The 47-year-old of Roath, Cardiff was found guilty on 31 counts including computer misuse, hacking and blackmail, and sentenced to nine years in prison. He was also placed on probation for possession of indecent photographs of children in 1989. Over a period of two-and-a-half years, Rees admitted carrying out the scam hundreds of times and would send money to a family in Thailand. Rees was arrested in May 2011 after his wife and her new partner discovered a file on his laptop which they suspected contained indecent images and the laptop was passed to the police....

Here is how to turn on Remote Desktop in Windows 7, 8, 10, or VistaThe how-to segment This should work for the Professional versions of Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, or Vista. Before starting, please note that this feature is available on all editions of mentioned Windows versions, except the home edition. The how-to segment For Windows 8,8.1,10 If you are using Windows 8, 8.1, or 10 you will need to open the desktop Control Panel and find the System panel there....

LinusTechTips has put together a PC using seven AMD R9 Nano graphic cards ($650 each), over 256GB of DDR4 ECC memory, equating to 32GB of memory per system ($300 each), eight 1TB Kingston solid-state hard drives ($400 each), a pair of Intel Xeon E5 2697 CPUs ($3,000 each) all plugged into an ASUS Z10PE-D8 WS, powered by an EVGA T2 1600W PSU, which then virtually output seven separate systems at once....

“Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” While Nikola was unable to reach the consumers the same way Edison had, his legacy continues to live till this very day, and combined with his vision and inspirations taken from games, the Tesla Coil Gun has come into existence. One YouTube channel called Smarter Every Day has turned one of his famous inventions, the Tesla coil, into a handheld gun that blasts out arcs of lightning....

Google Photos App It has been seen that certain apps are just bloatware where you cannot store unlimited photos and videos which adds up as a burden to your data. Google Photos App is a powerful app designed for storing photos where you can upload unlimited photos and videos. This app features machine learning technology which recognizes what is in your photos and also you can search and sort your photos in a flash....

What is a PDF? PDF is an acronym that stands for “Portable Document Format”. PDF, in general, is a format that is used to display electronic documents in a form that is independent of the software, hardware or the operating system that the documents will be viewed. Adobe® Systems developed PDF. The program was designed to be a universally compatible file format that was based on the PostScript format. It is now an international de-facto standard that is used to exchange documents and information between computers, smartphones and the internet....

Apparently, the law firm represented by a lawyer named Kerry Culpepper is using this data of YTS users and sending them threatening emails that demand them to pay cash settlements to make their potential lawsuits disappear. For those unaware, in April this year, YTS had settled a piracy lawsuit filed in January 2020 by a group of seven related movie companies. The torrent site had agreed to a consent judgment totalling $1,050,000 in damages....

Brandon Bourret, 39, and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, were each arrested on Friday at their homes, the DOJ said. According to the DOJ press release the two men knowingly conspired to commit acts and offenses against the United States, namely computer fraud and abuse, access device fraud, identification document fraud and wire fraud between the period July 2012 and July 2014. DOJ says that the two aimed to make money by selling passwords and unauthorized access to private and password-protected information, images and videos....

The project called ‘Morpheus’ is a new approach to hardware design capable of creating an unhackable computer. In other words, scientists from the University of Michigan are developing a security system that is not based on software, but is implanted in the components of the system to detect vulnerabilities that could lead to backdoor exploits. U of M is one of nine grant recipients chosen as part of a $50 million R&D cybersecurity program by DARPA....

The Steam Deck features a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800px (16:10 aspect ratio), ambient light sensor, 60Hz refresh rate, and maximum brightness level of 400 nits. It is powered by a custom AMD APU, which according to Valve, is optimized for handheld gaming. It sports a Zen 2-based CPU (4-cores and 8-threads) + RDNA 2 GPU (8 compute units), which delivers more than enough performance to run the latest AAA games....

In a statement made to Mirror Online, Mitchell added that there are some military officials who have seen the strange UFOs hovering over the area during weapons tests at US missile bases and the famous White Sands Proving Ground in the New Mexico desert, the place where world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945. Way back in 1971, Mitchell landed on the surface of the moon and has spent around nine hours in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the lunar surface and since then he has been believing the existence of aliens and has been frank enough in expressing his thoughts regarding the so called peace-keeping aliens....

For those unaware, FaceApp, which first went viral in 2017, is a free mobile application that uses advanced software algorithms, which transforms users’ selfies and other pictures using various filters and features. However, it was later opposed by many as it enabled users to change their ethnicity. As a result, the developers of the app removed the debatable filter that was designed to match a certain ethnicity of the user by changing the skin tone and facial features....

Virtual Private Servers: 5 Things to Look for When Taking Your Small Business OnlineCostSecurityPerformanceControlStability A VPS removes the need for your company to have its own physical servers. Access to a VPS gives your company the same advantages of having a physical server, but the operating system is run on the cloud. Anything that can be done on a physical server can be accomplished on a VPS without the expense of owning or leasing the physical equipment....

According to NASASpaceFlight.com NASA has successfully tested a revolutionary new means of space travel that could one day allow for humans to travel at insane speed. According to NASASpaceFlight, NASA is testing warp drive like speeds in hard vacuum like that of outer space for the first time and the technology is based on the electromagnetic drive, or EM drive. EM drive seeks to convert electrical energy into thrust without propellant (the fuel in rockets) which is technologically impossible because it violates the law of conservation of momentum....

Keep reading this article to know everything about the Apex Legends Rules 24, 32, 33, 34, 35 & 63. Apex Legends was developed by Respawn Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts or EA. This is a free-to-play battle royale game available on almost all platforms. In addition, Apex Legends supports cross-play. What are Apex Legends Rules? The Apex Legends Rules are nothing more than a few online rules and regulations imposed by the players....

With countless videos uploaded on YouTube day and night, you can always find your interesting resource through the biggest online video library. However, the high update frequency enables it not an easy thing to re-find these beloved vines right away in such a huge video ocean. Hence, many hope to download those favorite videos to store for the convenience of watching them again whenever they want. Although YouTube offers free online video streaming, sharing, and more, there is no download button that appeared on the site....

Windows versions 7, 8, 10, Server 2008 and Server 2012 vulnerable to Hot Potato exploit which gives total control of PC/laptop to hackersHot PotatoMitigation The Foxglove researchers have named the exploit as Hot Potato. Hot Potato relies on three different types of attacks, some of which were discovered back at the start of the new millennium, in 2000. By chaining these together, hackers can remotely gain complete access to the PCs/laptops running on above versions of Windows....

Here’s a look at the top 6 whackiest and crazy programming languagesTrumpScript: “We hope our efforts will make programming great again”LOLCODE: Lolspeak is realShakespeare: The ‘to be or not to be’ programming languageWhenever: Can you handle it?Chef: Hello World SouffléMalbolge: Programming from hell Esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke....