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NASA just announced its Mars 2020 plan about sending a rover onto the red planet and exploring with its advanced robots. This mission is intended to address the questions of the possibility of human life, past microbial life existence, geology, weather conditions and moreover, future human explorations. The rover’s driving equipment was tested last week successfully and carriers several scientific types of equipment along to study the surface and atmosphere. It’s reported to have 23 cameras to view all around....

Netflix, in its latest quarterly earnings call, has revealed that it’s all set to charge users an additional monthly fee if they want to share their account. The new policy has already been in testing in some Latin American countries and is ready to go worldwide early next year. Netflix may consider all the individual profiles in an account as sub-accounts if they’re not living under one roof. Netflix Account Sharing Policy Ever since then, the company enacted a number of policies to change how users access its platform and modify them accordingly....

Gov. Hochul’s new law bans landlords’ use of pricing algorithms, targeting tools like RealPage to ease tenant burdens in a tight housing market. New York has taken a bold stand against soaring rents, becoming the first state to ban landlords from using AI -driven software to set prices. Signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul on October 16, 2025, and effective in 60 days, the law targets platforms like RealPage that inflate costs through algorithmic coordination....

The Office of Attorney General of New York has issued cease and desist orders to two cryptocurrency lending platforms and asked for more information from three more such platforms for continuing their business. These were summoned under the Martin Law, where they’re subjected to be operating without complying with local laws. Two of them are identified as Nexo and Celsius Network. NYC OAG Barring Crypto Lending Platforms Two platforms involved in the cryptocurrency lending business are summoned by the Office of Attorney General of New York, to halt their operations in the state until clearance....

Researchers at Securonix detailed an ongoing campaign against several European countries, where North Korean-linked hackers (APT37) are cyber attacking with Konni RAT. They named the campaign STIFF#BIZON and say the Konni RAT has been used for stealing data, deploying malicious payloads, etc., from high-value organizations in the targeted countries. Aside from APT37, researchers also attributed this campaign to APT28, aka Fancy Bear, a Russian APT. APT Using Konni RAT For Reconnaissance They termed this campaign as STIFF#BIZON and linked the attackers to APT37 , a North Korean APT....

A threat intel analyst reported having seen a hacker listing out one-line exploits for over 49,000 Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN devices . And when decoded from the IP addresses mentioned, dozens of them are linked to popular banks, government organizations, and several companies. Exploiting Fortinet VPNs can leak their network login credentials. Thousands of Vulnerable Fortinet Devices in Wild A threat intelligence analyst named Bank_Security on Twitter has posted screenshots of a post where a hacker in a dark web forum has listed exploits for hijacking 49,577 vulnerable Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN devices....

According to a report by Protenus, hacking attacks against healthcare institutions have risen by 42% last year. All these combined have impacted nearly 41 million patient records, with researchers saying the number could be even higher. Reasons for this spike are caused due to COVID-19 breakout and also the weak security protocols followed by healthcare institutions. Hacking the Healthcare Healthcare is one of the sensitive industries which should be protected in critical times....

Filelist , a private tracker of BitTorrent has now been seized by Romanian authorities. This was found when the original, and old site Filelist.ro was displaying a message from authorities as it was seized. The site, and presumably its operators are facing criminal investigation lead by the Prosecutor’s Office of the High Court of Cassation and Justice. Romanian Authorities Seized Filelist.ro BitTorrent Private Tracker Seized, and Nothing Else Filelist.ro Seized...

Months after launch, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 5 Series – having a regular Watch 5 and a Pro variant – is adding support for a temperature-based period cycle tracking fea ture. This comes as a result of the OEM partnering with Natural Cycles – a company pioneering this service with its app. Samsung notes this feature to arrive in the Health App in Q2 this year, in 32 markets initially. Period Cycle Tracking on Galaxy Watch In the pursuit of making its Galaxy smartwatches the best WearOS devices – Samsung is adding a commendable feature to them soon....

Reports suggest that Samsung may fit a new hinge in its upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 5 – that could reliably avoid screen creasing issues this time. Improper attachment of the top and bottom half of Galaxy foldables has long been an issue, damaging the display in multiple ways. But Samsung’s new hinge plan may create a waterdrop-style gap in between the two screens, thus avoiding creasing. New Hinge For Galaxy Z Fold 5 Though people are rushing towards foldable smartphones , they’re still in the nascent stage of development....

