“Cognizant can confirm that a security incident involving our internal systems, and causing service disruptions for some of our clients, is the result of a Maze ransomware attack,” Cognizant wrote in a press blog that employs about 3,00,000 and has over $15 billion in revenues. The company said that it has notified all its clients about the attack and it is taking steps to contain the incident. However, Cognizant did not disclose how many customer systems were affected in the attack....

On March 27, JAXA had officially disclosed that ever since the start of its operations on March 26, it hadn’t been able to communicate with Hitomi. However, now a video of the satellite spinning widely in space has been discovered. After a long, tense silence, Hitomi sent two very terse messages in response to JAXA’s continued attempts to contact it. But that doesn’t mean anything like full communications—much less control—has been re-established....

Some users reported that they were unable to install the released patches, while some complained of facing random restarts after installing the update. This issue also affects users of Windows 10 version 1903. Several Windows 10 users are seeing error codes 0x800f0982, 0xe0000100, and 0x80073701 that are preventing them from installing the patch update. “Screen goes black, PC shuts down. PC restarts, and goes straight to Desktop. As though it were just restarting normally, were it not for the fact that it doesn’t wait for programs to close before doing so....

Announced under the new Explorer Project, the dual-screen device has a 3.9-inch FHD+ second display that’s hidden under the 6.8-inch P-OLED FullVision main screen. LG has relied on a unique hinge module coupled with a hydraulic damper to reduce stress while using the smartphone in Swivel Mode. To further facilitate smoother swiveling thermoplastic polyoxymethylene has been applied on the back of the main screen. So here’s everything you need to know about the LG Wing....

Lizard Squad down the Xbox Live Gaming Servers through DDoS AttackLizard Squad DoxxedMore to come https://twitter.com/LizardPatrol/status/539592073452998659 The Xbox Live servers went offline since Monday evening and users were left wondering what was happening. The Lizard Squad than tweeted a shortish message at 8.37 eastern time claiming the hack https://twitter.com/LizardPatrol/status/539594137117667328 Xbox Live gamers have confirmed intermittent Xbox Live service outages with numerous tweets complaining about not being able to sign into Microsoft’s network and wondering when the issue will be fixed....

There are umpteen advantages of setting a passcode to the Android device however there is one major drawback in case if someone forgets their password because one cannot get through the phone until the passcode has been entered and here this article will come handy. We will check the methods which will help you to get access to your locked Android device: Erase the memory of the device: The most important requirement for this technique to give 100% result is that the Android Device Manager (ADM) must be enabled in the device....

Multiple Felony Charges Michael Angelo Savinelli was arrested after law enforcement authorities discovered child pornographic material on his personal computer. He was arrested few months back on 17th of November 2016. He was initially handed 6 third-degree felony charges as per the law. On further investigations however, the authorities found even more material on his personal computer that has resulted in an additional 70 felony charges. As per Monroe County State Attorney’s Office, the additional charges were framed when the authorities uncovered 69 pictures and videos of the accused depicting sexual conduct with children as young as 5....

Well, actually there is actually a mathematical formula that describes exactly how they tangle. In a paper titled “Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string” by Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith of the University of California at San Diego Department of Physics has explained this phenomenon. To find out why the headphones get tangled, the researchers used mathematical ‘knot theory’ to analyze the knots. They ran 3,415 trials of shaking a headphone in a box and found some interesting results....

The new Skywall 100 bazooka fires a smart projectile with a net that captures a drone and drags it to the earth. The bazooka’s net-carrying projectiles can reach drones within a range of up to 100 metres. Reload time is about eight seconds. The parachute feature which comes with the projectile, ensures that drones would not just plummet to the ground but glide gently to the ground. Skywall’s accuracy relies on a laser-powered “SmartScope,” which allows the gun’s on-board computer to calculate exactly the right moment to fire the projectile....

