The company’s front-end server for YouTube and its YouTube API are mainly written in Python, and run on CPython 2.7, as opposed to other implementations (Jython, PyPy, or IronPython). The project began out of a need to improve Python execution on YouTube, which runs its front end on CPython 2.7, to handle concurrent workloads well. “Grumpy cannot leverage the wealth of existing Python C extensions, but it gave us a lot of flexibility to design an API and object representation that scales for parallel workloads,” said Dylan Trotter, a staff software engineer within YouTube Engineering at Google in a blog post....

Twitter’s new Status feature is very similar to Facebook’s older status feature that allowed users to create a post by adding pre-written labels and text of their choice to give additional context to their posts. Some of the Twitter statuses, include “Shower thoughts,” “Picture of the day,” “AMA,” “Vacation Mode,” “Spoiler alert,” “Hot take,” “Traveling,” “Unpopular opinion,” and more are also accompanied by emojis. At present, users cannot customize their status and need to select from Twitter’s existing list....

Khaled Abdel Fattah, a man based in Tennessee has been arrested for withdrawing money using his debit card. The problem? He re-programmed the ATMs to dispense $20 dollar bills instead of $1 ones. He had taken help of his accomplice Chris Folad, and both of them from Tennessee, United States withdrew more than $400,000 from the ATMS around Nashville. Former employee goes rogue When a small-time Tennessee restaurateur named Khaled Abdel Fattah was running short of cash he went to an ATM machine....

However, the unknown hackers were still able to get away with about $US80 million by breaking through the bank’s internal security. They then took that information to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where they made more than dozens of payment transfer to “entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka.” The Fed allowed four requests to go through totaling $81 million to the Philippines. However, the fifth for $US20 million, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation didn’t made it because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO as “foundation” as “fandation....

The security breach had exposed the data of approximately 50,000 drivers across multiple U.S. states. Data included names of the independent contractors that collaborate with Uber, routes that were taken, clients that requested them, and even the name, phone numbers and e-mail addresses of said clients were stored on a cloud where any third party could have had access to them. The matter came to light when Uber’s New York manager, Josh Mohrer revealed to a journalist that he was both tracking her Uber ride and accessed her ride history logs without permission, including through the company’s “God View” tool....

The latest build of Ultimate Windows Tweaker comes with over 200 tweaks which is an increase of 20 percent over the Ultimate Windows Tweaker 3.1.2, Like its predecessors, it’s a portable tool (so requires no installation), and ships in a small 549KB zip archive. Windows Ultimate Tweaker is the ultimate tool if you want to enhance or change the way your Windows 10 works. For example, if you are recording your Windows 10 screen and want “borderless fullscreen window” mode....

Popular hacking Linux distro Parrot Security upgrades to version 3.5, brings Cryptkeeper, Kernel and additional hacking toolsWhat’s new with Parrot Security 3.5 Linux Distro? The new version was in development for more than 2 months according to Parrot Security devs. It comes a little over two months after the first and also the last maintenance update to the Parrot Security OS 3.4 series, and includes quite some improvements and new features, starting with native VirtualBox and VMware virtual machine guest support and the latest, long-term supported Linux 4....

Matthew Keys faces 25 years in jail for merely defacing the LA Times website, but a rapist gets lessThe Law Keys, a 28-year-old social-media journalist known for his work at Reuters, was convicted by a California federal jury on three criminal counts, stemming from the defacement of The Los Angeles Times’ website in 2010. The prosecutors were able to prove to the court that Keys helped the global hacktivist group, Anonymous in launching the hack attack....

An Intel spokesman said that, last August, Intel had stopped the shipments and applied for an export license when the Santa Clara chipmaker received a letter from the US Commerce Department stating Intel would require an export license for supplying chips for a Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-2, which translates to “Milky Way-2.” Chuck Molloy, an Intel spokesman said: “We were selling them standard off-the-shelf parts. Once we got the letter, we stopped shipment of parts....

