Professor David Kipping and graduate student Alex Teachey published a paper in the journal ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’ on Thursday on how our Earth can conceal itself from other intelligent life that may want to exploit our planet for its natural resources. Several well-known scientists, including Stephen Hawking, have warned against humanity spreading our presence to intelligent life on other planets. It “perverts” the technique scientists already use now to look for distant planets around other stars....

The BBC said it used Facebook’s “report button” to flag up 100 photos on the website but 82 were not removed, with an automated response saying they did not breach “community standards”. The BBC also said Facebook failed to remove the profiles of five convicted paedophiles. Facebook asked the whistleblowing journalist, Angus Crawford to send over the photographs he thought were problematic. However, the BBC was surprised when Facebook reported both the images and its organisation to the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)....

Unquestionably, Roblox is one of the most entertaining and feature-packed gaming platforms. Roblox even allows gamers to play their favorite songs using Music ID Codes. All you need to do is simply enter Song ID codes into your Boombox or Radio. There are over 2 million Boombox music codes available on Roblox and you may be looking for the most popular ones. Roblox has also signed a licensing agreement with APM Music for providing 100s of tracks for players to include in the games making these tracks royalty free to use and thus not copyrighted....

Big Fish Games was founded in 2002, and has distributed more than 2.5 billion games to customers in as many as 150 countries. As of now it is not known as to how many Big Fish Games customers are affected by this compromise or which countries they belong to. In a letter sent to the potentially affected customers, Big Fish Games CTO, Ian Hurlock-Jones stated that”An unknown criminal installed malware on the billing and payment pages of our website that appears to have intercepted customer payment information....

This sales pitch was first spotted by VentureBeat. The search results says “Microsoft recommends Microsoft Edge for Windows 10.” A “Learn why” button next to that message takes you to a website showing off Edge’s features. It is basically recommending its Windows 10 users to stick to the Edge browser and not switch to another browser. It is not surprising to see tech companies promote their own browsers, or preferred partner browsers....

The Development of Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin When 17-year-old Vitalik Buterin entered the crypto scene back in 2011, he quickly became fixated not on the possibilities of Bitcoin, but its limitations. He saw far broader potential in the application of blockchain technology, comparing Bitcoin as a pocket calculator to Ethereum with all the functionality of a smartphone. The Development of Blockchain Beyond BitcoinSmart Contracts on Bitcoin Instant Payments Buterin’s work indeed laid the foundations for the thriving ecosystem of blockchain platforms we see today....

What is Bitcoin Mining? Bitcoin mining is the process through which new bitcoins are introduced into circulation. It involves verifying transactions on the bitcoin network and adding them to the decentralized, public ledger known as the blockchain. The blockchain is one of the most popular inventions in the cryptocurrency industry. It was popularized by Satoshi Nakamoto after he launched bitcoin in 2009. While Satoshi’s real identity has never been revealed, the blockchain and bitcoin have kept his name popular ever since....

Sync was invented to build a simple tool to transfer files directly between the devices through a Cloud however not keeping it on the Cloud or any third party. Sync gives full control to manage the data along with transferring the big files with ease and speed. The new version Sync 2.0 has all the features of its earlier 1.4 version like sharing folders across all platforms securely and with visibility into who has access with some additional features which will be useful for IT professionals and power users....

Writer: Morgan Davis Foehl Before you read this know there will be spoilers for The Blackhat Movie. Hollywood’s attempt at hacking movies, was certainly not the greatest hacking movie. I was initially excited to watch this movie when my editor asked me to review it. It was hyped so much and I felt the hacking world was mature enough and fleshed out enough to give Hollywood a better perspective on the details they needed to tell a decent hacking story without making it a joke that “typing faster” would make your hacking “better” or that all hackers are good looking tough guys that beautiful women flock to and are the “only ones” that can figure out the code and they do it all by them selves....

