The updated updated exterior design of the TF-X shows a sleeker body shape, which will be tested in a one-tenth scale model wind tunnel that is currently on exhibition at the EAA AirVenture aviation convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Terrafugia wrote “The model will be tested at the MIT Wright Brothers wind tunnel, the same tunnel that was used to test models of Terrafugia’s Transition. The wind tunnel test model will be used to measure drag, lift and thrust forces while simulating hovering flight, transitioning to forward flight and full forward flight....

Unknown hackers knock out New York City governments email systemDDoS or Hack? Almost all government agencies in New York City were unable to send or receive messages for the past week due to this attack. Some agencies such as the Department of Transportation set up temporary Gmail accounts to send and receive emails. Sources said that inbound and outbound emails were affected while intra-agency emails were not affected by the attack Speaking about the DDoS attack, Jackie Albano, a spokeswoman for the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, said that the attack which started last Tuesday, had been resolved last week....

The Nokia headquarters in Espoo, near the Finnish capital, Helsinki, were draped Friday in a banner with the words “On the Move.” They will be taken over by Microsoft and Nokia’s remaining workers in the area will move to nearby offices.

Microsoft in an article titled “Six Reasons Why Governments Should Upgrade to Windows 10” explains that its new operating system is the perfect solution for every state out there because it offers speed, efficiency, choices, control, flexibility and security not yet available on other platforms. For example, on the exact same hardware, Windows 10 was found to be 30% faster than Windows 7, while at the same time offering advantages like better hardware acceleration and improved power management....

This is happening at a time when Comcast, announced that it plans to buy Time Warner Cable in a $45.2 billion merger both with the worst customer service ratings in the American Customer Satisfaction index. Time Warner Cable admitted its mistake giving a statement Esperanza Martinez got an apology and a free year of service. Even Comcast has had to publicly apologize for numerous cases in which it called their customers insulting names like “Asshole,” as a result of the mishap, Comcast waived a cancellation fee and issued a refund for two years for service....

The NVIDIA GeForce features a Turing TU117-150 GPU with 512 CUDA cores, which is lower than the GeForce GTX 1650 model which offers 896 cores. The graphics card comes with 4GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 12Gbps on a 64-bit memory bus, a massive reduction from the 128-bit bus. It features a TDP of 75W and core clocks running at 1785 MHz. Further, the GTX 1630 graphics card delivers a maximum bandwidth of 96 GB/s, which is half that of the GTX 1650 GPU....

Flipkart is offering OnePlus One 64GB Black Sandstone model for Rs. 19,998, which Rs. 2,000 less than its original price, as a part of its shopping event ‘Big App Shopping Days’ (22-24 June). Customers who wish to exchange their old phone to buy the new one can avail of cash discounts up to Rs. 10,000. In other words, the phone can be grabbed for Rs. 9,998. This offer is valid both on desktop website and mobile app purchase mode....

The company in the past had disclosed that its forthcoming device will have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 version 2.1 chip set under the hood, carry a USB-C port, and it will run OxygenOS, which is OnePlus’ own version of Android. The company has announced today that it will launch the OnePlus 2 with a VR (Virtual Reality) experience that fans will be able to check out using their phones with a cardboard viewer....

Torrent lovers all over the world respect Sunde because he has always been very outspoken about people’s inherent drive to copy things. He believes that the movie companies and music companies cite exaggerated losses from piracy. When they calculate piracy costs, they often put too much value on pirated copies. It is his kopimi values that lead him to something about it. He has now built a ultimate copying machine called ‘Kopimashin....

Three judges and four of six jurors had returned guilty verdicts in 2014 and Gottfrid was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. Gottfrid Svartholm, the Sweden born Pirate Bay founder and his 21-year-old accomplice were found to have been involved in illegally accessing systems operated by IT company CSC. Svartholm was found guilty of gross vandalism under Danish laws because he has changed in files on CSC’s Web server. After the sentencing by the lower courts, Gottfrid had immediately filed an appeal in the higher courts and this month his case came before the Eastern High Court....

