Update 5: At 6:18 P.M. Eastern Dyn said the DDoS attacks have been resolved. Fingers crossed another wave doesn’t occur, as happened earlier today. You can find Dyn’s incident report here. Update 4: Dyn is being hit by a third wave of DDoS attacks Friday afternoon. The attacks are “well planned and executed, coming from tens of millions of IP addresses at the same time,” the company told CNBC. Update 3: A DownDetector.com heat map purportedly showing backbone internet provider Level 3’s East Coast outages was removed from this piece at 2:50 p.m. Eastern, as a Level 3 spokesperson says its network “was…
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A T-Mobile training guide for the Windows 10-powered Alcatel Idol 4S has leaked online, suggesting an imminent launch. The leak not only confirms some of the device’s key specs, but also compares the phone with the iPhone 7 and Galaxy S7. Aside from this, the leaked guide also reveals that the a free VR headset will be included with the handset – something we already know. In fact, the phone will have a VR-as-the-box kind of packaging, meaning the packaging for the Idol 4S will transform into VR goggles. There is currently no information on exactly when the device will…
Curves, curves everywhere. The Mate 9 Pro will be the dual-edge version of Huawei’s high-end phablet to be unveiled in a couple of weeks. So far known as Long Island, this tricked out model will offer QHD resolution as opposed to the 1080p of Manhattan (Mate 9 proper). Daydream has been the incentive here – Google’s VR feature will only be supported on the Mate 9 Pro, and not the vanilla version. Not surprising, really – 1080p resolution stretched to 6 inches, and you’ll certainly be counting pixels, instead of enjoying VR. Huawei Mate 9 Pro Aside from those key…
In a world with no Galaxy Note7 a Note 2 might be exactly what we need. Yes, it’s the XiaomiMi Note 2 we’re talking about, due to be unveiled in just 3 days. There’s been an abundance of leaks detailing its specs, and also some discrepancies between various sources about its price. Well, now we have a third number, and we’re not sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, CNY 4,000 ($590) is not a bad price for a dual-curved 5.7-inch Snapdragon 821-packing flagship smartphone, not to mention it’s way less than the originally rumored CNY 5,700…
A two-day international conference on ‘Jnana- Yajna- The Quest for Excellence’ is being organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) from October 22 at HICC in Hyderabad. Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu will inaugurate the conference. Among other distinguish members, Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Arjun Meghwal will participate at the event. For the first time, the International Conference is being held in Hyderabad and around 3,500 delegates from five regional centres, 154 branches and from 28 chapters from abroad will attend the conference, said, ICAI President M Devaraja Reddy and…
The perpetual pride of Allahabad University (AU), known as the ‘factory producing IAS officers’ institute, has suffered a serious decline in the recent times. The varsity hasd been producing impressive numbers of civil servants until its decline in 2011. There are time when the AU was swarmed with aspirants to pursue political science, history, economic, and many more subjects. Since then the varsity has been producing several luminaries such as such AN Haksar, then Principal Secretary to PM Indira Gandhi, Nripendra Misra Principal Secretary to PM Narendra Modi, NC Saxena, former Planning Commission member, and Vikas Swarup, External Affairs Ministry…
Microsoft yesterday said that revenue in the September quarter for the More Personal Computing group was down 2%, the second consecutive quarter of year-over-year declines and the fifth contraction in the last six quarters. Windows revenue, which accounts for the bulk of More Personal Computing’s (MPC) total, was flat. But that was an improvement over the prior quarter, when sales of the operating system were down 4%. “Our total [Windows] OEM business was flat this quarter, more in line with the PC market and better than we expected,” said Amy Hood, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, during a call with Wall…
Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies. Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting access to popular websites by flooding a DNS service provider called Dyn with an overwhelming amount of internet traffic. Some of that traffic has been observed coming from botnets created with theMirai malware that is estimated to have infected over 500,000 devices, according to Level 3 Communications, a provider of internet backbone services. About 10 percent of those Mirai infected devices are…
If you recall, last month, the usually reliable leakster Evan Blass – who goes by the handle @evleaks on Twitter – revealed that the yet-to-be-announced HTC Bolt will be available in the US through Sprint sometime in October. While we are still waiting for that to happen, the tipster, meanwhile, is back with some more news about the device. He has now revealed that the handset may carry HTC 10 evo moniker globally. Follow Evan Blass ✔@evleaks HTC Bolt may be marketed globally as the HTC 10 evo. 1:14 AM – 22 Oct 2016 3838 Retweets 148148 likes In case…
If you recall, we have already seen some leaked images of Meizu’s upcoming M5 smartphone. Now, a couple of more images alleged to be of the device have surfaced online, showing a black and a green colored variant of the handset. Further, an alleged Geekbench listing of the device has also been spotted, confirming some of its rumored specs such as Mediatek’s MT6750 chipset and 2GB RAM. Other rumored specs include an HD display, 16GB internal memory, and a 13MP main camera. Latest reports say the phone could feature a polycarbonate body instead of a metal one. source”gsmarena”