As a result of this action, U.S. companies will be barred from using the $8.3 billion Federal Universal Service Fund to purchase, obtain, maintain, improve, modify, or otherwise support any equipment or services produced or provided by these two Chinese suppliers. “With today’s Orders, and based on the overwhelming weight of evidence, the Bureau has designated Huawei and ZTE as national security risks to America’s communications networks—and to our 5G future,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai....

“The anonymous administrators of both services earn substantial sums of advertising money by illegally sharing content made by others,” the Market Court notes, quoted by Helsingin Sanomat. For those unaware, RARBG and YIFY are the most popular torrenting sites in Finland with an estimated 520,000 visits per month. According to recent research, Finns download roughly 12 million movies and 32 million TV-shows from unauthorized sources per year. The court order applies to ISPs such as DNA, Elisa, TeliaSonera Finland, Blue Lake Communications, Kaisanet, Lounea and MPY....

The year is 2019 and you are able to download the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy movie set in just 10 minutes!!! Sounds too good to be true. But this will be the future according to Steven Mollenkopf. As of now, we are surfing the net at 4G speeds which means that we can theoretically download movies/tv-shows/files etc. at 100Mbps speeds where it is available though, in reality only Japanese and South Korean telecom companies give near that of speeds....

Readers may note that CSI : Cyber is fourth in the series of popular CSI franchise and stars Emmy Award winner Patricia Arquette. The storyline of the first episode revolves around the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division which investigates illegal activities on the Internet, including piracy. The leaked footage comes from a high quality rip probably of a screener version or direct source and doesn’t have any visible watermarks leading to questions that CBS may have allegedly leaked it as a promotional event, though CBS is yet to confirm or deny this allegation....

Flaw in MacBook EFI allows attackers to boot ROM with malware using Thunderbolt PortsEvil Maid AttackPersistence Evil Maid Attack The attack is an “evil maid,” replacing the boot code on the computer. His research involves infect Apple EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) firmware using the externally accessible Thunderbolt ports. EFI ROMs are supposed to be cryptographically signed, but Hudson says that the Thunderbolt Option ROMs may be used to circumvent the signature checks in Apple’s EFI firmware update routines....

Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge is curved at sides and this gives the phone its elite look. The edge serves the purpose to view favorite contacts and missing alerts and texts from these contacts. Unlike Samsung Note Edge, this curve does not serve any other additional purpose and is there only for look. However the cost of Galaxy S6 Edge is expected to be higher in comparison to Galaxy S6. Galaxy S6 has a normal flat screen and no curves....

The end of support means the company would now no longer be offering public security updates or fixes, software updates or technical support for Windows 7. However, businesses that haven’t migrated to Windows 10 in time can pay for Extended Security Updates (ESU). According to a local German newspaper, Handelsblatt, the German government which still has more than 33,000 computers running on Windows 7 has decided to pay €800,000 ($887,000) to Microsoft this year for ESU in order to keep their PCs updated and patched....

Germany’s steel mill damaged as hackers gain total control of production networksThe AttackReminiscent of Stuxnet The Attack The attackers gained access to the network connected to the production line of the factory. Once they got access, they used the authority to tamper with the factory’s furnace. The attack used spear phishing and sophisticated social engineering techniques to gain access to the factory’s office networks, from which access to production networks was gained....

John Britton is Github’s “education liaison“, which means that he assists in bringing Github to schools and college campuses. The sweeping online service in the last few years have changed the way the way coders build software across Silicon Valley and beyond. According to Britton, it’s transforming the way that teachers teach coding now. In the end, Github is all about collaborating on code together. Britton says Github’s various education programs has hundreds of thousands of students enrolled in it....

Karen Davis, from Port Pirie, Australia, flashed bared her breasts over one of the camera cars as it passed her home. When the camera car neared her, the 38-year-old mum is seen waving her arms in the air with her T-shirt resting on top of her massive breasts. However as soon as her image come online, she has been a target of abuse with many Google Street View users branding her a ‘bad mother’....

Google on Friday publicly announced that it has fired Lemoine for “violating the company’s confidentiality policy”. It highlighted that the engineer’s claims were “wholly unfounded” and that the company worked with him for “many months” to clarify this. “So, it’s regrettable that despite lengthy engagement on this topic, Blake still chose to persistently violate clear employment and data security policies that include the need to safeguard product information,” Google spokesperson Brian Gabriel said in a statement on Friday....

However, both will continue their involvement as co-founders, shareholders, and members of Alphabet’s Board of Directors. “Today, in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be time to leave the roost. While it has been a tremendous privilege to be deeply involved in the day-to-day management of the company for so long, we believe it’s time to assume the role of proud parents—offering advice and love, but not daily nagging!...

The extension then starts to place parentheses around the said name on any website the user visits. The use of triple parentheses dates back at least a year. Anti-Semites and white supremacists have been using it as a symbol of their movement online. Taking a note of wrong standing racism issues with the Coincidence Detector extension, Google has finally removed the same from its Chrome store at 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday....

While the company pulled the plug on Android Auto for Phone Screens on devices running Android 12, it did not specify when the app would actually stop working on older releases. Now, according to a new report from 9to5Google, Google has finally shut down the mobile version of the Android Auto app for users on Android 11 and prior. This feature was available for both car displays and phone screens....

In a recent update to Android Messages app, a hidden code was found within the app that indicates Google is preparing to release a web-based service of the app, which will allow users to send texts, photos/videos and share files or locations, reports Android Police. Another upgrade that appears to be in the works is messaging over Wi-Fi and viewing the messaging status (typing, delivered, read, etc.). There are also clues of Google setting up payments sharing feature in the app via Google Pay....

“We did it because Kotlin is a beautiful programming language,” said Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson, director of product management for Android, during the developer keynote at Google I/O 2017. “…With Kotlin, there’s just so much less syntactical noise between what I want to say and how I can say it.” Created by Czech developers JetBrains, who also created IntelliJ, hope that Kotlin will make it easier for developers to create apps for Android, while also speeding up the development cycle....

The win came in the first tie of the five-match series being held in Seoul, South Korea. The tournament, “Google Deepmind Challenge match”, started on March 8 and will conclude on March 15. “Lee resigned after about three-and-a-half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is competing for a $1 million prize,” The Verge’s Sam Byford reported Lee is a South Korean professional Go player....

Based on examples from a training set of dialogue, the researchers at the company designed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to reply in conversations. The bot not only does responds by ejecting out prerecorded answers in reply to certain words; but it also can make up new answers from new questions. In other words, it meant that the Google researchers could get a little creative with it, which is what they did....

Google Wi-Fi router will offer longer range connectivity than most off the shelf routers. It will also apparently offer some smart features similar to OnHub, which boasts integration with Phillips smart lights, IFTTT support, all-in-one security updates and more. The report also notes that Google Wi-Fi could offer a “mesh” network feature by connecting multiple routers around the house, which means you won’t drop offline if you walk into a far-away room in your house....

Google will take between 684 to 2461 years to actually index a “GOOGOL” webpages!Calculating the growth rate of Google’s indexing:Now the actual calculation which would tell us when would Google actually index a “Googol” web pages: Answers to certain hypothetical questions: Have you ever wondered, what does “Google” actually mean? Well, Google originally got its name from a mathematical word “Googol” and as per the estimates given by Statistic Brain, Google had already indexed 67 Billion web pages till 2014....