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Facebook is adding its version of ephemeral stories to the main Facebook app on iPhone and iPad from today. Adding another to the list of Snapchat rip-offs, a strip of profile pics from your friends will now appear along the top of the main feed. Tap to view their recent story updates; all photos and videos are automatically deleted after 24 hours. Posting your own photos rips off more iconic Snapchat features, including animated 3D camera effects and face filters, stickers, the ability to add text or doodles, and more....

Let’s say that emails leaked from an oil corporation reveal a pattern of leadership ignoring regulations meant to mitigate environmental impact. However, around the same time, the news reveals that these emails have reached the public thanks to hackers. Were the hackers’ actions ethical, exactly? These and other concerns are current topics of discussion in computer science ethics. Read on to learn more about the most common ethical issues in computer science, how they apply to computer science careers, and what we can learn from joining the discussion....

Since that iconic big bumper issue that catapulted the X-Men into comic book stardom, we’ve seen an absolute ton of different versions through pretty much every form of media (except radio…that we know of). With decades of famous storylines, a fantastically-diverse cast of characters old and new plus some of the best villains Marvel comics have to offer, it’s no wonder that we’ve had so many versions of the X-Men over the years....

By the time Phase 3 of the MCU came along, the cinematic universe that once seemed like a crazy dream had become the biggest thing in the movie business. It seemed like the whole thing was ready to come crashing down at any minute but Phase 3 took things to a whole other level. Not content with the massive success they already had, Phase 3 had some ambitious goals. It sought to continue the big franchises....

Doctor Who is one of the longest running TV shows in the world, with a history that stems back all the way to 1963. There are many reasons why the British sci-fi drama has lasted so long, one of them being the concept that The Doctor and his/her companions can travel anywhere in time and space, giving nearly unlimited settings and scenarios for our heroes to become entangled with. Another reason why the show has persevered is the concept of regeneration....

Add-ons can be written for most of the famous security tools out there like Nmap, Nessus, BurpSuite and Metasploit. We will be covering some of them in this article. Writing Nmap Scripts Nmap supports scripting. It has a powerful scripting engine. It allows users to write (and share) simple scripts to automate a wide variety of networking tasks. Nmap scripts are written in LUA language. LUA is a strongly typed scripting language....

Facebook announced today it’s rolling out Facebook Fantasy Games in the US and Canada on its app for iOS and Android. According to the company, they’re “free, simple prediction games that help fans enjoy sports, TV shows, and pop culture content together.” Different from Facebook’s attempt to introduce a gaming platform on the App Store, this time, these are simple games that “bring the social fun of traditional fantasy sports to simpler formats that are easy to play for people new to prediction games....

European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager has warned reporters not to expect a quick decision from the investigation into whether or not Apple’s tax arrangements in Europe are legal, reports Bloomberg. Apple uses Ireland as its European headquarters, funneling most revenue through the country, where it has a special arrangement with the Irish government to pay corporation tax of just 2.5%. The EU believes this arrangement may be illegal for two reasons …...

After a long dry spell Star Trek is finally making a major TV comeback – here’s every new Star Trek series currently in development. Following the box-office failure of 2003’s Star Trek: Nemesis and the later cancelation of TV show Star Trek: Enterprise, it looked like the franchise was in bad shape. J.J. Abrams would turn the series around with his successful Star Trek movie reboot in 2009, but there seemed to be little interest in reviving the TV side of the franchise....

Warning: SPOILERS for The Fate of the Furious ahead - At this point, the inexplicably massive Fast and Furious franchise could simply stick itself in cruise control and count the box office billions. Evolving from a simple Point Break rip-off, the series has slowly morphed into a bonkers biennial event that offers up massive gasoline and testosterone fuelled action so self-aware it’s nigh-on impossible to hate. But for the eighth installment, The Fate of the Furious, Universal switched things up....

