Facebook Post Shows How To Get Discounted Meal By Exploiting A Software Glitch At Mcdonald S Self Serve

Max Jalal shared the mobile phone footage showing how he and his group of friends get a family value Dinner Box that usually costs $19.95 / €17.50 for just $9.95 / €8.80 by doing nothing but using the self-serve tills. Jalal suggests going with the option to pay at the counter instead of the machine, in order to keep the employees unaware of the trick. Max Jalal selects a $20 dinner box, then his friend doing the filming, is heard saying: “This is the best bit, watch this....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Debra Scott

Facebook S Most Used Words App Accused Of Stealing Personal Data Techworm

According to Comparitech, which first reported the privacy issues says that the app has been shared over 16 million times. The site wrote “That’s over 16 million people who agreed to give up almost every private detail about themselves to a company they likely know nothing about.” In order to make the application work, basically you need to grant the application access. In other words, when a Facebook user signs up to use the app, he or she agrees to give the “What Are Your Most Used Words on Facebook?...

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 402 words · Richard Walburn

Facebook S New Research App Pays Users For Sharing Their Data

The new app called “Study from Facebook” will collect information about apps installed on a participant’s phone, time spent using those apps, participant’s country, device and network type, and the features the participant is accessing within those apps. “We believe this work is important to help us improve our products for the people who use Facebook. We also know that this kind of research must be clear about what people are signing up for, how their information will be collected and used, and how to opt out of the research at any time,” Facebook product manager Sagee Ben-Zedeff explained in a company blog post....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 466 words · Dawn Mancine

Facebook S New Tool Automatically Catches Troll Accounts Techworm

When Facebook detects that your account is indeed trolling, you will be then asked to recognize if the profile in question is mimicking you by using your personal information, or if it just happens to be your doppelganger. According to Mashable, even though the notification process is automated, each response is manually reviewed by Facebook’s team. The tool has been in the works since November 2015, and is now ready for release to about 75 percent of users of the world....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 188 words · John Hensley

Facebook S Transcoder Uses Ai To Convert Code From One Programming Language To Another

Called as “TransCoder”, this AI-based language conversion tool can translate between high-level languages such as C++, Java, and Python into a different code with high accuracy. The research study has been detailed in the paper titled, “Unsupervised Translation of Programming Languages.” Converting code from one programming language to another is a difficult task for even an experienced programmer, as it requires knowledge of both the source language and the target language, making code-translation projects expensive....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 523 words · Donald Proffitt

Fbi Hacked Hacker Leaks Fbi Usernames And Passwords Online Techworm

The premier investigative agency of United States of America, Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) had its website content management system hacked. A hacker with Twitter handle of CyberZeist claimed that he had managed to breach into Plone CMS used by FBI for its website. CyberZeist also leaked around 150 logins, including email addresses and encrypted passwords online. CyberZeist said he breached the Plone CMS, also being used by the FBI, in late December using a zero-day that was discovered by somebody else....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 394 words · Alvera Charles

Finally Moto X 2Nd Gen Android 5 1 Lollipop Firmware Update Is Here

Yesterday we had reported that the 2013 Moto X (1st Gen) had started receiving Android 5.1 Lollipop update in Canada, United States and Brazil so maybe Motorola will follow the same pattern for the Moto X (2nd Gen) smartphone. Motorola’s David Schuster, Senior Director of Software Product Management, last week had confirmed that Motorola Moto X and Moto X (Gen 2) entered soak test in several markets. Adding further, Schuster had noted that “If all goes well we would expect full deployments to start next week....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 339 words · Paul Conklin

Find My Ipad Leads Police To The Stolen Tablet And Gang S Hideout Techworm

Earlier this year, authorities were able to locate a kidnapped teen, and around a couple of years back, the exact same feature was used to retrieve items that were worth $350,000. Now, local reports have said that someone who had their iPad forcibly stolen were able to retrieve it but in addition to this, the local police were able to strike gold as they were able to apprehend criminals of a local notorious gang called Ma Diaw....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 184 words · Mary Faircloth

Fireeye S Commando Vm Turns Your Windows Pc Into Hacking Machine

According to the company, Commando VM is a “first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming.” This automation installation script turns a Windows operating system into a hacking system. FireEye says that Commando VM originated from their company’s popular Flare VM that focuses on reverse engineering and malware analysis platform. “Penetration testers commonly use their own variants of Windows machines when assessing Active Directory environments....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 413 words · Pearl Batts

First Linux Flag Bearer Munich Dumps Linux For Windows 10 Techworm

If all things go according to Munich’s city authority’s plan, the city computers will have erased Linux operating system and installed Windows 10 by the year 2020. Readers should recall that Munich was one of the first city councils to dump Windows for open source and Linux way back before other cities. This new decision to dump Linux will no doubt have repercussions as thousands of council computers will move from Linux to Windows, in a reversal of one of open-source software’s marquee successes....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 369 words · Marvin Herd

