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Many Windows 10 Features are Inspired by Linux and Here’s the Proof

Shivam Patsariya 0 MobilesAndTablets 8:36 AM

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Windows 10 is running on millions of devices and people are praising it for its new features. But, many of the popular features seem inspired by Linux. Take a look and decide on your own.</span></em></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">Windows has brought</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> many features</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">like Virtual Desktops, PowerShell, Flat Icons and a lot more in its latest edition Windows 10. Microsoft has worked hard to create its best Windows yet and to do that, it has taken some inspiration from its biggest competition Linux.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Want to know which are features that were already present in Linux? Take a look below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Windows 10 Multiple Virtual Desktops | Linux Workspaces</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With Windows 10, Microsoft has brought the power of <span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;">multiple virtual desktop</span><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">s</span> to the Windows users. With this feature, Windows users can now run different applications in multiple desktops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These multiple virtual desktops are called workspaces in Linux. If you remember, KDE 1.0 launched in 1998 was one of the earliest smooth-working instances of workspaces that allowed switching between the apps easier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Task View in Windows 10 | Window Spread in Linux</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Task Views feature of Windows 10 is reminiscent of the Windows Spread feature of new age Linux desktop environments like Unity and GNOME. With this feature, you have an array of running apps in front of you, when selected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just press the super key (Windows key) and you’ll see all the running apps in GNOME 3. In Windows 10, this could be done by clicking the Task View button on Taskbar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.3em;">Powerful Desktop Search in Windows 10 | Unity Dash and Lenses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Cortana powered desktop search is one of the best features of Windows 10. Just enter a word and your PC will search the relevant content from your drives, installed applications, internet and Windows Store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The same thing was done long ago by Ubuntu with Unity dash and lenses. Just search something in Unity Dash, you’ll be seeing suggestions from local apps, stored files and apps suggestions from Ubuntu Software Center. You are also greeted with search results from Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube and other popular websites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Flat icons and borderless windows</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With Windows 10, you can sooth your eyes with flat icons and witness a clean look in Windows Explorer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With a simple tweak, flat icons and borderless windows were available in Ubuntu 14.04.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Continuum for Windows 10 | Ubuntu Convergence</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The convergence feature was first launched by Linux to run the same operating system on different size devices. We have seen <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Ubuntu phones</span></span> from Meizu, but we are still to witness a <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Windows 10 mobile</span> </span>device that will fulfill the goal of<em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One Microsoft.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Windows PoweShell | Linux Package Managers</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The package management has been an integral part of the Linux distros since a very long time. With Windows 10, Microsoft has brought the similar utility to the users in the form of Windows PowerShell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What do you think about these features? Tell us in comments below.</span></div>
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Steve Jobs Wasn’t Fired from Apple, He Left On His Own, Says Steve Wozniak

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Steve-Jobs-and-Apple-co-founder-Steve-Wozniak" height="372" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15114116/Steve-Jobs-and-Apple-co-founder-Steve-Wozniak.jpg" width="640" /><em style="background-color: white; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has said that Steve Jobs was never fired from Apple and he left the company on his own. In the past, Steve Jobs has claimed, “We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.”</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The comments of Wozniak have come in the wake of the new Steve Jobs movie directed by Danny Boyle. The movie will be hitting the theatres next month and Steve Wozniak has praised the movie. He acted as the consultant for the film and calls it the best adaptation since <em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pirates of Silicon Valley.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He says that Steve Jobs was great at productizing and marketing Apple products. “After the Macintosh failure it’s fair to assume that Jobs’ left out of his feeling of greatness, and embarrassment about not having achieved it,” he adds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that at his 2005 Stanford commencement address, Steve Jobs portrayed a different picture. He said, “We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.” He added, “How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the past, John Sculley has made remarks similar to Wozniak. According to him, “Steve was never fired. He took a sabbatical and was still chairman of the board. He was down, no one pushed him, but he was off the Mac, which was his deal — he never forgave me for that.”</span></div>
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Steve Jobs Wasn’t Fired from Apple, He Left On His Own, Says Steve Wozniak

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has said that Steve Jobs was never fired from Apple and he left the company on his own. In the past, Steve ...

