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In an agreement expected to be finalized in the second half of 2019, IBM will purchase all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190 per share in cash, which is a 63% premium over the company’s Friday’s closing share price. “The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer. It changes everything about the cloud market,” said Ginni Rometty, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IBM, said in a press release announcing the deal....

ICANN in a statement(PDF) said that the security issue affected the New gTLD Applicant and GDD (Global Domains Division) portals. ICANN said that these portals contain information on New gTLD Program applicants and registry operators and were supposed to be only accessible to applicants and operators to carry out evaluation and contracting processes. ICANN said a authorised user had informed them that these portals contained a vulnerability which could have allow an authenticated user to view the data of other users....

The airport’s parent company, Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), plans to sell surplus energy from the new solar plant to the Kerala State Electricity Board and and will buy back anything it needs during overcast days or at night. It is also that it is looking into other renewable energy sources taking advantage of the numerous water bodies in Kerala through dam-based solar panels and other hydro power projects. As of May 2016, the airport will run on more than 46,150 solar panels spread across 45 acres in a nearby cargo complex, which will produce an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 units of electricity daily....

This means Facebook will replace its own Windows 10 OSMeta app of Instagram with a progressive web app instead. This comes as good news for Windows 10 users who have not received an update for the current Instagram app since July 13, 2018. Instagram app for Windows 10 was first introduced by Facebook back in 2016. — Aggiornamenti Lumia (@ALumia_Italia) December 19, 2019 The change is expected to bring a lot of positives as well as negatives....

According to Notebookcheck, who received screenshots with the test results, the upcoming Alder Lake-P mobile processor from the Core i7-12700H series is up to 47% faster on the Cinebench R20 and R23 than AMD’s flagship Ryzen 9 5900HX. Apparently, an upcoming MSI GE76 Raider 12UH laptop had been benchmarked to run on an Intel Core i7-12700H processor. The Core i7-12700H uses 14 cores that support 20 virtual threads. Cinebench tested the Core i7-12700H processor in the R20 and R23 benchmarks, with both single-thread (ST) and multi-thread (MT) performances....

Entry level processors designed to conserve as much power as possibleDesktop lineupMobile lineup Desktop lineup • Pentium J3710: Quad-core 1.6GHz with boost frequency of 2.64GHz. • Celeron J3160: Quad-core 1.6GHz with boost frequency of 2.24GHz. • Celeron J3060: Dual-core 1.6GHz with boost frequency of 2.48GHz. Pricing is as follows: the Pentium family will start at $161 US and Celeron series will start from $171 US. If you are being patient enough, then you should know that Braswell will be replaced by its successor Apollo Lake in the second half of the year....

Damien Zammit, a hardware security expert, claims that the recent Intel x86 CPUs have a secret and power control mechanism embedded into them that runs on a separate chip that nobody can disable and review the closed proprietary code. This subsystem called the Intel Management Engine (ME) is a subsystem composed of a special 32-bit ARC microprocessor that is exactly located inside the x86 chipset, where it runs its own closed-source firmware....

ISC.org hacked and users may have been infected with Angler Exploit Kit malware through redirected websitesInternet Systems Consortium In a blog report published on 22nd December, 2014, Cyphort Labs warned about the possible malware infection to ISC.org authorities. Internet Systems Consortium Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. which operates the website as ISC.org, is a Delaware-registered non-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the universal, self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production-quality software, protocols, and operations....

To make things even more exciting, the South Korean company has taken to Twitter to showcase what looks like the packaging for the Galaxy S6 edge Avengers Edition smartphone featuring a galactic background and labeled “Coming Soon”. Detailed availability of Avengers-themed Galaxy S6 smartphones in markets may differ by region, which means they won’t be available everywhere, according to the South Korean company. At this point, it is exactly not clear which regions the phone may be coming to, but it is being assumed that the United States and South Korean markets are at least two of the selected locations considering the popularity of The Avengers: Age of Ultron....

A charger or ‘power adapter’ is the soul of your laptop. Without a charger, your laptop has zero use. It mostly happens when you forget your charger at home when you are out somewhere. Or your charger goes kaput due to an internal fault and your new charger will only arrive in a week’s time. These are some difficult situations that every laptop user faces. In such situations, there is no option but to borrow chargers from your friends or use an old charger lying around....

