discovered by David Jacoby, a senior security researcher in the global research and analysis team at Kaspersky Lab, who was himself targeted after a Facebook friend with whom he rarely interacts, sent a link to a purported video file in Messenger. “After just a few minutes analyzing the message, I understood that I was just peeking at the top of this iceberg. This malware was spreading via Facebook Messenger, serving multi platform malware/adware, using tons of domains to prevent tracking, and earning clicks,” David said....

The Photo Sync feature was introduced by Facebook in 2012 so that users across platforms like iPhone, iPad and Android can sync their images seamlessly. Once the user enabled the photo sync feature, Facebook automatically syncs all photos saved on mobile device into the users Facebook account. The mobile app saves the photos (upto 2GB) in the background which the user can call at will to share with his/her friends or to the wall....

Removing the Feeling Fat emoticon was a response to a petition launched by activists associated with Endangered Bodies, a group that fights body hatred internationally. The Petition which said “fat is not a feeling,” and that by including the smiling, double-chinned emoticon, Facebook was “encouraging negative body image among girls.” gained more than 16,000 signatures in just few days. Such a large scale user opposition finally made Facebook sit up and remove the Feeling Fat emoticon, a spokesperson from the FB said that, Facebook will keep listening to feedback as it helps Facebook to help people express their feelings or emotions, the spokesperson added further....

“I’m focused on building our community at Facebook and working on the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,” he said, referring to the limited-liability corporation founded by him and his wife Priscilla Chan in 2015, which aims to makes investments in scientific and leadership research. BuzzFeed News also quoted a source close to Zuckerberg as saying the latter had privately denied he had any political ambition. “There’s absolutely no truth to the idea that Mark is running for office and I’ve heard it directly from him,” the source said....

In a recent security review, the social networking giant found that the apps- primarily social media management and video streaming apps – retained access to information like names and profile pictures of members in various Facebook groups, linked with their activity in those Groups, from the Groups API (application programming interface), despite announcing Groups API restrictions in April 2018. Facebook found that at least 11 developers improperly accessed users’ information in the last 60 days through the Groups API....

Facebook had earlier tried to circumvent the net neutrality laws by introducing a service called ‘Free Basics’ with a aim of providing free Internet (read Facebook) to Indian. Free Basics created a huge public outcry both in India and aboard forcing the Government of India to ban it. Now with Express Wi-Fi, Facebook is again attempting to bring millions of Indians to its social networking under the garb of providing free Internet....

Fappening 2.0 is still alive and clicking. After being a bit quiet for over past week, the Fappening hackers are back with a bang. After leaking nude and explicit images of Dutch actress Carice Van Houten, the Fappening 2.0 hackers had leaked NFWS images of minor celebrities like Luisa Zissman, Lacey Banghard, Madison Reed Justice, Melissa Benoist and Alana Mamaeva. However, the big fish of Fappening 2.0 came today morning when the hackers leaked nude images of WWE diva Alexa Bliss....

The girl, who is from Manchester, was arrested earlier in October for planning mayhem on Anzac Day in Australia. She avoided custody for possessing material on Thursday after pleading with the court to give her a second chance to show she was not a fanatic. Prosecutors said that she used her school computers to look up ISIS killer Jihadi John and claimed a chemical recipe found by detectives was in response to a Blue Peter children’s TV programme on fireworks....

The company had started testing the Firefox Private Network since last year. This paid VPN service aims to offer user browser-level or device-level protection, protect web browsing within Firefox, stop eavesdroppers on open, public Wi-Fi from spying on your browsing activity. Most importantly, it doesn’t keep user logs and protects your browsing history from internet service providers so that they can’t collect or sell it and hide your location from websites and data collectors that profile you to serve you targeted ads....