Friday, September 30, 2016

Raspberry Pi Adds Beautiful “Pixel” Desktop Environment To Raspbian Linux Distro

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Short Bytes: A new desktop environment has been released for the Raspbian Linux distribution. It is called Pixel and it...

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Angry Guy Destroys iPhones And Macs In An Apple Store With Steel Ball

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Short Bytes: A French man decided to vent his bad customer service experience by smashing iPhone and Macs with a...

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Top Microsoft Open Source Projects You Must Know

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Short Bytes: Microsoft is a leading tech giant with a history of bad blood with open source, but recently they’ve been...

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iPhone 7 Explodes — Apple Copies Samsung’s “Turn-Into-A-Bomb” Feature

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Short Bytes: Apple has copied a feature from Samsung that nobody asked for. Following the footsteps of Samsung Galaxy Note...

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ORWL — First Open Source And Physically Secure PC, Runs Linux And Windows

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Short Bytes: ORWL is the first open source, physically secure computer. Using a secure microcontroller (MCU) and an ‘active clamshell mesh’, the device...

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Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, DeepMind Announce The Biggest Partnership On AI

Short Bytes: Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, and DeepMind have joined hands to create a non-profit organization which would focus on streamlining...

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Thursday, September 29, 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 Arrives With New Windows 10 Build 14936

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Short Bytes: Microsoft has rolled out a new Windows Insider Preview for those in Fast Ring. The new build brings...

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Russia Kicks Out Microsoft Software For Local MyOffice

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Short Bytes: Russian is replacing Microsoft Outlook and Exchange software with their local MyOffice alternative. The email system will be...

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World’s Largest 1Tbps DDoS Attack Launched From 152,463 Hacked Devices

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Short Bytes: Hosting provider OVH has witnessed the world’s largest DDoS attack. This attack of 1Gpbs intensity was launched by...

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Facebook’s Popular Open Source Security Tool Osquery Comes To Windows

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Short Bytes: Facebook’s widely popular open source security project Osquery has now arrived on Windows. Windows users can grab the source...

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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

BitTorrent’s “Altruistic Mode” Ensures Your Torrent Downloads “Never Complete”

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Short Bytes: A new BitTorrent feature has been announced which is designed with a goal of maintaining a sharing ratio...

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Myo Gives You Superpowers, Control Drones And Computers With Bare Hands

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Short Bytes: A Canada-based company Thalmic Labs has created an armband called Myo. It is a wearable tech which uses...

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Myo Gives You Superpowers, Control Drones And Computers With Bare Hands
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Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Final Beta Arrives, Final Release On October 13

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Short Bytes: Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak Final Beta is now available for download for all major flavors. This release arrives...

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10 Ways Elon Musk Blew Our Minds During His Mars Mission Announcement

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Short Bytes: On Tuesday, Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and CEO, spilled the beans on his Mars colonization plan. Musk talked about...

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IEEE 802.3bz: New Ethernet Standard Brings 5 Times Faster Internet Over Existing Cables

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Short Bytes: A new Ethernet standard IEEE 802.3bz has been released which boosts the theoretical bandwidth over the existing twisted...

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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

YouTube Go: Watch YouTube Videos Without Using Internet

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Short Bytes: YouTube Go, a data efficient YouTube app, has been announced at the Google for India keynote. The app...

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Google Andromeda — Everything You Need To Know About Google’s New OS

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Short Bytes: Reports suggest that Google is working on a new hybrid OS which is a combination of Android and...

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Elon Musk Uploads Pictures Of His Plan To Put People On Mars

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Short Bytes: Elon Musk wants to send us to Mars. That’s the reason his company SpaceX is working a new...

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8 Amazing Things Google Is Going To Launch At Its October 4 Event

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Short Bytes: At its upcoming October 4 event under the tagline “Made by Google”, the company is expected to launch...

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How To Turn Raspberry Pi Zero Into A Tiny Dongle Computer?

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Short Bytes: The ultra-portable Raspberry Pi Zero faces some challenges on the front of ports and connectivity. To make this...

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5 Sci-Fi Technologies You Didn’t Know Already Exist Around You

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Short Bytes: Most of us think that science fiction (Sci-Fi) is only confined to movies, books, and people’s imagination. But...

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Windows 10 Will Run Edge Browser In A Virtual Machine For Extra Security

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Short Bytes: At its Ignite conference, Microsoft announced Windows Defender Application Guard for its Edge Browser. This technology will run...

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Monday, September 26, 2016

Windows Server 2016 Is Here With Support For Open Source Docker Engine

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Short Bytes: Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016. This release also pushes...

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Happy Birthday Google : Some Fun Facts About the Company You Didn’t Know

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Today is the 18th birthday of Google. It was the day when it was launched by founders Larry Page and Sergey...

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Microsoft Windows 10 Is Now Running On 400 Million “Active Devices”

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Short Bytes: At the Microsoft Ignite Conference, the company announced that the Windows 10 OS has reached 400 million active...

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People Are Actually Drilling Their IPhone 7 For 3.5mm Jack

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Short Bytes: A YouTube video, most probably a prank, featured a DIY method to get back the audio jack on...