cpustat – A Lightweight Process Stats Tool For Small Ubuntu Devices

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="cpustat" height="377" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15110855/cpustat.jpg" width="640" /></span></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cpustat is a lightweight tool for monitoring per-process cpu utilization (from /proc/$pid/stat) in a fast and efficient way with minimal overhead. It is ideal for small Ubuntu devices and now available in Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">olin Ian King, an open source developer, has released a lightweight cpu stats monitoring tool called</span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> cpustats </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">which he claims to be the most compact and efficient tool till date. Monitoring CPU per process is the everyday job of any devOps engineer or developer who is obsessed with the performance of his code.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are plenty of tools such as “top” and “atop” that can show per-process CPU utilisation stats, but most of these aren’t useful on really slow low-power devices as they consume several tens of megacycles collecting and displaying the results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cpustat, on the other hand, periodically dumps out the current CPU utilisation statistics of running processes and it has been optimised to have a minimal CPU overhead and typically uses about 35% of the CPU compared to “top”. cpustat also includes some simple statistical analysis options that can help characterise the way CPUs are being loaded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also read: <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Vifm – A Simple and Powerful Text Based File Manager for GNU/Linux</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to <span class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Colin Ian King</span> –</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I developed cpustat to be compact and efficient, as well as provide enough stats to allow me to easily identify CPU sucking processes.   To optimise the code, I used tools such as perf to identify code hotspots as well as valgrind’scachegrind to identify poorly designed cache inefficient data structures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He used fscanf() style parsing for /proc and hand-crafted numeric and string scanning parsing that saved several hundred thousand cycles per iteration. He also tweaked the hash table sizes to match the input data more appropriately and by careful re-use of heap allocations, he was able to reduce malloc()/free() calls and save some heap management overhead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some very frequent string lookups were replaced with hash lookups and frequently accessed data was duplicated rather than referenced indirectly to keep data local to reduce cache stalls and hence speed up data comparison lookup time.</span></div>
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cpustat – A Lightweight Process Stats Tool For Small Ubuntu Devices

cpustat is a lightweight tool for monitoring per-process cpu utilization (from /proc/$pid/stat) in a fast and efficient way with minim...

Our 42% PCs in China Are Running Military-developed Ubuntu Kylin, Says Dell

Shivam Patsariya 0 Security 8:27 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="UbuntuKylin-14-10-Chinese-Calender" height="359" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15104934/UbuntuKylin-14-10-Chinese-Calender.jpg" width="640" /></span></div>
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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">According to Dell, more than 40 percent of Dell PCs in China are running Ubuntu Kylin. Kylin is a Linux version developed under the Chinese military and it has got the official support of Chinese government.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">C</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">hina has been trying hard from a long time to promote its homegrown operating system to fight back against the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Now, the country has decided to take the path of FOSS to fulfill its ambitions. According to </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">South China Morning Post</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;">, more than one-third of Dell computers in China are running Ubuntu Kylin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ubuntu Kylin is an OS developed by the Chinese military and it’s supported by the government. A senior Dell executive told WSJ than 42 percent of the personal computers sold by the company are running Ubuntu Kylin instead of Windows. It should be noted that Windows XP is widely popular in China, and after Windows XP reached its end of life, Chinese people were looking for an alternative.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that Dell has been shipping the Ubuntu-powered PCs from some time now and the company is trying to spread its word to the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that Dell has recently started partnering with the Chinese firms to work in areas like national security. Ubuntu Kylin was co-developed by China Electronics Corp along with the National University of Defence Technology under the Central Military Commission. Dell has also partnered with these bodies and Chinese cloud computing firm Kingsoft to invest heavily as a part of its “In China, for China” strategy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The company knew that selling a PC with a regular Ubuntu OS would have been difficult, so they decided to use the China-dedicated Ubuntu Kylin. Given the fact that China is the most populous country on Earth, this 40% adoption number becomes much bigger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dell is the first Western company to make PCs running Ubuntu Kylin and it’s getting the benefit of this step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Should Linux and other FOSS technologies be promoted in the other parts of the world? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div>
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Our 42% PCs in China Are Running Military-developed Ubuntu Kylin, Says Dell

According to Dell, more than 40 percent of Dell PCs in China are running Ubuntu Kylin. Kylin is a Linux version developed under the Chin...

