ANICYBER News

Dystopia

The Pentagon Just Gave Up 4% of The Internet for use in a Honeypot

While the world was distracted with President Donald Trump leaving office on Jan. 20, an obscure Florida company discreetly announced to the world’s computer networks a startling development: It now was managing a huge unused swath of the Internet that, for several decades, had been owned by the U.

Apple

Apple agrees to preinstall govt-approved apps in Russia

Apple has agreed to abide by the Russian laws to give users a notification to pre-install government-approved apps when they first use an iPhone or other company device. Moscow: From April 1, Apple will comply with the provisions of the law on the mandatory pre-installation of Russian software on its

Microsoft

Microsoft Email Servers Hacked, Blames China

The U.S. has issued an emergency warning after Microsoft said it caught China hacking into its mail and calendar server program, called Exchange. The perpetrator, Microsoft said in a blog post, is a hacker group that the company has "high confidence" is working for the Chinese government and primarily

Cryptocurrency

Top 4 Cryptocurrencies for 2021

Based on our independent evaluation. Not investment advice. Listed in order of anticipated importance, by name, stock symbol, and market price (US Dollar) at the time of writing. #1 Bitcoin (BTC) 🏆Cryptocurrency Prices by CoinlibThe one that started it all. The Granddaddy-OG. Simply put, Bitcoin is the best -

Red Hat

Red Hat Releases "Free RHEL" for Open-Source Organizations

If your non-profit organization, project, standard body, or foundation is "engaged with open source," you can get a free RHEL subscription via this program. Earlier this year, Red Hat introduced no-cost RHEL for small production workloads and for customer development teams. That being said, stable CentOS for enterprise is still

Google

Google shutting down Stadia despite making ‘Great Progress’

A new report sheds light on the final days of Stadia’s game arm A week before Google announced it was shutting down Stadia Games and Entertainment, a studio developing first-party games for Stadia, executives praised staff for making “great progress” and “building a diverse and talented team.” According to

Bitcoin

Miami Mayor Pushes Crypto

In an interview with CoinDesk, Francis X. Suarez explains how he plans to attract the crypto industry to Florida. Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez wants his south Florida city to be a hub for crypto. Following in the footprints of crypto-forward pols in the U.S. states of Wyoming and

transhumanism

A nano-hospital in every body

Nanoscale doctors curing the body from within sounds like science fiction, but for Japanese research centre COINS, it’s a serious goal. The ambition is grand and the timeline spans decades: the development of nanomachines dispersed in the human body, performing detection, diagnosis and treatment and communicating wirelessly with physicians

Google

Google Having Issues in Australia; Paying for News, Legal Woes

This one's two stories in one - what a deal! Why? Read along and I think you'll be able to guess... the two are directly related! Google starts paying for news in Australia - including from InDailyGoogle has today launched a news platform showcasing journalism from a range of Australian

U.S. Government

WiFi for Voting Machines? Why Not, Says US Election Agency

The U.S. agency overseeing elections has "quietly weakened a key element of proposed security standards..." reports the Associated Press, "raising concern among voting-integrity experts that many such systems will remain vulnerable to hacking. "The Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is poised to approve its first new security standards in 15

Linux

Gaming on Linux in 2021 on Ubuntu: It works, and it's finally EASY!

Now we come to a commonly asked question, can we play games on Linux? Well, of course! And almost, let me explain.

transhumanism

The European Union has approved the sale of the first artificial heart

Artificial heartmaker Carmat will begin sales of its devices from the second quarter of this year after a long-awaited European Commission approval.Carmat this week obtained a CE mark for the device, meaning the company can now sell it in the European Union as a bridge to a heart transplant

SpaceX

About 3 Percent of Starlink satellites have failed so far

SpaceX has drawn plenty of praise and criticism with the creation of Starlink, a constellation that will one day provide broadband internet access to the entire world. To date, the company has launched over 800 satellites and (as of this summer) is producing them at a rate of about 120

Youtube

RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos

Main target of the takedown was the youtube-dl project, a Python library that had amassed more than 72k stars on GitHub and was used in many YouTube video ripping tools and services. Microsoft-owned GitHub has removed today 18 projects from its code-hosting portal following a legal request filed by the

Intel

Intel Suffers IP Data Breach - Here it is.

Today, data was leaked online by a Swiss security researcher after receiving it from an anonymous hacker. US chipmaker Intel is investigating a security breach after earlier today 20 GB of internal documents, with some marked “confidential” or “restricted secret,” were uploaded online on file-sharing site MEGA. The purported hacker

Python

Make a Twitter Bot 🤖 Easily

Twitter bots! It’s all the buzz — like 2 years ago 😅 Anyway, now they’re really easy to make. Let’s do it! Ready, Set, Go!First, get python! Be sure to check the install pip checkbox during installation – that’s how you get python libraries! We’re gonna need

Android

The Last Good Phone

In a world where expensive dumbed-down phones rule supreme, one stood out in defiance…Shopping for a new phone? The Xiaomi A3 is a cost-effective power-house of a phone; They usually sell for ~$210 – compare that to the $800 average. Get one while they’re still being made!Remember headphone

Open Source

Open Sourcing Immortality

It’s about time someone went and did it! Now there’s a place to talk about extending the natural human life in a collaborative manner. Check it out at: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenSourceImmortality/ Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. It’s

You Should Probably Buy Bitcoin BEFORE the Next Halving

A hot take by one of our writers: Click through to see the video on YouTube and the affiliated channel 7.8 billionPeople on Earth “In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.8 billion people as of

Goodbye AdBlock; Google to Deprecate Chrome Apps June 2020

Global chaos; Pandemic, market crashes, and now… this? According to several pages and indications from Google, as of June 2020 Chrome will “End support for Chrome Apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux.” What does that mean for you and me? No more ad blockers (uBlock matrix, AdBlock Plus), no more

Tesla

Are Tesla's Cameras a Threat To Our Privacy?

“I love that my car recorded a hit-and-run on my behalf,” writes a technology columnist at the Washington Post. “Yet I’m scared we’re not ready for the ways cameras pointed inside and outside vehicles will change the open road…” Long-time Slashdot reader Strudelkugel shared the Post’s report:

Breach

The Department of Defense agency responsible for securing the communications of President Trump has suffered a data breach

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Forbes: The Department of Defense agency responsible for securing the communications of President Trump has suffered a data breach. Here’s what is known so far. The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) describes itself as a combat support agency of the

Slashdot

Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented Geofence Search

According to Forbes, Google has sent 1,494 device identifiers to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to help them investigate arsons carried out across Milwaukee, Wisconsin, throughout 2018 and 2019. “The requests, outlined in two search warrants obtained by Forbes, demanded to know which specific Google

Slashdot

Russian Police Raid NGINX Moscow Office

Today, Russian police have raided the Moscow offices of NGINX, Inc., a subsidiary of F5 Networks and the company behind the internet’s most popular web server technology. From a report:Equipment was seized and employees were detained for questioning. Moscow police executed the raid after last week the Rambler

Slashdot

Vulnerability In Fully Patched Android Phones Under Active Attack By Bank Thieves

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A vulnerability in millions of fully patched Android phones is being actively exploited by malware that’s designed to drain the bank accounts of infected users, researchers said on Monday. The vulnerability allows malicious apps to masquerade as legitimate apps that