You are used to watching new movies on Netflix or Hulu. So, what to do with old DVD discs on the shelf? You can convert DVDs. The whole DVD collection, which is saved as digital copies on hard drive or storage services, can be better reserved and played on any device. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum helps digitize DVDs for easily organizing, watching and sharing. It comes with powerful capability of converting virtually all DVDs to digital on Windows while delivering lossless quality....

The four-year project, Building Resources Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS), for which DARPA is currently inviting research proposals, will look at the performing arithmetic and analytical requirements needed for software systems along with the data accompanying it in order to remain operational for a century or longer. The program is designed to make progress in the development of the design and implementation of long-lived software systems that have the ability to dynamically adapt to changes in the resources they depend upon, and the environments in which they operate as stated by the US Department of Defense technology research agency....

Yesterday the same group hacked and defaced Government website from Malaysia 

The MacKeeper Security Research Center discovered an unsecured MongoDB instance owned by C&Z Tech Limited, a New Zealand-based company, which operates several dating websites such as haveafling.mobi, haveafling.co.nz, haveanaffair.co.nz, haveanaffair.mobi, hookupdating.mobi, but also a few mobile applications. The exposed database included login details of over 1.5 million users with their complete credentials in plaintext form – username and password combinations as well as personal information. It also included several bits of their personal information, including their weight, data of birth, race, height, gender, IP address, country of origin, and other pieces of information that might help users find partners one night stands or finding partners for extramarital affairs....

Gripsgård has already put a special page UBports.com website where he has codenamed his upcoming venture as “op3.” One Plus has recently released its latest flagship iteration, OnePlus 3 smartphone. OnePlus 3 boasts a pretty decent configuration with 5-inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with Full HD (1080×1920) resolution and a Qualcomm MSM8996 Snapdragon 820 chipset. The smartphone is powered by Dual-Core 2.15 GHz Kryo and Dual-Core 1.6 GHz Kryo CPUs, as well as the Adreno 530 GPU....

After testing this feature in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the streaming service on Tuesday has started rolling out the GroupWatch feature to users in the U.S. The GroupWatch feature allows up to seven people (which includes a host and up to six other co-watchers) to watch together in a synced playback experience available across the Disney+ website, on the Android and iPhone apps, Smart TVs and connected devices, and share reactions in real-time....

Disney launches Linux based “Linux Light Bulb” for a interconnected home networkAdditional References The working idea behind this innovation was developed by Disney in collaboration with a Swiss University,ETH(located at Zurich).The system uses a linux coded chip embedded into LED to make it suitable for communicating with devices holding similar capabilities.Suitable candidates may be toys, wearables, phones, computers, cars, and other Internet of Things gizmos. This system uses VLC (Visible Light Communication) technology, which is highly emerging today and has been in a stage of evolution from recent years....

Other companies, however, sensing the growth potential of this new industry, are clamoring for a piece of the pie. Just recently, Bloomberg reported that automaker GM plans to “start a pilot program this summer that will enable car owners to rent out their vehicles when they aren’t using them.” It will begin through GM’s Maven, a platform which allows vehicle owners to rent out their cars to other drivers while sharing the revenues with GM....

Last month, Epic Games, the studio behind “Fortnite” had announced that the mobile version of the popular battle royale game would be coming to Android this summer but did not specify the date. As a result, many cybercriminals and scammers are taking advantage of the opportunity and coming out with their own fake and malicious version of the Fortnite game to attract the game’s huge fan base and fool unsuspecting users....

Limitations of suspended rewards The typical business environment is littered with different forms of loyalty programs that are aimed at encouraging customers to return for more business. Other aspects of such programs are targeted towards receiving feedbacks from these customers for purposes of brand management and improvement. However, in today’s era where processes are ruled by increased dynamism, it is difficult to hold on to customers with mere promises of suspended value....

After the Bangladesh Bank hack, Swift authorities went on record to say that there was nothing wrong with the interbank gateway. However, as the investigations into Bangladesh Bank progressed it became clear that the hackers who were after $1 billion in deposits, used Swift vulnerabilities for the hack. Now a Ecuador bank says that it was hacked similarly in 2015 and the hackers managed to steal $12 million in that attack....

Mr. Musk plans to make millions by selling the robot in near future for a price tag of $20,000. During the event, the robot walked up to people and waved his hand but no complex movement or task was showcased as musk stated that he, “didn’t want it to fall on its face.” — Tesla (@Tesla) October 1, 2022 During the event Musk stated that, “Our goal is to make a useful humanoid robot as quickly as possible,” he further added, “Optimus is designed to be an extremely capable robot made in very high volume, probably ultimately millions of units, and is expected to cost much less than a car....

Well, evidently Facebook has come around to thinking that such tags are desirable for your personal profile, and The Verge is reporting that it’s already started testing the concept on accounts in New Zealand. When asked by the tech blog whether this was real or some kind of optical illusion, Verge reader Luke M. told Verge that about Facebook’s new profile tags feature and the company confirmed it was testing them out with the following statement: “Profile tags are a creative tool that lets you and your friends add tags to your profile to highlight the things that describe you and what you’re into....

Statistics at the end of first quarter of 2014 revealed that Facebook has 1.28 billion monthly active users. And then the last quarter of 2014 statistics revealed it was 1.39 billion monthly active users. Now, March 2015 statistics reveal it is 1.44 billion, this is a clear indication that the number has gone up by 50 million in comparison to the December 2014 statistics. To give you a clear perspective of Facebook’s popularity, the current active users are roughly 5 times the population of United States at 318 Million (2014 statistics)....

The move comes after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month that he wanted to ‘turn down the temperature’ of political conversations on the social networking site because ‘people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our services.’ He had added that Facebook will no longer recommend politics-themed groups to users and was working on ways to reduce the amount of political content served up in users’ news feeds by its automated systems....

According to court documents filed by NSO Group, two Facebook representatives had approached NSO in October 2017 and asked to purchase the right to use its surveillance software ‘Pegasus’ to monitor users on Apple devices. “The Facebook representatives stated that Facebook was concerned that its method for gathering user data through Onavo Protect was less effective on Apple devices than on Android devices. The Facebook representatives also stated that Facebook wanted to use purported capabilities of Pegasus to monitor users on Apple devices and were willing to pay for the ability to monitor Onavo Protect users,” says a declaration made by NSO CEO Shaley Hulio....

This Recent crackdown may be connected to the comments made by an FBI official at a recent Reuters Cyber security summit, where he gave indications that the FBI is planning Searches and multiple arrests over the next several weeks. Federal prosecutors in New York plan to announce the results of the raids as soon as Monday, wsj reported.

The Apple vs FBI fight came to fore when an US court ordered Apple to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c under the All Writs Act, an obscure 18th-century statute. The court ordered Apple to develop ways for the FBI to access the shooter’s iPhone. Apple has contested the order saying that such hack or backdoor could create an unhealthy precedence and authorities could force Apple to bake in backdoors in all its products and snoop on its users....

I understand the sentiment behind this question very well. Whenever you try to establish yourself on a platform, especially one as big as Instagram, you’re often left feeling like a small boat in a hopelessly vast ocean. It leaves you asking yourself if there’s a simpler approach to it all that you just don’t know about yet. For all those still stranded at sea, I have an answer for you: Yes, there is an easier way....