The new program plans to achieve dramatically enhanced data-transfer connections between the brain and the digital world, falls under the wing of President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies). In layman terms US military is working on a technology that can develop cyborgs to fight for it instead of humans. The US Military is working with Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on the project. DARPA says that that the interface will be a bio-compatible device measuring no larger than 1 cubic centimetre....

This absurd ruling was made by a judge from California 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday. The Judge ruled that if a person uses a password willingly shared by someone else, it still constitutes a “hacking” offense in certain circumstances. The judge was interpreting law in accordance with the antiquated CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) law. This quaint judgement came in a case from 2008 where the accused, David Nosal was charged with hacking offenses under the CFAA....

Well, after a long time this Japnese company has produced a new laptop named as Vaio SX12. So here’s everything you need to know about Vaio’s new SX12 laptop. Vaio SX12: Specifications And Features Vaio SX12 is a small laptop with a 12.5-Inch display coupled with a plethora of ports. This compact laptop has three USB-A ports, HDMI, a full-size SD card slot, one USB-C for charging, a headphone/mic port, an Ethernet port, and a VGA port....

Garbage bin that rewards users with free Wi-FiIndian students create a ‘Wi-Fi Trash Bin’ that generates a unique code for free Wi-Fi whenever someone uses it Pratik Agarwal, one of the two founders of the initiative says “When somebody dumps trash into a dustbin the bin flashes a unique code, which can be used to gain access to free Wi-Fi.” Mumbai-based Agarwal and his partner Raj Desai, a self taught programmer, travelled extensively to many different countries like Denmark, Finland, Singapore etc and realized that apart from a difference in structure, in order to keep surroundings clean, a change in the attitude of the people was needed....

Below is the youtube video which has a conspiracy theory for your view: https://youtu.be/xN6fDP9lHK8 On April 25, 2015, Nepal was hit by a 7.8 Ritcher scale earthquake killing more than 7,000 people and injuring more than twice the number that occurred at 11:56 NST. Its central point lay in Barpak village of Gorkha district and its underground focus point was at a depth of approximately 15 km (9.3 mi). It was the most powerful natural calamity to hit Nepal since the Nepal–Bihar earthquake in 1934....

The airport security team noticed the breach at around 5.30 am today morning and immediately took the website offline. The police are investigating into the hacking and stated that all websites on the particular host that Hobart Airport website was hosted have been hacked with a similar message. Tasmania Police say the hacking appears to be “non-discriminately” with identical messages posted on websites worldwide that use the same web hosts as the the airport....

Long hours of managing systems that secure companies, night shifts, and non-stop alerts can all be common causes of errors. How can you help understaffed and overworked cybersecurity teams? To assist overwhelmed teams, companies use data risk analytics. What is that exactly, and how can it improve the security postures of businesses? Let’s find out. What is Data Risk Analytics? Data risk analytics (DRA) refers to the analysis of data to compare the behavior of humans and computing systems....

But it’s relatively common for the hardware upgrades to dominate the headlines. So what else can we expect from Samsung’s biggest annual event? Blockchain is a Recurring Theme Samsung is among the first of the big hardware companies to incorporate blockchain into one of its flagship devices. The tech giant introduced the Blockchain Keystore SDK earlier this year, and by August, there were 17 applications available. Blockchain is a Recurring ThemeIs a 6G Showcase on the Horizon?...

WhatsApp video calling to come in 2016Looks like WhatsApp is going to become king of messaging As of right now, the latest version of WhatsApp on Apple’s App Store is version 2.12.12, so it is highly possible that the next version (which according to the source is version number 2.12.16.2) is going to appear on the App Store, which could possibly lead you to start making video calls from your phone....

While several people who play video games don’t have a disorder, excessive playing can have an adverse effect on one’s mental health, explained Vladimir Poznyak, a member of the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. According to the draft document, WHO classified gaming disorder “as a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour so severe that it takes precedence over other life interests.” The WHO claims that the condition involves a “continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences” and results in “significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning....