Cupertino-based tech giant Apple has released a new software update for its iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook and Apple TV users. The key highlight among all these updates is the iOS 12.4.1 for the iPhones, iPad and iPod touch. This operating system update fixes a vulnerability using which “a malicious application may be able to execute arbitrary code with system privileges.” Apple says that “after free issue was addressed through improved memory management.” The WatchOS 5.3.1 includes “important security updates.” Apple has not published CVE entries for this update. For MacBook users, macOS Mojave 10.14.6 supplemental update has been rolled…
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The hit video game World of Warcraft (WoW) is going back to basics with the launch of WoW Classic this evening. First released in 2004, the online multi-player game has evolved and changed dramatically over the years. Many players had asked developer Blizzard Entertainment to revive the original version of the game, known as “classic” or “vanilla” WoW. While not identical to the original, WoW Classic will replicate a majority of the features from the first game. World of Warcraft is a fantasy game in which players roam the virtual world, fighting monsters and completing quests. Blizzard said some players…
Mukherjee said, while medium of disseminating information has evolved — from scribbling notes to typewriters and now mobile phones — objectivity should not be compromised with. Affirming that print journalism has the maximum impact among readers, former President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday cautioned people about sharing information on social media, while underlining the importance of checking facts. Speaking at a media awards function here, Mukherjee said people should be careful while sharing information on the social media. “Several social and communal tensions have traced their roots to rumours shared over social media by mischievous persons. Even people who innocently share…
Graduate Reading Room in the Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington in Seattle. Getty Images. GETTY Social media platforms prioritize talking over listening, global over local, individual over community, speed over accuracy, sharing over understanding. Libraries prioritize reading, emphasize a globally aware local grounding, foster community, prioritize evidence-based understanding and trace their roots to quiet contemplation. What if social media platforms adapted to be more like libraries with their emphasis on learning and less like today’s schoolyard screaming matches? The Web has long been described as the Library 2.0, a digital reincarnation of the knowledge centers that have long…
MIAMI, FL – JULY 6: All-Star Youth Classic participants take batting practice during the Opening Ceremony for Play Ball Park on Thursday, July 6, 2017 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Skipper/MLB via Getty Images) MLB VIA GETTY IMAGES On the start of Players’ Weekend, Major League Baseball says that its efforts to bring new kids into the sport are paying off. After writing how the Aspen Institute’s Don’t Retire, Kid campaign potentially highlighted baseball’s participation problems, MLB reached out to assure fans that there is a strong undercurrent to carry baseball well into the 21st century. MLB is leaning heavily on its…
Samsung Electronics vice chairman JY Lee has called for active recruitment of software talent in a rare visit to one of the company’s education centres. Lee, the de facto leader of Samsung Group, visited the Samsung S/W Academy for Youth (SSAFY) at the city of Gwangju, one of four such institutions, to meet students and promote software development. The South Korean tech giant set up the SSAFY institutes last year which offers free software education to unemployed university graduates under the age of 30. Students also get a monthly allowance of 1 million won ($830) and those with good grades get opportunities…
New Delhi: MahindraNSE 0.58 % & Mahindra Financial Services (Mahindra Finance) on Tuesday said it has entered into a joint venture deal with Sri Lanka’s Ideal Financeto acquire up to 58.2 per cent stake in the company for LKR 2 billion (nearly Rs 80 crore). Mahindra Finance will invest LKR 2 billion until March 2021 for up to 58.2 per cent stake in Ideal Finance, it said in a release. The rural and semi-urban focused non-banking financial company (NBFC) said the joint venture (JV) will capitalise on Mahindra Finance’s 25-year expertise in the financial services domain and Ideal Finance’s domestic market knowledge to…
A Twitter logo is seen on a computer screen in this photo illustration in Warsaw, Poland on March 5, 2019. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NURPHOTO VIA GETTY IMAGES Dodge County, Wisconsin. Perhaps not the most famous place in the world, but the county’s sheriff’s office has become the latest law enforcement authority in the United States to begin naming and shaming the individuals it arrests. Beginning from August, the names and mugshots of people detained on suspicion of “operating while intoxicated” will be posted on Facebook, with the sheriff’s office declaring, “It is always our hope that we can gain…
In July, several reputable websites reported a critical security flaw in VLC, a popular open-source, multiplatform media-player application. Readers were urged to uninstall VLC before they got hacked. The problem is, the vulnerability did not exist—at least, not in the way the sites reported. The stories followed a disclosure made by a German security agency that claimed VLC had a critical remote code execution (RCE) exploit. This type of vulnerability allows attackers to perform arbitrary commands on compromised machines, such as installing and modifying applications, running malicious payloads, and stealing information. The researchers filed the report with the Mitre Corp., a US government–funded…
Muthoot Finance on Monday reported a rise of 9 per cent in consolidated net profit at Rs 563 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2019. The company’s net profit in the year-ago period stood at Rs 518 crore. Total income increased to Rs 2,067.67 crore during the quarter as against Rs 1,783.47 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal, the company said in a regulatory filing. Consolidated loan assets under management (AUM) rose 18 per cent to Rs 40,228 crore during the latest June quarter, as against Rs 33,954 crore a year ago, a company statement said. Consolidated…