While Nokia 9 has been able to keep Nokia fan lovers on the edge with the constant rumor mill surrounding it, the device was recently spotted on the benchmarking website GFXBench. According to the listing, the upcoming handset will be running Google’s latest operating system, Android 8.0 Oreo and not the Android 7.1.1 Nougat out-of-the-box as suggested by previous reports. This news should not come as a surprise as HMD had already confirmed an Oreo update for all its existing devices with the operating system being pushed to Android Open Source Project (AOSP)....

Also, Motorola’s Moto G (2nd Gen) is currently being offered at a discounted rate in India. The smartphone initially launched with a price of Rs. 12,999. Although, there have been rare price cuts, this is the first time that the smartphone has had its price permanently decreased. The Moto G (2 Gen) can be seized for only Rs. 9,999, which is Rs. 3,000 less the original price of Rs. 12,999 on Flipkart....

Since half a year it has got some slight changes like skin tone emoji’s. Now users can even manage their profile photo and status using this web interface. However, you will be getting an alternative to update your photo. An edit symbol appears next to status and lets you to share all with your contacts. Some UI tweaks have also been integrated in this update. The update comes from the server side; you will not need to do anything apart from opening your web browser....

Joshua Peters, a U.S. Air Force veteran and a avid gamer, who lives in St. Cloud, Minnesota, was playing browser games on Wednesday when he fell victim to an apparent “swatting” prank. Swatting is the practice where a prank phone call is placed to the police with false bait information, base on which they then respond with the deployment of SWAT team or armed officers at the target of the swatter....

Open source tool called Gitrob trawls the Github repositories for sensitive dataHow it works Henriksen was tasked by SoundCloud to come up with creating a system that will constantly check the company’s GitHub organizations (i.e. repositories) for unintentionally leaked sensitive information. Henrikson did just that. He has developed an open source, command line tool that can be used for occasional checks of the same nature both by companies’ security personnel and by professional penetration testers looking for an easy way into a target organizations’ networks....

The layoffs were first reported by The Information last month where the publication revealed that Oracle was considering layoffs in its global workforce in August, as a part of a $1 billion cost-cutting proposal. While the current report does not mention the number of employees affected in the U.S., the layoff at Oracle will affect employees at its offices in the San Francisco Bay Area. According to Bloomberg, the layoff affected everyone ranging from a junior sales associate to a divisional sales director, in the U....

There is nothing new about the combination of fully-integrated touch screen mobile phones and haptic feedback. This concept was invented by BlackBerry years ago when it released the BlackBerry Storm in 2008. Featuring the company’s “SurePress” technology with haptic feedback, the Storm was BlackBerry’s (then Research in Motion) first touchscreen device without a physical keyboard. Neither of the other touchscreen devices including iPhone, the HTC G1 and Palm Pre that were available in the market at that time offered tactile feedback....

Both the companies did not show off much in the way of gameplay, but one may guess that the app will be free to download, with in-app purchases for additional content. The players can also purchase an optional Go Plus wearable that runs on Bluetooth and pairs with both Android and iOS. The Go Plus looks like a Pokeball flashes and vibrates notifying you that something is happening in the game in your neighborhood....

With over a billion of visitors every month, people visit YouTube to view the original content uploaded by its contributors. On the other hand, with great power comes great responsibility and for YouTube that means making the advertisers happy. Therefore, YouTube has rules in place over what kind of content can be monetized, for which it received criticism lately. In short, if you are unable to make content that is almost entirely “appropriate for all audiences,” (without references to drugs, violence, and sex, for instance), your content is at risk of making no money....

Well, this time around the PUBG news might sound interesting to people who own a budget-oriented or mid-range smartphone. Tencent games just launched PUBG Mobile Lite in India. So here’s everything you need to know about the lite variant of PUBG. PUBG Mobile Lite: Features PUBG Mobile Lite is a toned-down version of the full PUBG Mobile game for android. This game requires around 500mb of storage for installation and it can even run on smartphones with 1GB RAM....