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Alan Turing’s First Ever Computer-Generated Music Recovered By Researchers

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Short Bytes: Jack Copeland, along with composer Jason Long, from the University of Canterbury, have restored the first computer-generated music....

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Confirmed! Researchers Are Close To Creating A Hack-Proof Code

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Short Bytes: More and more things are getting connected to the internet. Apart from its advantages, it also raises a...

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What Is “Incremental-Hacking Cycle”? How It Improves Programming And Hacking Skills?

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Short Bytes: Very few people understand the basics of hacking and hacker ethics. It’s basically exploring the open source code...

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TPBClean — Now You Can Browse The Pirate Bay Without Adult Content

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Short Bytes: An experienced torrent proxy developer, MrClean, has created a version of The Pirate Bay that doesn’t feature any...

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20-Year-Old Hacker Faces 20 Year In Prison For Sharing US Military Details

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Short Bytes: A US district court sent a 20-year-old hacker from Kosovo for a prison time of 20 years. He...

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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Show And Tell: Google Open Sources Its Image Captioning AI In TensorFlow

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Short Bytes: Google has open sourced its Show and Tell system which will now be available in TensorFlow machine learning...

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How NASA Plans To Discover Other Earths With The Help Of Starshade

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Short Bytes: With a technology called starshade, which is a sunflower-shaped giant screen, NASA aims to enable the telescopes in...

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Saturday, September 24, 2016

FreeBSD 11.0 Final Release ISO Images Available For Download

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Short Bytes: The Final Release of FreeBSD 11.0 is scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, 2016. However, the release builds have...

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5 Reasons Google Allo Is Better Than WhatsApp, Really?

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Short Bytes: The new instant messaging app Google Allo has amazing features like Smart Reply, Incognito mode, Shout/Whisper, and Google...

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Should Microsoft Pay You Money For Windows 10 Upgrade Nuisance?

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Short Bytes: Microsoft’s aggressive Windows 10 rollout became a cause for different kinds of problems faced by the users. Now,...

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Snapchat Isn’t A Messaging Company Anymore, Launches Video Recording Sunglasses

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Short Bytes: The messaging platforms Snapchat’s parent company has changed its name to Snap Inc. The reason is a new...

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Friday, September 23, 2016

Linux Lexicon — Input And Output With Pipes And Redirection In Linux

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Short Bytes: Command output, and input, can be controlled in extremely flexible ways using pipes and redirection. This is much...

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Bitdefender 2017 Is Here To Kill Ransomware And Secure Your Wi-Fi Connection

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Short Bytes: Bitdefender is here with its new lineup of revamped antivirus solutions. This range includes Bitdefender Internet Security 2017, Bitdefender...

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Bitdefender 2017 Is Here To Kill Ransomware And Secure Your Wi-Fi Connection
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TypeScript 2.0 Released — Microsoft’s Free And Open Source Superset Of JavaScript

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Short Bytes: Microsoft calls TypeScript the “JavaScript that scales”. This open-source superset of JavaScript was launched in 2012. Now, Microsoft...

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Tails 2.6 — Ultra-secure Linux OS Used By Snowden Gets Updated Tor And Kernel

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Short Bytes: The development team of Tails, the anonymity-focused Debian GNU/Linux-based Live CD operating system, is here with its latest...

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Student Hacks School Using Girlfriend’s Internet And Changes Grades, Get Arrested

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Short Bytes: A Kennesaw State University student has been arrested for illegally accessing the private network of the school. Chris Arthur...

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Just 24 Hours! Teen Hacker Jailbreaks Apple iPhone 7

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Short Bytes: Not even a month has passed since the release of the Apple iPhone 7 and the iOS 10....

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Don’t Touch It — Hackers Are Sending Malicious USB Sticks In Your Mail

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Short Bytes: A recent study has suggested that people are inclined towards popping any random USB stick into their computers...

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Use This Tool To Find You Personal Data On The Dark Web

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Short Bytes: An information security company Terbium Labs claims to find your personal data, if it exists, on the dark...

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GNOME 3.22 And MATE 1.16 Desktop Environments Released

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Short Bytes: GNOME and MATE are two widely used Linux desktop environments. The development teams of both projects have released...

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Turkish Company Creates Transformers Out Of A BMW 3-Series

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  Short Bytes: The famous Autobots from the Transformers movie series are real now. A Turkish company named Letvision has...

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This 280-Year-Old Algorithm Powers New Google Trips Apps

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Short Bytes: Google has recently launched a vacation planner app known as Google Trips. The app lets you plan various...

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

How To Get “Hollywood Hacker Feel” In Your Linux Command Line?

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Short Bytes: A developer has created a command line utility which can give you the feel of Hollywood movie hacker....

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North Korea’s Internet Is Exposed And It Has Only 28 Websites

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Short Bytes: A GitHub user has uploaded the list of domains that exist on North Korea internet. His TL;DR project...

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EQ-Radio: This Wi-Fi Router Can Read Your Feelings Using Radio Waves

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Short Bytes: A group of MIT researchers has made a wireless device that can detect your emotions without any on-body...

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Playing Grand Theft Auto Inside A Neural Network’s Hallucination? It’s Possible!

Ever imagined what a Neural Network's hallucination would look like? The post Playing Grand Theft Auto Inside A Neural Network’s Halluc...