The situation arose when Zuckerberg posted about the “personal challenges” he wants to take on in the new year. While he says in past years he’s set goals to learn Mandarin or read two book per month, this year he wants to focus on building an artificial intelligence system for his home. He writes, “I’m going to start by exploring what technology is already out there. Then I’ll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home — music, lights, temperature and so on… Every challenge has a theme, and this year’s theme is invention....

Marlen Rappa becomes the first users of Blackshades RAT to plead guiltyCommercial Hacking SoftwareCase History Commercial Hacking Software Blackshades RAT(Remote Access Tool) is, as a name suggests a tool for accessing a computer remotely aka hacking into a system without the victims knowledge. The malware allowed hackers to remotely activate a victims’ webcams, record their keystrokes and rummage through their files, steal videos, photos, personal information, login credentials and financial information....

“We have been thrilled and humbled by the support and dedication that has fueled the Flight Sim community for the past 38 years. Since the launch of the very first Microsoft Flight Simulator in 1982, we knew it was finally the right time to develop the next-generation version of Microsoft Flight Simulator. We have the right tools, technology, partners, and hardware to release the most realistic and authentic flight simulator to date,” Jorg Neumann, Head of Microsoft Flight Simulator said in the announcement....

According to Forbes, many users were being prompted to restart their systems after downloading what seemed to be standard security updates. On restart however, the users found that the Windows 10 installation was under way. Some users checked the update history status and found that Windows 10 had tried but failed to install itself without permission over and over again. One Forbes reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) who found his computer attempted to install Windows 10 on 31 separate occasions....

“FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence is a proactive, forward-006Cooking means of qualifying threats poised to disrupt business based on the intents, tools and tactics of the attacker.” The Windows Defender service can be used by the users in a free trial before purchasing a subscription to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP). The partnership with a well-known cyber security vendor such as FireEye benefits Microsoft, and specifically the reputation and credibility of the commercial version of Windows Defender....

His recent analysis states that Apple has the highest market value (of $621.32 billion as of December 27), followed by Alphabet ($557 billion), and Microsoft coming in at third position at $491.71 billion. “Since Microsoft has the highest free cash flow yield of the 10 companies in my digital universe, it’s the most undervalued. Microsoft clearly has the potential to outperform the market. Most importantly, the downside for its share price is limited since the current dividend yield is 2....

For those unaware, nested virtualization is a feature that is typically designed for use by enterprises. This feature allows you to run Hyper-V inside of a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM). It is helpful for running a Visual Studio phone emulator in a virtual machine, or testing configurations that usually require several hosts. Jinank Jain, a senior Linux engineer at Microsoft, on Wednesday sent out a series of patches for adding support to run Linux on a nested Microsoft Hypervisor....

For those unaware, Calibri was released to the general public in 2007 with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad, and has since been the default font for Microsoft products. “A default font is often the first impression we make; it’s the visual identity we present to other people via our resumes, documents, or emails....

At the time, Zuckerberg declined the offer, Ballmer said. “I respect that.” He added, “You have to have a willing seller.” Zuckerberg’s clearly made the right choice by rejected the offer. At present, he has a net worth of $57 billion and Facebook’s market value of around $374 billion. Also, with a net worth of nearly $56 billion, Zuckerberg is the fourth richest person in the world, as of Friday, according to the Forbes....

“The Checked C research project is investigating how to extend the C programming language so that programmers can write more secure and reliable C programs,” Microsoft Research says on its Web site. “The project is developing an extension to C called Checked C that adds checking to C to detect or prevent common programming errors such as buffer overruns, out-of-bounds memory accesses, and incorrect type casts. The extension is designed to be used for existing system software written in C....