As a part of the deal, Krafton and its major subsidiaries, like PUBG Corporation, will be using Azure’s services for its multiplayer battle royale PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS (PUBG) on PC and consoles, in addition to PUBG Mobile. For those unaware, Krafton Inc. is a collective of independent game development teams responsible for various entertainment properties, including PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS AND TERA. On the other hand, Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud computing service empowering game creators to build, run, and grow their games on a global scale....

Gary Sampson, Program Director for 100.9 FM, WCHQ said: Later, Sampson said that the song broadcast to insult U.S. President Donald Trump on the day of his inaugural speech was sung by rap artists YG & Nipsey Hussle titled “FDT (F**k Donald Trump).” The song interrupted WCHQ’s FM feed and was being played on a loop for 15 minutes until station manager managed to shut down the feed. “We apologize to anyone who was offended by the unauthorized broadcast....

The bounty challenge expired at the end of October, and Chaouki Bekrar, founder of Zerodium took to Twitter yesterday to announce that one hacking team had successfully created a browser-based jailbreak for iOS 9.1 and iOS 9.2, the latest versions of iOS 9, earning $1 million during this week. The important part of the contest rules was that the vulnerability should be achievable remotely without requiring user interaction beyond reading a text message or visiting a website via Chrome or Safari or a text or multimedia message on an iOS device....

The academic paper titled “Interstellar Communication. IX. Message decontamination is impossible” has been written by Michael Hippke of the Sonneberg Observatory in Germany and John Learned of the University of Hawaii. The paper discusses about a possible alien invasion either intentionally or unintentionally, by embedding code in a message. “It is cheaper for an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to send a malicious message to eradicate humans compared to sending battleships,” the researchers wrote....

Keighley Cougars later said on twitter that the developers were working on to fix the website. — Keighley Cougars (@Cougarmania) November 2, 2014 A few hours later they confirmed the website was fixed and was working back to normal. — Keighley Cougars (@Cougarmania) November 3, 2014 An investigation has already been setup and law enforcement agencies are working on trace the attackers/hackers. Who are Team System Dz? Team System Dz is a Algerian hacker crew, who have been mostly promoting anti- Israeli cyber warfare and now it seems to be promoting, Islamic State for Levant and Syria (ISIS) through hacking....

At the annual Display Week conference held in California from May 10-12, Samsung Display showcased some of its futuristic foldable and slidable concept prototypes. This included the Flex G, which folds inwards twice, and the Flex S, which folds both inward and outward. Besides these prototypes, the South Korean giant also displayed a 6.7-inch slidable product, basically a rollable panel, that expands upward and not stretches horizontally. According to the company, this capability is helpful for document work and social media postings....

Based on 14nm architecture, LPDDR5X is a next-generation mobile DRAM designed to significantly boost speed, capacity and power savings for future 5G applications. “In recent years, hyperconnected market segments such as AI, augmented reality (AR) and the metaverse, which rely on extremely fast large-scale data processing, have been rapidly expanding,” said SangJoon Hwang, Senior Vice President and Head of the DRAM Design Team at Samsung Electronics. “Our LPDDR5X will broaden the use of high-performance, low-power memory beyond smartphones and bring new capabilities to AI-based edge applications like servers and even automobiles....

The latest breach has resulted in the exposure of over 200 gigabytes of confidential data, which includes data of bio-metric unlock operations along with the source code for various technologies. A hacking group, Lapsus$, has taken responsibility for the breach. They also were part of the Nvidia hack, which occurred last week. The South Korean consumer electronics giant issued a media statement stating a “security breach” which exposed the internal company data with no risk to customer and employer data....

However, a Android user, RootJunky has proved that it is easy to bypass this system level protection with just a USB OTG cable and APK within 10 minutes. RootJunky recently discovered a flaw on Samsung devices which allows you to bypass the system level protection with just that. In a new video, RootJunky demonstrates how in just 10 minutes he was able to navigate around Factory Reset Protection in a Galaxy Note 5....