It was starting to look like Google was going to skip another month of dashboard updates. However, Google has been trying hard to fight fragmentation. Last month, Google revealed that the newest versions of its Android OS – the 5.x Lollipop releases – were installed on 18.1% of active Android devices. This calculation takes into account both Android 5.0 and Android 5.1 installs, since both of those versions are named Lollipop....

Readers and gamer may remember that Steam servers were down on Christmas day between 11.50am PST and 1.20pm PST. At that time, many sources tried to dispel the DoS attack fears and sought to blame the outage on a “configuration error.” However as per the statement released by Steam, its servers had indeed been blasted with a DoS attack and the attack allowed some users to see Steam Store pages that had been generated for other users....

The latest iOS attack dubbed as “Trustjacking” exploits a vulnerability in iTunes Wi-Fi Sync, a feature that allows iOS devices to be synced with iTunes without having to physically connect the iOS device to the computer. This feature can be enabled by physically connecting an iPhone/iPad to a computer once with a cable, specify that the iOS device can trust the computer henceforth, and then enable iTunes Wi-Fi Sync from the PC....

For those unaware, KPM is a password manager developed by Russian security firm Kaspersky, which allows users to securely store passwords and documents into an encrypted vault, protected by a password. All the sensitive data stored in the encrypted vault is protected with a master password. This product is available for various operating systems such as Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Web. It also allows users to create generate random, strong passwords from a given “policy”, which consists of password length, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and a custom set of special chars....

According to The Korean Times report who cited industry sources claims that LG has decided to pull out of the smartphone business and relocate its employees to other units of LG’s business. “LG has considered various options such as a sale, split sales or pulling out of the smartphone business, but decided recently to pull out of the business,” the news outlet quoted a source as saying, adding that the company will make an official announcement at its board meeting on Monday, April 5th....

Researchers discover a backdoor in the widely available drones that lets anyone hijack itConsumer drones Consumer drones Drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have moved from being a military toy to commercial consumer sector within the past few years. Companies find it relatively cheap to produce, tiny, personal UAVs and it can be purchased by anybody save in select countries where drones are banned due to security reasons. The commercial drones are used for variety of purposes like advanced photography, capturing sports, hobby and even pizza delivery....

However, the cyberattack has slowed down drastically over the week with Microsoft urging its unaffected users to update their systems with the patches released, latest antivirus and anti-virus malware. Also, independent security researchers going by the names ‘Adrien Guinet’ and ‘Benjamin Delpy’ have released WannaCry decryption tools named “WannaKey” and “WanaKiwi” respectively to counter the attack. In this article, we will find out more about the 22-year-old self-taught cyber analyst who helped slowing down the spread of WannaCry virus....

The rewritten and re-designed Privacy Policy, which will be effective July 26, will make it easier to understand and reflect the latest products Meta offers, based on feedback from people who use the company’s technology and privacy experts. “Notifications that people will start to receive today on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger will direct them to information about what to expect from the relevant Privacy Policy and Terms of Service in their region,” the company wrote in a blog post on Thursday....

A few days ago, Akoto, a 33-year-old information and communications technology (ICT) teacher in Ghana, became a social media sensation after he had posted pictures of him drawing a complete Microsoft Word window in multicolored chalk on a blackboard. He did this as he wants his students to learn digital skills even without devices. Microsoft honored Akoto’s dedication to teach at the Education Exchange (E2) in Singapore by giving him a standing ovation at a gathering of almost 400 educators and school leaders from 91 countries, who were there to discuss the role of technology in education and new methods of teaching that can prepare students for success in the digital age....

According to Microsoft’s Blog on late Friday. This development will bring the manageability and security of ‘Windows 10 Internet of Things (IoT) Enterprise’ solutions to the ‘ROS’ ecosystem as well. Talking about ROS. It’s an assemblage of tools and libraries which is utilized and applied to build complex robots. Windows 10 IOT enterprise helps in producing enterprise manageability and security solutions in context to industry based IoT devices, which are used in manufacturing, retail, healthcare, and of course other industries....