Future Of Bitcoin Is Doomed Software Bug Threatens Bitcoin Trading After Russia Banned It Yesterday Techworm

Mt.Gox countered the Bitcoin Foundation argument by saying that the bug it has discovered is pretty new and can effectively allow potential hackes and cyber criminals to steal Bitcoin from the valid owners wallet.The street is divided as to who is at fault but Bitcoin Foundation supporters who have long argued that this specific issue : transaction malleability has been known about for years and requires that companies like Mt....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 146 words · Daniel Anselm

Galaxy S8 Vs Iphone 8 7 Rumored Features For Both Samsung And Apple 2017 Smartphones Techworm

Check out the 7 rumored Features for Galaxy S8 Vs iPhone 85.8-Inch Curved Display (OLED)64GB Internal StorageIris/Facial RecognitionNo Home ButtonWater ResistanceWireless ChargingUSB-CBonus: “Plus” Name Let’s have a look at the specifications and features expected for both the Galaxy S8 and the iPhone 8. 5.8-Inch Curved Display (OLED) Several generations of Galaxy S have been sporting the dual-edge curved display that has been Samsung’s signature look. Rumors suggest that the South Korean giant has some rather impressive plans for its Galaxy S8 releases, which will come in two models, one with a 5....

December 18, 2022 · 4 min · 829 words · Joyce Visher

Gionee To Launch Elife E8 Smartphone With Lossless Zoom Camera

Gionee’s next flagship will come fitted with a Quad HD AMOLED display. It is powered by a 2GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6795 chipset coupled with 3GB of RAM. It comes with an 32GB internal storage, which is expandable up to 128GB via microSD card. It is powered by a 3,250mAh battery. Besides running on the company’s Amigo 3.0 custom UI layer on top, the device will also run on Android 5....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 232 words · Derek Gerdes

Github Removes Popular Open Source Youtube Dl Software

YouTube-DL is a popular open-source cross-platform CLI (Command Line Interface) tool written in Python. It is used by individuals and some stream-ripper sites for downloading videos/audio from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, among other media sites. GitHub has taken down at least 18 such projects. Visitors visiting the YouTube-DL project’s page to download the program or visit the repository are now greeted with a message that says, “Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 563 words · Georgia Moretto

Google Social Chief Vic Gundotra Quit The Company After 8Years Job Techworm

Gundotra, the creator and mastermind behind Google’s social network, made the announcement, appropriately enough, in a lengthy Google Plus post, praising his co-workers and saying that he is ‘excited about what’s next.’ 

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 32 words · Melvin Heart

Google Street View Fined 2500 00 For Showing Cleft Of Canadian Woman

In his judgement which is spread over 17 pages, the Judge held that Maria Pia Grillo had suffered shock and embarrassment when she looked up her house using Google Maps’ Street View feature in 2009 and discovered an image that shows her leaning forward and exposing upper part of her body to the entire world through Google’s Street View feature. Google Street View had originally snapped Grillo seating in the porch of her house....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 240 words · Rafaela Bell

Goxcoin Saga Now Mk And Mt Gox Say They Found 200 000 Forgotten Bitcoins On March 7 Techworm

December 18, 2022 · 0 min · 0 words · Richard Gardner

Grant Imahara Has A Web Series To Talk About The Future Of The Robots Techworm

Movies represent a big part of our lives, and many people have seen many movies, the science fiction kind, with robots that come to Earth with the mission to take our jobs, or even worse – kill us. Some movies even represented them having sex with humans, but let’s be real – real-life robots are not to be feared at all. They’re actually kind of cute. About the web series A former cast member of the science fiction reality shows MythBusters, called Grant Imahara, who is also a robot expert, has a new web series which is called Generation Robot, which helps us in getting to know robots better and understanding how humans can actually deal with the concept of working with robots....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 427 words · Michael Stout

Hackers Breach Over 1 100 Websites Steal 45 Million Passwords Techworm

The leak affects websites operated by VerticalScope, a Toronto-based media company that runs a large number of online communities, and includes big-name sites like AutoGuide.com, Motorcycle.com and Techsupportforum.com. The data includes usernames, email addresses, IP addresses, and passwords of people. LeakedSource says that for each record they found an email address, a username, an IP address, and one or two passwords. However, not all records have the details for each user....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 404 words · Frank Robinson

Hackers Can Listen To Your Facebook Messenger Voice Messages With This Simple Hack Techworm

Both FB Messenger and Facebook-owned WhatsApp allow users to send voice messages using the Mic icon in the chat bar. While many don’t use the Facebook Messenger voice message feature, it is still very popular. But next time you send a voice message to your near and dear ones or a business colleague, do remember that your voice chat can be snooped on by potential hackers thanks to a Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) vulnerability....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 517 words · Charles Duffy