The Top 5 Most Hackable Cars You Shouldn’t Buy (And the Safest Ones)

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, MobilesAndTablets, Security 8:25 AM

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A forensic consultancy PT&C}|LWG Forensic Consulting Services has made a list of top 5 most hackable cars by performing a study. Along with the most hackable cars, firm also singled out the top 5 least hackable cars. See the list.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As our gadgets and machines are getting more familiar with the technology and internet, we need more stringent safety features to ensure their secure core functioning. You must be aware that your personal computer is at risk from hackers- and so is your automobile. The modern automobile is one such example where the use of computers is one the rise for specialized purposes entertainment, functions, security etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The cars that bring the greatest threats of being hacked, are the ones that have most features networked together, especially where WiFi and radio networks could be connected with your smartphones and other devices. Most of the security measures taken in your vehicle are controlled by its manufacturers, but overall the adoption of modern safety practices has been slow from their side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A forensic consultancy<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">PT&C}|LWG</span> </span>Forensic Consulting Services has made a list of top 5 most hackable cars by performing a study. This list is a result of the study of different research work, recall info and recent media reports.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The study shows that the top 5 most hackable cars are:<span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2014 Jeep Cherokee</span>, the 2014 Infiniti Q50, the 2015 Cadillac Escalade, the 2010 and 2014 Toyota Prius and the 2014 Ford Fusion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apart from the most hackable cars, the study also tells the least hackable cars: The 2014 Audi A8, the 2014 Dodge Viper, the 2014 Honda Accord and the <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">Tesla Model S</span></span>. These safest cars tend to have fewest computerized and networked parts and the in-vehicle communication systems can’t talk to the physical components.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In its blog post, firm writes that the car hack occurs in three steps. “First, the hacker compromises one of the computer systems remotely. Next, the hacker sends messages to cyber-physical components, and then finally makes the destination engine control unit perform some desired action. Parts of your car that might be affected can include the ignition system, the brakes, door locks, and other systems of your car.”</span></div>
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The Top 5 Most Hackable Cars You Shouldn’t Buy (And the Safest Ones)

A forensic consultancy PT&C}|LWG Forensic Consulting Services has made a list of top 5 most hackable cars by performing a study. Alo...

Qualcomm Uses Your Smartphone’s Processor To Make Its First Drone Computer Board

Shivam Patsariya 0 Android, Hack 8:24 AM

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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Qualcomm has had a successful series of Snapdragon processors and the Snapdragon 801 processor is used in some of the world’s popular smartphones. Qualcomm has now introduced the new Snapdragon Flight, which is based on the Snapdragon 801 to power its advanced drones.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 28.7999992370605px;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Qualcomm Snapdragon Flight computer board packs incredible processing power, real-time flight control DSP, built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, and an advanced global navigation satellite system. The company has cut short the manufacturing price of its high-end drone by integrating extra features such as 4K video camera support and advanced navigation onto a single board rather than availing different OEM providers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The drones are now extensively used in a number of fields, especially professional photography, video industry and communication companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Drones have been the flavor this year with an escalation in their sales and coming in the news for all the wrong reasons. The reports of a <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">hacked drone with a gun</span></span> mounted on top and then the <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">US police</span></span> using armed drones are only a few to be told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Qualcomm announced that the first Snapdragon Flight powered drone will arrive in 2016 inside Yuneec, the leading developer of consumer and professional drones. The price is expected to be low but has not been revealed yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And in case you are not a fan of drones, adapt yourself because with cheaper and better drones, expect a lot of buzzing in your neighborhood.</span></div>
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Qualcomm Uses Your Smartphone’s Processor To Make Its First Drone Computer Board

Qualcomm has announced its entry into the drone market and revealed its Snapdragon Flight computer board for drones. The new processor i...