The hack that a national scandal for the site, revealed public figures such as Josh Duggar and Real Housewives of New York star Kristen Taekman’s husband Josh as being allegedly registered. Two suicides, one involving a San Antonio veteran cop and another involving a person in Canada, were also linked to the data dump that disclosed names, ages, addresses, phone numbers, credit card details and even sexual fantasies detailed on the site....

The leaks comes just two days before the presidential election in Ukraine to be held on May 25. “We Cyber Berkut, in protest against the legitimization of crimes Kiev junta completely destroyed the network and computing infrastructure of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine.” “We declare that the Unified Information-Analytical System ‘Elections’ created under complete control of the United States ceased to exist said the hacker on their website. The Hackers also leaked large archive of emails, as well as the technical documentation of the CEC system administrators online....

For those unaware, the Raspberry Pi Foundation had first released the Raspberry Pi 4 model in June 2019 with three different variants such as 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB of RAM. “Raspberry Pi 4 is almost a year old, and it’s been a busy year,” Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton writes in the announcement. “We’ve sold nearly 3 million units, shipped a couple of minor board revisions, and reduced the price of the 2GB variant from $45 to $35 … While we launched with 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB variants, even at that point we had our eye on the possibility of an 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 … today, we’re delighted to announce the immediate availability of the 8GB Raspberry Pi 4, priced at just $75....

Cybersecurity researcher, Volodymyr “Bob” Diachenko discovered a non-password-protected database belonging to Razer that was accessible via the Internet. The exposed database contained information of approximately 100,000 individuals, which included the customer’s full name, email address, contact number, customer internal ID, order numbers, order details, billing, and shipping address. According to Diachenko, the data was part of a large log chunk stored on a company’s Elasticsearch cluster that had been misconfigured for public access since August 18th, 2020, and indexed by public search engines....

Google is now opening up the feature to more users and bringing real-time translation capabilities to all Google Assistant-powered headphones, according to a report from Droid-Life. Google has updated the support page for the Pixel Buds that reads “Google Translate is available on all Assistant-optimised headphones and Android phones. The Google Assistant on Google Pixel Buds is only available on Android and requires an Assistant-optimised Android device and data connection....

Tor users’ IP addresses can be identified by exploiting routersThe ResearchThe Analysis The Research Professor Sambuddho Chakravarty, a former researcher at Columbia University’s Network Security Lab and now researching Network Anonymity and Privacy at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, has co-published a series of papers over the last six years outlining the attack vector, and claims a 100% ‘decloaking’ success rate under laboratory conditions, and 81.4% in the actual wilds of the Tor network....

Security researcher from Pennsylvania State University, Ren stated that “The enabled attacks can affect all latest Android versions and all apps (including the most privileged system apps) installed on the system.” The researchers have published a paper on the vulnerability called Towards Discovering and Understanding Task Hijacking in Android, which was presented at the USENIX Security 15 conference in Washington DC last week. Video demonstrating denial of service Video demonstrating user spoofing...

New research from Avast reveals just how easily compromised many so-called “smart” TVs actually are, as well as how little your consent to being tracked actually matters. It is apparent that Vizio’s Smart TVs track users’ viewing habits by default and this information is sold to third parties who can then use it to deliver targeted ads to other internet-connected devices that share an IP address or other identifier with the Smart TV)....

They have managed to achieve this feat by using a process called reverse ATM attack. According to the Russian digital intelligence firm Group-IB, reverse ATM attack is able to exploit weaknesses in the international transfer system, allowing criminals to withdraw bundles full of cash with ease. However, according to the security agency, these criminals could have ran away with more cash if they had been more patient, signifying how effective the reverse ATM attack method is when malice is your only intent....

While both the companies did not disclose financial terms of the acquisition, The Wall Street Journal reported that Roku paid “significantly less” than $100 million to acquire Quibi’s shows. Quibi’s catalogue, which includes more than 75 premium shows and documentaries that Quibi created in conjunction with Hollywood’s leading studios and production companies, will be available for free on an ad-supported basis in 2021 to all Roku users. The content ranges from Emmy award-winning scripted series to alternative and reality programming and documentaries....