Lawsuits piling over Musk’s Twitter takeover are increasing, with the latest one coming from SEC on the initial 5% Twitter stake purchase. The lawsuit claims that Elon Musk has disclosed the 5% stake purchase of Twitter so late, which allowed him to save a significant amount of money for the next stock purchase of the same company. It’s estimated that Musk has saved around $143 million by not disclosing the deal as per the SEC timeline....

T-Mobile has just announced to offer its postpaid and home internet users a free one-year Paramount Plus Essential subscription. The deal starts from November 9th onwards, where people get a coupon code that can be redeemed on the Paramount site. Sprint customers can get this too, but all the T-Mobile Prepaid and Business users with over 12 lines are exempted from this offer. Free Paramount Plus Essential Subscription Apart from good 5G speeds, T-Mobile users have one more reason to rejoice before the holiday – a free one-year Paramount Plus Essential subscription ....

Social Media application TikTok is in the middle of another controversy as the United States Navy bans it from departmentally-issued phones. They fear that the application is a threat to cybersecurity. Naval authorities stated in their bulletin that the app’s user license agreements had several fallacies, and they need to be resolved. Unless the app is not declared safe from Naval cybersecurity experts, officials are warned against using it. US Navy will ban officials from their highly-secure intranet servers if their departmentally-issued phones still contained TikTok ....

A security researcher named Dr. Neal Krawetz has today published a second of two zero-day bugs in the Tor browser and network . These can be exploited by the oppressive regime for blocking users in using Tor. He also said three more zero-day bugs will be disclosed soon! Tor Zero-day Bugs Exposed! I’m giving up reporting bugs to Tor Project. Tor has serious problems that need to be addressed, they know about many of them and refuse to do anything....

Hackers who’ve breached the Twitch platform revealed to be knowing payout data of more than 2.4 million streamers, and other proprietary code belonging to Twitch. Named as the “entirety of Twitch.tv ‘, the data dump is already being shared among various underground forums, with those who’ve accessed claiming to have found several data parts like unreleased games, SDKs, internal tools, etc owned by Twitch. Twitch Data Leak We can confirm a breach has taken place....

In a new update to its iOS app, Uber added support for the Live Activities feature – letting iPhone users know the real-time status of their ride. This widget will appear on the Dynamic Island of iPhone 14 and the lock screen of supported iPhones to display the ride tracking data on the screen. This feature has been in testing for months in select regions and now coming to everyone. Also, Uber is bringing this support to the Uber Eats app too....

Raiding multiple locations at the same time, the Ukrainian police have taken down a network of call centers involved in looting people’s funds, including cryptocurrencies and other investments. They’re tasked with calling the victims of previous cryptocurrency scams and taking some commission under the guise of helping them recover the stolen funds. They’re said to be targeting people all around the world, with more focus on Ukrainians and European nations....

After tracking it for several years, the US DOJ has successfully seized the Russian RSocks malware botnet this week. This botnet was stated to have hijacked millions of devices around the world for its malicious operations. The US DOJ has done it with the help of the FBI, who operated this mission jointly with the police forces of a few other European nations where RSocks maintained its infrastructure. Though the DOJ has successfully seized the domain, no arrests of the operators were announced....

Have you ever seen the “ tfw data not working ” message on your iPhone screen? In this guide, we will learn what TFW is on iPhone. I have also explained other related aspects of TFW that fall under the scope of telecommunication networks. Often , users encounter the “tfw data not working” message and may experience issues with mobile data. TFW stands for Tracfone Wireless, a company that offers wireless service provider services ....

Months after widely rolling out the Communities feature, WhatsApp is now giving more control to the group admins to manage them better. In an announcement shared today, the chat platform said the group admins can now decide who can join their groups – by restricting anyone who’s not invited. Also, for users, WhatsApp now lets you find common groups with others with a simple search. Powers to WhatsApp Group Admins Meta is rapidly developing WhatsApp in the last couple of years....