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  T-Mobile’s announcement came after an anonymous hacker claimed to have sensitive personal information on more than 100 million people including 30 million unique SSNs that had never been sold to anyone before.  The stolen data includes social security numbers, phone numbers, names, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s licenses information, the seller said in an underground forum as reported by Motherboard. T-Mobile said in a statement...

[caption id="attachment_12512" align="aligncenter" width="979"] The CG model of Jensen in a CG replica of his kitchen[/caption]   The Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) Keynote, which took place last April, was nearly 100% fake, and no one noticed!  Deepfakes are not something new and over the past few years, deepfakes improved and got a lot better. It became more difficult to tell the difference between the real thing and a fake one, and Nvidia with its GTC ...

So, imagine this: after Facebook CEO; Mark Zuckerberg's disappointing senate hearing last week, the US decides to ban Facebook. Well, something very comparable has occurred in Russia on Monday as the country's internet censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, ordered ISPs to block access to the popular messaging application, Telegram. This order follows a ban issued by a Moscow court on Friday April 13th 2018 on Telegram messenger, due to app’s developers’ repeated refusal to gi...

Last Monday, Apple has sealed the deal and acquired Shazam for$400 million. Shazam is an extremely popular application that helps its users identify songs, commercials, movies and TV shows through short audio clips. Apple’s spokesperson made an official statement to The Verge expressing the company’s excitement over this deal: “We are thrilled that Shazam and its talented team will be joining Apple [...] Apple Music and Shazam are a natural fit, sharing a passion f...

It looks like that Amazon is losing the long ongoing war with Google. If you have missed the latest internet quake the shook up the online entertainment world, here is a quick recap. Long story short, it all started when Amazon refused to cooperate with Google to carry its products, including: Chromecast, Nest E Thermostat, Nest’s Camera IQ as well as the Nest Secure alarm system. As a result, Google responded with a vicious blow by pulling out the world’s most popula...

A new version of Android has been finally unveiled by Google. It comes in the form of Android 8.1 Oreo and it includes some new upgrades for features, bug fixes as well as some minor optimisations. According to Google, Android8.1 is a minor release in AOSP and will be available for Nexus and Pixel devices next week. So what exactly is new? Let’s see: 1- Autofill Enhancements In the new 8.1 version, Google has improved how applications and password managers use ...

Today is a glorious day for all Apple iPhone users. The company has invented a new built-in person-to-person feature to send cash through a text message, called “Apple Pay Cash”. First announced last June at a conference, “Apple Pay Cash” was unleashed on Monday allowing Apple users with the latest iPhone update in the US to send other iPhone users money via text messages. This is a huge and bold step by Apple which critically threatens digital cash application...

On November 1st in Russia, a new law came into force regulating the use of tools and technologies that are responsible for the anonymous access of the internet. Many internet users are concerned that this law will make it more difficult for them to bypass online restrictions. The law was signed by the President of Russia, Vladmir Putin on July 1st and was intended to place restrictions on online restrictions bypassing tools including virtual private networks (VPN) and proxy...

Earlier this month, a new strain of the Ransomware malware that goes by the name “Tyrant Ransomware” was discovered by G Data security researcher Karsten Hahn. Part of the DUMB ransomware family, Tyrant has spread across Iran through versions of Psiphon VPN to extort infected users of the popular VPN app. Iran CERTCC (Iran Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center) released a security alert about Tyrant ransomware that has been widely distributed across ...

Canada has turned into the home to a portion of the hardest against theft controls on the planet. Torrenting itself is not lawful in Canada but rather in light of the fact that this innovation causes the clients to download copyright ensured content which is a reasonable infringement of copyright encroachment law; that has been actualized the nation over. If you are living in Canada and thinking to get your hands on your most loved motion picture, book or diversion through...