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How to curtail your natural operational losses via Project Management SoftwareMaximizing EfficiencyMake It Look Like There’s No CushionFuture Possibilities The best solution is a balance between man and machine. People do the thinking work that they are good at, and the machines to the repetitive and detailed work that they are good at. But here’s the thing about well-designed machines: they’re only as smart as their operators. Computers are extremely literal....

Devices affected include those with 64-bit processors and iOS 8: iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2, and iPad mini 3. The researchers noted that the “Darwin Nuke” vulnerability is exploited while processing an IP packet of specific size and with invalid IP options. Remote attackers can execute a DoS (denial of service) attack on a device with OS X 10.10 or iOS 8, sending an incorrect network packet to the target....

Dell currently owns and controls 80% of VMware, a company worth $55 billion. Dell, a private technology company that was once public, may again decide to become public by selling itself to VMware in a process that’s known as a reverse merger, according to CNBC. For those unaware, Dell, once a publicly traded company became private back in 2013 when it’s founder and CEO Michael Dell was able to purchase the company for $24....

1923Turk. just fired a Tweet using twitter handle @1923Turkz, claiming to hack database of Department of Police, State Government of Jharkhand, India. The database contains the login credential including email and password, Majority of the password used is 123. It seems like its the default password, and they have not changed it. The database can be seen in the paste here For those who don’t believe it, 1923Turk released a screenshot, showing the vulnerability in their website....

After testing this feature in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, the streaming service on Tuesday has started rolling out the GroupWatch feature to users in the U.S. The GroupWatch feature allows up to seven people (which includes a host and up to six other co-watchers) to watch together in a synced playback experience available across the Disney+ website, on the Android and iPhone apps, Smart TVs and connected devices, and share reactions in real-time....

For those unaware, the iOS 14.5 update comes with a new privacy feature called App Tracking Transparency (ATT), which was released to the public on April 26th. The ATT feature requires apps to get user’s permission before sharing their activity and data with websites and apps owned by other companies. In other words, this feature gives users a little more control over whether or not they want an app to be able to track them....

Dubbed as “Project Storm,” Parikh explained the effort to the audience of invited engineers at the third annual @Scale conference held in San Jose this week. @Scale brings together engineers who build or preserve systems designed for huge numbers of users, including companies like Google, Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, Dropbox, and others. The wake-up call for Facebook as to how natural disaster could cause a shut-down disaster was the mammoth 2012 hurricane, Super Storm Sandy that pushed its way up the East Coast from the Caribbean and made landfall near New York City, causing havoc on the East Coast internet infrastructure....

State treasurers from Illinois, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, and New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who oversees money including pension funds co-filed the proposal. They joined a proposal originally filed by the investor, Trillium Asset Management in June that called for Zuckerberg to resign as chairman. Also Read- Hackers accessed 29 million user accounts, says Facebook The proposal is largely symbolic since Zuckerberg holds absolute control of the board. The removal demand comes at a time when recent security lapses at the social networking giant have raised questions over the company’s leadership....

Social networking giant Facebook has found itself in troubled waters after it allowed users to mark themselves as “safe” during the Paris attacks while ignoring other conflicts happening in other parts of the world. Following the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris that claimed the lives of up to 129 people, Facebook immediately enabled its Safety Check feature for the people who were in and around Paris. The feature was used by more than 4 million people to mark themselves as “Safe” on Facebook in the first 24 hours....

The purpose of the new market research app is to collect information directly from the people who use its services and use it to improve products like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal and Oculus, and to benefit the broader community. “Today, we’re introducing Facebook Viewpoints, a new market research app that rewards people for participating in surveys, tasks, and research. We believe the best way to make products better is to get insights directly from people who use them....

The video uploaded in real-time by T.J. Williams on Tuesday evening shows him and two other men in a car smoking what appears to be marijuana, while listening and rapping along to hip hop music. About five minutes and 40 seconds into the video, gun shots were fired, instantly throwing Williams back and the phone to the floor of the car, the report said. However, the recording continues for more than an hour, capturing the sounds of witnesses followed by the first responders attempting to save the men....

The tagline has been changed from “It’s free and always will be” to “It’s quick and easy.” According to Business Insider, who traced the switch using internet archive Wayback Machine, said that the change has happened sometime between August 6 and 7. Due to its free-to-use, advertising-funded business model, Facebook does not charge its users for joining the service. However, the data collected from the users are sold to companies to help direct marketing and products to certain audiences....

— BEN SLATER ? (@iambenslater) April 29, 2018 — Carter (@cwsbbb) April 29, 2018 Now, according to a new report from TheNextWeb, Facebook wants users to use the “downvote” to flag ‘bad comments’, which the social media giant defines as having “bad intentions or is disrespectful.” Apparently, Facebook is trying really hard not to make this new button come out as a dislike button, reports TNW. Back in February, a Facebook spokesperson had stressed that “We are not testing a dislike button....

“At Facebook, we believe that if you share data with one service, you should be able to move it to another. That’s the principle of data portability, which gives people control and choice while also encouraging innovation. Today, we’re releasing a tool that will enable Facebook users to transfer their Facebook photos and videos directly to other services, starting with Google Photos,” Steve Satterfield, Director of Privacy and Public Policy at Facebook announced in a blog post....

Ime Archibong, Facebook’s Vice President of Product Partnerships, in a company post on Monday said: “We have large teams of internal and external experts working hard to investigate these apps as quickly as possible. To date thousands of apps have been investigated and around 200 have been suspended – pending a thorough investigation into whether they did in fact misuse any data. Where we find evidence that these or other apps did misuse data, we will ban them and notify people via this website....

Facebook is looking to make it easy for anyone to create profile frames that can be used by support teams, political causes, businesses and special events. However, Facebook says that all custom frames must stick to its policies in order to go live. According to a company spokesperson, Facebook employees will review each submitted frame to make sure it’s not offensive or illegal. If you are interested in creating a Facebook frame for anyone to use, just head here and download Facebook’s templates to get started....

Facebook is trying to dispel some of the stigma and pop-culture myths that surround AI with a series of six instructional videos that try to explain this complicated field of computer science. The timing of the AI campaign comes after critics have slammed Facebook for its role in distributing false information during the 2016 presidential campaign. “I think the more open we can be about it and the more we can demystify and explain how it actually works, the more quickly we can address concerns,” said Candela....

Reuters reported that in a five-page, confidential “flash” warning sent to security staff of some of the companies, FBI provided some of the technical details of the malware. The FBI did not name Sony as the victim of this malware however those experts who are following the Sony breach said it was clearly linked to Sony hack attack. Reuters reported the advisory says the malware overrides all data on hard drives of computers, including the master boot record, which prevents them from booting up....

We all can’t deny the fact that Piracy is the biggest curse for the Entertainment media industry. These days there are tons of websites available on the internet that let you download 100% free movies and even allow you to watch movies online, and Filmywap was just one of them. “Filmywap- Free Bollywood Movie Download” Is Banned This website provided free Bollywood movies download and was fairly popular in India and manages to attract millions of users a month....

For those unaware, HIPB is a popular data breach notification website that allows people to check if their login credentials such as email ID or passwords have been leaked by hackers. Similar to “this site may be hacked” warning that Google search shows for a compromised website, the new feature dubbed ‘Breach Alerts’ for Firefox will pop up notifications if a user’s credentials have been involved in a recent data breach....