LightSabers, a Reality? Physicists Trying to Make “Molecules” Made of Light

Shivam Patsariya 0 Reviews 8:22 AM

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Light is one of the interesting subjects of research today among the physicists. We are at a stage when the technology of information transfer through electrons has reached its limits and Moore’s law about to fail. With its <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">dual nature</span></span>, light promises to serve a greater purpose for the humanity and scientists are trying their best to exploit that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Right now, the theoretical scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland (including few others as well) are in the process of building objects out of photons of light. The theory is based on the trick to bind the photons together and superimpose them as they travel, effectively making molecules made of light. Sounds like the light sabers will be coming to reality some day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The current developments are based on the results of the 2013 collaboration of  Harvard, Caltech and MIT scientists as they found a way to bind two photons together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The research is about to publish in Physical Review Letters showing that the aforementioned idea (light saber) could be possible by tweaking a few parameters of the binding process to make an array of molecules made of light and build more complex photonic structures. But, the problem lies in the effective binding of a huge number of light photons (theoretical idea).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As the light is the fastest known thing in the universe, scientists are trying to use <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;">entangled photons on the processing chips</span></span> to improve upon today’s computing. Not just that, the regular information traveling as light beams through optical cables  needs to be converted into electrons for processing which slows down the entire process. If we are able to garner information, directly through photons, then our communication networks will improve exponential drastically reducing energy losses.</span></div>
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LightSabers, a Reality? Physicists Trying to Make “Molecules” Made of Light

The scientists at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland are in the process to make molecu...

North Korea Hacks Into Word Processor Used by South Korean Government

Shivam Patsariya 0 Hack, Security 6:20 AM

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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Few days ago, a vulnerability CVE-2015-6585 was reported and patched by its developer Hancom. The security firm examined the vulnerability and told that a group of hackers used the flaw in software to send and receive encrypted documents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This 0-day exploit, used a .hwpx document, that helped to infect the Hangul Word Processor and opened a backdoor in the same. This backdoor called HANGMAN was able to steal the documents and upload them to a C&C server. The HANGMAN backdoor is finely crafted as it used SSL to encrypt the communications it made with C&C server.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FireEye researchers said: “The backdoor also wraps its communication protocol with SSL. HANGMAN begins communications by sending a legitimate SSL handshake to its command and control (C2) server. It then continues to communicate using SSL header messages, but the payload of the message is a custom binary protocol.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the firm didn’t directly confirm the involvement of North Korea. It attributed the hack to North Korea as the backdoor made use of an IP address earlier spotted in another backdoor called MACKTRUCK. Also, the HANGMAN code was similar as seen in PEACHPIT and MACKTRUCK backdoors. It should be noted that these older backdoors were linked to North Korean government.</span></div>
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Zuckerberg Invites Indian PM Narendra Modi to Q&A Session at Facebook Headquarters

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<em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28.7999992370605px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joining Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook’s next public Q&A session. They are hoping to interact cover a wide range of issues social and economic challenges.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Via a<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span>post </span>on his Facebook profile, CEO Zuckerberg said, “I’m excited to announce that Prime Minister <span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Narendra Modi</span> of India will be visiting Facebook HQ later this month for a Townhall Q&A.” He further added, “Prime Minister Modi and I will discuss how communities can work together to address social and economic challenges.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This public Townhall Q&A program was started by the social networking company in last November, where people share their questions on Facebook, and Zuckerberg addresses them in a live video. This year, he’ll be joined by Indian PM Narendra Modi as a special guest. He writes, “I had the chance to visit Prime Minister Modi in India last year and it’s an honor to have the chance to host him here at Facebook.”</span></div>
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I’m excited to announce that Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India will be visiting Facebook HQ later this month for a…</div>
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Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mark Zuckerberg</a> on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102362626160031" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: ease; border: 0px; color: #9a65b2; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Saturday, September 12, 2015</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It should be noted that India is the second Facebook user base outside the US and out of the total 1.44 global users, 125 million users belong to India. In the recent past, Facebook has faced flak over the<span style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-transition-duration: 0.2s; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; transition-duration: 0.2s;"> </span>Net Neutrality issue in India </span>and Mark Zuckerberg is struggling to create a consensus in the country over<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet.org</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here’s what PM Narendra Modi had to say regarding the invitation: “I thank Mr. Mark Zuckerberg for the invite to visit the Facebook HQ. I look forward to the Townhall Q&A on Sunday 27th September at 10 PM IST (9:30 AM Pacific time).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you going to take part in the Facebook Q&A session? Tell us your views in comments.</span></div>
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Zuckerberg Invites Indian PM Narendra Modi to Q&A Session at Facebook Headquarters

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be joining Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook’s next public Q&A session. They are hop...