The world’s first hacking happened 115 years ago! Surprised? In 1901, Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor, and electrical engineer was all set to demonstrate wireless transmission in England. Not many know that Marconi had many rivals who wanted to prove him wrong. Marconi claimed that his Wireless transmission was unhackable and could not be interrupted or encroached on. A rival inventor named Nevil Maskelyne went on to prove him wrong....

NASA has also revealed who will be attending the briefing, leading to speculation as to what the announcement might be. The panel on September 28 will consist of Jim Green, NASA’s director of planetary science and Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program, Mary Beth Wilhelm at Nasa’s Ames Research Center, and Alfred McEwen at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Also, Lujendra Ojha, a grad student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is also expected to attend....

To explain this, security researcher Ross Bevington showcased a presentation at BSides London that revealed how an e-cigarette could be used to attack a computer either by interfering with its network traffic or by deceiving the computer to make it believe that it was a keyboard. For those unfamiliar, E-cigarettes, also known as electronic cigarettes and vaporizer cigarettes are battery-powered smoking devices that are designed to look and feel like regular cigarettes....

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....

“It’s no secret that Epic is invested in building the metaverse and Tonic Games shares this goal,” Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said in a statement. “As Epic works to build this virtual future, we need great creative talent who know how to build powerful games, content and experiences.” Epic in the announcement said that the future of Fall Guys will not be affected by the acquisition and the company will continue to invest in making the game a great experience for players across platforms....

However, not all personal information can be hidden. Amongst those, it includes your friends list even though there is an option to hide that. It has been found that the actual problem lies in the Facebook’s mutual-friends feature concept, which in the past has been a point of debate giving rise to privacy security. However, now Google has come up with a new Free Chrome extension called “Facebook Friends Mapper”, which can reveal much more than just the list of mutual friends of the two Facebook users....

Apparently, Facebook is secretly gathering a team of people that will make use of cutting edge neuroscience and electrical engineering to create the new interface. CEO and co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg believes that telepathy is the technology of future and adverts lead us to believe that Facebook is working on that very thing. Apparently, the recruitment ads have popped up on Facebook for their hardware division in California, which specializes in brain computer interface technology....

In Securities and Exchange Commission document filed on Thursday, Sandberg, 46, donated 290,000 shares of Facebook stock at “a market value of roughly USD 31 million” to various charities. The shares are now in the Sheryl Sandberg Philanthropy Fund, a donor-advised fund. Much of the money will go to causes that Sandberg has supported in the past. She has also given to women’s empowerment groups, such as Lean In,to help support women in the workplace, SiliconValley....

Along with Altoona, Prineville, Forest City and Lulea data centers, Fort Worth will be one of the cornerstones of the global infrastructure that brings Facebook apps and services to you every day and is serving billions of more people online through Internet.org. It is very strange as the weather of Texas is hot and intense cooling is required by the data center, but Facebook says they don’t have any problem....

SHA-2 is going to succeed SHA-1, however, it is not going to be supported on older web browsers. This should be more alarming to you than it actually sounds because when SHA-1 goes out of commission, there will be a time when users will be unable to update their web browsers to newer versions because their desktop, laptop or mobile machines will not be able to support the latest software....

The announcement made by the social media giant is in contrast to what it had said in February this year. Back then, Facebook had said that it had expanded the list of “false claims” to include “additional debunked” statements about COVID-19, including that the virus is “man-made or manufactured.” Since the pandemic began, Facebook has been regularly making changes to its policies around misleading COVID-19 information following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO)....

FamishedChef had other backers on this Reddit thread with similar problems. Another gamer reported that he had faced shaken screen problem when he tried to teleport in the game. While Bethesda Game Studios, the game’s developer has not issued any warning about this particular glitch nor has come out with a statement, another Reddit user offered an explanation for the glitch. Many of these effects involve processing the current frame in some way (blurring it, altering colors, etc) and then multiplying or adding the result to the current frame after the initial render....

Andrew Otto Boggs, alias “INCURSIO,” 22, of North Wilkesboro, N.C., and Justin Gray Liverman, alias “D3F4ULT,” 24, of Morehead City, N.C. – who were accused of working with a high prolific hacking group called “Crackas with Attitude” (CWA) were arrested on Thursday morning on charges related to their alleged roles in the computer hacking and will be extradited to Alexandria next week, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia....

FBI ends legal battle with Apple, as it accesses San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone without Apple’s helpAnd Apple still doesnt know how FBI did it The move comes a week after Justice Department officials put a sudden hold on their demands that Apple assist the FBI with an announcement that an outside group had offered a way to hack into the iPhone. Aided by the unnamed group, FBI technology experts had been at work since, testing the method to confirm it could open the iPhone without jeopardizing its contents....

Former American Major League Baseball right-handed Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling who is a World Series MVP proved that he can be handful to the Twitter trolls who used his proud fatherly tweet to troll his 17 year old daughter with explicit and voilent tweets. It all started with a simple tweet from Curt congratulating his daughter Gabriella Schilling aka Gabby on her acceptance to Rhode Island college Salve Regina University, where she’ll play softball....

Now, according to South Korean site The Investor, Samsung Electronics has decided not to include fingerprint sensors under the screen of the S9 line of smartphones. We had recently reported how Samsung was finding it difficult to implement the in-display fingerprint scanner in its premium smartphones due to technical complications. Like the previous models, the sensor will be placed on the back of both the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ smartphones....

Genesis was developed by the Site Reliability Engineering and Datacenter teams at Tumblr and now Genesis is an open-sourced under the Apache License and is available on Github. The tool includes a stripped down Linux image suitable to boot by PXE and a Ruby-based domain-specific language (DSL) for describing tasks to be executed on the host Genesis DSL creates the task based on which packages are installed and commands are executed easily....

When did it start? According to Google, they first started investigating the issue in the early morning at 1:2 AM ET. Their current statement on the issue: When did it start?Downdetector showing spikes Downdetector showing spikes According to the real-time outage and monitoring service Downdetector, Google products such as Gmail, Drive first started showing disruption at around 11:57 PM of the last night. Some YouTubers are experiencing issues in uploading their videos to the channels as well....