The quote, delivered by Dr. Ian Malcolm in Steven Speilberg’s 1993 adaptation of Jurassic Park, is in reference to a lab-grown dinosaur’s will to survive. While the context is incredibly specific, the overall sentiment is not. Despite the hurdles, life—whether that be dinosaurs or people—always finds a way. And what is life if not social? Think about it: Human beings created the typewriter, the telephone, the web and eventually social media to communicate at scale....

Seriously. Nowadays it seems like they are everywhere you look on the net. Infographics Are a Crutch for a Lazy Writer. Being a tech writer, I notice it’s used as a crutch for writers just to get an article up. The writer only needs to compose a paragraph, then embed a huge obnoxiously long Infographic. What happened to real research and journalism? Anyone can write four sentences and post a huge Infographic!...

A buffer overflow vulnerability occurs when the application tries to store more data in the allocated memory than there is room for. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including: Failing to check input length when reading Forgetting to allocate space for the null terminator Input lengths that cause an integer overflow Regardless of the reason, if an application tries to write to memory beyond the range of its allocated buffer, this means that it is writing to the memory allocated for other purposes within the application....

Back at WWDC in 2020, Apple unveiled its plans to offer more detailed and powerful routing features for electric vehicles with Apple Maps. That feature appears to have quietly launched as part of iOS 15.4 this week for Ford users, and Ford has already published a new support document detailing how Mach-E drivers can take advantage of it. EV routing in Apple Maps for Mach-E drivers This feature is activated exclusively through CarPlay, which is Apple’s in-car infotainment system supported by the the Mach-E and many other vehicles on the market today....

A handful of actors have appeared in both Marvel TV shows and the film side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but in different roles. The MCU continues to grow with releases of movies and the recent plans to bolster the TV lineup. It’s not uncommon for TV cast members to jump to the movie world or vice versa. Most of the time, it’s a role reprisal situation, but not always....

In the science fiction fandoms, few reach the super stardom of Star Trek. Even so, Star Trek is having a new renaissance during the past couple years. No, this does not quite mean the Kelvin-verse. Instead, the real change has been Alex Kurtzman, CBS, and Star Trek: Discovery. Because of their success, Kurtzman and his team are prepping tons of new Star Trek series and stories for Trekkie consumption. Lucky for fans, under this new CBS-run era of Star Trek love, there are a bunch of upcoming projects....

Apple has announced that the expansion of its Stonestown retail store in San Francisco will be open to the public on December 14th. The expanded store will open at 8 AM. This announcement comes less than a day after the announcement of a new Apple retail store in Dusseldorf, Germany, which is set to open on the same day. Ifo Apple Store notes that this expansion will put the store at 7,690 square feet—more than double the size of the existing space—allowing more room for customer training that the current store does not have....

The vulnerability was discovered by the security researcher Stephane Chazelas at Akamai firm. It affects Linux and Unix command-line shell, aka the GNU Bourne Again Shell, and for this reason it is potentially exposing websites, servers, PCs, OS X Macs, various home routers, and many other devices to risk of cyber attacks. The team Bash stands for the GNU Bourne Again Shell and refers to a Unix shell, which is an interpreter that allows users to send commands on Unix and Linux systems, typically by connecting over SSH or Telnet....

In contrast to typical race condition vulnerabilities where the program itself is the one creating the threads and running them, double-fetch race condition exploitation requires the attacker himself to create the competing threads. To understand the reason behind this, we need to know what causes this specific bug, and how an attacker might approach it. A simple example Let’s demonstrate how this vulnerability works using this example: [ … ] if ( transaction[amount]....

Facebook announced today more changes in its policy against fake news on its social networks. The company will now be more aggressive in punishing users who share misleading information on Facebook and also Instagram. As reported by The Guardian, this is a strong move by Facebook to avoid anti-vaccination posts, which have become more frequent as COVID-19 vaccines arrive. The social network has confirmed that it will remove any content that has been disproved by public health experts....