Outlook email service allegedly hacked by Chinese authoritiesAlleged Chinese hand? GreatFire reports that Chinese users first noticed the outage when they attempted to access Outlook email using IMAP and SMTP protocols on desktop and mobile email clients on Jan 17. GreatFire notes that the MitM attack only affected the email clients and web interface of outlook.com and live.com were not affected. Noting that Outlook was under MiTM attack, GreatFire states that “This form of attack is especially devious because the warning messages users receive from their email clients are much less noticeable than the warning messages delivered to modern browsers....

Users can speak or type the word or phrase that has to be translated. The new app in response will display the translated text on the screen and then speak it aloud. Text can also be copied and pasted from and to other apps by the users for quick translation. Currently, the Microsoft Translator supports 50 different languages, including English, Japanese, Spanish, Chinese, French, Italian, Hebrew, and Russian. Microsoft via its Bing website has already been providing language translation along with apps for its Windows 10 desktop software and Windows Phone mobile operating system....

Microsoft rolled out a massive Threshold 2 earlier this week as the first major update for Windows 10 that comes with significant improvements for both the operating system itself and the pre-installed apps. However, as always, the Microsoft engineers seemed to have bungled on a number of things. The update, which is supposed to be error free, brings additional woes to the Windows 10 users. First and foremost, this massive 20GB update reinstalls the bloatware the Microsoft had shipped with Windows 10....

However, according to the recent security bulletins released by Microsoft shows that a major part of the found vulnerabilities are shared by Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer, that could be pointing at the vulnerability of the new browser just like its predecessor. At least, in some aspects. An analysis of the last five-months’ worth of monthly software updates shows that Edge had 25 vulnerabilities shared with versions of Internet Explorer, which had a total of 100 vulnerabilities....

Well, the misconfiguration of the Azure Blob Storage was spotted on September 24, 2022, by cybersecurity company SOCRadar. This entire leak has been termed as BlueBleed. Even though Microsoft hasn’t revealed the exact number of impacted customers, SOCRadar suggests that the leak affected 65,000 entities in 111 countries. A total of around 2.4 terabytes of data that consists of invoices, product orders, signed customer documents, and partner ecosystem details, among others were leaked....

Users will remember that Microsoft announced back in January it will stop providing support and security fixes for all PCs running Intel’s sixth generation Skylake processors. It had said at that time that these must upgrade to Windows 10, or risk not being supported. In fact, at that time Microsoft had given 18 months deadline for Skylake processor run Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptop owners to upgrade to Windows 10 or lose support and risk their PCs....

We are all aware by now that no Windows 10 Update has come without hiccups. This time too it’s no different, as the Windows 10 May 2020 update has come with a bunch of significant known issues. Microsoft has quietly acknowledged the problems and suspended the installation of the latest Windows 10 May 2020 update on problematic PCs including those with Intel Optane Memory until improvement. However, enthusiastic users can still install the new version of the Windows 10 update using the Media Creation Tool....

Millions of low-priced wireless keyboards are susceptible to a vulnerability that can let hackers take over your keyboard and secretly record what you type. In other words, the problem is that the keyboards communicated to their linked PCs without encryption, and it’s just a matter of reverse engineering the signals to find out how to read what keys are being hit. “Quite simply, it was a shock to find that unencrypted wireless keyboards are still being sold in 2016”, Bastille Research Team Member Marc Newlin told SCMagazine....

Prominent people like Russell Simmons, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Brazil’s president Dilma Rousseff changed their profiles. Over the past three days, 26 million people have super imposed rainbows over their Facebook profile pictures using the free tool provided by the company. The rainbow filter that was launched on Friday continued to gain steam attracting more than half a billion likes and comments all over the world....

The other smartphones which are also now available cheaper are Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G and 4G version. The Moto E (2nd Gen) 3G is now available for Rs.6999.00 while the 4G version now retails at Rs.7999.00. Earlier Motorola has slashed the prices of its Moto G (2nd Gen) 3G from Rs.12,999.00 to Rs.10,999.00. The dual-SIM Moto E (1st Gen) comes with a 4.3-inch HD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protective covering....