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“We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where the suspect was. Other options would have exposed our officers to great danger,” said Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown in a press conference on Friday. “The suspect is deceased as a result of detonating the bomb.” The shootings in Dallas occurred at the end of an otherwise peaceful demonstration stimulated by police shootings this week that killed Philando Castile in Minnesota and Alton Sterling in Louisiana....

In the new documents, the Anaheim Police Department has accepted that on aircraft flying above the Southern California city that is home to Disneyland, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, they make use of surveillance devices known as Dirtboxes (plane-mounted stingrays). The Anaheim Police Department have owned the Dirtbox since 2009 and a ground-based stingray since 2011, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California....

Gawker has published an unsealed search warrant, and related affidavit, about the FBI investigation into the event. Seized from the property were several computers, a Kindle tablet, a cell phone and many storage devices. The affidavit identifies eight celebrities by their initials only. Other hacked accounts belonged to other celebrities, models and their friends and families, the affidavit said. Hollywood celebs like Jennifer Lawrence, Amber Heard, Abigail Spencer, Christina Hendricks, Hope Solo, Jennette McCurdy, Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, Emily Browning were cited by following initials in the affidavit report: ‘J....

For those unfamiliar, Cellebrite is an Israeli company, which specializes in extracting data from mobile phones for law enforcement agencies. The firm’s main product is called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) – a tool designed to extract smartphone data, which is being used extensively by the U.S. and UK police. — Hacker Fantastic (@hackerfantastic) February 11, 2019 However, Cellebrite is not too happy about the second-hand tools being resold between $100 and $1,000 per unit on eBay....

Justice Minister Andrea Orlando had stated that the chat feature of PS4 could easily be used in order to allow terrorists to plot future attacks, which will obviously result in terrible results. In order to counter this, the Minister has said that a total of €150 million, or £106 million is going to be invested in order to reform information and security services within the year. Mr. Orlando describes the information as follows: One of the reasons why PS4’s chat feature is going to be monitored is because since it exists on just Sony’s servers, monitoring communication is even more difficult as compared to WhatsApp....

However, according to the non-profit organization GreatFire, starting on August 28, CERNET users have been seeing warning messages about invalid SSL certificates when trying to access google.com and google.com.hk. Experts believe authorities have launched a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack against the encrypted traffic between CERNET and Google to see what people are searching for. Greatfire.org claimed that the attacks are similar to those believed to have been sanctioned by Beijing in January 2013 against developer site Github....

China’s media watchdog, The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), has filed a lawsuit against Apple, claiming that the tech giant has infringed its exclusive online rights to broadcast a film that depicts Chinese fighting against Japanese soldiers in northern China in the early 1930s. The Chinese government agency claims it has incurred “huge economic losses” because Apple allowed Youku Tudou — the Chinese equivalent of YouTube — to broadcast the film “Xuebo Dixiao” to Apple TV users....

The Romanian authorities suspect that these hackers could have hacked the banks to clone the payment cards which were then used in various ATMs across the world to steal more than $15 million. As per DIICOT, the required data to clone the cards was obtained by hacking the computer systems from banks in the US (Puerto Rico) and in Muscat, the capital city of Oman. Further it seems the criminals targeted the accounts which belonged to large corporations and successfully extracted the payment card data of these accounts which they then used to create fraudulent cards....

Rated among the top Linux distros, the all new Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 is the latest and most advanced build of the Debian Jessie series, bringing many patches and fixes to the old version 8.6 which was launched in mid-September last year. The new version also brings dozens of updated versions of the included components and applications. “Security advisories were already published separately and are referenced where available,” said the Debian Project....

The company has not provided an exact delivery date, but soon could possibly mean that these notebooks could be arriving in market places in less than six months. Keep in mind that the Windows 10 version of the XPS 13 with a Core i3 chip starts at $799, so you should keep your budget in the same range if you intend on purchasing the same notebook with the same hardware configuration and a different OS....

Theoretically, if the smartphone is stolen or lost, this technology will give users additional, “intelligent” security, wherein the device will intuitively put self-protective measures into effect. The phone uses a “neuromorphic computer chip” that simulates human learning. This allows the chip to identify its owner’s manner of walking and talking, according to nextgov.com. The companies “pretty much are leveraging user behavior information” from data gathered by sensors found on any standard consumer smartphone, Vincent Sritapan, program manager for mobile security R&D at the DHS said....

Is there any harm to be incurred by just pulling a flash drive out? Why do we need safe removal at all? We have all been guilty of ripping our USB drives out of our computers instead of ejecting them properly, only to receive the judgemental pop up telling us we really shouldn’t have done that. But when everything on the USB works fine next time you plug it in, you can’t help but doubt: does it actually do anything when you safely eject your disk before removing it?...

“Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information,” Trump said at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina. “It just occurred to me.” Now, two weeks later, Mr. Trump has ignored his own boycott. Trump had been tweeting from both Android and Apple devices, but he promised on February 19 to use only his Android-powered Samsung phone until Apple gave the “info to authorities” on the shooter....

However not all crime pays. According to a report from Reuters, a drone has crashed in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. The crashed drone was found to be carrying all manner of contraband, including mobile phones, drugs, and hacksaw blades just to name a few. The prison authorities were quick to confiscate the illegal goods because of the crash. However it is not known whether the criminals had shipped the goods for some inmate lodged in the Oklahoma prison....

UK’s startup which collected $3.4 million on Kickstarter collapses after failing to deliver dronesIn a Wednesday statement sent to backers, the company wrote: Torquing troubles began earlier this month when cofounder and CEO Ivan Reedman abruptly left the company citing “personal health issues and irreconcilable differences.” For the uninitiated, Torquing Group raised around $4.3 million in January 2015 through a Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its handheld drone, known as the Zano....

And while you are at it watch mini-roundabout because the enemies are lurking near buy. The game is available with the original rules of Pacman with 5 lives per game. The game even comes with the original music and the fatal ‘wooo wooo’ sound when you die. Be careful to choose a nice city with spaces on the streets or you will get this message

According to a Defense Department spokesman, the focus of the closed-door get together was Carter’s attempt to “build bridges” in technology and learn more about the world of “innovation,” even though Musk is also looking to win more government business for SpaceX, which launches satellites into orbit. After their meeting neither Carter nor Musk spoke to reporters, but Defense Department spokesman Peter Cook said Monday that Carter “has been reaching out to a number of members of the technology community to get their ideas, their feedback, find out what’s going on in the world of innovation....

According to IRS documents, the new church of AI will aim “to develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead [to] contribute to the betterment of society.” Levandowski would be the leader – in this case “dean” – of the religion. The robot god will head a non-profit religious organization called “Way Of The Future” (WOTF). According to the website (wayofthefuture....

The 1993 video game, in which a player fights the menace of hell, has become a hallmark for AI research for its simple 3D maps and potential for different styles of play. This competition is particularly interesting because these AI play Doom in a way that imitates how an actual human would – by “looking” at the screen (actually, the screen buffer), finding and evaluating what’s happening, making decisions and then sending inputs to the game as though the AI were using a mouse and keyboard, points out Engadget....