Li-Fi is a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using Visible Light Communication (VLC). Earlier this year, the lab testing saw scientists achieve speeds of 224 gigabits per second in the lab using Li-Fi. Estonian startup Velmenni has begun to offer the Li-Fi technology in a commercial setting. The company is using LiFi to send data at up to 1Gbps – more than 100x faster than current WiFi technologies. To put this in real-world terms, you could expect to download a high-definition film in just a few seconds....

In an attempt to enforce the default Microsoft Edge browser on its users, the Redmond giant decided to invent the microsoft-edge:// protocol to open links only in Edge. To counteract this behavioural change by Microsoft, Daniel Aleksandersen created a small helper app called “EdgeDeflector” in 2017 that parses the microsoft-edge:// links and redirects them to regular https:// links that it tells Windows to open in your default web browser. The user needs to simply to install the EdgeDeflector app and choose it as the default for microsoft-edge:// links instead of Microsoft Edge....

Microsoft engineers seem to have taken fancy to botching up the patch releases. We had earlier recounted how Microsoft was bungling with its patches not once or twice but three times in the recent past. It seems to have repeated its mistakes only this time its poor victims are Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 users. The latest instance of its botching the patch is a undocumented KB 3037639 release on 17th Feb 2015 which seems to be just a “re-release” of its KB 3013455 which had “Text Quality Degradation” issue for Vista and Windows server 2003....

Microsoft said it is looking into the issue and is working on a resolution. According to TechDows, who first reported on this issue, the crashes began after Windows 10 users upgraded to the stable version, Microsoft Edge 90. Apparently, the upgrade freezes and the Edge sub-process consumes a lot of CPU and RAM often causing a crash. Users took to Reddit [1, 2, 3] to report about the bug, which has been acknowledged by Microsoft....

This new change is supposed to make the upgrade experience easier for those who are eligible for the free Windows 10 offer said a Microsoft spokesperson. Few months earlier, Microsoft said that it would start to do this “early” in 2016, and now it’s happening. “As we shared in late October on the Windows Blog, we are committed to making it easy for our Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers to upgrade to Windows 10....

According to a report in The Verge, once you install a new browser on Windows 11 and open a web link for the first time, you will get a prompt for selecting the browser as the default app. However, this prompt will appear only once. At this stage, if you fail to tick “always use this app” to select a browser of your choice as the default app, Microsoft Edge will be automatically selected as the default browser....

The company, which revealed the changes in the announcement of Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17623 for Skip Ahead, said that “we will begin testing a change where links clicked on within the Windows Mail app will open in Microsoft Edge.” The company is testing the change in the latest test build of Windows 10. In a note to “Windows Insider” testers, Microsoft argued that Edge “provides the best, most secure and consistent experience on Windows 10 and across your devices”....

The images uploaded to the Facebook page celebrate LGBTQI+ inclusion and equity with a new special edition Pride theme for Windows that has a stylish purple gradient with traces of blue and orange on certain backgrounds. The new Start Menu is now much sleeker and cleaner with a translucent background and new Fluent Design-style icons. The images also confirm that Live Tiles are still very much part of the design, and the Live Tiles backgrounds will match your Windows 10 theme of choice (light or dark) and no longer be determined by the app color....

Microsoft .NET Core 1.0 development framework and its ASP.NET Core webpage-building ecosystem for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems will now be open source. Microsoft said that open sourcing .NET framework will make it easier for developers of varied operating systems to implement the framework. The Redmond giant intends to make .NET framework into a development platform that can be used on desktops, servers, and even on mobile simultaneously. Its new development was helped a great deal by its acquisition of Xamarin, which makes tools for developers to build mobile apps on Android and iOS using the ....

However until now the Windows 10 free upgrade program has so far concentrated on those Windows 7 and 8 users who reserved their copy in the weeks leading up to the operating system’s release. Microsoft plans to spread Windows 10 to a bigger audience over the coming months as per Windows blog. Microsoft will start making Windows 10 upgrade as an “Optional Update” now while it will be changed to “Recommended Update” starting from next year....