How would it sound if we take the light all the way to the computer or TV, projecting it through the air over the last few meters and only converting it to an electronic signal at the end? That sounds amazing isn’t. The researches at Oxford University is working on the similar technique with a system that takes light from the fiber, amplifies it, and beams it across a room to deliver data at more than 100 gigabits per second....

“Thank you all for your donations and for your support. We’ve received a lot of help in preparation for the next release,” said Clement Lefebvre. “The ISO images are getting close to passing QA (quality testing) so we could see a Beta release early this month. Linux Mint 18 is just around the corner. I hope you’ll enjoy it.” The Mint team is expecting to receive lots of suggestions and help from the community to find bugs and polish the operating system before it pushes out a solid stable release subsequently with the beta release....

So here’s good news for those concerned about camera and microphone spying! MacKeeper developers came up with a must-have solution: Camera Protection and Microphone Protection. They are small but useful widgets are designed to notify the user when an app attempts to access the Mac’s camera or microphone. These features are included in the new version of MacKeeper. Camera Protection and Microphone Protection quickly detect any access to your Mac’s camera or microphone....

Microsoft’s updates for Windows 10 are compulsory; who’s to protect PCs from buggy updatesThe EULA reads:This has its pros and cons. Let us check the Pros:What are the Cons: The biggest disadvantage of auto updates : Microsoft is ready to release its much awaited latest preview build of Windows 10 and just a week before the final release Microsoft has published its Windows 10 End User License Agreement (EULA) which confirms its clause that : Windows 10 updates are mandatory for Home users....

“Today, we are pleased to share the next step in our journey to support our business and education customers with the introduction of Surface Pro 7+ for Business,” Microsoft said in its announcement. “From small and medium size businesses to the largest organizations, Surface Pro 7+ is purpose-built with the needs of our business and education customers in mind. This next generation of Surface Pro stays true to its ethos – delivering on top customer requested updates while maintaining the same iconic design so customers can continue to leverage their existing investments....

The new method is detailed in a paper in the journal Science Advances, wherein Microsoft has introduced their first nanoscale DNA storage writer – a proof-of-concept molecular controller in the form of a tiny DNA storage writing mechanism on a chip. It is known that available methods of storage are having difficulty keeping up with the increasing demand in the long term. As per prediction by the International Data Corporation, data storage demands will reach nine zettabytes by 2024....

Announced at last year’s Build developer conference, Azure Sphere OS is a customized high-level Linux-based OS that Microsoft has built for its Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end security platform. The bug bounty programme called “Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge” is a three-month, application-only security research challenge that starts from June 1, 2020, and ends on August 31, 2020. The deadline to submit an application to take part in the challenge is May 15, 2020....

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 build for participants in its beta program, promises faster bug fixesWhat’s New The new Windows 10 build No.10041 promises the users with a whole host of new features and fixes. Microsoft has also said that it has retooled its release program to get latest updates to users more faster. The Windows 10 testing community now has 3 million members who signed up Windows 10 Technical Preview program....

As said above, the update bumps up the build number from 9879, released on November 12, to build 9926. “The gap between 9879 and 9926 is the longest you should expect to see with the program, because of the holidays and the need to add and stabilize feature payloads,” Microsoft explained. “We’ll get new builds out faster moving forward – thank you for being patient with us.” If you have already signed up for the Microsoft Insider Program and downloaded the Windows 10 Preview test version (Build 9879) the update should arrive by tonight itself as per Microsoft....

With Windows 7 approaching its end of extended support in less than three years, Microsoft took to its German website to encourage Windows 7 users to upgrade to the latest OS, Windows 10, because of its set of integrated security features, Windows Store for Business, and flexible management and simplified development for enterprise IT. “Today, it does not meet the requirements of modern technology, nor the high security requirements of IT departments,” added Markus Nitschke, Head of Windows at Microsoft Germany....

For those unaware, ZeniMax Media is the parent company behind game development and publishing powerhouses, such as Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios. Bethesda Softworks is one of the largest, privately-held game developers and publishers in the world, which has critically acclaimed and best-selling franchises including The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, DOOM, Quake, Wolfenstein, and Dishonored, among others....

This malware is a new Trojan in the form of Mozilla add on and chrome extension. The malware found is discovered as Trojan:JS/Febipos and first detected in brazil. The trojan first checks whether the user is logged in to his account or not, if the user is logged in, it attempts to download a configuration file that includes a list of commands. This malware can perform the following action with your profile: Like a page, share content, post on people’s profiles, comment on other posts, join a group, invite friends to a group, and chat with friends....

Bank of Taiwan, Chang Hwa Bank, First Bank and five other banks said on Tuesday (July 12) they were checking their German-made cash machines after First Bank’s ATM machines in Taipei and Taichung were broken into last weekend. First Bank Vice President Yeh Chung-huei told reporters the money was stolen from 34 ATMs at 20 of the bank’s branches in the two cities on Saturday and Sunday. He said malware is believed to have been installed into individual ATMs, making the machines dispense bills automatically....

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They also found, Lighttpd and nginx web servers also are affected by this backdoor. as mentioned in their report, which further mentioned “we found it will not deliver malicious content if the victim’s IP address is in a very long list of blacklisted IP ranges, nor if the victim’s internet browser’s language is set to Japanese, Finnish, Russian and Ukrainian, Kazakh or Belarusian.” Eset was able to found the backdoor last month, Researchers are still not able to find how the web servers are effected....

“While there is no evidence of any economic loss to any client, it has been determined that certain account information of approximately 900 clients, including account names and numbers, was briefly posted on the Internet. Morgan Stanley detected this exposure and the information was promptly removed,” the company noted in its statement. “Overall, partial account information of up to 10 percent of all Wealth Management clients was stolen. The data stolen does not include account passwords or social security numbers....

The plan was to present user with advertisement tiles as homepage when it opened the browser. Internet users who used Mozilla Firefox were angry at this proposal and let their anger be known on various tech forums. Mozilla then put on hold this idea for a while.Now it has been confirmed that the project has been brought into being. Darren Herman, Mozilla’s VP of Content Services, announced in May 2015 that “Suggested Tiles represents an important step for us to improve the state of digital advertising....

Though all six major exchanges quickly got together to issue a joint statement, this move by Mt.Gox is going to hurt investor sentiment in the trading of Bitcoins. The statement which has been co-signed by all the six Bitcoin exchanges is reproduced below :

Earlier astronomical studies have shown that it is possible to preserve ancient bio-signatures in an impact glass. Kevin Cannon, a PhD student at Brown University said: “Knowing this, we wanted to go look for them on Mars and that is what we did here. Before this paper, no one had been able to definitively detect them on the Martian surface”. Cannon and a co-author Jack Mustard, who is professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at the Brown University together showed that there are considerably large glass deposits present in several well preserved ancient craters that are scattered across the Martian surface....

The deal extends Microsoft’s 12-year longstanding cybersecurity partnership with the NATO Communications Information (NCI) Agency and marks the company’s latest Government Security Program (GSP) agreement. Microsoft opened its second European Transparency Centre in Brussels to offer governments a safe location to review its source code by striking a similar agreement with the EU in June. According to Microsoft, the agreement means the NCI agency will get controlled online access to source code for key Microsoft products including Windows and Office, product susceptibility information, details about Microsoft’s cloud services, and intelligence about cybersecurity threats....