Manser who is now a 20-year old, started developing and selling the software at the age of 16. He was arrested in November 2014 for going on a website crashing spree using his software. Manser allegedly sold website-crashing software to around 4,000 customers who used it to carry out attacks on 224,548 targets from around the world, which included businesses, schools, colleges and government departments from Poland, France, the United States and the Netherlands, to name a few....

BT, Sky and Virgin ‘hijacking’ browser sessions to push ‘adult block’ filter options mandated by UK GovernmentGoing too far Going too far Major Internet service providers including Sky, BT and Virgin Media are resorting to the measure as a December deadline to implement ‘adult block ‘ web filters looms, but civil rights groups have described it as ‘heavy handed’. ISPs are resorting to blocking a user’s screen as they are using the internet and asking them to choose a option for adult or non adult content pretty much like when you visit a NSFW website and are greeted with ‘Confirm that you are over 18 years of age’ filter....

Despite being only 14 years old, she has set many records. Her father says that Limca Records authorities called them on 20th June. “We received a call from the record book authorities on August 20 who confirmed submission of the registration. On October 29, they apprised us through e-mail about the feat achieved by our daughter,” informed Dilpreet’s father Manjeet Singh. She has already got a certificate and a trophy for the same....

The data comes in two types and is available on the CERN Open Data Portal. The primary datasets are in the same format used by the collaboration to perform research. On the other hand, the derived datasets require a lot less computing power and can be readily examined by university or high school students. CMS is also offering the simulated data created with the same software version that should be used to examine the primary datasets....

Scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research; CERN, Geneva achieved a new energy record on Wednesday night, by colliding protons together at 13 TeV (TeraelectronVolts) in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the very first time, thus breaking the previous energy records. LHC, the world’s largest particle accelerator ended its first run in early 2013 and then LHC could achieve a speed of upto 8 TeV. Then, the CERN scientists had discovered Higgs boson particle which is an elementary particle responsible for giving mass to other particles and this had baffled the scientists for almost 50 long years....

However, in a press conference held last Wednesday, Chinese officials appear to have confirmed that China is no longer in control of its space station and is expected to die a fiery death in Earth’s atmosphere towards the second half of next year. However, it’s unlikely anyone on the Earth will be injured. China’s Tiangong-1 space station, which has been orbiting the planet for about 5 years was recently decommissioned and the Chinese astronauts returned to the surface....

While it is said to be part of China’s counter-terrorism laws, the controversial law under the guise of counter-terrorism, is the Chinese government’s attempt to curtail the activities of militants and political activists. China already faces criticism from around the world not only for the infamous Great Firewall of China, but also the blatant online surveillance and censorship that takes place. This latest move is one that will be view very suspiciously by foreign companies operating within China, or looking to do so....

Now, a similar MoviePass like movie subscription service, dubbed cPass, is set to be launched in the UK and Europe. This service will allow users to pre-register for an all-new service that will allow them to see one movie in the participating theatre each day for a flat subscription rate of £9.95 a month. In other words, depending on the month, a cPass subscriber can visit the theatres either 30 or 31 days in a row, and pay only a total of $9....

What are the differences between DoS and DDoS? You’ll be surprised to find outDoSDDoS DoS: Denial of Service DDoS: Distributed Denial of Service Now that you know the differences between the two terms as far as their full forms are concerned, what are the primary differences between the two in terms of functionality? DoS A DoS attack means that one computer and one internet connection is being used to flood a server with packets (also known as TCP/UDP)....

According to Yahoo Finance’s annual survey of 2021, Microsoft was named the “Company of the Year” for smashing the $2 trillion market capitalization mark and witnessing a 53% increase in its stock price as of December 2021. On the other hand, social media giant Facebook (now Meta) was crowned the “Worst Company of the Year” mainly for rebranding to Metaverse irking and upsetting its users. The open-ended survey was carried out on Survey Monkey via the Yahoo Finance home page from December 4th to December 5th where 1,541 people had taken part and responded to the survey....